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icecat does not honor /etc/timezone starting with 102.3.0.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>
Cc: 59368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59368: icecat does not honor /etc/timezone starting with 102.3.0.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:50:28 -0500

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de> writes:

> Yes, its the wrong timezone: UTC instead of CEST with Icecat.
> This resistFingerprinting doesn't seem to change something in that regard.
>
> I can further say that I don't see this issue with firefox-esr or icedove.

Thanks for confirming the issue.  I investigated with a vanilla Firefox
build and reported my findings upstream [0].  The bug is triggered when
the default value for privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to 'true', as
done by the makeicecat script.

[0]  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1817004

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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