[tor-bugs] #8725 [Firefox Patch Issues]: resource:// URIs leak information

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#8725: resource:// URIs leak information
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 Reporter:  holizz                |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  assigned 
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:           
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |        Version:           
 Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting    |         Parent:           
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:           
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Comment(by gk):

 That issue is not fixed in Firefox21+. The only thing
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755724 does is to break the
 test on http://marcorondini.eu/research/resource_uri/ as the latter relies
 on resource:///defaults/autoconfig/platform.js which seems not to be
 available anymore. But at least the locale is still extractable in a
 recent Nightly and therefore whether a TorBrowser is used as well, I
 guess. Additionally, there might still be a good chance that the platform
 is getting extracted, too, using some platform specific differences in
 resource:///defaults/preferences/firefox.js (if there are any). That said,
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=863246 is probably a
 duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503221 which
 Gregory Fleischer opened several years ago.

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