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.
Thanks! Hmmm, we can't realistically ship anti-fingerprinting without the user fully understanding the impact.
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But that's the thing: which user? If this is turned on by default for regular users, that's a really bad plan because it turns off things that users should have reasonable expectation don't break. Like http://Date.now (), the canvas element's API working, etc. etc.
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So if we want this on by default, we need an MDN article with the exhausting list of which behaviours are changed - but if we have that, then that immediately makes it almost trivial to note which exception flag to use for each of those, so users can make informed decisions.
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