Any feedback on which of these apply to Firefox mobile?
Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
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#22Why are you disabling IPv6?! It's faster than IPv4.
Yep, 50% faster.
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#23Disabling IPv6?! This is an... opinionated list. Wish there was more annotation around what those opinions were.
Don't know if it is still true. DNS lookup didn't work correctly when ipv6 was enabled.
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#24 BLOATWARE
Disable 'Reader Mode':
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#25> Remove "(site) is now fullscreen" nag message and make it faster For a list that want to make the browser more secure, why do they want to remove the only line of defense against sites using fullscreen mode for phishing? > Disable PDF reader PDF.js has fewer security vulnerabilities than desktop PDF readers. > Disable 'safe browsing' aka. Google tracking/logging This seems like a really bad idea for most users
> PDF.js has fewer security vulnerabilities than desktop PDF readers.
You can limit desktop readers with something like AppArmor (no network access, only allowed to read files, only allowed to open *.pdf files, etc). You can't (AFAIK) do that with PDF.js.
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#26BLOATWARE Disable 'Reader Mode': Why? I use this every day to pull the text out of frustratingly-formatted sites.
Yeah, I like Reader Mode. It strips off all the fluff to make pages readable again.
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#27Not a great attempt IMO. The networking and UI things are a valiant effort. Mixing them with non-mainstream security concerns are a bad idea. You may feel that safe-browsing is tracking by the man, but advising newbies to turn it off is borderline irresponsible. Similar argument for ipv6 (wtf), error reporting (congrats: your bugs will never be fixed cause firefox doesn't know about them), and geolocation ("why doesn…
> caveat emptor: when firefox upgrades it usually wont change these settings for you It's not so bad. You can sort prefs by user-defined, they're in bold, and each one has a reset-to-default option. Also you can do a whole browser reset which preserves only passwords/bookmarks. Instructions: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... And firefox profiles might be handy for this too (from the comm…
Yes it is. Everything you've described of my two brothers can't do.
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#28Ugh, it has "disable webgl" because it's a "debatable" security concern? And disable ipv6? I hope people know what these settings are for before they apply these.
The type of person who is adding these settings probably wants this. That is, a web browser that does one thing very well: browse the web. The title of the repo is kind of misleading in that regard, since it makes it sound like something the average user might like.
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#29Nice. That's a useful guide for writing an add-on to manage all those settings, some of which are documented only in very obscure places. Whether or not you turn them on or off is your business, but they need a user interface.
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#30BLOATWARE Disable 'Reader Mode': Why? I use this every day to pull the text out of frustratingly-formatted sites.
It's the only UI change to firefox that I've come to appreciate.
I can't think of a single UI change since the introduction of Australis that hasn't caused me pain, frustration and forced me to spend considerable time and effort to look for workarounds or fixes. Since almost all of my UI interaction is muscle memory - changing, removing things and adding completely unwanted elements has been an unpleasant and grating experience for me and I come to dread every new feature introduced to firefox.
Reader is the only positive one for me. My eyesight isn't the best and the modern design trend for low contrast and small text makes many sites unreadable. Reader fixes that for me ina simple way, it's straightforward and doesn't have any unnecessary features.