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I absolutely love FF but the cookie prevention is breaking some of my internal sites (not just for me but coworkers who I don't control which browser they use).

Add to the fact that FF and TouchID don't work for our SSO provider for 2nd factor.

Both of these are making it tough for me to continue using FF for my daily driver (though I'd still use FF+uBO for personal browsing)

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Assuming you are talking about tracking protection, you can turn that off on a per site basis by clicking on the shield symbol on the url bar while you are on the website that is breaking, and clicking the slider next to the "enhanced tracking protection is on" text. Unfortunately I don't know anything about how TouchID interacts with Firefox.

The issue for per-site disabling is that the default is "on" and many sites simply fail to work (silently) when they aren't allowed 3rd party cookies.

Obviously this could be configured with a group policy but our IT group isn't going out of its way for a non-preferred browser.

For the TouchID it's FIDO2 compliance - not sure if it's our SSO/MFA provider or FF but... it works fine with Chrome :/

Can't you just turn off the cookie protection for all sites and keep using Firefox (well, not for TouchID...)? Security, custom, ...

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