Version 1.2.4 of the Remember Mismatched Domains extension for Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey fixes a couple of parsing errors in the French language version and also includes a fix for the issue with the options window being cut off. As well, Alexander L. Slovesnik has provided a Russian translation.
Thanks to everyone for the bug reports and help with the “drive to localize” RMD.
I’ve just posted an update to the Remember Mismatched Domains extension for Firefox / Thunderbird / Seamonkey. Version is now 1.2.2. This release fixes the mess I made of the Polish language translation. Many thanks to Bartosz Piec who fixed the dtd files for me.
Its been awhile since I did this:
What is Remember Mismatched Domains?
The Remember Mismatched Domains extension for Firefox and Thunderbird adds a “Don’t warn me again about this certificate for this domain’ checkbox to the Domain Mismatch and Expired Certificate warning windows. When selected the domain name and security certificate domain pair (or certificate and expiration date pair) is stored in a Firefox / Thunderbird preference and the security error dialogue will be bypassed on subsequent visits.
How do I install the extension?
If you want to install the extension in Thunderbird, you have to follow these steps:
1. In your default browser, right-click on the download link. Choose the “Save link to disk…” option and download the XPI install file into a directory of your choosing.
2. Open Mozilla Thunderbird and open the ‘Extensions’ dialog by going to the ‘Tools’ -> ‘Extensions’ menu.
3. On the Extension dialog, there’s a button named ‘Install’ in the lower left corner. Click on it and browse to the directory where you saved the remember-mismatch.xpi.
4. Choose the file you downloaded earlier on and click ‘OK’.
Firefox users left click on the link.
Localization
The Remember Domain Mismatch Extension has been updated to version 1.2.1. This version adds localization support along with German, Polish and French language translations (thanks to contributions from a few generous RMD users).
More Secure
The other important change for this version is that RMD is now storing fingerprints (SHA1 and MD5) of the security certificate when the mismatch is remembered. This change makes the extension a little more strict in how it remembers a domain mismatch (or expired certificate), thus making things like certificate spoofing a little more difficult.
What This Change Means For You
Not a heck of alot, other than near complete peace of mind. Of course, as we all know, true peace of mind can only really be achieved through actual matching (and un-expired) security certificates.
Unfortunately, for users who have previous versions of RMD installed this update will also mean that you’ll have to accept the mismatch one more time. Now I know what you’re thinking - “all I have to do is re-remember the domain name mismatch and near peace of mind will be mine! How can I do this right now?”.
Here’s what I suggest you do:
- After installing the update and restarting Firefox or Thunderbird, attempt to connect to your previously remembered website or mail server with a mismatched certificate. You’ll be presented with the Domain Name Mismatch dialogue again (boo, hiss…).
- Examine the certificate by selecting ‘View Certificate’ (remember the old days when you did this each time you checked your email?). If you like, you can even note the SHA1 and MD5 fingerprints that RMD will store.
- Once you’re certain that you want to remember this mismatch check the ‘Don’t warn me again’ checkbox and accept the mismatch. Now everytime that website or mail server presents the certificate with those very fingerprints RMD will go back to automatically accepting it on your behalf.
- If you open the options window for RMD you can view the fingerprints for each mismatch entry by making the Certificate Fingerprint columns visible. Do this by clicking the column picker widget (highlighted in red below). Entries that have no fingerprints stored are legacy entries from previous versions of RMD and can be deleted.
Download
Download the Remember Mismatched Domains extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=2131
update one: argh, okay the udpate needs to be accepted by addons.mozilla.org before being made available for download. I’ll post it here for those who just can’t wait.
As always please use the comments section (or email) for any feedback / questions / bugs.
update two: editorial - clarified some awkward wording
Geoff Stearns who is the author of the popular FlashObject Javascript library has a post describing a somewhat disconcerting exchange with Adobe’s legal department. According to Geoff they have requested that he stop using the word “Flash” in his project name. Geoff, somewhat grudgingly, has agreed to rename the project SWFObject.
