Cookie settings will not save. Checkboxes uncheck themselves. Video included.
After briefly succumbing to the ToS hysteria, I decided to switch to Librewolf. It took a while, but I got logged into sync, set up my extensions and copied over my cookie exceptions and custom CSS.
Some of the data that came over from Firefox sync seemed very wrong or out of date, most notably the settings for container tabs. No big deal I thought. I'll just manually edit the discrepancies. Once I had everything set up the way I like it, I looked up a guide on how to sync my current configuration with the cloud and followed the steps.
Phew. Time to watch some YouTube to relax. Problem is that when I finished a video and tried to watch another video, I was logged out and my site settings had reverted to default. I figured the cookie settings were wrong, so I went to the settings page and saw the behaviour outlined in the video I posted.
I've been trying to get this working for over a day now. I've tried resetting Firefox, creating new profiles and doing a clean re-install using "Geek Uninstaller" to make sure everything is removed first. I've tried 3 different forks of Firefox and all 3 of them do the same thing. After I re-install everything, I open the browser and the first thing I do is go to the settings but it's still doing the thing I showed in the video.
The fact that the data on my Firefox Sync is so old has me wondering. Why won't the cloud data update itself anymore? Based on the state of my containers, the Sync data is more than a year out of date. Could there be something wrong with that data that broke my browser when it downloaded?
I'm going to try and get hold of another computer later and try syncing to that to see if it breaks that browser too. I'll update this post when I know more.
Thanks for reading all this.
P.S. I'm typing this using Edge because my Firefox is so badly broken.
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Update: It seems this is how it's always worked. I don't know why I thought it wasn't. I even tried older versions of the browser on a different computer and it was the same. I think I just got myself into a frenzy with the whole ToS scandal and ended up chasing a shadow for a few days. All part of learning I suppose.
In the end, I just had to carefully re-install things, and copy files over one at a time, checking that everything was working properly as I went. I never did figure out where exactly I was going wrong before. I'm sure it was a case of subtle human error where I made a tiny, subtle mistake in configuration without even thinking about it.
Considering all the addons, containers, cookie exceptions browser settings and appearance settings that I've gradually customized over many years; there are just so many ways to mess something up when trying to move all that from Firefox to a fork.
All that being said, Firefox Sync is a bit disappointing in some ways. Surely you should be able to update your synced data by selecting an option. As it is now, there's no way to force sync to update itself to your current configuration. You just have to trust that it's working properly which in my case it wasn't. It seems the only way to get it to manually update itself is to reset your Firefox password.
If you read all of this, then thanks for your time. Hopefully this adventure of mine helps someone else who finds themselves confused about cookie settings.
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Update: It seems this is how it's always worked. I don't know why I thought it wasn't. I even tried older versions of the browser on a different computer and it was the same. I think I just got myself into a frenzy with the whole ToS scandal and ended up chasing a shadow for a few days. All part of learning I suppose.
In the end, I just had to carefully re-install things, and copy files over one at a time, checking that everything was working properly as I went. I never did figure out where exactly I was going wrong before. I'm sure it was a case of subtle human error where I made a tiny, subtle mistake in configuration without even thinking about it.
Considering all the addons, containers, cookie exceptions browser settings and appearance settings that I've gradually customized over many years; there are just so many ways to mess something up when trying to move all that from Firefox to a fork.
All that being said, Firefox Sync is a bit disappointing in some ways. Surely you should be able to update your synced data by selecting an option. As it is now, there's no way to force sync to update itself to your current configuration. You just have to trust that it's working properly which in my case it wasn't. It seems the only way to get it to manually update itself is to reset your Firefox password.
If you read all of this, then thanks for your time. Hopefully this adventure of mine helps someone else who finds themselves confused about cookie settings.
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