Details
The Status Bar shows the location of the content when a user visits a link or when content is being downloaded on a web page.
Some malicious websites can use JavaScript to hide the status bar so that a user cannot determine the location of the content for hyperlinks and downloads.
Solution
Perform the following procedure:
* Open the mozilla.cfg file in the installation directory with a text editor
* Add the following lines to mozilla.cfg:
lockPref(“dom.disable_window_open_feature.status”, true);
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.