bug with enhanced tracking protection

[Turhvjbufv]

What happened?

Settings it to strict, the setting won't be remembered when closing zen, and when opening zen again the setting will be resetted to standard, custom works tho and won't be resetting

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.0.0-a15

Severity impact

High

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

[guigirl42]

This has been annoying me too, in a13, a15, & now also in a16.

There's a parallel bug, also in Privacy & Security; the setting Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates also toggles itself back Off with each Zen launch.

ArchLinux KDE Plasma.

[guigirl42]

Both problems continue in a17 & a18.

[Turhvjbufv]

Both problems continue in a17 & a18.

As long as it's not closed as completed this bug will continue to appear, no point in spamming here

[guigirl42]

I am not spamming; this is a legitimate status update. With the just-arrived 1.0.0-a.22, it seems the bug is now 50% solved:

1. Enhanced Tracking Protection now retains its Strict option enabled, across restarts 👍
2. Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates unfortunately still reverts to disabled after restarts 😢

[jdjxk]

Enhanced Tracking Protection would turn back to restrict when set to standard.

[yokoffing]

Waterfox has the same issue. See BrowserWorks/Waterfox#3196.

In Zen's case, my user.js sets ETP to Strict on launch, but it still acts like Standard ETP. For example, have Firefox and Zen open side-by-side with Strict enabled and compare what's blocked in the shield icon on Pokemon Center and Bing.

[onthejobtraining]

1. Enhanced Tracking Protection now retains its Strict option enabled, across restarts 👍

It doesn't, at least not anymore.

[guigirl42]

1. Enhanced Tracking Protection now retains its Strict option enabled, across restarts 👍

It doesn't, at least not anymore.

Oh? Mine remains good [since i first posted of it being fixed], including in the latest a.35 now. Sadly though, the similar part of the bug Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates remains a problem.

• What's your platform? Mine's ArchLinux KDE Plasma.
• What's your installation mode? Mine's the tarball, downloaded, extracted & moved to /opt/.
• Have you retested with a clean profile?

[Turhvjbufv]

1. Enhanced Tracking Protection now retains its Strict option enabled, across restarts 👍

It doesn't, at least not anymore.

Oh? Mine remains good [since i first posted of it being fixed], including in the latest a.35 now. Sadly though, the similar part of the bug Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates remains a problem.

• What's your platform? Mine's ArchLinux KDE Plasma.
• What's your installation mode? Mine's the tarball, downloaded, extracted & moved to /opt/.
• Have you retested with a clean profile?

Mines windows(latest) and yep still doesn't work

[guigirl42]

windows(latest) and yep still doesn't work

I wonder if @onthejobtraining might also be using windows then...

[onthejobtraining]

* What's your platform? Mine's ArchLinux KDE Plasma.

Windows 11

* What's your installation mode? Mine's the tarball, downloaded, extracted & moved to `/opt/`.

Installed the fast version via zen browser website

* Have you retested with a clean profile?

Yes.

edit: Latest Zen 1.0.0-a.35

[guigirl42]

Ah, so [albeit from a statistically insignificant sample size] atm the common factor is windoze, whereas it is fixed in the Linux builds.