Notification
This feature was introduced in version 1.0.4. A notification is shown on Bing, Yahoo, and Google to let users know whether the SES protection is enabled for this search engine. The notification is shown under the search input.
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| Search Engine Security notification in Google search |
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| Search Engine Security notification in Bing search |
User-Agent modification
Most spam pages look at the Referrer value to decide whether or not to redirect users to a malicious page. However, in some cases like the Hot Video pages, only the User-Agent value is used. One common check is to look for "slurp" in the user-agent string to flag the request as coming form the Yahoo crawler. If you check the "Modify User-Agent" checkbox in the options, the string "slurp" is added to the User-Agent header when you leave Google/Bing/Yahoo in addition to overriding the Referrer header.
This option provides additional protection against malicious spam SEO.
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| New option to modify the User-Agent header |
Fix for Google Instant
Google now make new searches as you type, without reloading the page, with Google Instant. Since the plug-in was listening on new page load to add the notification under the search input, it was showing only for the first search. Version 1.0.8 ensure the notification is always shown.
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| Search Engine Security notification with Google Instant |
French translation
The extension has been translated in French.
If you have an older version of the plug-in installed, go to Tools > Add-Ons > Find Updates to get the latest version.
-- Julien
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3 comments:
Your Search Engine Security extension is throwing a lot of errors in my FF 3.6.14 error console:
Zscaler: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIInterfaceRequestor.getInterface]" nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://searchenginesecurity/content/overlay.js :: anonymous :: line 127" data: no]
and
Zscaler: [Exception... "'Component does not have requested interface' when calling method: [nsIInterfaceRequestor::getInterface]" nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://searchenginesecurity/content/overlay.js :: anonymous :: line 127" data: no]
and
Zscaler: TypeError: aChannel.loadGroup is null
and this happens even when I am NOT using any search engine, just surfing to ordinary websites.
I've uploaded version 1.1.3 to prevent these exceptions. This did not prevent he plugin for working fine otherwise.
Brilliant, thanks!
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