Security/Reviews/Firefox5/ReviewNotes/VideoStats

Date of Review: 2011.05.03

Item Reviewed

• Framerate & stats on video elements bug 580531

Background:

• Video playback statistics overview

Changesets:

• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8c22e163c9f0
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d6f8aff170a0
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3263ffab7ce7
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/48a74f63565e
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8b6d6b01cbdf

Concerns: Concern:

• could leak info about users video performance (fingerprinting source of entropy)
• how much of the vido has been watched, or if part is skipped

Action Items:

• File a bug to add about:config pref to disable the feature bug 654550