In regard to your points 1, 2, 3: Agreed. As for 4, for the future, I'll
advise them to use separate accounts to insure some semblance of privacy.
I didn't know this was an advertised feature. My last paragraph was in
reference to the other issue I had with FF3.0 in regards to browser
links in Thunderbird won't automatically open into a FF window as they
used to.
This is a residential computer so the privacy issue isn't business or
security oriented. It's just a privacy thing.
Thanks for the clarification.
Richard P.
John wrote:
When I start typing an address in Firefox 3.0, it not only displays
previously visited websites, but divulges detailed information about what
the site was used for. For instance, a previous user used Firefox to log
into their work's webmail and now each of their email's heading is displayed
for anyone to see, without even having to log in. This is a huge violation
of presumed privacy. Older versions of Firefox only displayed the root of
previously visited links.
Has anyone else seen this? Firefox's "improvements" and "undocumented
features" are starting to make Internet Explorer look like a better choice
:-(
1. Yes, previous versions just showed the URL information.
2. No, the current version just shows the "site" along with the URL - that
is, what the site gives your browser as a window title.
3. If you have multiple people using the same profile in Firefox, that is
an accident waiting to happen.
4. If your webmail displays the email heading in the window title, you
might want to ask them to change that. I know that Gmail just displays the
subject line.
I don't know what you mean by the last paragraph, but this is clearly more
useful to the user trying to get back to an earlier site by typing in the
address bar. Plus, it will search the window-title information for what you
are typing, not just the URL. This was an advertised feature.
As for whether you consider that a privacy or security concern, you probably
shouldn't have multiple people using the same account on your OS and the
same profile in Firefox.
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