Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains

tsu doh nimh writes "Netcraft has the story that Mozilla has decided to drop support for international domain names in future versions of its Firefox Web browser. The decision comes after demonstrations by the Schmoo Group that the feature can be used to aid in phishing scams and other browser naughtiness." From the article: "The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting 'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter about:config in the address bar to access the configuration functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it on, but will be warned about the risks involved."

Comments

Internations

[mboverload]

If you ever go to an international domain name you such be looking out for scams anyway.

Re:Who uses Firefox/Mozilla anyways?

[a11]

I believe the stats are smth like 80% of slashdot users. you dumb piece of shit.

Re:network.enableIDN

[starfishsystems]

I tend to believe Mozilla more than you, that's why.

Especially when you contradict yourself:

Isn't this the "fix" that everyone found stopped working after you restarted the browser?