811582 - window JS object provides a large amount of identifiable information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1329996

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Tomas Touceda]

Values found in the window JS object, such as innerHeight and outerHeight provide identifiable information about the user that the browser should be able to conceal.

For instance, innerHeight and outerHeight provide information about the menu/toolbar/etc size. Other values like screenX, screenY should be taken care of too.

There should be a preference to make the outer{Width,Height} equal to the inner{Width,Height}. This way the browser can still support websites that want to maximize the window space use and hide distinguishable size values from the user browser layout.

This is related to Bug 418986. I will work on this when I'm done with the former.

Comment 1

[Tom Ritter [:tjr]]

I believe this work is completed and we can close this bug.