Settings survives restart but are not applied

[JulienPalard]

I do use Firefox with the "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" option.

When I open Firefox again and navigate to my GB instance or to https://latest.glowing-bear.org/, all settings are "back to the default" which is to expect, typically the "Only show buffers with unread messages" is back as its default to "False", meaning I see many many buffers with no unread messages.

BUT when I open the setting panel my old options are still here: "Only show buffers with unread messages" is checked! I have to uncheck it and check it again to see the buffers with no unread messages dissapear.

[lorenzhs]

Not quite sure how this could happen - while we don't watch for changes in localstorage, they are reflected after a reload. And we certainly can't know about values that were deleted between browser restarts. I just tried this in Firefox - manually modifying a setting and reloading GB caused the setting to be applied.

[JulienPalard]

I can reproduce it every time on Firefox 106, with the option "Clear history when firefox closes" configured as:

It looks like:

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Sorry my mouse is not visible, but you can see those steps:

• Freshly started Firefox, glowing bear displays channels with no messages
• I open the settings panel
• I uncheck the "Only show buffers with unread messages": nothing happen (expected).
• I check it again, and this time channels with unread messages dissapear :)

[lorenzhs]

Interesting. Wouldn't that be more of a Firefox bug then? I don't understand how this could happen, but it's also been years since I was properly familiar with the GB code base to be honest...