Sep
14
How to change Browzar's home and search page
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The type of browser you use depends usually more on your personal preferences than, say, issues of security. Internet Explorer is widely credited with design flaws that constantly need patching. Switching to Firefox is an obvious move because that is less prone to malicious attacks. The problem is that Firefox is technically still in beta and some people don't want to experience the faults that are inherent to beta products.
And so others move in. One of the new players is a browser called Browzar.
Browzar claims to eliminate all traces of your web activities and it has taken a lot of flak over that very bold claim and other issues.
A test by SpywareInfo revealed that the first claim is not entirely correct. SpywareInfo was able to find a copy of the last page visited in the browser cache. They also found some cached objects, saved by the Java plug-in. It did not save cookies or URL history, as far as they could tell.
See the entire article here.
Another problem are persistent claims that Browzar itself is spyware. This is not quite true but it does open to a hard-coded start page and that start page is a pay-per-click search engine.
SpywareInfo writes that there is no way to change that start page to a different address or, for that matter, any other options. It also has a search bar that uses the same search engine.
Roger Karlsson (creator of Bazooka and Koffix Blocker) has found a solution for the above problem by using a Hex editor. Take a look at his solution for changing Browzar's start page.