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==== Use of resource:// URIs can leak information ====
==== Use of resource:// URIs can leak information ====


Jorge: attended Blackhat. There was a session on browser privacy & fingerprinting. Web content can  identify which add-ons are installed by trying to load content from at resource:// urls. For XUL add-ons, we're planning on asking developers to use chrome:// urls not resource:// urls, but SDK add-ons can't. Irakli: we've talked before about having an addon:// protocol for this stuff.
Jorge: attended Blackhat. There was a session on browser privacy & fingerprinting. Web content can  identify which add-ons are installed by trying to load content from at resource:// urls. For XUL add-ons, we're planning on asking developers to use chrome:// urls not resource:// urls, but SDK add-ons don't have this option. Irakli: we've talked before about having an addon:// protocol for this stuff.


Alex raised a bug to track this: {{bug|779197}}.
Alex raised a bug to track this: {{bug|779197}}.


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