Firefox WebApp testing plugins
June 10, 2009
Thanks to Alex (who BTW is leaving Foundstone to go back to university – the very best of luck mate 
), I heard of this collection of plugins that Adam Muntner has put together.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/webappsec
Certainly a great collection – I have some of those installed myself, but certainly not all as I’m much more of a Paros proxy guy! There’s probably way too many toolbars if you install everything and I don’t really want my browser looking like this.
Anything that makes it easier though I’m all for, so have a look at this collection and have a play. My core is Add N Edit Cookies, Web Developer toolbar, and ProxyButton (not in the collection, but with the other tools perhaps not needed) – pretty much everything else I do in Paros – but you very well may find some of them useful, especially while starting out.
Posted in Security
June 11th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Alex said:And where can this collection of extensions be found?
June 11th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Marcin said:Hi Alex, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/webappsec
Mike, how on Earth can you like Paros? To me it just feels clunky. Burp Proxy feels best to me, with WebScarab close second.
Cheers.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Mike said:Sorry Alex – I’ve updated the link to the right one.
Marcin – I don’t know why, but I’ve just always got on with Paros. It just sort of works for me. I know it’s not as “nice” as others (parsing out params/headers/etc) but I don’t mind that – I just like working with the raw traffic.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
$hauvik said:Aren’t these all already in firecat?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firecatpackage/
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Adam said:$hauvik –
Many are… this fulfills a different purpose.
Collections are a new feature of Firefox.
You can subscribe to the “Collection” of plugins from Firefox – it’s a feed – and install them easily, individually, from inside the browser.