Cause “URL” Had To Die

• Removed Microsoft DLL Search from the menu
• Fixed an issue related to the Clipboard Copy

After some thought and some reflection, I’ve decided to continue development of Malware Search for Firefox. I’ve made a few changes for 0.9.2, specifically,

• Removed Microsoft DLL Center
• Replaced SamSpade’s WhoIs with DNSStuff’s – can accept IP’s and hostnames
• Added hpHosts

I’ve not yet pushed it to Mozilla, please download and test and let me know if there’s any issues. Grab it here: http://www.urlhadtodie.com/malware-search/

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys on things so I figured I’d start update everyone on what’s going on with Athena and Malware Search.

I originally developed these plugins for Firefox because that was my browser of choice at the time. Times change and new programs are developed. I’ve almost exclusively started using Google’s Chrome.

Without getting into the details of why I like Chrome over Firefox, I just wanted to let everyone know that I will no longer be developing any new features in Athena and Malware Search for Firefox.

All future development efforts will be in Chrome.

Because people asked so nicely, I’ve uploaded Athena 0.1.5 which just adds support for Firefox 3.6. It’s on Athena’s page.

I’ve got a number of people contacting me about issues importing a speech file that has been previously exported via Athena. The error looks like this:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageConnection.executeSimpleSQL]” nsresult: “0×80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://athena/content/athena.js :: anonymous :: line 564″ data: no]

The issue comes from the way that Athena handles importing speeches. It looks for a sequence of characters, namely a semi-colon. So if your speech has a semi-colon in it, it will break the import. So, the easiest way around this is to just copy the database itself and place it on the other computer.

The database is named “athena.sqlite” and is located in your Firefox profile folder. If you don’t know where that is, see this link. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Once you have located the database, just copy it and then paste it in the Firefox profile of the other computer. Athena will pick it up and use it.

One other thing to note, Athena 0.2.0 will do exactly this when it is released.