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Enhanced Tracking Protection settings revert after closing browser

Open garteful opened this issue 11 months ago • 6 comments

What happened?

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open Waterfox browser.
  2. Go to Browser Privacy settings.
  3. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select "Strict".
  4. Close the browser.
  5. Reopen the browser and check the Enhanced Tracking Protection settings.

Expected Behavior

The Enhanced Tracking Protection should remain set to "Strict" after reopening the browser.

Actual Behavior

The Enhanced Tracking Protection reverts to "Custom" after reopening the browser.

Environment

  • Version: [6.5.3 (64-bit)]
  • OS: [Windows 10 Pro, Version 22H2, Build: 19045.5371]

Additional Information

  • I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software, but the issue persists.

Thanks in advance

Reproducible?

  • [x] I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

G6

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

garteful avatar Jan 31 '25 14:01 garteful

6.5.5, and I ran into this problem as well. I thankfully had a profile backup thanks to Time Machine, so I just copy-pasted the entire backed-up contents in the profile folder that I had before this problem happened. This bug seems to happen when I switch from strict to something other than strict. Just need to make sure not to touch that part for the time being.

MirTeiwaz avatar Mar 07 '25 07:03 MirTeiwaz

I'm seeing this in Linux, too. My explanation is in #3716

couladin avatar Mar 26 '25 16:03 couladin

Bump. Completely clean install of 6.5.6.

rthom91 avatar Apr 19 '25 09:04 rthom91

Yes, I also have this bug in version 6.5.6.

Auronius avatar Apr 26 '25 16:04 Auronius

Still happens, 6.5.7.

Got curious and changed from Strict to Standard and it saved. But changing from Standard to Strict does not save.

rthom91 avatar May 01 '25 15:05 rthom91

Version 6.5.7 ...

Enhanced Tracking Protection still cannot be set to ( Strict ) ...

.

ioc2e3 avatar May 17 '25 18:05 ioc2e3

Still an issue...

rthom91 avatar Jun 25 '25 13:06 rthom91

FIX THIS!

Do you need help producing this? Uninstall waterfox, delete leftover hidden folders, install waterfox, try to set enhanced protection to strict and restart browser. It doesn't save.

rthom91 avatar Aug 02 '25 22:08 rthom91

I discovered that LibreWolf is far superior to Waterfox. It’s set to "Strict" mode by default, so you don't need to mess with this and the overall browsing experience feels much smoother.

I have removed Waterfox from my system and strongly suggest everyone do the same, switching instead to the LibreWolf browser.

garteful avatar Aug 04 '25 00:08 garteful

Have tested with 6.6 and on macOS and Windows - this should no longer be an issue

MrAlex94 avatar Aug 19 '25 15:08 MrAlex94