Hi Ehsan,

I'm coming back to this thread because a user asked why Firefox was not working 
for him. I had another thought I wanted to run by you. You previously wrote,

> According to the original screenshot in the thread, your web page is
> sending an HTTP request to https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token.  If
> the user has previously visited reddit.com, this request will include the
> user's reddit cookies normally.  Also, the HTTP request I mentioned before
> has a Referer header that points to the address of your web page by default
> in most browsers.  So Reddit will be able to tell which user has visited
> which page on your site.  In other word, Reddit will be able to see the
> user's browsing history, as if they had access to the user's computer.

Could Firefox selectively choose _not_ to send cookies and the referrer header 
in this case? This seems like a possible compromise to me for sites like 
revddit which rely on accessing a social media site's API with 
non-user-specific credentials in order to function.

Regards,

Rob
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