[CLUE-Talk] Netscape 6 spyware!
Jeffery Cann
fabian at jefferycann.com
Sun Mar 10 22:51:47 MST 2002
On Sunday 10 March 2002 09:50 pm, BOF wrote:
> Matt Gushee wrote:
> >Just came across this. Yet another reason not to use Netscape 6.
> >
> > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html
>
> That said, the "spyware" here is really annoying, but it's disabled
> easily enough. Open [netscape directory]/defaults/all-ns.js and change
> pref("browser.tracking.enabled", true); to false, and you're done.
Hmm.
This must not apply to Mozilla? I am running mozilla 0.98 and I grep'd for
browser.tracking in /usr/lib/mozilla/* and $HOME/.mozilla/* and turned up
nothing.
In fact, I did not find an all-ns.js file and the directory structure is as
follows:
{mozilla directory}/defaults/pref/
Suggestions?
Jeff
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