Why was the anti phishing feature installed in Mozilla Firefox? Read ahead
If you want to find out what contributed to the development of the anti phishing features in Mozilla Firefox, you should turn the clock back and take a look at the month of December 2005. In December 2005, Internet services company Netcraft Ltd. Invited the users of Mozilla Firefox to try the Netcraft Toolbar as it had been made compatible with Mozilla Firefox 1.5.
What was this toolbar all about?? The toolbar was a free toolbar offered by the Internet services company that ran on any operating system capable of supporting Mozilla Firefox. The toolbar displayed the location of web hosting, the country of access, the popularity, the risk factor involved in visiting a particular website as far as phishing risks are concerned. The toolbar goes a step ahead of informing the user of anti phishing sites and the toolbar blocked access to phishing sites reported.
Why am I going on about this toolbar?? The reason why I am going on about this toolbar is that Mozilla Firefox version 2.0 plans to offer excellent and hitherto unknown facility of protection against anti phishing sites. While the toolbar was provided by an external service provider, the anti phishing feature provided in Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is offered by the Mozilla Foundation itself.
In yet another instance of shrewd service, Mozilla Firefox must have come to the conclusion of incorporating anti phishing features in the web browsing software application’s version 2.0 release after noticing that the service was extremely popular amongst the users of Mozilla Firefox. I do not that there is any other web browsing software application that keep such a close eye on the habits of the users of the web browsing software application as Mozilla Firefox does to all the users of its web browsing software application. No wonder it is so popular.
Tags: Mozilla, Web Browsers
