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.
>> 
>> 
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