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network.IDN_show_punycode

removed the 'period' at the end of the pref description (we usually don't have one there) and aligned the 2nd line of the downside a bit nicer.
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earthlng 2017-02-21 19:54:25 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -1240,10 +1240,10 @@ user_pref("security.block_script_with_wrong_mime", true);
// WARNING: SVG is fairly common (~15% of the top 10K sites), so will cause some breakage
// https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216893
user_pref("svg.disabled", true);
// 2672: force Punycode for Internationalized Domain Names to eliminate possible spoofing security risk.
// 2672: force Punycode for Internationalized Domain Names to eliminate possible spoofing security risk
// Firefox has *some* protections to mitigate the risk, but it is better to be safe than sorry.
// The downside: it will also display legitimate IDN's punycoded, which might be undesirable for
// users from countries with non-latin alphabets
// users from countries with non-latin alphabets
// http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN_show_punycode
// https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack