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Auto-rotation by-pass on Firefox with all websites

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With the latest update, something was either broken or MSN figured out a way to by-pass a security feature or how browser (security and or search), now allows auto-rotation to occur without users consent. What I mean, for instance a user goes to a page that has a box that has either picture views or views of another page but in that same page. Once you go into that page from a link on MSN.com the auto-rotation gets turnded on by default automatically. Before the update, this didnt happen! I have all my setting on strict and dont allow this, but it still occurs. All and any pages with this type of scroll or auto-rotation this occurs.

With the latest update, something was either broken or MSN figured out a way to by-pass a security feature or how browser (security and or search), now allows auto-rotation to occur without users consent. What I mean, for instance a user goes to a page that has a box that has either picture views or views of another page but in that same page. Once you go into that page from a link on MSN.com the auto-rotation gets turnded on by default automatically. Before the update, this didnt happen! I have all my setting on strict and dont allow this, but it still occurs. All and any pages with this type of scroll or auto-rotation this occurs.
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That looks like a website feature that Firefox doesn't directly control. Or is it a new Firefox feature?

If it's a site feature you previously turned off using that switch, the site might have stored your preference in a cookie. It's possible that when the viewer loaded, the cookie was not accessible (either blocked by a cross-site cookie block or the cookie was cleared recently) so the site is following its default behavior.

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Current Firefox versions by default rotate JPG images according to EXIF data.

You can add this CSS rule to disable this feature:

  • img {image-orientation: none|from-image}