Is this add-on obsoleted by Firefox itself?

diegocr / CleanLinks

Converts obfuscated/nested links to genuine clean links.

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Is this add-on obsoleted by Firefox itself? #163

Closed jawz101 closed 7 years ago

jawz101 commented 8 years ago

Specifically these about:config entries

network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy network.http.referer.spoofSource network.http.referer.trimmingPolicy network.http.sendRefererHeader network.http.enablePerElementReferrer network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer

dartraiden commented 8 years ago

HTTP referer ≠URL parameters

Atavic commented 7 years ago

About:config tells how the browser acts with HTTP referrering. CleanLinks acts on the link parameters, something Firefox itself can't do by default.