[CentOS] C5 : Firefox 38 bug

Fri Jun 12 18:58:30 UTC 2015
Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>

On 06/13/2015 09:55 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> The most offensive problems of using browsers is that
> they do not tell you nor ask your permission when javascripts
> spy on your entire storage contents.

Neither javascript nor Java applets can access the local filesystem. 
Applets launched by JNLP can do so, but that involves a pop-up that asks 
the user's permission.

> He said the "sandbox" is the entire storage on your computer.

Misunderstandings do happen in natural language.