329541 - Bring Site Advisor (also available as an extension) functionality to Firefox (Firefox 2)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Plugins Graveyard :: McAfee AV, enhancement)

Description

[cricketmilki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Site Advisor has information relating to sites if they're download links have spyware/adware. If it's a fake site. If it's just a plain spam site.

It tests the URL's of a Google and Yahoo Web Search and a color changing icon in the status bar.

If a "bad" site is visited the color changes to red, (yellow is suspicious). Although Yellow might confuse users as it also means secure.

This functionality should be brought into Firefox.

The Status Bar button should be next to URL Bar.

It should be interagated just like Safe Browsing from Google.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Maybe something like this for Firefox 3

Comment 2

[u279076]

Resolving unconfirmed bugs older than a year with no activity as INCOMPLETE.  Please reopen or file a new bug if you can still reproduce the bug.

Comment 3

[timeless]

We're now tracking such bugs. This doesn't mean it's something we can fix, merely something we hope to be able to point vendors to so they can investigate. This is an automated message.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Closing old bugs in the Plugins component. We aren't going to track issues in 3rd-party plugins in the Mozilla bug tracker. In addition, support for NPAPI plugins will be removed at the end of this year; for more details see the post at https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

If there is a serious bug in Firefox, it needs to be filed in the "Core" product, "Plug-Ins" component.