security in firefox4

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed May 18 00:55:25 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:38 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 17 May 2011 21:35, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I read somewhere that Firefox 4 contains a feature that prevents
> > websites from grabbing your local information. If that is true could
> > some on tell me how to activate this feature in Firefox 4
> 
> If you mean "Do Not Track", then that would be this:
> 
> Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Tell web sites I do not
> want to be tracked.
> 
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/767746

Note that it doesn't *prevent* anything. Its function is purely
advisory. Compliance depends on the web site admin.

poc



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