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    Comment #44660645

    It has everything to do the browser feature known as "custom search engines", which is a URL replacement capability that was never limited to actual search engines. As I said befor…

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    Comment #44660352

    That's by design: >This feature is separate from the about:profiles experience, and we currently have no plans to change how about:profiles works. You may continue to use about:pro…

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    Comment #44648745

    These so-called "hardening scripts" cause a lot of issues and volunteers have to waste their time helping clueless users who copied them without understanding what they do.

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    Comment #44648705

    Disabling anonymous telemetry just harms the project. It doesn't give you any "privacy" benefit.

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    Comment #44648674

    Browsers discard tabs by default, but only when your system is running out of memory. You can use Auto Tab Discard to discard all or most tabs automatically after a certain time.

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    Comment #44648647

    Use this extension created by a Mozilla employee: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/chrome-mask

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    Comment #44648612

    Chrome has always had the capability of adding custom search engines. They are just not entangled with your bookmarks. Firefox is actually going to remove this feature from bookmar…

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    Comment #44648560

    If you want them to fix it: 1) Generate a profile performance with https://profiler.firefox.com/ 2) Submit the link with your results to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

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    Comment #44648539

    Updates aren't supposed to reset any setting. Submit a bug report for them to fix whatever is doing that for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

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    Comment #44648504

    File an issue on Bugzilla with your latest crash ID to help the developers fix it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

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    Comment #44648472

    Power users interested in this niche feature can use a script: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1m594nv/multi_tab_...

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    Comment #44648441

    > both to isolate stuff to break cookie tracking You don't need containers for this: https://total-cookie-protection-test.netlify.app/

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    Comment #44648386

    You're either not using uBlock Origin Lite or do not know what the "per-site switches" are: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Per-site-switches

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    Comment #44648350

    The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users. If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.ena…

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    Comment #44648345

    The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users. If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.ena…