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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/
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday December 06 2016, @07:25PM
Assuming that "proprietary software" is the reason why it's "a no-go": Is the microcode in your computer's CPU free software? If so, which make and model of computer do you use?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @02:50PM
Yes, the microcode problem is nearly impossible to avoid. However, don't argue that because the situation isn't perfect that we should make it worse by adding even more proprietary software into the mix; that's a nirvana fallacy. I will minimize the amount of proprietary software and firmware on my machines as much as possible.
There are also issues with hard drive firmware and plenty of other things. The situation is a mess, but simply giving up is one of the worse possible actions one could take.