My understanding was that this security loophole had been mostly dealt with, with the exception of weird situations where you can trick the user into clicking on things based on the color of items on the page. Sites can't tell what color the links are unless you tell them.
Does anyone else find it a little disappointing that this is essentially over 40KB of code whose only function is to set the layout.css.visited_links_enabled option to false? For that size, I was expecting at least functionality like per-site preferences (which would be very useful and beyond the default functionality of the browser.)
I’d be more interested in something that ensured that visited links were marked differently. Many, many sites go shushing up :visited when I would rather not have it shushed.
Yeah - But I think you can do some of that stuff with the built-in Firefox Inspector. Just right-click and hit Inspect. On the right side of the toolbar click Style. You can try out styles there.
I’d like something more selective than that. Pages that don’t make them the same, do nothing; pages that make them the same, apply some algorithm to select a new colour which is likely to be appropriate in the context. Something like that.
Yes, I wanted this addon to be an easy way to toggle that setting on & off. Especially for people who are less tech savvy, and might be intimidated by "about:config".
Disable WebRTC with media.peerconnection.enabled=false
(WebRTC leaks your local network IP, without any user interaction. This helps differentiate computers on a network/VPN. Here's a plugin which provides an easier way to toggle this off/on. https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/disable-webrtc-firefox)
Disable plugin & mimetype enumeration with plugins.enumerable_names=""
(Our browsers oftentimes have unique sets of plugins & mimetypes, when you factor in the version numbers. This helps differentiate specific browsers, on a network/VPN. Here's an addon which adds an easier way to toggle this off/on. https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/plugins-and-mimetypes-firefox)
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(plus a 14 line manifest file, 12 lines of test boilerplate and a 10 line readme)
(WebRTC leaks your local network IP, without any user interaction. This helps differentiate computers on a network/VPN. Here's a plugin which provides an easier way to toggle this off/on. https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/disable-webrtc-firefox)
Disable plugin & mimetype enumeration with plugins.enumerable_names=""
(Our browsers oftentimes have unique sets of plugins & mimetypes, when you factor in the version numbers. This helps differentiate specific browsers, on a network/VPN. Here's an addon which adds an easier way to toggle this off/on. https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/plugins-and-mimetypes-firefox)