16 days later

about:config
privacy.firstparty.isolate=true (false is default).

Been hearing so many good about the FPI (first party cookie isolate) feature that it makes (according to internet chatter) things like decentralyze (cdn safe injector) and much of UBO, and cookie-auo-delete irrelevant. We will see. Not sure I buy it outright. I like the first extension a lot.

Of course loading got faster when I 86'd some extensions. Everything is balance, I suppose. I don't think Mozilla likes to advertise it, but about:config is a decent place to manage cookies and privacy vs 6-7 extensions. I had 6-7 extensions and really think it's overkill.

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    • Post #112
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    brent

    There is actually not much use anymore for enabling the old FPI (outside of TOR browser maybe) with all the current isolation / blocking features Firefox has, especially containers and Enhanced Tracking Protection. And AFAIK FPI isn't seeing much improvement anymore (if at all) and disables all or most of the current isolation / blocking features.

    You should be better off just setting Enhanced Tracking Protection to "strict", properly setting up which data to clear when Firefox gets closed and using uBlock Origin.

    It will almost give you the same results (IIRC FPI still isolates a bit more currently) while using current isolation / blocking features but with a lot less breakage.

    And if you wan to up it a notch you can use Multi Account Containers together with the extension Temporary Containers (in auto mode). But with the ongoing improvements to Enhanced Tracking Protection most privacy enhancements can now be gained without using Multi Account Containers, making them pretty much only useful for their core use case (which is being able to log into the same site with different logins at the same time using the same browser with different containers).

    Here's some good info about Total Cookie Protection (which is part of Enhanced Tracking Protection):

    https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1974

    More info can be found in the release and feature announcements by Mozilla.

    Also there is work being done deprecating the old FPI:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649876

    So at one one point enabling it (if the setting is still there) will most likely just enable the current protection features you can already enable from the normal settings menu.

        [deleted] that's the debate, you are right. I have the 'strict' and FF allegedly containers these cookies (using containers as an adjective) anyways for seperation. Your points very valid and your explanation excellent----it still leads me to believe that many extensions are overkill.
        I will read both those links right now, thanks for your great reply.

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          • Post #114

          sangheeta browser.uidensity set to 1 decreases UI size a bit

          wow the tabs look better(and cleaner) now! so thanks again 🙂

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              • Post #115

              [deleted] You should be better off just setting Enhanced Tracking Protection to "strict"

              'custom' is even better in my opinion,as it gives you the freedom to choose exactly what to block.

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                in fact I realized that it simply and directly applies the compact setting for the size of the toolbar.
                If I re-enable the compact mode in about:config then choose compact mode in the customization settings, it is the same result! 😅

                thank you mozilla for this secret mysterious enigma game 🤣 , my brain had a lot of fun!

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                  • Post #117

                  anybody tried about:robots and about:mozilla? 😆

                  14 days later

                  Privacy/security.

                  I second what [deleted] shared. In relation to Firefox use PrivacyTools as a foundation. To help select, add-ons, choose a search engine, and use privacy-related tweaks that suit your threat model. Keep up to date with this site, it is very informative.

                  Add-ons and tweaks that are related to aesthetic/customization.

                  Tabliss - A beautiful New Tab page with many customisable backgrounds and widgets that does not require any permissions.

                  Dark Reader - Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing.

                  This next add-on/Tweak I am sharing is essentially my all time favorite add-on/tweak when it comes to Firefox. Unfortunately this happened:

                  After upgrading to the 57+ version of Firefox, the Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar addon is no longer supported. This project consists in mitigating this non continuity of support.

                  So most of you have probably never heard of it until now. It's functionality was simple:

                  Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar saves space on the bookmarks bar. It's the only one of it's kind that hides the names of your bookmarks until you hover over them with your mouse.

                  But it lives on! Thanks to people a whole lot smarter than me.

                  Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar

                  Here is the link: Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar

                  And of course, mastering the basics....

                  15 Useful Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

                      I use Firefox mainly because I got work stuff to do and don't want to make another profile on Chrome so I use two browsers, I like Firefox but lately it's been really trashy, it hangs, freezes, reloads everytime I switch tabs, whenever I need to choose something of a drop down menu it hangs, any solution to this? I did remove Firefox and all of the config folders but still, this was not happening like 1 month ago.

                      I got the same setup on Windows between Chrome and Firefox and there Firefox it's ok like it was a month ago on Solus.

                      xjdwc What annoys me about Privacy Tools is how they've become over-reliant on suggesting many extensions for stuff that firefox can do internally (like https only, for instance). I'm beginning to believe that having too many becomes a vulnerability. I swapped Decentralyze for LocalCDN and UMatrix is a must. (And Umatrix was recently abandoned! Question for myself: hyprocrite much?🙂) I'm minimizing external plugins and instead making about: config do their work.
                      I loved your browser darkening emphasis, I have an extension for that! And the FF keyboard shortcuts thing I never saw before so that is bookmarked. Great info.

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                          • Post #122

                          brent Umatrix was recently abandoned!

                          i think NoScript provides a similar functionality to umatrix i.e. blocking scripts. I have never used umatrix so i dont know if it has some other functionality.

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                            xjdwc Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar

                            Here is the link: Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar

                            oh.....thanks for this! 😃

                            and regarding the privacytools website, yeah thats a very detailed website,is constantly updated but i find it a bit strange that they promote services like cloudflare DNS as 'privacy respecting'.They say Ubuntu is privacy respecting even though canonical collects telemetry 😐️

                            Other than these two,all of their software recommendations can be fully trusted.

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                              • Post #124

                              If your printing does not work after they introduced the new printing dialog, you can disable it and fall back to the system default print dialog by setting print.tab_modal.enabled to false.

                                I went security nut for a year got half dozen websites booked marked for testing-All I can say is what a tangled web we weave!! Brent thanks the localcdn suggestion kinda like it will test it more

                                  Axios I went security nut for a year

                                  I will confess I am leaving this phase recently. A majority of life on Windows will do that to you. I don't blame myself🙂.

                                  Axios what a tangled web we weave!!

                                  oh hell yes. you can overthink security, over-rationalize, make yourself manic but in the end you don't need to do this to yourself even if you resent corporate tracking. you are on linux and you have what is reasonable...
                                  ps-----since I installed decentralyze years ago on one browser it's countered over 100 library content injections. localcdn after a month has countered 1,000. I'm not sure if these claims are conditional or what they mean, but the options on this extension are cool.