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Privacy Leak in Mozilla and Mozilla-Based Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been dept.

Mike S. writes "Mozillazine has pointed users to this story at ZDNet UK which breaks the news about a privacy bug discovered in in all Mozilla builds up to and including 1.2a as well as browsers based on Mozilla such as Netscape 6/7, Chimera and Galeon. The bug allows a web site to track where you're going when leaving the site whether you use a link, a bookmark or type a URL into the address field. This page has a demonstration of the bug and instructions on patching it via a user.js file."

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  1. Time for conspiracy theory... by wray · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is is possible that Microsoft is funding the project to under open source? Is it possible that the only reason the Mozilla project got done so fast is that it had Microsoft money backing it? Hmmmm... something to think about

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  2. Re:Yawn. by jhunsake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That, or sit on a public toilet.

  3. Re:Mozilla .... you are the weakest link by Glytch · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Either that, or Opera.

    I'd switch to Konqueror in a heartbeat if it supported a way to hand off the URL of a link to another program, though. I love Konqueror, but I love Downloader for X more.

    Offtopic, but did are KDE developers going nuts on optimizations? Built 3.0.3 yesterday, and it just flies on my old K6-500.

  4. OT: Idea share? by Xerithane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm currently developing a javascript based framework that relies on a few open child windows. Creating a list of open windows has been done, but I'm not exactly happy with the codebase. This is my first experience with JavaScript. What method do you use for knowing which child windows have been open and their status?

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