HTTP Referer control: Firefox extra settings

[back2themoon]

Hey everyone, looking for a 'lightweight' way (no firewall/add-ons) to partially block HTTP referers. Blocking them entirely is mostly ok but some sites will break. Found out here that since FF28 there are about:config options that can customize blocking referers a bit - allowing them for the same domain for example. Any chance we could see these on Pale Moon?

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Interesting.. Those seem to be for changes in the backend component /netwerk.. I can say this.. If vNext research gets put into practice and the esr31 codebase proves to actually be stable and provides a good base for the future of Pale Moon we SHOULD get this automagically.

As for the current actually working codebase (esr24 base) Pale Moon is currently based on, it looks like the patch wouldn't be that hard to implement but as you may know testing would have to be done to make sure this doesn't compromise any functionality and evaluated if it would be desirable to have right now. Obviously this will be something Moonchild will have to look into.

For the record I am kind of in favor of these and MAYBE we could get some GUI options, if implemented, in PM Commander.

Bug 822869
m-c commit e544d028da74

[Supernova]

It looks interesting. I already set a custom value for referer but having a better control on that (allowing to breaking less sites) would be a good change imho.
Some GUI options in PM commander, as you suggested matt, would also definitely be convenient.

[KNTRO]

Give RefControl a shot! Fantastic add-on!

[back2themoon]

Thanks KNTRO, installed Referrer Control but RefControl seems easier to use with specific-site settings.

[Moonchild]

I'm implementing the basic referer granularity settings in Pale Moon for 24.7 - You'll still want an extension for per-site control since that would go beyond what I consider needed in the core and would be too fine-grained for the average user.

PMC will have UI options for these new settings.

[opera1215b1748]

PMC will have UI options for these new settings.

Good!

[back2themoon]

Thanks a lot for adding these Moonchild. About network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy, is the '1' setting stricter than '2' or have I got it wrong? When the value is 2, then subdomains are "allowed" and referers are sent? Bit confused with the terms "base domains" and "hosts" on the release notes.