Urlclassifier.confirm-age
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Background
Firefox incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.
The list of phishy websites (and of malware-hosting pages) is normally updated periodically from Google. If one of the updates fails, though, Firefox must use an outdated blacklist. To avoid this, Firefox will automatically re-check a site if it looks phishy and the blacklist is possibly out-of-date.
This preference determines the oldest an entry in the local blacklist can be before it is assumed to be out-of-date.
Possible values and their effects
Number of seconds specifying the age at which local blacklist entries are considered out-of-date if a blacklist update fails. Default is 2700 (45 minutes).
Caveats
- browser.safebrowsing.enabled must be true for this preference to have an effect.
First checked in
Has an effect in
- Firefox (nightly builds since 2008-04-15)
Related bugs
Related preferences
- browser.safebrowsing.dataProvider
- browser.safebrowsing.enabled
- browser.safebrowsing.provider.*
- browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups
- browser.safebrowsing.warning.infoURL
- urlclassifier.gethashtables
- urlclassifier.keyupdatetime.*
- urlclassifier.tableversion.*
