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RE: COMPUTING: Firefox Vs Chrome
July 11, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Not impressed. I'm pretty happy with firefox and I already have it set up the way I like. For example my bookmarks toolbar is customized with just page icons of my favorite sites, and it would be annoying to do it all over again. In fact the only thing that seems different is the incognito thing which doesn't appeal to me, and I would probably never use. I already have AVG set up to check for viruses on webpages when I search.
If it isn't broke don't fix it. I think I'll stick with what I'm already used to.
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RE: COMPUTING: Firefox Vs Chrome
July 12, 2009 at 6:22 am
Doesn't Chrome have a stealth mode that hides you from sites in some way? If so does that mean it can hide IP's?
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RE: COMPUTING: Firefox Vs Chrome
July 12, 2009 at 6:40 am
"Incognito" mode means you can browse the web without anything being saved in your history or anywhere else for that matter. So it's good for secure browsing (i.e. online banking) and also for having affairs with people...
Hiding IP's would mean it would have to have access to the IP layer of the computer, which isn't generally what a browser does. The browser creates the HTTP connection, which then uses the computer's IP layer to handle the actual data transfer. Isn't IP hiding best done on a router?
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RE: COMPUTING: Firefox Vs Chrome
July 12, 2009 at 7:54 am
Well the IP is given to the computer by the router, and I think spoofing an IP can be done using a router. Proxies are a completely different thing though, because although they can be done via a browser, what is actually happening is your actual IP gets sent to the proxy, which then does all the page requesting for you with its IP, sending you back the results. So although it may look like your IP is being hidden, all you are doing is using the proxy as a middleman.
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RE: COMPUTING: Firefox Vs Chrome
July 12, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Its possible that you know more about this than I do. However, I don't think IP spoofing is a practical exercise. You can make an application which sends packets from your computer with an IP address which does not match your own. However, unless the protocol you're using explicitly sends the address of your computer externally to the low level which you have spoofed (which most don't) then the server is going to reply to the spoofed address. You will never receive the replies unless your computer is connected to the network on the spoofed address as well as under your normal address. If this is the case, what would be the point? If you wanted to make it look like traffic was coming from the spoofed address you could actually just use the desired interface instead of concocting some strange system with twice the amount of sockets as necessary.
I suppose it might be useful for protocols which might not expect the server to reply to the data, for instance protocols using UDP. The packets would arrive at the server with the spoofed ip address and as no data needs to be sent back it would appear in all the logs that the connection had nothing to do with you. However, for protocols built on top of TCP such as http, this seems quite useless.
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