Browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.name

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.name.

This article describes the preference browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.name. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 First checked in
4 Has an effect in
5 Related bugs
6 Related preferences
7 External links

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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 specifies the name of the service to which sites will be submitted to determine whether they are legitimate if this Safe Browsing service is selected in browser.safebrowsing.dataProvider.

This is an enumerated preference: all preferences whose names start with browser.safebrowsing.provider. are read to generate the list of Safe Browsing providers. The * in the preference name is a non-negative integer, and matches the number in the other preferences needed to describe a provider. It also determines the order in which the providers appear in the options dialog.

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