On 2017-04-20 14:27:34 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-04-20 14:00 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2017-04-20 13:10:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2017-04-20 12:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> > I've had the network.enableIDN preference[1] set to false for many > >> > years (as shown in about:config) in order to avoid some phishing > >> > attacks (and I had always relied on it). I've just noticed that it > >> > no longer has any effect! > >> > >> You're rather late to discover this, the preference has been removed > >> in Firefox 22 four years ago[1]. > > > > Not in Debian! I can still see the preference in about:config. > > That's because you changed it. > > > FYI, I set up this IDN config on 2005-02-08, and never touched it as > > I didn't see any announce (or error message in case the preference > > would be set in the user config, but removed). > > Firefox does not usually remove entries from prefs.js either,
That would be a bad idea. > nor does it complain about unknown preferences (those might belong > to extensions). This is a bit different here since the preference was known in past versions. So, I've reported the following bug upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358122 Note that a solution on upstream's side is not the only way. I think that the removal of network.enableIDN should have been announced in a NEWS.Debian file. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
