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Sometimes resistFingerprinting can break some site, but rarely. But if it happens the addon "Toggle Resist Fingerprinting" [1] can be helpful to temporarily inactivate it with a simple click on an button. Instead of having to go to about:config and change "privacy.resistFingerprinting" to "false" manually.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-resist...

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What bothers me is that RFP breaks many addons as well. For example, the reduced timer precision breaks Surfingkeys on Windows (vim combinations are behaving erratically, jerky scrolling etc). Another example, Alt key is completely disabled by RFP as some national keyboard layouts can be used for fingerprinting. [1] As a result, hotkeys with Alt become inaccessible for addons. etc etc etc

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598862#c3

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