Obscurity through privacy:
If you're on @FirefoxNightly and you're having frustrating and bizarre timezone issues...
...maybe it's because you set privacy.resistFingerprinting = true.
This explains so much weird stuff over the last couple of weeks.
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I remember filling that as an issue maybe a year ago? It also makes your http://Date.now () all wrong, which has hilarious consequences for things like Gmail.
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SO much weird stuff! Do you have a bug #?
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Browser window size is a good source of data to fingerprint users. If you run Tor or use resistFingerprinting you should leave the window in the default size.
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Sure, I understand the benefit. But when we ship fingerprinting resistance we need a visual indicator to ensure the user knows what the hell is going on.
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Ghosts of bugs past.
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