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@savinay, please provide more info, which browser/version, OS. Very helpful would be the key values the FP2 is collecting to see what's changing.

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With Pale Moon you don't have to wait 2-3 hours.
Just open a new tab and load again and you get different results.
Seems to work well with all common browsers. That's why I like Pale Moon.
Browser: Pale Moon ver. 25.5.0
OS: Win 7

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This version of fingerprint2.js at this site (http://www.urlconcepts.com/) does work with Pale Moon.

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@timkolesa this web site is using an old version of FP2. Please update it first to the latest.

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Yes, that was what I was pointing out. The newest version of fingerprint2.js which I downloaded yesterday returns different results each time it is run in the Pale Moon browser. The older version that I downloaded from the referenced site works correctly. I thought that might help pin down where in the newest version Pale Moon is failing.

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@timkolesa , OK, I'll look into it. Although I've never heard about Pale Moon thing. It is not available for OSX, so I can't do it now, will do it when I have a copy of windows.

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@timkolesa, confirming the issue in PaleMoon. Will fix soon.

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@timkolesa, figure it out. Pale Moon randomizes the order of returned plugins. So every time you refresh the page, the list of plugins is different. One way to fix this is to sort the list, which will decrease the entropy.

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I've opened an issue to fix this: #56

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On 7/13/2015 11:01 AM, Valentin Vasilyev wrote:

@timkolesa https://github.com/timkolesa, figure it out. Pale Moon
randomizes the order of returned plugins. So every time you refresh
the page, the list of plugins is different. One way to fix this is to
sort the list, which will decrease the entropy.

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#38 (comment).

You should only do this for the Pale Moon browser and not all others
because the order routinely produced by other browser may be
significant. May be test plugins twice. If lists differ, then sort. Just
a thought.

see http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4406

Tim

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@timkolesa, it's not possible to get the list of plugins twice, because they maintain the order when reading the property. The order is randomized on page refresh only.

Please see my ticket update: #56 (comment)

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Looks like Pale Moon was (crudely) attempting to defeat fingerprinting.

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