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

Drops?

[Black Parrot]

I see that two other people have used this subject line, so I guess it must be the next big "fp" kind of thingy, and I just want to get in on it before everybody starts doing it.

Re:Drops?

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I guess it shows that a monkey can be an editor. I think monkeys take food as currency, so it would be easy for the rest of us to pay them off to accept our ad-story like Roland Pimp'nquialle does.

Well Michael got fired.

[glrotate]

So maybe Zonk is next?

Re:IDNC3

[Neuroelectronic]

I thought they fixed this already. Wasn't there a new build released like 12 hours after the fact, that fixed this problem? I disabled the IDN support and then installed the new build, and it was re-enabled.