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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by mfro on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:21AM (#43362401)
It does that. Users have the simple option of disabling it in settings with one checkbox.
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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by DaSHacka on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:50AM (#43363805)
Where is this 'one checkbox'?
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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by mfro on Friday March 14, 2025 @12:46PM (#43364423)
There is a search bar in the settings page. Search 'fingerprint', uncheck 'Enable ResistFingerprinting'
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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by 0hijinks on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:43PM (#43367083)
I found on 136.0.0-ish that some settings persist despite checking/unchecking that box and restarting LibreWolf, but YMMV. I also manually inspect 'about:config' and search there for relevant settings (like 'fingerprint'). For fingerprinting, browser breakage is unlikely so toggling these hidden flags is easy.
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