Previewing searched pages - any danger?

[yeow]

Previewing pages as in image below. For compromised websites, can the threat be carried over too?

[yeow]

Any idea abt this? Say if there's an.....iframe, javascript or watchacallit exploit on the actual website - will the threat be carried over to the "preview" too?

I'm thinking, most likely "yes"? Or I'm paranoid, it's perfectly safe?

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,

Depends how the preview function is implemented.

It could parse the code - or not ... really depends ... it could merely download the page to the cache, without executing scripts, and show a thumbnail screenshot or something ...

What browser, OS?

Mrk

[yeow]

Thanks for asking. The example above is Firefox using Google Fx script for Greasemonkey. There're other add-ons that show preview windows too, iirc I might have tried CoolPreviews long ago.

Not using any of them now, but curious as to how they work wrt to what u wrote below.

Originally Posted by Mrkvonic

It could parse the code - or not ... really depends ... it could merely download the page to the cache, without executing scripts, and show a thumbnail screenshot or something ..

If previews load faster than loading the webpages themselves, will this generally indicate that some kind of cache images are shown?