Urlclassifier.gethashnoise
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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.
When a site is classified as safe or unsafe, a partial hash is generated of a fragment of the URL. This can be compared against the remote database to return a complete hash and extra metadata. When the hash is sent, a number of random hashes are sent along with it to obscure the “real” URL. This preference determines how many random entries are sent.
Possible values and their effects
A non-negative integer indicating the number of random entries to send with the actual hash when comparing a URL against the remote database. Default value is 4.
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 2008-02-26)
Related bugs
Related preferences
- browser.safebrowsing.dataProvider
- browser.safebrowsing.enabled
- browser.safebrowsing.provider.*
- browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups
- browser.safebrowsing.warning.infoURL
- urlclassifier.keyupdatetime.*
- urlclassifier.tableversion.*