Thursday, January 03, 2008

Fixed Greasemonkey (MicroB port) installation problem on Chinook

Greasemonkey webaddon port for MicroB is now installable on Chinook again. Some have reported installation problems on chinook due to a libhildonmime0 incompatibility problem, but it is just fixed.

Tested on both bora (n800) and chinook (n800 and n810).

Have a nice browsing.

Antonio Gomes
tonikitoo at gmail dot com

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Major security update recommended to all Microb Adblock Plus port users

Wladimir Palant, the original Adblock and Adblock Plus Firefox web-addon developer, among other complainings, has pointed out an important security hole in initial version of the Adblock Plus Microb port :

"... So I downloaded this Adblock Plus version and soon it was obvious that it is inserting an Adblock Plus button into all web pages the user visits — using my favicon as the image on the button. Which makes me the lucky guy who can track every move MicroB users do on the Internet (at least if I decide to send HTTP headers preventing caching)."

Happily, Andre Pedralho quickly fixed this issue and uploaded the 0.0.2-1 version of Adblock Plus MicroB port in a few minutes. It is highly recommend for all Adblock Plus (maemo port) users to update their packages to the newest as soon as possible. For the other raised issues by Wladimir in the post entry, including changing the addon port name, we are investigation how much we've changed from the original source to take the proper action.

--Antonio Gomes
tonikitoo at gmail dot com