I really do hope this is just a matter of Adobe’s legal and public relations not consulting one another. In any event, it makes it clear that Adobe needs to provide a clear statement on it’s perspective regarding trademark infringement (and other legal issues) and then enforce it in a reasonable and consistent manner. I think this would also help clear up some of the legal ambiguity of a few open source Flash projects.
The OSFlash mailing list currently has some discussion on the matter in this thread. And Peter Elst has posted a good level headed appeal to Adobe regarding this manner.
Adobe have put together an extension (.mxp) for the Flash 8 IDE that updates the publishing templates to include a workaround to the Internet Explorer Activate ActiveX changes.
Details and a link to the extension download are here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/7c29e252
The browser is supported but is the OS?
Last month Yahoo! began an open beta of Yahoo! Canada Mail. I’ve been using it for a little bit now and have to say I’m really digging the new drag and drop functionality and pane based layout. Some real nice improvements. What baffles me though is the operating system requirements for using the beta. If you want to use Yahoo! Canada Mail Beta you need to be running Windows 2000, XP or Mac OSX.
Really? I can understand requiring a modern browser but a web based app running in a supported browser with OS requirements?
This is pretty forward of me but I think someone needs to introduce Dave Winer and Kevin Lynch.
Why? Because they’re both saying the same thing.
Of course they’re on different paths and are both describing it in their own ways but you can’t tell me the goal isn’t the same. What finally clued me in was Dave’s comment today when he had this to say about Yahoo’s calendar:
“The interface is clunky, but I can’t see how it could be better and still run in the browser.”
Heh, Dave, check out Kevin’s presentation from Max last fall. It’s a bit of a pain to get you to the right place in the video but once you watch it I think you’ll agree with me. The video is here. Choose ‘Day One’ > ‘Platform Future’ (3rd thumbnail from the right), then jump ahead to about 1:08:00.
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Note: If you just want to download the Remember Mismatched Domains extension for Firefox / Thunderbird / Seamonkey you can get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=2131
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A while back “Morty” dropped me a comment offering to provide German translation for the Remember Mismatched Domains extension. I thought it was a brilliant idea so last weekend I went ahead and added localization support to RMD. That was the easy part.
Over the next week or two I’d like see how many different translations we can collect for the extension. That’s where you come in…
Below you’ll find a list of 19 text label items found in RMD. If you have fluency in a language you’d like to see RMD support please do us all a favour and take a few minutes to note their translations. You’ll see that I’ve categorized the labels according to where they appear in RMD - this should give a good indication of the context in which they are presented. To save me any potential embarrassment, if you could also mention the language of the translation you’re providing I’d be appreciative.
There are a few ways you can submit your translations:
1. Email ‘em to me (that’s my address up there under “contact”)
2. Use the comments section on this post (in the event my blog mangles your translation please don’t panic, simply drop me an email and we’ll get it sorted ;-).
3. I’ve posted the en-US dtd files here. After downloading them, make your changes and email the files back to me.
updated 2006/05/23 RMD has been added to babelzilla.org. Please use that system for submitting translations. Thanks.
Thank you for your help in making RMD better for us all! And don’t forget to leave your name (and url) so I can add you to RMD’s contributors list.
updated 2006/05/23:
We now have the following localizations for RMD:
‘da-DK’, ‘de-DE’, ‘en-US’, ‘es-AR’, ‘es-ES’, ‘fr-FR’, ‘nb-NO’, ‘pl-PL’, ‘pt-BR’, ‘ru-RU’
Extension Properties:
1. Remember Mismatched Domains
2. Adds a ‘don’t ask me again’ option to the Domain Name Mismatch Security Error window.
Menu Item (Thunderbird and Seamonkey):
3. Remember Mismatched Domains Options…
Domain Mismatch Dialogue:
4. Don’t warn me again about this certificate for this domain
Options:
5. Remember Mismatched Domains Options
6. Domain Name Mismatch
7. Server Certificate Expired
8. Remembered Domain Name Pairs
9. Remembered Expired Certficates
10. Website Domain
11. Certificate Domain
12. Expired On
13. Delete
14. OK
15. Cancel
About:
16. About Remember Mismatched Domains
17. version
18. Created By
19. Contributors
