Closed
Bug 360381
Opened 18 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
site_icons cause uncached images to be loaded twice or thrice (if bookmarked)
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: franz.gans, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: privacy, Whiteboard: CLOSEME 07/14)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909
If browser.chrome.site_icons and tabbed browsing is enabled and you retrieve an
image via a script (uncached) the image is loaded twice. If you add a bookmark to
the URL and retrieve it again it will be loaded three times from the webserver.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put an arbitrary jpeg-image (named j.jpg) on your server. Enable CGI.
2. put the delivery script p.pl into the directory where you
put the image:
--- p.pl ----
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header(-type => 'image/jpeg');
open(J,'<j.jpg');
read J, $b, 1000000;
print $b;
--- end p.pl ---
3. set browser.chrome.site_icons to true and retrieve the URL (p.pl)
with firefox. Count the lines in the webserer log.
4. Bookmark the URL and retrieve the URL again. Count the lines in the webserver
log.
Actual Results:
3. 2 GETs are logged
4. 3 GETs are logged
Expected Results:
The image shall be loaded *once* regardless of site_icon settings or existence of bookmarks.
Does this behaviour reveal whether the user has bookmarked some URL?
Is this a potential privacy issue?
Workaround: set browser.chrome.site_icons to false :-(
Comment 1•18 years ago
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Not an exploit, clearing security-sensitive flag. Possible privacy issue.
Group: security
Keywords: privacy
Comment 2•17 years ago
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Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!
Whiteboard: CLOSEME 07/14
Version: unspecified → 1.5.0.x Branch
Comment 3•15 years ago
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Please reopen this bug if it appears with a recent version of firefox 3 in a new profile. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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