security in firefox4

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 18 13:16:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 20:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
> 

That is what I wanted but neither the Tools tab on the menu bar not the
tools tab on the Community tool Bar have an option called options.
This is Firefox 4.0.1
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