Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade 673
Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object.'"
Browse safely (Score:5, Funny)
To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
I'm guessing "they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection" at work.
Wait...what? There's PORN on the Internet? (Score:5, Funny)
Why didn't someone tell me about this sooner? I wouldn't have wasted all this time on Slashdot, Digg, and Fark.
stupid kids (Score:1, Funny)
If my son ever bothered to look under folder Dads/Homework/Math he might learn a few things. :-)
Re:Umm .... (Score:4, Funny)
It can't be that hard.
That depends on the sites you go to doesn't it? If your fetishes lie with something easy to spell and remember (grannysex) then it's probably easy to memorize the urls. If they lie with something harder to spell (bukkake, yes I had to look it up) or a strange combination of fetishes (bukkaking russian granny foot sex hairy gang bangs) they might be a little bit harder to memorize ;)
Re:To be more specific (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe you don't want your wife and kids to have porn urls popping up on the browser
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
Fortunately the male sex drive ceases immediately after marriage begins, so this should be an entirely sensible solution...
Re:Opt out? (Score:3, Funny)
Or even better, hum, opt-out? What if I reaaaally don't want the feature?
-dZ.
Re:Umm .... (Score:4, Funny)
memorizing the porn URLs does NOT help.
Imagine discussing something with your boss, and saying "there's a good instructional video over on YouTube".
Boss: "Show me"
You key in "www.you...."
up pops:
http://www.youporn.com/ThreeHotChicksTakeItInTheAss [youporn.com]
http://www.youtube.com/ [youtube.com]
Yeah, this is a serious issue.
duhguys tag (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad I can't mod tags. +1 nailedit
Re:Browse safely (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh, but you won't be using IE for much longer. Now, Mozilla have finally put the last nail in IE's coffin. Now, you MUST upgrade to Firefox 3, or be branded a pervert.
Re:Browse safely (Score:1, Funny)
Ahh, but you won't be using IE for much longer. Now, Mozilla have finally put the last nail in IE's coffin. Now, you MUST upgrade to Firefox 3, and be branded a pervert.
Fixed that for you.
Re:Umm .... (Score:1, Funny)
cheaper than a pound cake!
Re:Umm .... (Score:4, Funny)
This is why I type "yout" so quickly when I want to show the family videos on YouTube. :-)
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
I don't hide my porn browsing from my wife, but I still don't want it popping up every time someone starts to type something into the address bar. I always cringe when a guest comes over and types "a" into the address bar and "Amateur Porn Blog" comes up as the first item in the list.
Re:Umm .... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd suggest using tinyurl, but that might make some guys self-conscious.
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
It's not an either/or. You can do both. For more fun, you can do both at the same time
Carefull: you can propose to do both at the same time and end up doing neither. ... I probably shouldn't have suggested the paper bag
Re:Browse safely (Score:4, Funny)
But I *am* a pervert. I have many, many children to prove it. And wives (shhh).
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But seriously - The reason I didn't upgrade to Firefox 3 is because I'm too lazy to wait 30 minutes for the download and install. So I just keep clicking cancel. It's the same reason why I still use Azureus 2 instead of the latest setup, although I did *finally* install Utorrent last night. I think I'll switchover to that now.
BTW does anyone know why Windows 3 won't talk to my new USB flash drive? Perhaps I need new drivers.
Re:Browse safely (Score:5, Funny)
That's why I use IE.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are"
Your ability to combine those two statements into a single post makes you one of the most irresistable trolls I've seen...
Re:To be more specific (Score:3, Funny)
I'm guessing "they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection" in bed.
Fixed it for you.
Re:To be more specific (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Browse safely (Score:5, Funny)
If two Anonymous Cowards speak to one another, does anyone hear them?
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Browse safely (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, with IE you get TONS of porn in the form of pop-ups... even when you're offline.
Great idea.
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...
Wrong. Maybe you just need a wife and children who are into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.
There, fixed that for you.
Re:Umm .... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd think that seeing tiny "urls" might make them feel better about themselves!
Re:Browse safely (Score:2, Funny)
30 mins for 9MB..... I guess you were too lazy to ever upgrade from that dialup thing as well... hahaha
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
...not related to age but to how far a stick is up their rectum.
Hey, if that's what they're into, who are you to judge?
Re:To be more specific (Score:5, Funny)
where's the porn-block extension for autocomplete?
Or a porn-get extension with autocomplete?
Re:To be more specific (Score:3, Funny)
I know you're joking, but browsing myspace is far less likely to result in a sexual harassment suit than farmsex.com.
Since when can farm animals file sexual harassment suits?
How many offices even employ farm animals who might be offended?
I just don't think you're thinking this one all the way through ;-)
Re:To be more specific (Score:3, Funny)
>>>need a wife who is into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.
I was watching "the Doctors" yesterday and a woman called-in who said she used to get orgasms when she jogged or did jumping jacks in high school gym class! We used to have a saying about those types of coed girls - "Date 'em."
You save your porn bookmarks? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:HistoryBlock (Score:4, Funny)
So if someone snoops around in your browser, they would see an addon called "HistoryBlock" which contains a list of all the sites you didn't want them to know you visit.
Classic.
Duh, that's the reason the extension ExtensionBlock exists. You can configure it to hide any extension you do not want other people to see (HistoryBlock, refspoof, firefusk, etc).
Re:HistoryBlock (Score:3, Funny)
It seems to have hidden itself [mozilla.org].