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destou

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Registered: 2018-03-31

Posts: 59

Unable to change the platform in Firefox? [Solved]

I am looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … d_platform and have applied some of the information from there to my own Firefox browser. The issue is that when I change "general.platform.override" to Win32 and look at https://ipleak.net/ my platform is still Linux x86_64. Same goes for other websites that show you what information you have sent the website, so the issue of the platform information not getting spoofed is consistent across webpages. I change it in about:config just as the wiki says.

I am using: firefox 70.0.1-3

Also: Adding a hardened user.js as in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … _templates does not change the platform either (Yes, I have remove the comment signs before the settings addressing said setting)

Last edited by destou (2019-11-25 00:26:36)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,047

Re: Unable to change the platform in Firefox? [Solved]

Was the test performed with resistfingerprinting enabled?  As that does not allow overriding platform to prevent fingerprinting.

destou

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Registered: 2018-03-31

Posts: 59

Re: Unable to change the platform in Firefox? [Solved]

Disabling resistfingerprinting fixed it!