On 21 December 2017 at 21:05, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891@xxxxxxxxx> > 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 -- Ahmad Samir _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
