Google Safe Browsing anti-phishing extension to land on trunk

Good find. Very interesting news indeed. This will (might) hopefully give Firefox the one feature that it has seemed IE7 would have while Ff 2 wouldn't.

Comment by David Naylor at March 5, 2006 11:14 PM | Permalink

This should land on trunk/branch as dogfood ASAP. This needs to be in FX 2 for same reason at Comment 1 said.

I've trawled through the docs but can't see any mention of a capability to disable this feature. This should be an extension and not part of the base installation.

Is the backend service still hosted and controlled by Google? Seems like it would be better to get the backend service moved to Mozilla before making this a part of Firefox.

That's beautiful of open source :)

Comment by mk at March 6, 2006 05:28 PM | Permalink

Eric:

"It'll be a global extension, off by default."

It is an extension, just one that is installed by Firefox, like Talkback or DOM Inspector. You can disable it if you want to.

Comment by Matt Nordhoff at March 7, 2006 01:07 AM | Permalink

Matt,

Thanks for the info.

I know a lot of people that would rather see it off by default as they wouldn't like to have all their browsing habits checked by an unaccountable organization such as Google.

Better still, make it an extension that people can download and install by choice, not by default.