Firefox 44 removes privacy feature.

[stan]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:50:41 +1030
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> I wonder how many sites actually do "content negotiation" properly?
> (The proper name for that activity.)
> 
> Sites are well known to just give you their pages, and throw files at
> you, no matter what.  Browsers are well known to say they accept */*,
> rather than limit the list to their known abilities.  About the only
> differences I know of, these days, are sites that may automatically
> send a different version to small screen mobile devices.
> 
> e.g. You still get sent flash, even if you didn't have a plugin for it
> installed.  The "do you want to install it?" prompts are also sent to
> everybody, they just don't show up if you had a Flash player
> installed.

It's amazing it all works as well as it does.  And not surprising that
there are occasional glitches.