On 20.05.2014 23:33, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2014-05-20, 2:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com> >> wrote:
>> However we do implement some additional features in private browsing >> mode. For example we disable link coloring. I'm not sure what the >> exact goal of that is. I always guessed that it is to enable you to be >> extra private about your identity while in private browsing. So that >> might provide an argument for disabling <a ping> in private browsing. > > The goal of disabling link coloring was IIRC to disable websites from > being able to run attacks against your browsing history to be able to > correlate your browsing sessions like I said above. A smaller reason > was that because we don't store history items from private navigations, > the link coloring might "not work" in surprising ways to the user. This > was before dbaron's general fix for that issue, I don't actually think > we need to keep doing that any more, but nobody has complained about > that yet. :-) FWIW I'd like to keep colored links out of private browsing, which is a "guest mode" benefit: Somebody else using a private browsing window on your computer can't immediately see which websites you visit. (I know private browsing isn't intended to be a guest mode) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
