Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @05:54AM from the porn-mode-incomplete-until-it's-a-separate-browser dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object.'"

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CLEAR PRIVATE DATA? by A.+B3ttik · 2009-08-26 06:01 · Score: 1, Redundant

Seriously, that's what TOOLS>CLEAR PRIVATE DATA is for.

I'm sure some of you /.'ers are going to tell me that unless I use TrueDelete, encrypt my entire harddrive, have a backup button to overwrite everything with zeros, keep a giant electromagnet on hand, and keep my drive rigged with thermite charges that my data will never be _truly_ safe... but CLEAR HISTORY is enough for me to feel safe that my curious little sister doesn't accidentally stumble upon something I don't feel like explaining.