Firefox Question

Enforcer · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:35:22 Post Subject: Firefox Question

for those of you running Firefox, take a look at your about:config and look at key

network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains

all my machines have this set as default to .doubleclick.net

WTF????

can't find anything on google about this particular key, anyone know what it is for, and why it would point to doubleclick?

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:49:10 Post Subject:

I just looked I dont have that key at all.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:13:28 Post Subject:

Where are you finding this??? In the registery?

IceNine · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:18:37 Post Subject:

No, he means if you navigate to "about:config" in Firefox. Odd because I'm showing the same doubclick BS here at work.

vulcan · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:07:13 Post Subject:

mines set to doubleclick.net as well... which i've now changed, so i'll see what happens

Enforcer · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:41:47 Post Subject:

Sorry I should have been more specific, I'm running Firefox 1.0 with all security updates, but research so far on Google hasn't turned up what this setting is for. After seeing "tricks" like typing anything after http://http:// and it will redirect you to Microsoft's homepage I'm a little worried as to why this is the default.

vulcan · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:36:00 Post Subject:

well, i changed it to bigbruin.com and no problems so far

Edit: doens't look like this is a problem, i found this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68796#c83

IceNine · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:43:34 Post Subject:

Good find Vulcan. It looks like this directive is currently not in use.

Enforcer · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:51:30 Post Subject:

good find, still wondering why it was chosen to test it with that setting, but hell, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:03:00 Post Subject:

OK... I never knew about that before