This is only enabled in child protected accounts. Do you think you want a preference (via about:config) to disable this feature?
> On Oct 7, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Pedro Worcel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dev-privacy [mailto:dev-privacy-bounces+bil.corry= >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 8:57 PM >> To: [email protected] >> 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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-privacy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-privacy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
