Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 4 months ago
#7637 new enhancement
Alter "New Identity" to make use of onCacheEntryDoomed if that's still needed
| Reported by: | mikeperry | Owned by: | tbb-team |
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| Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | tbb-newnym, tbb-torbutton, gitlab-tb-torbutton |
| Cc: | Actual Points: | ||
| Parent ID: | Points: | ||
| Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
One of our Firefox patches is a horrible hack that makes nsCacheService::EvictEntries synchronous. We did this because Mozilla made it Async before providing an observer to notify us that the eviction took place. This allowed evercookies to persist for a short time after New Identity (see #5715).
Apparently, we should now be able to listen to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsICacheListener#onCacheEntryDoomed().
Unless of course "doomed" means "We're really going to delete it soon, we swear. But we'd like to give content a few more chances to access it first, just in case they really wanted to recover their evercookies."
Child Tickets
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by
| Parent ID: | #7248 |
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comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by
| Keywords: | tbb-newnym added |
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comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by
| Component: | TorBrowserButton → Tor Browser |
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| Keywords: | tbb-torbutton added |
| Owner: | changed from mikeperry to tbb-team |
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by
| Severity: | → Normal |
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comment:5 Changed 10 months ago by
| Summary: | Alter "New Identity" to make use of onCacheEntryDoomed → Alter "New Identity" to make use of onCacheEntryDoomed if that's still needed |
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Could still be useful but we should turn this ticket into checking what we actually still need to do in this area.
Set all open tickets without a severity to "Normal"