On 21 December 2017 at 21:05, Gerald B. Cox gbcox@bzb.us wrote:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com wrote:
I found this upstream bug report[1], and it's reproducible. So, there's something seriously screwed up upstream, and as someone said in the "firefox Looking Glass" thread on this list[2], looks like Marketing is overruling the security/privacy devs in Mozilla, I think he nailed the issue at the core of this debacle.
If you read the bug report it appears that this isn't a bug at all - but rather someone going into about:config and making assumptions which are incorrect.
The bug report had been updated _after_ I posted in this thread. ;)
There is a warning when you go into about:config - you're suppose to know what you're doing.
True, but knowledge comes from docs, I did search around about the extensions.ui.experiment.hidden pref, but there's no documentation of it any where that I could see. Which is weird, given I always find pref names on https://dxr.mozilla.org .
If you want to disable shield studies, go into preferences/privacy security. You don't need to fiddle with about:config.
There's another report that changing settings via the preferences panel doesn't always stick https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425663