Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info

zigzag3143 · Jun 22, 2012

Privacy-conscious users have sounded the alarm after it emerged the "New Tab" thumbnail feature in Firefox 13 is "taking snapshots of the user's HTTPS session content".
Reg reader Chris discovered the feature after opening a new tab only to be "greeted by my earlier online banking and webmail sessions complete with account numbers, balances, subject lines etc.

"This content is behind a secure login for a reason," Chris added.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/22/firefox_new_tab_security_concerns/

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Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info

zigzag3143

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