Firefox 3 promised to improve security for the users but it came at the cost of usability. The unpopular Add Exception prompt is driving me and many other users nuts when we have to add an exception for genuine sites like google.com, godaddy.com and yahoo.com I was trying hard to find some hidden option to disable this prompt completely. But Firefox developers have put not even a hidden setting to remove this prompt completely.

My Hack is not complete solution to this problem but still makes it easier to add exceptions and browse the sites easily.

Type about:config in your firefox’s address bar and

set browser.ssl_override_behavior = 2

and

set browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert = true

Now this won’t remove that prompt completely but atleast you won’t have to retrieve certificate manually as it will be prefetched now.

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Well seems people now really like to order reviews with this being the second review request to be done here. Hostv - a division of Cirtex Hosting contacted me to review their hosting and provide you with some insights and details about them and my thoughts on them too. Cirtex Hosting and Hostv both are under their Corporate Site: Cirtex

Well once you reach Hostv - you are greeted by a professional looking website of a solid corporate webhosting company. We all may have heard of Cirtex Hosting - its quite popular among webhosting community. And Hostv being their company should also have strong reputation and should be worth it.

Well Hostv offers only Virtual and Dedicated Server hosting since shared and reseller are already offered by Cirtex. Both Virtual and Dedicated hosting have 3 plans each with minimum cost of virtual dedicated hosting being $39.99/month … but remember this is the cost if you prepay for 1 year. If you want to pay monthly then price of lowest plan for virtual dedicated hosting is $49.99/month. But if you wanna save 50% off on your first bill be it monthly or yearly use this coupon: 50PROMO Virtual Servers with come with features like Cpanel, FFMPEG, Red5, Fantascio, Virtuozzo and PHP4/5. FFMPEG and Red5 is quite useful if you wanna run your own video sharing website. All scripts mentioned on this page are accessible with a Hostv Account.

Coming to dedicated hosting, they again have 3 plans with lowest plan costing @299.99 plus $150 setup fee. Setup Fee is applicable to all plans with it keeping being decreased as plan upgrades. Wanna save %10 off first payment? Use Promo Code: 10PROMO Dedicated servers too have all features offered in Virtual Servers.

Hostv has a affiliate program which pays $30 per sale generated. Minimum amount due is $100. and you can get payed by either Paypal or by Cheques.

Most of the affiliate networks are only targetted for US Audience or accept US only publishers. They don’t have offers which would cater to people residing in India atleast. If somebody has a site made for Indian audience only, affiliate marketing will only become more difficult.

But not anymore with DgmPro - A affiliate network exclusively for indian publishers. With Advertisers including Airtel, Shine.com, Yatra.com, Godrej HiCare and FutureBazar.com  - indian publishers will love it. Payouts per offer are as high as Rs 275($6.8) per lead. Most of offers pay atleast Rs 30-50 per lead or signup. Some even pay per click. And Most offers if put through right strategy end up paying a lot. I earned Rs 490($8 approx) without any effort in less than 2 weeks. Imagine if I had put up some effort, I can earn a lot more.

You can access your reports daily by email also and reports are shown in very detail. Not all offers are accepted and each offer is validated before that payment is actually made to you. Validation can take 1-3 days. Minimum payment threshold is Rs 2000($50) not very high and easy enough to achieve.

They have lot of features including Data Feeds showing lots of offers through a single feed and ability to rotate affiliate banners with Banner Grouping Feature. They offer text links and almost all sized banners for all publishers.

But only problem is that they either pay via Cheque or Bank Transfer. No Paypal supported which I would have loved atleast. One more problem is that they don’t have a affiliate program so be sure, I am getting nothing by promoting dgmPro.

So signup now on dgmPro and earn via affiliate marketing even as an Indian Publisher.

Many of us loved to use OneClick Wordpress Extension coupled with its firefox counterpart to install themes and plugins on our blogs in a single click. But with Firefox 3 release, it all stopped. Either you move to Firefox 2 or don’t use the plugin as its still not compatible with Firefox 3. And even after the developer promised to update extension within 24 hours 7 days ago, no hope is in sight.

But there is way to use extension in Firefox 3 too. Here’s how: Get this extension : MR Tech’s Toolkit. After installing this extension  go to OneClick page and download the extension from there and on prompt to install just check the button saying: Override ‘maxversion’ compatibility checking. And now when you will install OneClick, firefox won’t say that its not compatible with it. Instead the extension will continue working as normal.

Sometimes some people are very desperate for review that they forget that a review will be beneficial only if they have the site ready. A site about webhosting reviews asked me to review their site and I was a bit surprised at seeing the review request. Well here it goes.

WebhostingBlueBook is a site intended to be a webhosting reviews site. It has all essential components which you may find at a webhosting review site but most of them are incomplete. It does have a directory, forum, blog, webmaster resources, wordpress themes, hosting glossary, ranking system explanation and even a newsletter.

I have just subscribed to newsletter and haven’t received anything so can’t comment. Ranking system does not explain much about top 10 rankings shown on the homepage. Hosting glossary is good and can be improved further with more words. Wordpress Themes can have a demo for each theme and a little bit of description to be more effective. There is a Tools and Articles page …. articles seems ok but I could not see any tools listed. Webmasters page lists to the affiliate programs of three webhosts - nothing substantial to talk of.

Now the directory sems empty with a link to another webhosting review site. Forum has only once category….needs to be immediately attended to. I could not find any webmaster resources on the site as advertised. Also design of site needs a uplift as default vbulletin theme is very common and nothing which a normal user would remember the second time he/she visits your site.

Conclusion

In short site needs a lot of improvement and can be seen as a potential webhosting reviews site if worked hard upon. Unless then it hardly provides any useful resources as advertised.

Final Improvements Suggested

• Design of site needs uplift.
• Forum needs relevant categories
• Title of pages need to be optimised and site be optimised for SEO in general
• More hosts need to be added to directory instead of linking to second such site
• Articles, Tools, Webmaster Resources and webmaster pages need relevant content
• Blog needs to be restored
• Ranking system of site need to be worked upon

Only when these steps are followed, then only this site can become successful.