If you discovered pages of dating sites in your partner's history list, you'd be annoyed right? But would you report it as a security flaw to the makers of the software?
An anonymous woman did just that. "This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break up after having dated for five years", she argued. "
"Firefox should be respecting every single area of privacy per user on one system. It's not doing that," the woman writes.
But is the "bug" a flaw or a feature? It's generated heated debate.
"On the History tab you will see a button for Erase My Relationship", quipped one poster.
"There are check boxes for 'because he is a cheating bastard', 'because he is a sneaky bastard who demeans me by thinking he can go behind my back', and..."
Expect a download on the Mozilla website soon. Joking.
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The Register, Fri 24 Mar 2006 at 10:24am
