1411587 - privacy.resistFingerprinting not working as intended

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1409973

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[jume]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.62 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Went to about:config
Set value to "true" to "privacy.resistFingerprinting"


Actual results:

Went to browserleaks.com to check whether it was working or not and In the Date/Time section in the "toLocaleString" it was showing my system date and time, while the "System Time" and "toLocaleFormat" displayed GMT+0000.

I tried this with my phone using Firefox nightly by enabling "privacy.resistFingerprinting" and it did set "toLocaleString" to GMT+0000 and hiding my system date.

In the console when you do "new Date().toLocaleString()" it will show your systems date and time, while just doing "Date().toLocaleString()" shows the date and time set by the preference "privacy.resistFingerprinting".


Expected results:

Should be hiding my systems date by setting it to GMT+0000

Comment 1

[jume]

SORRY. I TRIED TO EDIT TO SECURE IT AND SET IT TO RESOLVED AND VERIFIED BY MISTAKE.