Firefox survival guide

juampiursic

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.

brent

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.

brent

[deleted] I had to do this, thank you.

Axios

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

brent

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.

avinav

JoshStrobl Why is a partial-opensource-partial-closedsource browser in the official repo?

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

Lucien_Lachance

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 ...

Lucien_Lachance

[deleted] thanks, ill keep an eye out for trouble. nothing so far

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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 ...

skillrex

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

Lucien_Lachance

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 )

brent

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

Lucien_Lachance

brent i have like 12 firefox profiles for various things ( for example a separate one for twitter) - the enterprise policy approach is really handy as it affects ALL profiles

brent

Lucien_Lachance That's interesting. I would like to try a couple. Right now I have firefox configured to FPI (first party isolate) all cookies which is lo-tech, but an experiment.
Do you use a new profile per tab? Or per window? Or does it matter?

Lucien_Lachance

brent nah just one for regular browsing, another for net banking, another for twitter, another for gmail,another for another gmail account,another for twitch (as i wasnt able to use twitch with my regular profile, too high security settings i guess, couldnt figure it out) and so on, just things i want to keep separate. never got around to learnign about containers and such as this system works well for me, and with separate .desktop files for the profiles they can have different icons in taskbar as well

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