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my draft for network.IDN_show_punycode
added under 2600 but it would maybe also fit under 0800 (?)
the title and that one line are quite long, feel free to improve the wording etc.
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earthlng committed Feb 21, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -1240,6 +1240,13 @@ user_pref("security.block_script_with_wrong_mime", true);
// WARNING: SVG is fairly common (~15% of the top 10K sites), so will cause some breakage
// https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216893
user_pref("svg.disabled", true);
// 2672: eliminate possible spoofing security risk by forcing Punycode for Internationalized Domain Names - SECURITY
// Firefox has *some* protections to mitigate the risk, but better safe than sorry
// downside: will also display legitimate IDN's punycoded, which might be undesirable for users from countries with non-latin alphabets
// https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
// CVE-2017-5383 -> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/
user_pref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true); // default in FF51: false

/*** 2698: FIRST PARTY ISOLATION (FPI) ***/
// 2698a: enable first party isolation pref and OriginAttribute (FF51+)
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