[Ietab] Possible to make IE Tab use Gecko engine and implement secure tabs?

[Dale Eshelman]

I would just like IE tab on a mac with firefox so i can access company
internal web site, Why would it only work with IE?


--- Håkon <haakeyar-mailinglists at bluezone.no> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering if it would be possible to make IE Tab use the
> gecko engine instead of the IE engine. If that is possible and you
> can
> specify your own locations for saving cookies and stuff*, I think it
> would be possible to create an extension implementing secure tabs
> just
> by applying a few modifications to IE Tab.
> 
> Secure tabs is this idea I've been having about a better protection
> for end users against CSRF and similar attacks (of course, I can't
> claim to be the fist one to think about it, but I haven't found
> anything else written about it). You can read about it at
> http://my.opera.com/haakeyar/blog/csrf-we-need-protection, it was
> mentioned in the latest episode of The Command Line Podcast
> (http://thecommandline.net/2007/12/23/news_125/) and I have suggested
> it in the mozilla.dev.security news group/mailing list at
>
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.security/browse_thread/thread/b0a770c9fed95320#da54733dd406c591
> 
> I'm sorry if I am asking a stupid question, but I am unable to try IE
> Tab (since I am using Linux) and I haven't looked at the source
> (which
> I maybe should have done before asking about this, but I have no
> experience with developing extensions for Firefox, no experience with
> using browser engines etc, and I figured that you guys who know the
> code, probably already know the answer, while I would have had to
> spend a lot of time before finding anything useful).
> 
> If this is actually doable without too much work, is it something
> that
> you guys could consider to implement? I understand that branching out
> the code to create another plugin would be harder to maintain with
> bugfixes and all that, but still, it would be very nice to see it
> happen.
> 
> * I don't have any experience with programming with browser engines,
> so I don't really know how it works with cookies and all that.
> 
> Regards,
> Håkon
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