Firefox 57.0 Released

Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:20PM (#15697671)

Tree Style Tabs has been updated to a WebExtension.[1]

Getting a menu bar no longer needs an extension, you can just right-click in the blank areas near the address bar and select "menu bar".

uMatrix can control and spoof Referer sending (I'm unfamiliar with RefControl, so this may not be exactly the same.)

Self Destroying Cookies[2] is a good way to keep cookies under control, though again I'm not familiar with the addon you mentioned.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by JetSpiegel on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:34PM (#15698358)

Self-Destructing Cookies is not a WebExtension, you want Cookie AutoDelete.

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:44PM (#15698927)

Self Destroying Cookies is a WebExtension. There are now a couple of forks.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by StillBored on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:27PM (#15699295)

Hopefully one of them can deal with localstorage? Because my 30 mins of using cookie autodelete, leads me to think it isn't as good as self destructing... It doesn't seem to reliably delete cookies unless I click the "clean" button.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by JetSpiegel on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:54AM (#15702884)

Waiting on Chrome bugs

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issue...

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by Merad on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:04PM (#15698111)

So, dumb question (maybe), but how do you get tree style tabs to install? I'm running FF 57 but that page says it's incompatible because I'm running FF 51. I checked and the user agent string being sent is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20170125 Firefox/51.0;

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @02:37PM (#15698392)

Stop spoofing your user agent string, install it, then resume spoofing. It should be

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

by default for Firefox 57 on Windows 7 64-bit

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by Merad on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:47PM (#15698952)

I have never (to my knowledge) done anything to change the user agent. I dug around in about:config and discovered that general.useragent.override somehow got set.

Edit: Something is resetting that override every time the browser starts. Dunno what, the only addons I run are uBlock and RES (and now TST).

Edit 2: It was being set in user.js. No idea how it got there...

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by milofeynman on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:54PM (#15699007)

Do you have

  privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

set?

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by Merad on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:03PM (#15699086)

Nope, I discovered that it was being done in user.js. No clue how that happened...

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by milofeynman on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:42PM (#15698913)

I believe

  privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

spoofs user agent. Does anyone know if there is an addon or to whitelist which pages you don't want it spoofed on?

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by StillBored on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:38PM (#15699410)

Click "See all versions" and scroll down until you find one that is compatible.

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