- After its most recent series of updates, Firefox is slowly regaining its position as one of the most popular web-browsers. The newest version of Firefox puts a premium on user privacy. For users who are hesitant to trust Google’s Chrome browser with their data, this is a huge advantage.
- Firefox Browser, also known as Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.
Most popular US web browsers, according to the federal government. By the United States' government's count, Chrome is the most popular web browser followed by Internet Explorer and then Safari.
Hello All,
I have searched and searched but have not found an answer that matches my specifics. Any help would be appreciated.
I used to be able to do this but now I can no longer search and browse images on google or bing image search and have Web of Trust function. Here is how I am going about it.What I use:DuckDuckGo's annoymous google or bing image search link when I enter querries. Also, searching directly from Google's or Bing's image search page doesn't work with WOT anymore either.Firefox 23.0.1The following add-on's:Add-block plus 2.3.2BetterPrivacy 1.68Flagfox 4.2.12Ghostery 5.0.4Google/Yandex search link fix 1.4.1No Script 2.6.7.1Web of Trust 20130515
If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.
When we do browsing, we do not want to get information, pictures, vidio, applications, etc, from a dangerous source. When we enter a keyword in the search engines, automatically, will be shown thousands, even millions of web sites. Of the many websites, we do not know the reputation of website. We certainly do not want, the computer / laptop we are, infected with viruses, spam, spy, etc. The problem, if we open a website, is a safe source or not.
Example: I enter keywords “Microsoft Office 2010 product key”, then, will be shown millions of websites, which offer such information. By automatic we will open the top ranked websites. Then, we download something from the website. We never know, what we downloaded was infected with a virus or not. If, protection of computer / laptop we are, less good, of course, what we are downloading would be disastrous for us.
Mozilla Firefox, web browser is the most widely used around the world. In Mozilla Firefox, there are additional facilities (add ons), one of which serves as a filter, website. Add ons in question is WOT (Web of Trust). WOT (Web of Trust) or Safe Browsing Tool is Would you like to know which websites you can trust? The Web of Trust (WOT) add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser. Traffic-light rating symbols show which websites you can trust when you search, shop and surf on the Web.
Here, I’ll do a comparison, between Mozilla firefox without, add ons WOT, and Mozilla Firefox, which use add ons WOT.
On the website / blog, the first order, we do not know, if the file from the blog turned out be dangerous (Picture 1). But, by including add ons WOT, you will get a warning of a “red light”, which indicates, blog are a source of danger (Picture 2). To prove, what was the warning given by WOT, we try, open blog first sequence. It turns out, show the warning “WARNING” and written “This site has a poor reputation” (Picture 3). Then, we can check, to determine, why writing the “This site has a poor reputation”, by pressing the “View rating details and comments”. As a result, we can see inside, (Picture 4 and 5). Then, what is the basis of WOT, determining rating of a website / blog.
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Reputation ratings are based on real user ratings and they tell you how much other users trust this site. How reliable are the ratings?
Where do the reputation ratings come from?
WOT’s unique tools are powered by our global community of millions of trustworthy users who have rated millions of websites based on their experiences. All websites’ reputation ratings in WOT are based on ratings from our users. WOT also uses information from numerous trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists, to provide the WOT community with real time information.
Can a site’s reputation be manipulated?
When someone first hears about the concept behind WOT, their first objection is that someone could easily spam the system with tons of ratings and rate down their competitors or otherwise manipulate reputations, but that’s not true. In order to keep ratings more reliable, the system tracks each user’s rating behavior before deciding how much it trusts the user. WOT applies sophisticated algorithms to detect and eliminate any manipulation of reputation.
What do the rating symbols mean?
WOT uses color-coded symbols to show the reputation of a site: Green indicates that the site is trusted by the community, yellow warns you to be cautious and red indicates potential danger. A gray symbol with a question mark means that there are not enough ratings to calculate. See the complete list of WOT icons.
What are WOT’s rating components?
WOT shows the reputation of a website in terms of four components:
- Trustworthiness
- Vendor reliability
- Privacy
- Child safety
The first component reflects the overall trustworthiness of the site: Can it be trusted? Is it safe to use? Does it deliver what it promises? A poor rating may indicate Internet scams, identity theft risks, credit card fraud, phishing, viruses, adware or spyware. A rating of “unsatisfactory” indicates that the site may contain annoying advertisements, excessive pop-ups or content that makes your browser crash. A “poor” rating may also indicate that the site’s content is not trustworthy.
