SafeBrowsing Client?

[GaryT]

NoOp wrote:

> On 03/04/2012 12:07 PM, Parko wrote:

>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:50:56 +1100, GaryT wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks Pray tell, what is a safebrowsing client and what would be a
>>> typical association with the big "G".
>>>
>>> My browser (Firefox) has several safebrowsing URLs in the config file
>>> and I fail to see the relationship between that and web searches.
[big snip]

>> I think its pretty benign. 

> Really?
> 
> Or pretty much BS debenting upon how you look at it:
> 
> http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com

Magic! NoOp.
Thanks for the lead.
Everybody should look at that one.

> Note:
> https://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
and this one

If you use FireFox, enter  about:config  into your address box and after 
promising to be especially careful, search for safebrowsing.  You'll see 
why I asked the original question. Now it has become clear it's all 
there with the full blessing of Mozilla.

GT