Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info

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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/