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posted by janrinok on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-deleting-your-profile dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Mozilla Firefox may reset custom browser preferences when the web browser is updated to a newer version so that the preference is set to its default value.

I was contacted by two Ghacks readers in the past two weeks about Firefox resetting preferences of the web browser during updates.

Jern informed me that Firefox reset the block lists setting of the browser's Tracking Protection feature from strict to basic when the browser was updated to version 50 from Firefox 49.0.2.

Basic protection is the recommended and default value of the setting. It does not block as many trackers as the strict blocking list. I confirmed that the upgrade to Firefox 50 did indeed reset the preference.

Michel told me a week later that a recent Firefox update (to 50.0.1 or 50.0.2) did reset another preference. This time an URL string that Michel modified on Firefox's about:config page.

Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/12/05/beware-firefox-updates-may-reset-preferences/


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  • (Score: 2) by dlb on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:53PM

    by dlb (4790) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:53PM (#437722)

    And of course.. Lynx, the tradtionalist's text based browser.

    One of my toys is an older Acer laptop running NetBSD, and occasionally I launch Lynx and surf some of my favorite web sites. It is refreshing to have content minus the GUI clutter.

    That said, text-based browsers have their frustrations. Most web pages begin with many links usually hidden in drop-down menus, that when expanded, can fill up two or three screens one has to page through before getting to the substance. And until one develops a second nature for key-stroke navigation, getting around is at least a little painful.

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