Henri Sivonen wrote:
> It seems to me that the accessed URLs are revealed to Alexa, if the
> What's Related panel is in the sidebar even if it isn't the active
> panel. However, if I remove the panel from the sidebar, sending URLs
> appear to stop. Is this a correct diagnosis?
Might be. There was a bug about that, dated sometime pre-nsbeta3, IIRC.
> I need to disable this "feature" for all users. That is I need to
> disable it in a way that causes all new profiles to be clean so that
> they don't send over access information. Is it sufficient to delete all
> references to the panel in the default panels.rdf file? Or do I need to
> remove the actual .js and .xul files from comm.jar?
>
> (I think What's Related shouldn't be enabled by default--especially
> because URLs are sent to Alexa even when another panel is active.)
I disabled it for Beonex Communicator. diff below. There's also a
local-panels.rdf, don't remember what that one did, but I didn't modify
it for Beonex Comm.. I don't think, you need to remove the panel source
itself.
Index: profile/defaults/panels.rdf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/profile/defaults/panels.rdf,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 panels.rdf
--- panels.rdf 2001/01/17 06:18:09 1.8
+++ panels.rdf 2001/02/24 15:09:32
@@ -7,11 +7,7 @@
-->
<!DOCTYPE RDF
[
-<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.whats-related "What's Related">
<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.search "Search">
-<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.tinderbox "Tinderbox">
-<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.tinderbox-ports "Tinderbox-Ports">
-<!ENTITY sidebar.nc-panel.stocks "Stocks">
<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.client-bookmarks "Bookmarks">
<!ENTITY sidebar.panel.client-history "History">
]
@@ -23,31 +19,16 @@
<RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:current-panel-list">
<NC:panel-list>
<RDF:Seq>
- <RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:whats-related"/>
<RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:search"/>
- <RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox"/>
- <RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox-ports"/>
<RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:bookmarks"/>
<RDF:li resource="urn:sidebar:panel:history"/>
</RDF:Seq>
</NC:panel-list>
<NC:version>0.1</NC:version>
</RDF:Description>
- <RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:panel:whats-related">
- <NC:title>&sidebar.panel.whats-related;</NC:title>
-
<NC:content>chrome://communicator/content/related/related-panel.xul</NC:content>
- </RDF:Description>
<RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:panel:search">
<NC:title>&sidebar.panel.search;</NC:title>
<NC:content>chrome://communicator/content/search/search-panel.xul</NC:content>
- </RDF:Description>
- <RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox">
- <NC:title>Tinderbox: SeaMonkey</NC:title>
-
<NC:content>http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/panel.html</NC:content>
- </RDF:Description>
- <RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox-ports">
- <NC:title>Tinderbox: SeaMonkey-Ports</NC:title>
-
<NC:content>http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey-Ports/panel.html</NC:content>
</RDF:Description>
<RDF:Description about="urn:sidebar:panel:bookmarks">
<NC:title>&sidebar.panel.client-bookmarks;</NC:title>
