Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs

Post by kbrosnan » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 2:42 PM UTC

Santosh83 wrote: post #37

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #7

Wow, this is a great post. Thank you for taking the time to write this up. I've been using Firefox for a while now, but kept most settings fairly close to the defaults. I'm unhappy with many of their defaults, but hadn't been motivated to start tweaking stuff. I'll note that disabling custom fonts breaks certain sites. I don't consider it a deal-breaker, but it's worth being aware. Many sites abuse fonts for icons. D…

> Since we're already on the topic of configuring Firefox, I have a tangential question. Does anyone know how to configure Firefox to automatically save rar files? You usually receive the option to always save different file types, but the choice isn't available for rar files, so you always receive a download popup. Maybe I'm missing something but for me, going to the Options tab, selecting General tab, then going to…

Post by elorant » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 2:46 PM UTC

Post by paulie_a » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 2:58 PM UTC

Post by kradeelav » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

rockdoe wrote: post #51

What I don't understand is why someone would go to the problems of essentially spending a lot of time breaking their Firefox installation instead of using Tor directly when they care about privacy. Most of the tweaks boil down to turning Firefox defaults into Tor defaults, but without the benefit of actual anonymity, unless you're going to go ahead and install and trust the VPN provider which you also need. The major…

Post by feelin_googley » Fri, Mar 02, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

cinquemb wrote: post #17

lucideer wrote: post #11

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This is a great post, and is exactly the line I've been thinking along for a long time. I currently use uMatrix for this and it implements this almost perfectly. However, it's scope is too narrow: it only controls requests within the webpage, so doesn't have access to it many requests the browser will make outside of that scope. If you start by broadening the scope from webpage to browser, you eventually get to the o…

> … so doesn't have access to it many requests the browser will make outside of that scope. You have access if you chose to modify/recompile the .cpp/.rs files that deal with sending requests that those higher level functions use, this is what I do. Some particular places of interest on /mozilla-central/: - /servo/components/style/gecko/urls.rs, will pertain to calls called from css image functions - /netwerk/protoco…