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Home > Software > Firefox 88 to prevent window.name abuses

Firefox 88 to prevent window.name abuses

The Mozilla team announced that Firefox 88 combats window.name privacy abuses under new limitations by Firefox.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
April 21, 2021
1 min read
Firefox 88 to prevent window.name abuses

The Firefox team announced a new security measure to be implemented in Firefox 88. The popular web browser introduces new protection against privacy leaks on the web. With the new limitations, trackers will not be able to abuse the window.name property to track users across websites.

Windows.name data leaking

The Mozilla team stated that data stored in window.name has been allowed by standard browser rules to leak between websites. It enables trackers to identify users or snoop on their browsing history. The window.name property is available to any visited website and stores any data the website to place there. According to the announcement, data stored in the window.name property was allowed by all major browsers to persist across page visits in the same tab.

Firefox will now clear the window.name property to prevent potential leakages. Firefox will also attempt to identify likely non-harmful usage of window.name and avoid clearing the property in such cases. To prevent leakages, Firefox restores the window.name property to its previous value for that website when the user navigates back to a previous website. Clearing and restoring window.name data effectively confine that data to the website where it was created is similar to how Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection confines cookies to the website where they were created.

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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