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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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          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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              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.

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                      avinav Because the license allows to include it in the repos, is my best guess.

                        a month later

                        dont know if this is common knowledge but i discovered to have native kde save dialogs etc on firefox under plasma
                        install xdg-desktop-portal-kde
                        about:config: widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal true
                        didnt work until after a reboot.
                        if firefox now starts nagging about default browser set browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser false

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                          Lucien_Lachance
                          Besides causing issues with setting FireFox as the default browser this might also lead to other problems and stability issues as it is a setting intended for use with sandboxed app formats likes Flatpak or Snap (it does the same as launching FireFox with GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 IIRC).

                          Maybe one day we will actually get proper support for native KDE Plasma dialogs in FireFox out of the box ...

                              23 days later

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                              Lucien_Lachance
                              So far it looks like most of the glitches have been fixed when that setting is enabled (except for asking to be set as default browser when it already is).

                              Setting "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1" on the other hand now forces my FireFox to use Adwaita as GTK theme / cursor theme on Plasma not respecting the GTK theme set in the Plasma settings ...

                                8 days later

                                Not Sure this has been shared before, firefox related tweaks can be found in the Arch wiki.

                                a month later

                                Firefox Profilemaker
                                Firefox Profilemaker is a new online tool that helps you create custom Firefox installations. To be precise, it can be used to customize Firefox profiles, e.g. to block Telemetry, enable Enterprise policies or configure browser features.
                                https://ffprofile.com/
                                info via https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/05/create-custom-firefox-installations-with-firefox-profilemaker/

                                note: the policies.json from the enterprise policies zip should go into /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution
                                this folder normally doesent exist on solus so u gotta make it ( sudo mkdir /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution )

                                  Lucien_Lachance ghacks liked the idea of it while saying in another sentence it will never be as comprehensive as their famous arkenfox.js......but just when everyone wants to throw in the towel with firefox they offer another tool for another layer of privacy for the person who wants it fast and easy and not have to tear into about:config. That's a good thing, btw.
                                  2 cents: I can get a lot accomplished in about:config ; I have a comfort zone with it