February 2018

 

 

Firefox 59: Referer Path Stripping in Private Browsing

TechExpert

Mozilla plans to strip path information from the referer when visiting third-party sites starting in Firefox 59 Stable. The new feature applies to the browser's private browsing mode only.

Web browsers provide sites with information when connections are initiated. Part of this is the referer value which holds the path of the referring site.