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Pet names re-invented
Pet names re-invented
Posted May 30, 2006 1:46 UTC (Tue) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)In reply to: Firefox Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone released by iabervon
Parent article: Firefox Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone released
Essentially you've re-invented the "pet names" concept. These allow the user to see a visually distinctive (color+icon+text) for those sites which are specifically *known* to the user.
JimD
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Pet names re-invented
Posted May 30, 2006 2:21 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
True. I still wish browsers would implement it, since it's pretty simple and easy for users to understand, while actually solving the problems.
Pet names re-invented
Posted May 30, 2006 21:34 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Indeed! It makes me sad that Firefox is spending their time on such techniques as blacklisting, and they are not, as far as I know, implementing this:
http://usablesecurity.com/2006/02/08/how-to-prevent-phish...
Does anyone reading this have contacts in the Firefox community?