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What about encrypting the saved session info, so that the files containing the data are not 'in plain language', readable in notepad. After a crash, perhaps a password would be required to re-open the last known session. Without the password, it opens to about:blank. | What about encrypting the saved session info, so that the files containing the data are not 'in plain language', readable in notepad. After a crash, perhaps a password would be required to re-open the last known session. Without the password, it opens to about:blank. | ||
= Comment from an Ordinary User = | |||
There is, in some people's opinion, a serious and potentially dangerous security and privacy risk. This is caused by the fact that if the Cache is stored in RAM (a disk drive created in RAM whose contents 'disappear' when the power is removed), material to restore pages is then saved on conventional hard disk. As at Firefox version 2.0 the last viewed web pages are reproduced perfectly without a connection being re-established with the remote server. This is done when the Cache was on RAM disk and after the computer's power had been turned-off for 12 hours! | There is, in some people's opinion, a serious and potentially dangerous security and privacy risk. This is caused by the fact that if the Cache is stored in RAM (a disk drive created in RAM whose contents 'disappear' when the power is removed), material to restore pages is then saved on conventional hard disk. As at Firefox version 2.0 the last viewed web pages are reproduced perfectly without a connection being re-established with the remote server. This is done when the Cache was on RAM disk and after the computer's power had been turned-off for 12 hours! | ||
Firefox's restore session ability must be loved and admired by Big Brother throughout the world. With anti-virus checkers deliberately ignoring "official" security service bugs and trojans and users becoming more aware of all the data Microsoft and its Internet Explorer saves about them, its probably inevitable that Mozilla, for whatever reason, started saving in secret information about its user's browsing habits! | Firefox's restore session ability must be loved and admired by Big Brother throughout the world. With anti-virus checkers deliberately ignoring "official" security service bugs and trojans and users becoming more aware of all the data Microsoft and its Internet Explorer saves about them, its probably inevitable that Mozilla, for whatever reason, started saving in secret information about its user's browsing habits! | ||