We all know that we can do nearly everything with Firefox browser. We can check emails, download torrents, upload files to FTP, and the list goes on… Did you know that there’s a collection of extensions to turn your Firefox browser into a security platform? FireCAT stands for FireFox Catalog of Auditing Toolbox and it is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It can be used to turn your favorite browser (Firefox) into a powerful security framework.
At first I thought that FireCAT is a Firefox plugin which you can install and automatically have all 60 security extensions but I was wrong. The official website has 3 types of FireCAT files, FireCAT 1.2 Source (FreeMind), FireCAT 1.2 HTML Browsable and FireCAT 1.2 PDF. Just download the HTML browsable file and you’ll see 7 categories. Expanding the category will give you the place to download the specific extension.
1. Information Gathering
2. Proxying / Web Utilities
3. Editors
4. Security auditing
5. Network Utilities
6. Misc
7. IT Security Related
If you don’t want to try those security extensions on your Firefox browser because it might affect your browser speed, then I suggest you to install it on a Portable Firefox. This way you can have a clean and fast Firefox for browsing and then another Firefox for security auditing. Do take note that you can only run either the installed Firefox on your system or the Portable Firefox at a time.
So which is your favorite Firefox security extension featured in FireCAT?
[ Download FireCAT 1.2 HTML | PDF ]
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Hello,
a comment to signal you that most extensions enumerated in FireCAT 1.4 can be found in a package on phrack.fr:
phrack.fr/tools/FireCAT-1.4.tar.gz
So i see on the bottom of this page some links but that only keeps getting me back on this page..
Where can i found a Tribal wars BB code plug in for Firefox ?
I use to have it but then reinstalled my OS and lost the bloody thing..it is very useful!
What do you mean? Like the same profile or does it load the same websites? It is working fine on my machine and it doesn’t matter which version of firefox I start first. The local installation is for other family members and I have the portable running with my profile. And as far as I can tell they don’t interfere at all. :)
Rudy, I’ve tried doing that. I launch FireFoxPortable first, then indeed I am able to run the local installation of firefox. But then the local version of firefox loads the exact same thing as the portable version…
It is actually not true that you can only run one or the other. It is possible to launch Firefoxportable and your local installation of firefox at the same time. The Firefox Portable Launcher will look for an ini file called FirefoxPortable.ini within its directory. Read the readme.txt located in “FirefoxPortable\Other\Source” and edit the “FirefoxPortable.ini” and change “AllowMultipleInstances=false” to “AllowMultipleInstances=true” and copy it where the FirefoxPortable.exe is located.
nice post again…tnx for all of the infos..and downloads you post here….