I’m happy to announce the release of safe-browsing 0.0.1 for Epiphany, the GNOME Web browser. It will try match the url you are trying to access with the Google Safe Browsing black list of urls. If it is a match the view pane will be disabled such that the user can only view the page but not interact. The user will be free to browse away from the page by typing a new url. The extension will also add a indicator to the browser status bar. In the next relase an error page will be displayed instead of even displaying the evil page.
You can also report phishing sites by clicking Help -> Report Web Forgery…
You can download the extension safe-browsing-0.0.1.tar.gz
Follow the steps bellow to install the extensionn. I’m assuming you have already installed epiphany and epiphany-extensions.
Step 1 – Download the extension archive
$ wget http://www.mohanjith.net/downloads/gnome/epiphany/extensions/safe-browsing/safe-browsing-0.0.1.tar.gz
Step 2 – Extract the extension archive to epiphany extensions directory
$ cd /usr/lib/epiphany/2.20/extensions/ $ tar -xzvf [Location_to_archive] .
Step 3 – Restart epiphany and enable Safe browsing extension
Goto Tools -> Extensions and then select the check box against Safe browsing.
Step 4 – Goto a phishing site
Goto a phishing page, e.g. http://202.168.224.161/c.html at the time of posting.
Hope this extension will make your browsing experience safer.