Closed Bug 397082 Opened 17 years ago Closed 12 years ago

A preference which allows to block cross domain referer data.

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55477

People

(Reporter: jowie.1337, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: privacy)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Normally, Mozilla sends referer headers for every page you got linked to. This can be undesired for privacy reasons. There already is network.http.sendRefererHeader=0. However this blocks all referer data. One example of this being a bad idea is: Referer data inside domains is often used to prevent hotlinking. For these reasons I am suggesting a preference which blocks cross domain referer data Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: not applicable Actual Results: not applicable Expected Results: not applicable not applicable
The RefControl extension may do what you want: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/953
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: privacy
Blocks: 822869
Blocks: 61660
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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