Secure your Gmail
Thursday, December 21st, 2006Just a little tip for ensuring that Gmail (you are using Gmail aren’t you?) is as secure as possible.
Instead of going to http://www.gmail.com, go to https://www.gmail.com. It is that simple! What’s the difference? Note the super letter “S” in “https://”, this denotes a secure HTTP session, thus securing your email, I mean “Gmail”.
On a side note, a new Firefox update was recently release. The program should update it self, but if it hasn’t, or if you are unsure do the following:
- open Firefox
- Click on “Help”
- Clink on “Check for Updates”
One of the neat little features I noticed is the difference in the address bar when you are in a HTTPS session, the address bar turns yellow and there is a little padlock icon on the right. This was probably done in response to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 having the same functionality, the difference is that Firefox came out with this enhancement in a couple of weeks compared to Microsoft’s five year lag between major versions.
