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A few bug fixes and a new option

I have officially resumed work on this project, updates will happen at least once a month from now on.

I just found out that the dns server for swiss privacy foundation is going offline so I replaced it with the one suggested by this server. In the next update I will try to give the user choices on which dns servers are used by default but that will have to wait until I am not so busy.

The menu for quickfixes had half of its choices pointing to the wrong options, i do not know how I managed this but I just fixed it so all options should work as normal.

The option for encrypting swap space has been removed months ago but I forgot to remove the option from the menu, this is now done. In its place is an option for installing security and privacy related extensions and ssl search engines in Firefox. Yes, I know that the script for that is long, the reason for that is because it mimics the file creation for staging an extension for installation which requires reading and inputting data from the instyall.rdf file inside the extension file and then creating a file with that information in place under the right format. At a later date I may try to find a more streamlined way of doing this.

There will be more updates to follow, I will be working on browser security so the option for installing security related firefox plugins will evolve into something better. The next things I plan to implement for this option are installing firejail and setting that to automatically generate a profile for firefox and run each time you start firefox, this will require me to finish going through the Linux file system and determining which files are necessary for Firefox operation. After that i will be creating a script for this program that will alter settings in Firefox and make them a default for boosting security and possibly speed.

In case you are wondering why I dropped the project for awhile, I have been going through various life changing events and been so busy that i could barely check my e-mail let alone do anything else with the computer.

Posted by Stephen 2015-06-21

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