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Title:
Privacy settings reset to default on upgrade
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04
Firefox 49.0
For some time now I have noticed that every time I upgrade Firefox, my
profile's privacy settings are reset to default. For a while I didn't
know why they were being reset, so I put a script in a cron job (see
attachment) to monitor them and alert me when they changed. Since
doing that I have realized that they are reset when I upgrade Firefox.
This is a serious violation of user trust and privacy. Users may have
their preferences set to not save history, to not save cookies, to
delete them upon exit, etc, but after installing a routine upgrade to
Firefox (which happens every few weeks), their privacy settings will
be reset to "Firefox will: Remember history", and the user will not be
informed of this.
I don't know if the cause lies in Firefox itself or in the Ubuntu
packaging, but this needs to be fixed.
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