.mp3 now considered malicious file type

2006-10-16 Thread JoeS
I just started regularly using the current trunk builds of Thunderbird and Seamonkey, and was surprised by the fact that I was unable to open an mp3 file that was included either as an attachment or as inline content. Not sure when this started, but surely is bothersome to have to first save the

Security Violation ID

2006-07-06 Thread JoeS
ot;> Seamonkey will launch a Fullscreen window in the browser, even N4.x accepts the code. I didn't expect Thunderbird to over-ride the messagepane window, but did expect my default (Firefox) to be called. Is there a pref or a workaround to enable the script to work, or perhaps a pref

Worm alert

2006-06-29 Thread JoeS
concerned about here. JoeS ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security

Re: CAPS policy.. How to undo

2006-03-28 Thread JoeS
James Ross wrote: JoeS wrote: Unfortunately, if the user.js file is removed, the policy stays in effect. And where are the particulars of the policy stored, I don't see them anywhere. My point is, if I set a policy, how do I reverse or modify the policy, short of creating a new pr

CAPS policy.. How to undo

2006-03-27 Thread JoeS
//secnews.netscape.com news://news.mozilla.org news://news.leibowitz.org";); user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowjs"); Unfortunately, if the user.js file is removed, the policy stays in effect. And where are the particulars of the

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-25 Thread JoeS
Boris Zbarsky wrote: JoeS wrote: Mail and news have very different security needs IMHO That may well be. Might be worth filing a bug on that. I suspect the default configuration would still have the same prefs set for both of them, though... -Boris https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-13 Thread JoeS
Boris Zbarsky wrote: JoeS wrote: Yes, but only if you know that default policies have been violated. Er... you can set up policies even if nothing has been violated. I think at least an alert should be done here So a site can go into an endless alert loop by violating a security policy

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-12 Thread JoeS
Boris Zbarsky wrote: JoeS wrote: Unfortunately, "this does not work" equates to "this software is not capable" for most users. Let the user know when pref controlled capabilities are violated at least. Feel free to suggest UI for this. I don't see

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-11 Thread JoeS
capable of, for the sake of security, and let the user decide. JoeS ___ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security