* Peter F. Likarish: > I'm a grad student doing anti-phishing research and lately I've been > comparing the performance of FF2 and FF3 with regard to site > detection. FF2 has been substantially outperforming FF3 against our > test set of phishing attacks (generally garnered from published online > repositories of phishing attacks). Based on my outsider's > perspective, I was under the impression that both relied on Google's > Safebrowsing and was surprised by the disparity between versions. I > am wondering if this is a generally observed phenomenon or if we are > doing something odd in testing that could be causing it?
Debian's Iceweasel had a bug which prevented it from updating the Google-published list used for client-side checking. I don't know if FF3 proper was affected as well, and if it has been fixed. _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
