Re: www/firefox 81 opens too many files

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 15/10/2020 14:34, Rhialto wrote:
> On Thu 15 Oct 2020 at 12:38:50 +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > It looks like these website tabs open every single font on the system.
> > It might be a fingerprinting technique.
>
> It sounds like these websites should be treated with the full force of
> the NoScript extension... clearly their javascript cannot be trusted.
Actually I'd say its a firefox bug. It shouldn't be leaving those 
filehandles open. So its really a DOS security vulnerability in firefox.

Mike