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I am posting to get into the loop on this thread.

I recently lost all my settings from NS on Android (FF required reinstalling)
I do use Sync, and would be delighted if NS synced at least the whitelist.

Thanks

This thread is only for Firefox Sync related NoScript issues. Please take further discussion of cleaning software problems elsewhere.

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[quote="Alain T." post_id=103111 time=1600332868 user_id=271471]
WDC was the guilty one !

So NoScript settings are kept in the cache...
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The main NoScript settings, including the site permissions, are stored in storage-sync-v2.sqlite, storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm, and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal in Firefox 79+. The last two are normally temporary files which get "written out" to storage-sync-v2.sqlite on quit. But for some reason that isn't happening with the storage-sync-v2.sqlite files, and some overzealous cleaning programs don't account for that possibility.

If you want to get rid of these "temporary" files without losing any data, you could completely quit Firefox, then open the storage-sync-v2.sqlite (leaving the -shm & -wal files alongside it) in [url=https://sqlitebrowser.org/]sqlitebrowser[/url], then quit sqlitebrowser without making any changes.
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I came here to report a "bug" then saw several posts in this thread that confirmed my findings. I recently updated my and my wife's computers to the latest Firefox version 8.5x. (I'd blocked any updating for quite some time - on purpose.) My wife discovered that any new whitelist or blacklist items added to Per-Site Permissions would NOT remain on the list permanently. A test on my computer showed the same behavior. After much troubleshooting and investigation, I was able to track the issue to CCleaner's Firefox cache cleaning. Specifically to storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm and -wal, both of which were deleted whenever running CCleaner Portable - which we both run almost daily. All the older entries in Per-Site Permissions did NOT get deleted by CCleaner, so I assume the older entries are stored elsewhere and not in the these two files. To get around this "bug" - which may actually be a Firefox bug - I simply added these two files to CCleaner's "exceptions". Problem solved. Hopefully this might save some time for anyone running up against the same situation. :)

Can you add in NoScrypt sync function?

I am login in firefox account on different PC and I get all bookmarks, all addons (NoScrypt too).
But whitelist of sites (sites with enabled crypts) don`t sync.

[quote="Alain T." post_id=103111 time=1600332868 user_id=271471]
WDC was the guilty one !

So NoScript settings are kept in the cache...
[/quote]

The main NoScript settings, including the site permissions, are stored in storage-sync-v2.sqlite, storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm, and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal in Firefox 79+. The last two are normally temporary files which get "written out" to storage-sync-v2.sqlite on quit. But for some reason that isn't happening with the storage-sync-v2.sqlite files, and some overzealous cleaning programs don't account for that possibility.

If you want to get rid of these "temporary" files without losing any data, you could completely quit Firefox, then open the storage-sync-v2.sqlite (leaving the -shm & -wal files alongside it) in [url=https://sqlitebrowser.org/]sqlitebrowser[/url], then quit sqlitebrowser without making any changes.

WDC was the guilty one !

So NoScript settings are kept in the cache...

Good point... the latest version of WiseDiskCleaner is set by default to clean cache of all browser...
I'll tick all out.

Are you using any "cleaning" software, like CCleaner or Privacy Eraser (both known to mess with Firefox 79 and above data)?

Never had this issue before and i found that sync messes few things with Add-ons since last FF update...

NoScript settings are saved within FF, no ?

[quote="Alain T." post_id=103092 time=1600237506 user_id=271471]
I had to register because my post from yesterday was deleted !
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Your post is here - https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26118

[quote="Alain T." post_id=103092 time=1600237506 user_id=271471]
So... it's a pain in the a**
EVERYDAY I have to import saved settings, otherwise all whitelisted sites are gone !
Despite FF sync are only: Bookmarks, Login and Options.

What other settings must be changed ?
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Thank you for asking for help properly this time :)

What makes you think this is a Firefox Sync issue?

I had to register because my post from yesterday was deleted !

So... it's a pain in the a**
EVERYDAY I have to import saved settings, otherwise all whitelisted sites are gone !
Despite FF sync are only: Bookmarks, Login and Options.

What other settings must be changed ?

[quote=sabret00the post_id=58406 time=1376825426 user_id=14418]Any news?[/quote]

NoScript and Firefox Sync mean?
I uninstalled Firefox to re-install it because when I updated to Window 10, Firefox was not an option for the default browser. This is a complete headache as now I need to go back to NS and add the exceptions. Is Sync mean that it should save all the Exceptions?

OK, phew ... I misread ... this isn't an issue thread, it's an old one that's still stuck.

I wasn't ever expecting Sync to take my NS settings, but is it possible that it is now actually doing a little drive-by whilst syncing everything else?

There's a couple of nibbles in different forum topics below this --- and to be clear, again, I'm not expecting NS to sync at all --- but it's possible that the Sync function might be causing the normal functionality to have issues.

I just went long here:

https://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25927&p=102165#p102165

So ... Has anyone confirmed that NS remembering its trusts is an issue with NS or an issue with Sync ... or perhaps something else entirely?

I've done a couple of tests, but not much, and given a bit of data in that link, if it helps. But I'm no pro!

Has there been any update on this issue?

It is getting really frustrating to have to repeatedly whitelist sites that were previously whitelisted, just because I happen to have used Firefox from a different machine.

NoScript is generally great, but this is making it unusable.