NoScript and Firefox Sync

[barbaz]

WDC was the guilty one !

So NoScript settings are kept in the cache...

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 sqlitebrowser, then quit sqlitebrowser without making any changes.

[q0p]

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.

[Guest]

WDC was the guilty one !

So NoScript settings are kept in the cache...

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 sqlitebrowser, then quit sqlitebrowser without making any changes.

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.

[barbaz]

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

[Jackalus]

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

[anon1357]

I just updated to Firefox 86 on my main Windows 10 machine, and observe that many of my NS whitelist entries have been forgotten.
I haven't done an export for a while, since NS has been operating well for years.
Are any automatic backups made?
I have also recently added a new computer to my Firefox sync. It was a clean Ubuntu install that I added to my Firefox account and enabled sync.
Hopefully the sync is not so simplistic to conclude "there is a new machine here added to sync with no NS whitelist - since it is newest, lets sync the empty whitelist to all the other computers that have long whitelists".

I'm not sure if this is a sync issue or a FIrefox update issue or both.
It might be helpful to automatically export NS settings before any update, if that is possible.

[PSMikey]

Last weekend, I installed FFox on my work computer and enabled sync with my home computer. Everything seemed to be ok, except that my NoScript per-site permissions didn't seem to get synched to the work computer.

Tonight, on my home computer, it seems to have "forgotten" many (not all) of the per-site permissions. It makes me think that the sync from my home computer to my work computer never worked, and then today, FFox sync deleted many per-site permissions from my home Ffox since they did not exist on my work computer.

Any idea why/how this happened?

[JCRFC]

If there is no way around the sync limit of 100kb from Firefox would it at least be possible to have a merge on import.
That way we can export and import between machines without overwriting settings?

[therube]

Aside from any sync - which I know nothing of, NoScript (Options) itself can Import | Export.

(Backup first &) see what that may or may not be able to do for you.

[JCRFC]

I know, but if you export, make some changes then import the changes are overwritten. It does not merge.

Therefore with two computers if I whitelist on Computer A Site A and whitelist on Computer B Site B there is no way to sync these two files.

If you export from A and import into B then you lose the Whitelisted Site B and vice versa. If there was an option on import to merge then I could at least manually keep them in some sort of sync. I can of course winmerge the files etc but this is very tedious.

JC.

[Géza]

I am annoyed by the same bug. I use FF, FF sync and NoScript on several computers. It happens frequently that NS resets the whitelist on my computers.
A few days ago I reinstalled the OS on my laptop and connected the clean FF installation to FF sync. As result, the whitelist got cleared on my desktop computer.