Browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.reportGenericURL

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

This article describes the preference browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.reportGenericURL. 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.

When a user wants to report a possibly phishy website or a false positive, they’ll be directed to the URL in this preference 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.

Originally named browser.safebrowsing.provider.*.genericReportURL.

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