397082 - A preference which allows to block cross domain referer data.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55477

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[jowie.1337]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Normally, Mozilla sends referer headers for every page you got linked to.

This can be undesired for privacy reasons.

There already is network.http.sendRefererHeader=0. However this blocks all referer data.
One example of this being a bad idea is: Referer data inside domains is often used to prevent hotlinking.

For these reasons I am suggesting a preference which blocks cross domain referer data

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

The RefControl extension may do what you want:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/953