Vendor reliability tells you whether the site is safe for buying and selling or for business transactions in general. An “excellent” rating indicates superior customer service, timely delivery of products or services and overall customer satisfaction. A “poor” rating indicates a possible scam or a bad shopping experience.
Privacy tells you whether the site has a privacy policy that protects your personal identity and data. For example, does the social networking service you use give you the means to determine what is public and what remains private? Does the site have opt-in privacy options? A “poor” rating indicates concern that your data may be sold to third parties, be stored indefinitely or be turned over to law enforcement without a warrant, etc.
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Child safety indicates if the site contains age-inappropriate material. This includes mature content meant for adults: Content depicting nudity, sexual content, violence, vulgar or hateful language or content that encourages dangerous or illegal activities.
I do not know anything about security. How can I rate websites?
We realize the average web user isn’t a security professional and we don’t expect them to go out and investigate random websites for safety. We have an active group of experienced users who review sites for technical safety and help the average user avoid security threats. We only expect users to share their experiences with the websites they already know, because they are uniquely qualified to do that. Being able to learn from other people’s experiences is the whole reason for this service.
When you submit your own ratings, please bear the following in mind:
- By rating websites, you can share your knowledge with the community and help your fellow users
- Rate only those sites that you know • If you feel that a WOT rating for a site is incorrect, please provide your own rating
- You can rate a website only in the components that are valid and leave the other components unrated
- If you use a site that does not have enough evidence for calculating the rating – indicated by the symbol – please give a rating
How reliable are the ratings?
Usually in reputation systems each rating is weighted equally and reputations are computed as the average of all ratings, which makes them extremely vulnerable to automated attacks. Therefore, we decided early on to value ratings by their merit and use some of the principles of Bayesian inference for combining the ratings into reputations. The short version is that the system analyzes each user’s rating behavior from several aspects in order to determine their reliability. When you start using WOT, your ratings have little weight, but if you keep rating sites consistently, your ratings will be considered more reliable over time. The meritocratic nature of the system makes it far more difficult for spammers to abuse, because bots will have a hard time simulating human behavior over a long period of time.
Are the ratings based only on users’ input?
While our primary source of knowledge is ratings from our users, we also take advantage of hundreds of carefully chosen trusted sources, such as listings of phishing sites from PhishTank. This provides WOT with a fast, automated, and reliable means of protecting our users from new, rapidly spreading online threats.
Why don’t you show the number of ratings?
Contrary to what you may think, the number of ratings won’t tell you the reliability of a reputation, and showing it could be misleading. WOT shows you the confidence indicator instead (the small human figures next to each rating symbol.) The confidence value tells you how reliable the rating system considers the reputation. It’s based not only on the quantity of ratings, but also the estimated reliability of the users who rated the site.
How do I remove or change a rating that I have accidentally submitted?
- First you need to register as a WOT user. This gives you access to the Profile Page (click your user name at the top right to get there fast.)
- To view your ratings, select the My Ratings tab.
- You can delete a rating by clicking on the red X.
- To edit a rating, open the site’s scorecard and click Edit my rating in the reputation rating area.
- When you have made the changes, click save.
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How does the system rate subdomains?
Subdomains are often used with free hosting and social networking sites, for example. The WOT community can rate subdomains in exactly the same way as the members rate other domains. If WOT doesn’t have enough ratings for a specific subdomain, the subdomain inherits the parent domain’s reputation. Once the system considers there to be enough supporting evidence to calculate a separate reputation for the subdomain, WOT will start to use it.
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Similarly, the reputation of each subdomain contributes to the parent domain’s reputation. If a domain has lots of untrustworthy subdomains, its reputation will suffer, and, therefore, the reputation of any new subdomains will suffer as well. We designed this logic within the WOT system to model the way trust works in real life.
How to insert add ons WOT, in Mozilla Firefox
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Press “Tools” menu – select “Add-Ons”
3. Press the icon “Get Add-ons”.
4. Inside the box “Search All Add-ons”, write “WOT”, enter
5. Press the button “Add to Firefox ….”
6. Press the “Install Now”.
7. After the install process is complete, then “Restart Mozilla Firefox”. Finish.
I have 2 years more, using WOT / Web of Trust (Support this add-on: Contribute $ 10.00). Of the various kinds of Web browsing, that we can use, I dropped the choice to Mozilla Firefox. The main reason is WOT / Web of Trust (Safe Browsing Tool).