[tor-talk] TorBrowser does not work with mediafire.com

[Mike Perry]

Thus spake Karsten N. (kn at awxcnx.de):

> On 02/01/2013 11:02 AM, Katya Titov wrote:
> >>> Hello. When I login no mediafire.com, I cannot see my files. I see
> >>> next progressbar , which never ends :
> >>
> >>         You probably need to enable javascript for it to work.
> > 
> > I've also noticed this, starting sometime last year. I don't believe
> > that JS is the problem as it should be OK under a standard TBB install.
> 
> Seems, you have to enable HTML5 DOMstorage. Enter "about.config" in the
> URL bar and search for "dom.storage.enabled" set it to "true" and try again.
> 
> It is NOT recommended to enable DOMstorage!

The TorBrowser 2.4.x-alpha series should support DOMstorage safely (no
disk access, and isolated to first party domain):
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-firefox-17-and-tor-alpha-bundles

Be aware that it is an alpha, and more auditing work needs to be done
on Firefox 17 in general, though.


-- 
Mike Perry
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