Browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.updateURL

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

This article describes the preference browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.updateURL. 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 Caveats
4 First checked in
5 Has an effect in
6 Related bugs
7 Related preferences
8 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 determines the URL from which blacklist information is retrieved if browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups is false and 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.

This preference was previously named urlclassifier.provider.*.updateURL.

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Possible values and their effects

The URL from which blacklist information is retrieved.

By default, the following preference and value exists:

browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.updateURL: http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client={moz:client}&appver={moz:version}&

In trunk builds:

browser.safebrowsing.provider.0.updateURL: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads?client={moz:client}&appver={moz:version}&pver=2.1

(The string {moz:client} is replaced by 'navclient-auto-ffox' plus the version number for official builds. The string {moz:version} is replaced by the browser’s version of Gecko.)

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Caveats

browser.safebrowsing.enabled must be true for this preference to have an effect.
This preference only has an effect if browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups is false (when “advanced mode” is off). Otherwise, Safe Browsing will submit sites to the URL in browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.lookupURL.

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