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sunng

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From: Nanjing, China

Registered: 2011-10-02

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Firefox 137 uses a more strict default settings?

After upgraded to firefox 137, I realized it's more like librewolf's defaults.

- Clear site data and cookie on close is turned on
- Password managed disabled by default

Is it from upstream or an archlinux packaging choice?

Last edited by sunng (2025-04-03 09:50:51)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Firefox 137 uses a more strict default settings?

Would be upstream, but I highly doubt either of those things are set by default to those values. How sure are you you haven't set those yourself at some point? Can you repro on an actual new profile?

BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

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Re: Firefox 137 uses a more strict default settings?

at least for the Arch side, the update shows no such change and I also don't have that change on my system: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 1434ef66fc

lenhuppe

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From: New Hampshire USA

Registered: 2018-12-10

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Re: Firefox 137 uses a more strict default settings?

Something has changed in firefox 137 because I can no longer watch videos. Youtube will not play and I am unable to open any of my mp4 files from local.

I tried removing my custom firefox.cfg and policies.json files. I tried disabling all of my extensions. I tried removing the firefox-i18n-en-us package.

Reverting to firefox 136 was the only thing that worked. When I looked closer I saw that the widevine plugin is not present in firefox 137.

Last edited by lenhuppe (2025-04-03 12:38:11)

BS86

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Re: Firefox 137 uses a more strict default settings?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/1 … easenotes/

there is a change regarding video playback. Seems like you are missing something on your system for the newly activated HEVC support.