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I feel the strong need to point out some of these settings will break Firefox in subtle and hard to understand ways. There’s a reason you “void the warranty” when tweaking the about:config preferences. No rule against it, but just watch out. (Mozilla employee)
I feel the strong need to point out some of these settings will break Firefox in subtle and hard to understand ways. There’s a reason you “void the warranty” when tweaking the about:config preferences. No rule against it, but just watch out. (Mozilla employee)
As much as I loved the browser in the past, nobody should consider running it today, without being informed of the implications. The ffprofile.com site is something I have been waiting for, but stuff like this should not be necessary and IMO Mozilla Corp. has won. Nobody celebrates a new version of FF anymore.
Also useful resources: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making... https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html https://browserleaks.com/ https://www.howsmyssl.com/
I feel the strong need to point out some of these settings will break Firefox in subtle and hard to understand ways. There’s a reason you “void the warranty” when tweaking the about:config preferences. No rule against it, but just watch out. (Mozilla employee)
As a FF user (and a browser's user in general) I found actual browsers absurd monsters that service like ffprofile only try to mitigate. Few example: any complex enough software offer config files/dir. normally human readable and manageable. I can easily install plugins in Emacs via a simple config edit, same for (n)vim, same for zsh or fish, I can change my OS (NixOS) with a simple human-readable config file. Same f…
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
which is a perfectly reasonable and legitimate user request that, the browser not talk to the internet before the user agrees it may.
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It also breaks add-on compatibility because it sets your user agent to the last ESR version of Firefox, which may be several versions behind the version you're actually running.
That is resolved with 60.x ESR. First released in the early summer and has been the default since September. 52 had no support for webextensions
I don't know who decided it was a good idea to have it single row without doing basic UX research.
Something like this should be made for all Microsoft products. Really love how transparent this is + description of each field.
I'm not after a whole profile-builder but the Google Redirects Fixer & Tracking Remover add-on ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/google-no-tra... ) caught my eye. Unfortunately look's like it's defunct, a bunch of 1-star reviews being left recently. Perhaps worth removing it from the tool if the author is here?
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
[2]: https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix/blob/master/data/con...
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>(This is in fact sarcasm before you get too eager with that down arrow) I see this defense quite a lot on the internet, and I think it's misplaced. Even without your comment, I would have downvoted you, not because I though you were in earnest, but because your sarcastic comment doesn't add anything to the conversation.
Technically, your comment doesn't add much to the conversation either.
The difference is that I believe that my comment has a very small positive value, while I believe that the comment I responded to has a small to moderate negative value.
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As a FF user (and a browser's user in general) I found actual browsers absurd monsters that service like ffprofile only try to mitigate. Few example: any complex enough software offer config files/dir. normally human readable and manageable. I can easily install plugins in Emacs via a simple config edit, same for (n)vim, same for zsh or fish, I can change my OS (NixOS) with a simple human-readable config file. Same f…
> ... Mozilla seems to try avoiding supporting such a thing Back when I was trying to manage the configuration of my machines by having a git repository in my home directory or using stow, I got a little upset when I found that firefox stored its configuration in a profile directory with a random prefix. Why would it make it random? It's got to be the only program to do such a thing. I cannot imagine it's for anythin…
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56002 has the long discussion about it, but briefly: the profile directory name randomization was introduced to prevent web sites from being able to place data they control in known locations on your hard drive (via the browser cache) and then use that as a stepping-stone in a privilege escalation.
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That is not entirely true, there is a prefs.js in my Profile folder that contains the changes done to my about:config page, if I interpret it correctly.
True but certainly not friendly to edit with a big // DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. and an optional user.js separate preference I do not know how reliable...
prefs.js is the storage for the current non-default pref values. At runtime, default pref values are loaded, then prefs.js, then user.js.
You _can_ edit prefs.js and the effect will be the same as if you changed the pref in about:config, as long as you do it while Firefox is not running against that profile. If you do it while Firefox is running, your changes will be overwritten at shutdown when Firefox writes out then-current in-memory pref values.