Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Firefox Enhanced Protection and Blogger

 Greetings!  Is your blogger blog looking strange?  Is it freaking you out?  Are comments behaving badly on other people's blogs?  If you're using Firefox this could be happening due to a recent change in cookie management.  This is the change in a nutshell.

Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you ... This approach strikes the balance between eliminating the worst privacy properties of third-party cookies – in particular the ability to track you – and allowing those cookies to fulfill their less invasive use cases (e.g. to provide accurate analytics).

Thus far, I've seen a couple of issues with this change.  First, my blog looked funny.  It looked like this, back in 2020 and again this afternoon.


Look upper right, it should say more than "create blog" or "sign in", it should say "new post" "design" "sign out."    If your blog looks like this, you've fallen victim to the Firefox change.  Look to the left of the url at the top of the screen.  See the shield outline?  Click it, and turn off enhanced protection by clicking the slider button.    That will also bring back the pencil, if it's gone missing.

If you go to comment on other blogs, and you're intercepted by a google message telling you to log on to google, or that if you don't log on to google you must comment anonymously, again, go to the url line and click on the shield next to the url for the blog you want to comment on.  Both times, on separate blogs, it has worked for me, and let me comment.  You can read more about this here.

Hopefully this is the worst that is going to happen because I really hate Edge and Chrome.



8 comments:

  1. Is this working??? have you fixed it for me?? I think so, You are my hero!

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  2. Good grief. I use Firefox on my computer so I'm going to have to check it out. I hate changes.

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  3. I don't use blogger and rarely have issues commenting but if I do, I'll know how to resolve it. Firefox is the only browser I don't use although I mostly run Chrome through my chromecast to watch shows off my laptop. I'm most used to Edge even though it's a pile of caca.

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  4. I use Chrome for my blog and it looks different than Firefox. That seems weird to me since it is the same program just a different browser.
    I have had a few people mention lost comments, but I've discovered they are in my comment section, except Blogger has initially identified them as spam. I'm able to retrieve and post them. Yet Blogger can't seem to catch the real spammers.

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  5. I should send this post to some people who have trouble commenting on my blog. I bet they're using Firefox and running into a similar problem.

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  6. And I use Chrome, which explains why I've not had problems. Fortunately I'm not smart enough to switch browsers.

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  7. I had Firefox problems a while ago....so changed to Chrome. No problems yet.

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  8. I tried Firefox a couple of years ago and hated it. Switched to Chrome. I wish blogger would give us the quick edit pencil back.

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