Privacy Settings Keep Reverting to Less Secure Settings
I'm running Firefox 56.0 on Windows 10, with only a basic couple of extensions like Adblock Plus and Privacy Badger (which is not legacy). I have been running these for quite some time, but lately I have been having the following issue: Firefox keeps reverting my privacy settings. For example, I have it set to dump everything after I close the browser, but I'll open it back up and still be signed into everything. It will reset my cookie permissions and other things of this nature. The add-on's I've been using have never caused this issue before; I don't want to hear that it's because of the add-on's when it does this regardless of whether or not they're enabled. The process is successfully terminating, it's not that it's stuck on in the background.
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Hi ! That must be so annoying ! Would you take a deep breath and go over this article :
In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.
- do not clear the Cookies
- do not clear the Site Preferences
- clearing "Site Preferences" clears exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, and software installation and exception for password and other website specific data
- clearing "Cookies" will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an "Allow" exception you may want to keep
cor-el said
In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.
- do not clear the Cookies
- do not clear the Site Preferences
- clearing "Site Preferences" clears exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, and software installation and exception for password and other website specific data
- clearing "Cookies" will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an "Allow" exception you may want to keep
This "answer" is totally unrelated to my question. How are you a top contributor? Do you just copy/paste a random mess to every single question? It's non-sense!
Happy112 said
Hi ! That must be so annoying ! Would you take a deep breath and go over this article : How to fix preferences that won't save
Hi, unfortunately the only thing that seemed relevant here was trying to edit the .js. Indeed I forgot to mention that I already tried this, with little luck =/
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I have additional information on my issue, that may or may not be related. This issue started around the same time, or very shortly after, I added a master password. At first (a couple months ago), I would be asked to supply the master password whenever I opened the browser - I liked that. Now, it only asks it when I visit a site with a saved password. Is this related, or did this feature just happen to be changed around the same time?
If the feature was changed to this, that's quite unfortunate because it provides considerably less protection.
This may be a very dumb question, but :
When you were asked for your password at startup : were you using Sync at that time and you don't use Sync anymore now ?
Sync uses the Password Manager to store the username (e-mail address) and password to be used to connect to the Sync server.
At the risk of having you bite my head off (as you don't want us to mention your add-ons) :
Your Privacy Badger was recently updated : could it be that something in those settings changed ?
Can you clarify what you mean with: It will reset my cookie permissions and other things of this nature.
If you lose the cookie exceptions then these are part of the Site Preferences. So either the Site Preferences get cleared or aren't saved (Private Browsing mode or corrupted content-prefs.sqlite).
Note that if you keep tabs open when you close Firefox then cookies from those tabs are stored as part of the session data. See: