Restraining add-on's behavior in private browsing
| dc.contributor.author | Bapat, A.D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pais, A.R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-06T06:40:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper we address the privacy issues of add-on mechanism supported by browser in private mode. The add-ons enjoy unrestrained access to user sensitive information at all times. This freedom can be misused to create add-ons with malicious intent of violating privacy of the browser. We have designed and implemented an add-on which performs this task in private mode of the browser. This is a clear violation of the goals of private browsing. Mozilla lacks privacy ensuring mechanism against add-ons at browser level. So we have modified the source code of Mozilla Firefox to prevent such behavior of an add-on. It involves runtime monitoring of add-on?s behavior in private mode and notify/block suspicious ones. We have been able to prevent such add-on?s activity using our mechanism. Copyright 2012 ACM. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2012, Vol., , p. 194-199 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 21531633 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1145/2490428.2490455 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/32842 | |
| dc.subject | Add-ons | |
| dc.subject | Mozilla firefox | |
| dc.subject | Privacy | |
| dc.subject | Private browsing | |
| dc.title | Restraining add-on's behavior in private browsing |