1. More Browser Basics, Tips & Tricks Talk 3 sequel to Web Browser Basics, Tips & Tricks - 10/14/14 Mark S. Zinzow 6/9/2015 Slides online at: http://www.slideshare.net/msz 2. Enjoy clutter-free Web pages with Reader View NEW in Firefox 38.0.5 With Reader ViewBefore Reader View 3. Enjoy clutter-free Web pages with Reader View http://mzl.la/1Fj7eEK 1. If a page is available in Reader View, the Reader View icon Reader mode will appear in the address bar. 2. Click on the Reader View Reader mode icon. The icon will turn orange when the page is in Reader View. How does it work? See the source: https://github.com/mozilla/readability TRICK: Put "about:reader?url=" before a web address (URL) to load a page in Reader View. This should also enable you to bookmark the Reader View of a page. This promising feature is getting rave reviews in the media! Firefox Integrates Pocket, Adds Distraction-Free Reader View http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/firefox-integrates-pocket- adds-distraction-free-reader-view/ Safari has had this for years. The iReader extension is also available for Chrome. How to Use and Tweak Reader Mode in Safari http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25072/ Get Safari Reader on Chrome and Firefox with iReader http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25098/ 4. Other Extensions for removing Web Clutter Handy for printing just a coupon or text snippit Print Edit by DW-dev https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-edit/olnblpmehglpcallpnbgmikjblmkopia Save the trees (print & screenshot) by extensionfactory.com https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-the-trees-print-scre/bjlcapbgbcnfkifgclinapfbkielnmdi Nuke Anything Enhanced by Patrick Abi Salloum https://addons.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything-enhanced/ 5. Review: Cookies, Security, and Privacy issues online. Who's watching you surf? Cookies track what you've done, and can be used to steal your money. Cross Site Scripting Terms & Conditions Gotcha: The operator of 8chan says the bandwidth of millions of Hola users is being sold for reuse, with some of it even being used to attack his site. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Hola founder Ofer Vilenski says that users' idle resources are indeed utilized for commercial sale, but that has been the agreement all along. http://torrentfreak.com/hola-vpn-sells-users-bandwidth-150528/ 6. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Easier Do Not Track enforcement Alternative to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery and similar products. Simple to use! Designed to function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user. 7. How does a website know what browser I have? ...Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) identifies the client software originating the request, using a "User-Agent" header... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent Search for Whats My user agent, or a similar set of keywords to see sites that reveal what information your web browser reveals about it and your computer. e.g. https://www.esolutions.se/whatsmyinfo http://mybrowserinfo.com/ (Lots of details) http://www.viewmyuseragent.com/ http://www.whatsmybrowser.org/ http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/ toolkit/useragent/default.asp http://browserabout.com/ http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ https://www.whatismybrowser.com/ (Shows Do Not Track setting) 8. Add Search Engines to your Browser How to Easily Create Search Plugins & Add Any Search Engine to Your Browser http://www.howtogeek.com/114176/ Use the Search bar in Firefox - manage search engines http://mzl.la/18PmbBy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/ 9. What are your favorite Browser Extensions or Add-Ons? 10. FireFox Extensions 11. Down Them All! http://www.dow nthemall.net/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/downthemall/ 12. What Is RSS? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. http://www.whatisrss.com/ What Is RSS Good For? Feed 101: What are feeds? I see "RSS", "XML", and "Atom" out there, but I don't know how I might use these links when I find them. https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79408 HTG Explains: What Is RSS and How Can I Benefit From Using It? http://www.howtogeek.com/115317/ The Best Free RSS Readers for Keeping Up With Your Favorite Websites http://www.howtogeek.com/128487/ Instant RSS Search http://ctrlq.org/rss/ 13. RSS Feeds often reveal resources no longer available on the main site 14. How does a browser extension (add-on) work? How to View the Source Code of a Chrome Extension http://www.labnol.org/software/view-source-of-chrome-extension/21284/ How to View the Source Code of a Chrome Extension www.howtogeek.com/198964/ Chrome extension source viewer (CRX Viewer for Chrome & Opera) https://github.com/RobW/crxviewer How to View the Source Code of a Firefox Addon http://www.techgainer.com/view-source-code-firefox-addon/ XPI & CRX are Zip files 15. User Scripts See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_augmented_browsing_software http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks Aaron Boodman wrote Greasemonkey in 2005, one of the first user scripting tools for the web. Check out his page: http://www.aaronboodman.com/#projects https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/ http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/09/userscripts-org-good-alternatives/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/tampermonkey/ http://tampermonkey.net/ https://github.com/scriptish/scriptish/wiki https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ http://www.greasespot.net/ Friday, May 29, 2015 Greasemonkey 3.2 Release 16. I like to highlight what I've Won on Gixen with a user script. 17. Web Portals, Widgets & Dashboards Remember iGoogle? http://www.igoogleportal.com/ 18. Browser Automation AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying runtimes required! https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ https://www.fiverr.com/eagletdw/make-autoit-scripts-for-your-various-automations 19. Browser Automation https://www.fiverr.com/arslanbuttar/automate-your-test-cases-using-selenium Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well. http://docs.seleniumhq.org/ Selenium WebDriver Selenium IDE a Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and- playback of interactions very groovy browser automation web testing, screen scraping and more Geb is free, open source software licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.' http://www.gebish.org/ Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that puts a programming environment in the browser's sidebar so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks. Old links: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wXWMuYM37s Developing JavaScript with Chickenfoot (56min.) Most Recent Update 1.09: https://github.com/simonarthur/chickenfoot 20. Exercises & Demos Demo: Add Firefox Search Engines https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/ Group Exercise: Review Firefox Keyboard Shortcut Reference Adapted from: http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.html Video: Understanding XSS http://www.secure-abap.de/wiki/Movies