Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#1

Post by marc3842h » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 7:11 PM UTC

Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox
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Re: Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#2

Post by captn3m0 » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

Does anyone know what the exact issue is here? What does Firefox do differently from other browsers?

Re: Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#3

Post by tmalsburg2 » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #2

Does anyone know what the exact issue is here? What does Firefox do differently from other browsers?

They make it sound as if Firefox was to blame but don't make it explicit. Could be that they messed and that it has nothing to do with Firefox.

Re: Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#4

Post by SimeVidas » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 11:10 PM UTC

Could Twitter not have used the Clear-Site-Data header to instruct Firefox do wipe the cache when the user logs out?

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-clear-site-data/#example-sig...

Re: Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#5

Post by jake9wi » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

And they don't say what actually was wrong nor how they fixed it.

Re: Twitter Data Cache on Mozilla Firefox

#6

Post by beefhash » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 8:05 AM UTC

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #3

captn3m0 wrote: post #2

Does anyone know what the exact issue is here? What does Firefox do differently from other browsers?

They make it sound as if Firefox was to blame but don't make it explicit. Could be that they messed and that it has nothing to do with Firefox.

To be fair, "the web" means "what Chrome does" nowadays to a lot of people. Even if it wasn't Firefox's fault but rather some web standard that Firefox adhered to, Firefox will be blamed for not being bug-for-bug compatible with Chrome.