Not compatible with strict tracking proection

[grahamperrin]

Symptom:

• endless spin of the icon.

With a post, for example:

Elsewhere, with comments:

Should I suspect an extensions conflict?

Firefox 74.0, FreeBSD-CURRENT.

[creesch]

Well you are using waterfox which isn't supported. I saw the same behavior with someone else and there they needed a newer version of the extension.

[grahamperrin]

waterfox

No, please see above.

The same with Firefox 75.0 as with Firefox 74.0, tested with comments at https://old.reddit.com/r/audiodrama/comments/atz5no/if_you_want_me_to_listen_to_your_podcast_put_a_gd/

• Reddit Enhancement Suite disabled.

grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % date ; uptime ; uname -v
Mon  6 Apr 2020 19:47:17 BST
 7:47p.m.  up 43 mins, 6 users, load averages: 1.92, 1.75, 1.41
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #5 r359628: Sun Apr  5 00:25:58 BST 2020     root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG 
grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % pkg query '%o %v %R' firefox
www/firefox 75.0,1 FreeBSD
grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % 

At a glance I see nothing readReddit-related in the web console, I'll test with a different profile, refreshed.

[grahamperrin]

Should I suspect an extensions conflict?

Not reproducible with the extension alone added to a different profile.

For the affected profile: what might I look for, in the web console, to tell what's causing the extension to not work?

[creesch]

Probably nothing in the console itself, most likely scenario is something related to a privacy setting in firefox you have enabled that ends up blocking a bit too much. That has happened before as mozilla sometimes tends to forget extensions are a thing when implementing some feature.

could also be a privacy extension creating issues as well.

Try looking at the console and network tab of the background page btw, requests are done there.

Go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox and inspect the extension.

edit: You also didn't tell me if you have the extension uptodate.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks.

Extension version 0.14.0.

If enhanced tracking protection is standard:

• the extension works

– no need to switch off protection for the site.

If protection is strict:

• the extension does not work

– and switching off protection for the site is not a workaround.