On 2014-05-21, 4:38 AM, Frederik Braun wrote:
On 20.05.2014 23:33, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
On 2014-05-20, 2:25 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Justin Dolske <dol...@mozilla.com>
wrote:
However we do implement some additional features in private browsing
mode. For example we disable link coloring. I'm not sure what the
exact goal of that is. I always guessed that it is to enable you to be
extra private about your identity while in private browsing. So that
might provide an argument for disabling <a ping> in private browsing.
The goal of disabling link coloring was IIRC to disable websites from
being able to run attacks against your browsing history to be able to
correlate your browsing sessions like I said above. A smaller reason
was that because we don't store history items from private navigations,
the link coloring might "not work" in surprising ways to the user. This
was before dbaron's general fix for that issue, I don't actually think
we need to keep doing that any more, but nobody has complained about
that yet. :-)
FWIW I'd like to keep colored links out of private browsing, which is a
"guest mode" benefit: Somebody else using a private browsing window on
your computer can't immediately see which websites you visit.
Sure they can. Cmd+Shift+H is right at their fingertips in private
windows, among tons of other UI we have for exposing history.
(I know private browsing isn't intended to be a guest mode)
Yeah, PB is many things to many different people for the better or
worse. :-) That being said, I'm not planning to change the link
coloring behavior for now, and if someone writes a patch, I'll need to
think more before deciding whether or not to take it!
Cheers,
Ehsan
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