google.com: breakage

[reyland44]

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URL address of the web page

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=forza+horizon5++patch+notes

Category

breakage

Description

For a few weeks now specifically on Firefox desktop Google Search has been acting weird.

The preferences (language, region, dark mode) keep resetting every time I go an hour without googling something.

Basically after not using Google Search for some time and I go to search something, the preferences are reset and the page is in light mode. I then change it back to English language and dark mode and it's fine for a bit and then resets again when I go some time without googling.

I've turned off the firefox tracking protection and tested without uBO and it works fine. Soon as I turn on uBO it resets.

Other extensions used

SponsorBlock Return YouTube Dislikes

Screenshot(s)

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Configuration

```yaml uBlock Origin: 1.58.0 Firefox: 126 filterset (summary): network: 192564 cosmetic: 91492 scriptlet: 24702 html: 1833 listset (total-discarded, last-updated): removed: user-filters: null added: https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter.txt: 56259-0, 19m fanboy-cookiemonster: 51121-183, 46m ublock-cookies-easylist: 1179-3, 46m default: ublock-filters: 38437-112, 45m ublock-badware: 9218-2, 45m ublock-privacy: 921-2, 45m ublock-unbreak: 2393-2, 45m ublock-quick-fixes: 78-2, 45m easylist: 86618-176, 45m easyprivacy: 51022-67, 46m urlhaus-1: 16195-4714, 46m plowe-0: 3627-1061, 46m filterset (user): [array of 46 redacted] trustedset: added: [array of 19 redacted] switchRuleset: added: [array of 1 redacted] userSettings: [none] hiddenSettings: [none] supportStats: allReadyAfter: 130 ms (selfie) maxAssetCacheWait: 58 ms cacheBackend: indexedDB popupPanel: blocked: 19 network: google.com: 19 extended: ###main a[href][data-sb^="/url?"]:remove-attr(data-sb) ##+js(set-constant, rwt, noopFunc) ##+js(trusted-set-cookie, SOCS, CAISNQgQEitib3FfaWRlbnRpdHlmcm9u… ```

[krystian3w]

ublock-cookies-easylist: ... (enabled)

Maybe this will be no longer stable https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/23701

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Dark mode in future maybe recover these:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/3262 (On my side, the dark theme activates from the second visit - that is, the developers did it almost wrong; "you" definitely have to be careful with the page reload mode so as not to create a loop)).

[peace2000]

@reyland44

Have you emptied your browser cache during the past two weeks?

[reyland44]

Nope, I'll do it now and report back

[reyland44]

@peace2000

Unfortunately that didn't fix it. Just had it happen again.

I should also note it only seems to happen on Firefox desktop and Brave mobile. On Chrome and Brave desktop it doesn't happen.

[peace2000]

@reyland44 I suspect it's because the cookie will only be set for a session...

Please try these filters:

www.google.*#@#+js(trusted-set-cookie, SOCS, CAISNQgQEitib3FfaWRlbnRpdHlmcm9udGVuZHVpc2VydmVyXzIwMjQwNTE0LjA2X3AwGgJmaSADGgYIgOu0sgY)

www.google.*##+js(trusted-set-cookie, SOCS, CAISNQgQEitib3FfaWRlbnRpdHlmcm9udGVuZHVpc2VydmVyXzIwMjQwNTE0LjA2X3AwGgJmaSADGgYIgOu0sgY, 1year)

The first one will disable the current filter and the second filter will set the cookie expire time 1 year ahead.

You need to click Allow custom filters requiring trust for those to work.

[reyland44]

@peace2000 Unfortunately that didn't work either, it's still happening

Might not be directly related to uBO, but I found a thread with a bunch of people having this issue here

[mapx-]

@reyland44 reset uBO to defaults, clear cookies + storage, test again

[Gigaturmix]

I also experienced this issue on my Android Google Chrome browser, where you can't install any extensions. This might be an issue with something else then?

It might also be important to mention that it does not break dark mode on every single search. I couldn't really figure out a pattern, although it seems like it's happening when searching for stuff on google that I didn't already search for a couple of days prior.

[krystian3w]

It would come out that it's a dark theme activation error from the second visit, and in truth there should be a list where @anewuser force it (only this gentleman removed content of both reports as this improvements to content blockers including sample truseted-set-cookie filters).