Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
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Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#2Ugh, 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.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#3Ugh, 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.
Retitle "Project to make Firefox suck more"
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#4Ugh, 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.
pdf.js is disabled, too, so no more easy opening PDFs in the browser if you apply these tweaks.
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#5> 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
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#6Not 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't google maps ever know where I am?").
If you apply these, some caveat emptor: when firefox upgrades it usually wont change these settings for you. So if firefox makes things awesome, you'll be left behind. You may want that, you may not. Personally, I'd advise against.
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#7> 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
The only time I ever see the fullscreen message is when the screen has essentially already fullscreened itself in a case where I want it to. =/
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#8The tweaks under appearance and bloatware are good, although I'd probably leave error reporting on (I'm on the nightly channel for a reason), as well as WebGL although it would be nice if it could be changed to "click-to-run" style launching. The rest of the tweaks seems fairly reasonable privacy-wise.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#9Not 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…
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#10Why Reading mode is even considered "bloatware"?