librewolf: Always store cookies/data toggle missing

[Joseph-DiGiovanni]

Nixpkgs version

• Stable (24.11)

Describe the bug

The option to add exceptions to deleting cookies/data on close is not present in the site information menu. This applies to both librewolf and librewolf-unwrapped packages.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open LibreWolf
2. Navigate to any website
3. Click the lock icon next to the URL
4. The "Always store cookies/data" option is not there

Expected behaviour

Always store cookies/data option should be present in the site information menu.

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Additional context

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System metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.13.5, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20250228.b27ba4e
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.24.12
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/5k90vvmnhiyjfyz2fq2qcznb2l13c8x8-source

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[donovanglover]

Is this a recent feature? #387387 should be in 24.11 soon.

[Joseph-DiGiovanni]

I don't believe so. The gitlab source has the patch as long as 2 years ago and it isn't in the unstable packages either.

There are a bunch of inconsistencies in general, such as firefox labs not being renamed to experimental features, which I think is safe to assume that is also not a new change. The top right hamburger menu is also slightly different even between the same version of librewolf and librewolf-unwrapped. Unwrapped has the "sync and save data" option at the top while the normal and binary package don't.

[donovanglover]

@emaryn Since you refactored librewolf-bin in #387662, would you be interested in helping with this?

[emaryn]

Indeed it does. librewolf-bin has no such problem. cc @DominicWrege

[donovanglover]

Possibly related: #344417

[Joseph-DiGiovanni]

Thanks for linking that. I hadn't noticed since I have a search engine declared in my config. Frankly I think the package should be taken down until these issues are resolved as its pretty misleading to call it LibreWolf when some privacy related patches are not being applied. You can't just apply a few LibreWolf patches to Firefox and call it LibreWolf.

[emaryn]

It might be related to [this line](

nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/librewolf/librewolf.nix

Line 17 in 3f9dc98

if ! sed -n '/nvidia-wayland-backported-fixes-.*-Bug-1898476/p'; then

). Based on the build log, no LibreWolf patches seem to have been applied.

[fpletz]

This PR broke it: #336304