Since people having issues with this seem to be finding this thread, it may
be a good place to document how to change the windows setting in order to
disable this feature.

I am not an expert, but would it be correct saying that if parental
controls are disabled on Windows then firefox will ignore prefer:safe?

2014-10-08 8:43 GMT+13:00 Bil Corry <[email protected]>:

> I just ran into this - my son was trying to watch a Minecraft-related
> Youtube video and because Firefox sends the Prefer:Safe header, YouTube
> wouldn't let him watch it.  So I installed Chrome and now he doesn't have
> any issues with content being blocked.  Interesting that Chrome doesn't
> support it, but YouTube does.  Seems that Google found the sweet spot.
>
> Good luck with the feature.
>
>
> - Bil
>
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> Subject: Re: Prefer:Safe in Firefox
>
> Please see this question I posted on the support forums:
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1023771
>
> This is a very heavy-handed approach you're taking with this.  I do not
> want to filter what my kids see on the web.  The only reason I have
> parental controls enabled is to enforce time limits on the computer use.
>
> The only options I have to get around this are to either disable parental
> controls (unacceptable), or to tell them to use Google Chrome, which does
> not exhibit this behavior.
>
> I don't mind that you're adding this feature.  But you either need to put
> something in so that it can be disabled, or only make it take effect if any
> web content restrictions are applied.  If there are no content
> restrictions, do not send the header.
>
>
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