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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. 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.