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> The takeaway, they contend, is that anything short of running a single browser tab at any one point in time poses a privacy risk: if you open a second tab, Ja
by newscracker 8y ago
> The takeaway, they contend, is that anything short of running a single browser tab at any one point in time poses a privacy risk: if you open a second tab, JavaScript in it can snoop on the other tab. Disabling JavaScript completely will kill off the attack, but also kill off a lot of websites, which rely on JS functionality to work.
Firefox Focus [1], my most used browser (single tab only), seems to be safe from this attack.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Focus
- alceta 8y agoMy Firefox Klar (Focus in German market) does have multiple tabs. But since the entire application is shorter-lived, I never tend to have many tabs open.
- cyphar 8y agoFrom my usage the "tabs" appear to be more like temporary bookmarks. When you switch between them, the page loads from scratch. So even when using tabs it might be protected against.
- nuxi 8y agoFirefox Focus does have multiple tabs - long press on a link, then select "Open link in new tab".
- Groxx 8y agoTho if you switch between tabs, you'll see a full load of the tabbed page. I suspect it doesn't actually have "tabs" (i.e. running in the background like basically every other browser tab), just "saved URLs".
- newscracker 8y agoMaybe you're in a different platform and/o country? It doesn't and hasn't had more than one tab on iOS for me from the time it launched till now. I'm typing this comment from Firefox Focus and a long press on any link shows "Open" as an option, but nothing related to tabs.