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Disallow JavaScript’s Ability to Hide the Status Bar

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.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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