It's not too dangerous to set that pref, as long as you're using the
most recent version of Mozilla. It's mainly a "belt and suspenders"
measure - an extra level of protection for local files. It minimizes the
effect of certain security holes by keeping them from stealing local
files. Since we don't have any such holes (that we know of) right now,
the risk of disabling this check is pretty low.
-Mitch
Tom Cat wrote:
Dan Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
I can include in "prefs.js" the following line:
user_pref("security.checkloaduri", false);
Can someone tell me why this is a bad thing to do? I'm a newbie to
security issues. I'm having a similar issue as the orginial poster,
and I want to know how much danger I'm putting myself in.
Thanks,
-Tom
