[kwlug-disc] Firefox ESR

[Doug Moen]

I have always had the wrong time zone in Firefox as well, and I understand it to be a result of Firefox's anti-fingerprinting (web privacy) feature. The time zone is one less bit of information that surveillance capitalists can use to uniquely identify my browser and track me across the web.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023, at 6:14 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> For the font issue, I found an extension that works around the problem.
> It is called "Zoom Page WE".
>
> For the timezone issue, no luck so far. Not only does Gmail shows the
> wrong time, but other sites that depend on the browser to get it from
> the operating system (e.g. my local Home Assistant).
>
> To verify that it is not a Mozilla Team PPA issue, I downloaded the
> ESR binary from Mozilla's web site.
> Then pointed it to my existing profile, and the problem is the same.
>
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.5.0/releasenotes/
>
> I also tried:
>
> $ TZ=America/Toronto firefox-esr
>
> And it does nothing.
>
> Very frustrating ...
>
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