changelog: v103

date: 18-August-2022

FF103 release notes FF103 for developers FF103 security advisories

CHANGELOG

• all changes
• ToDo: diffs FF102-FF103 issue
• v103 PR is at #1508

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⭐ For the long story on the clearOnShutdown* and cookie.lifetimePolicy pref changes, see the first post in #1491

• new in user.js v103

user_pref("geo.provider.use_geoclue", false); // [FF102+] [LINUX]

• changed values in user.js v103

user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies", true); // was false
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.offlineApps", true); // was false

• made inactive and moved to personal in user.js v103

// user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);

• moved to 9999: DEPRECATED / REMOVED in user.js v103
  • note: cookie.lifetimePolicy : FF103 code will always reset this to 0, technically removed in FF104

user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2);
user_pref("security.pki.sha1_enforcement_level", 1);

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⭐ your friendly reminder to run prefsCleaner

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NO STATS. NO ALL HAIL PANTS. UNTIL NEXT TIME.

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

You moved a lot of furniture around in 2800 I guess a note at the top of 2800?

2800 has become a sprawling behemoth … I am loathe to add more to it: and it doesn’t help that ESR102 behaves differently

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@opusforlife2

It’s not clear from the UI or the user.js [siteSettings]

= site settings … like permissions (cookies+site data, notifications, geo … etc … ETP exceptions), zoom levels (except RFP ignores those), etc.

The UI is

- History
   - browsing & download history = `.history` + `.downloads`
   - active logins = `.sessions`
   - form & search history = `.formdata`
   - cookies = `.cookies`
   - cache = `.cache`
- Data
   - site settings = `.siteSettings`
   - offline website data - `,offlineApps`

It’s not as clean as it could be, and there are plans to tidy it up. Cookies + Active Logins + Cache should be next to offline website data under data. They should rename “offline website data” to “Site Data” to be consistent. Cache should be there as well, since it’s linked to cookies + site data (and I hope they get around to cache respecting site exceptions to tidy that up so they all behave the same)

I have explained .sessions in 2811 and .offlineApps = “Site Data” in 2815, as these are the only two IMO that are ambiguous. The rest are all intuitive

What I’d like to see is something like

- History
   - browsing & download history
   - form & search history
- Site Settings
   - site permissions and exceptions
- Cookies and Site Data
   - active logins <-- so vague what this is for users
   - cache
   - cookies
   - website data

and everything under “Cookies + Site Data” should respect site exceptions, and be flipped by the “clear cookies + site data” checkbox. This would align naming and behavior

[mvk-foo]

3. gmp-clearkey isn't a cookie. Your statment is just FUD.

What are they on the dropbox site for then?