Prior to v3.0 I used Firefox for aslweb; I had much more success with the interface and I did not want to deal with the "security certificate" warning that IE threw up.

Since v3.0 I am using IE v9 because I receive a better interface performance. I have not attempted any of the other issues that I have noticed in the forum re: disabling rules - but I am having no problems so far with the window issues that have been mentioned. Although I have submitted a ticket to support re: false positive not being reported when sent via aslweb.

However, running the web interface in Firefox is a mess of slowness issues that see me give up entirely. I am considering that this issue is related to Firefox addons but wondering about the experience of others.

Your instinct is probably right that it may be a local issue with your firefox setup. Firefox is our primary platform (we're Linux guys afterall), so its the one hat gets the most attention. If you have two browsers on the same box, and one is slower, I'd start by testing a default installation of the browser to see if it really is the browswer. Make sure you disable any desktop (or network) software that scans/proxies web connections (and any plugins or extensions for your browser that do this, or anything else connection related like antivirus, antirootkit, WOT, McAfee Site Advisor, etc.) and of course any plugins.

The absolutely best way to base line browsers, is to do a clean new OS install and a default install of one browser, then test. Then do another clean install, test another browser. VMWare, KVM, etc. are great for this. Otherwise, if you try to do this from a single desktop (that has all sorts of other software, changes, etc.) you have too many external variables distorting your experiment, two browsers may change settings in the registry affecting the other (accidentally), they might share a library of slightly different versions (and so one is not working optimally), etc.



We replied to that case earlier today, could you please respond to the request for additional information? We need you to check your mail logs to see if these FPs were sent. False positives (and negatives) and sent via your email system, and we dont see anything on our end, so we think your system isnt sending anything at all. Please see the case for more details. I know from the past that your system has had issues with your MTA, so please check your logs and update the case with that information so we can help you with this issue.

Are you using Firebug in ASL GUI? I have to "Disable all Panels" before logging in, otherwise is gradually turns browser response to molasses.

Not sure if this is the best place/way to mention it, but I'd really like to see an option to collapse the ASL GUI header or see it redesigned to be less tall. Currently it represents a lot of unused space and the important part of the screen feels cramped by comparison and requires a lot of scrolling (windows within windows) and dragging/moving/resizing to see important stuff in context/side-by-side.

Additionally, the RSS news feed (although important) does not need to be so big (could be broken into a separate panel or moved into the header).

These 2 elements alone take up 150px of height (20% on an average laptop), most monitors are wide-screen now, so height usage is optimal. Don't want to seem to be knocking v3 ASL GUI, but they just seem unnecessarily over-sized compared to previous versions (I liked it when the interface broke out of Plesk interface for the same reason).

ASL is the best security solution for Linux servers, the GUI should be comparable!

That may have been the issue, thank you. I upgraded FF and removed many addons (one being Firebug) = now OK.