2 posts tagged “firefox”

Although I wrote about this neat stuff I found lately also on Livejournal, I write about that also in here.

That stuff is FireGPG, yet another security related Firefox addon.  FireGPG allows you to use Gnu PG or GPG in short (GNU Privacy Guard) within Firefox, works as a combination of Thunderbird and Enigmail addon to utilize GPG.

I have installed new Thunderbird 2.0.0.2 on my laptop PC, plus downloaded and installed Enigmail addon for it already.  I was glad to see them working fine, but I'd got used to use webmails for years, even Gmail.  Then using Thunderbird isn't fun and quick enough for me now.  But I wanna use PGP/GPG for emailing.

People think that cryptography is for spies and criminals such as terrorists, but privacy conscious persons are interested in cryptography too.

Anyway, I really wanna use PGP/GPG for emails now.  Then this Firefox addon called FireGPG is up!

Although the authors of FireGPG addon seem to make their addon works with any webmails on the net, the current version works only on Google Gmail.  GPG should be installed before you install FireGPG, FireGPG requires you to set the path for the actual GPG executable (.exe) file in hard disc on your PC.

You can configure FireGPG to ask you each time which keypair do you wanna use, or you can set the default keypair to avoid being asked which everytime.

I show you how it works below.  The first screenshot shows FireGPG and GPG tell you the received email is signed properly (i.e. not modified by anyone).

FireGPG - receiving a GPG signed message in Gmail

You might find that Gmail's page looks slightly different from its normal page in the screenshot above, it's just because of yet another Firefox addon I'm using called "Better Gmail."  I'll write about this very neat stuff later.


With FireGPG, you can sign or sign and encrypt your email too.  The below is showing mail compose page in Gmail.

FireGPG - composing an email with FireGPG options in Gmail

The recipient's address is of course a joke, the address is not existed.  In the screenshot above, you will notice that there are some buttons appear which cannot be seen on normal Gmail's mail composing page.  Pressing these buttons, you can sign, encrypt or sign/encrypt your email for the recipient(s).

SInce I've got a combination of Firefox and this FireGPG addon now, I might not use Thunderbird anymore...perhaps....