From MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Background

Firefox 2.0 incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites. This preference, along with browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups, determines whether or not the Safe Browsing functionality is active.

Possible values and their effects

True

Compare visited URLs against a blacklist or submit URLs to a third party to determine whether a site is legitimate. (Default)

False

Disable Safe Browsing.

Caveats

• If this preference or browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups is not set (neither true nor false), Safe Browsing will do nothing.

UI

Mozilla Firefox

A checkbox labeled “Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery” is located under “Tools → Options → Security”.

First checked in

2006-05-12 by Brett Wilson

Has an effect in

• Mozilla Firefox (nightly builds since 2006-05-12; 2.0a3 and above)

Related bugs

• Bug 329292 - add SafeBrowsing anti-phishing extension to trunk for evaluation
• Bug 336832 - set pref defaults for safe browsing

Related preferences

• browser.safebrowsing.dataProvider
• browser.safebrowsing.provider.*
• browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups
• browser.safebrowsing.warning.infoURL
• urlclassifier.keyupdatetime.*
• urlclassifier.tableversion.*

External links

• Phishing Protection - MozillaWiki