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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Bugs: 1419656 (implicitly), 1420234->1364261 (date). I requested making things more fine grained, so that you could say p.r.=true but also add p.r.excludeTimeStamps=true, p.r.excludeSizing=true, etc. which was shot down, and I don't understand. I still back that idea.
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(if you're offering power users a way to turn off fingerprinting, the argument 'disabling parts of it would allow fingerprinting' is literally what a power user would expect. Limiting the surface rather than removing it entirely is fine to someone who wants full control)
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