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Firefox downloads a big blob of unsafe URLs and checks against that, last I saw.


No, Firefox uses the exactly same Safe Browsing protocol. In fact, the protocol was co-developed by Google and Mozilla.


Interesting. I do remember people complaining about a large file in Firefox profiles, in the context of multi-user host admins wanting to be able to have it in a centrally managed location rather than replicated to every profile. I recall it being a sizable sqlite DB for Safe Browsing. I wonder what that was about, then.




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