SiteAdvisor Public Preview Now Available

Posted by Chris Dixon on March 1, 2006 12:45 PM

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The plugins have been updated:
Newest version for IE is
1.2.0.0 (build 2266) 18:25 27-Feb-2006

Newest version for Firefox is
20.0 Build: 2261

To check for your version, click the black arrow located to the right on the SiteAdvisor button:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/TeMerc/SAButton.jpg

Then select 'Get latest version'. Download new version, install.

New install screen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/TeMerc/SAScreen.jpg

Thanks to Roddy32 for pointing out the new versions.

 

I'm running SiteAdvisor 20.0.2261 on Firefox, and it's OK, but quite disappointing. Unlike NetCraft Toolbar, it's so out of the way, missing a red-flagged site is easy. Unless you purposely look down at the status bar for a page that is loaded, you won't notice anything. I hate having to remember to do something each time I visit a new web site. I find it pretty ridiculous that there isn't even an option for some other sort of alert.

On another note, I went to my own site, and it was grey (i.e. neutral rating--no data). I submitted a comment for the site, but they apparently never sent an email to confirm my identity, because I never got one.

 

what do they mean by trial version?

http://www.siteadvisor.com/images/logo_siteadvisor.gif

 

in the faq it says the trial version is free but theyre developing a premium version that can be purchased thru subscription.

 

I installed SiteAdvisor for both IE and FF.
I see the icon at the right side of the toolbar. However, I see nothing in FF. I did google in FF, and the resulting sites were each rated by SA.

But where is an indication in FF, when I go to a specific site, as to the safety of that site?

I am using Spoofstick, and it tells me where I am, but I do not see SA.

Thanks,
Jerry

 

It should appear in the status bar, toward the right. (I'd post a screen shot for you, but I've already removed SiteAdvisor. They may have screen shots on the site.)

If SiteAdvisor doesn't appear for you in Firefox's status bar, perhaps try uninstalling/reinstalling the extension (I know; generic, ho-hum Firefox extension advice). If it still doesn't appear, you probably have a conflict with another extension.

 

OK, I got it now. It is in the bar at the bottom instead of the top as in IE. However, it was not there until I ininstalled, and reinstalled.

Thanks,
Jerry

 

I really have to wonder what good SiteAdvisor is. In Firefox, it lets red-flagged pages load, and leaves it to you to check, each and every time, for a color change on a very small portion of the browser, well out of the way of where you normally look when viewing a web page. When you first load a web page, you typically begin viewing it from the top, or even top/left portion of the page. But SideAdvisor hides in the lower/right portion of the browser window.

NetCraft Toolbar (which I realize has a more restricted purpose, that being purely anti-phishing) prevents known-bad pages from loading in the first place. SiteAdvisor sits there and very quietly whispers, "Pssst... The page you're viewing contains nasty stuff."

 

I like it, but wish it was made for Opera also.

Jerry