Firefox configs for security, privacy, usability and performance
Install UBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, Decentraleyes, PrivacyBadger and Containers (eg. Google container, facebook container).
You can make firefox fully-suited to your needs and for the maximum security, privacy, usability and performance without very much tweaking by changing the user js in your browser profile.
Firefox profiles are located by default in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ in Linux and %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in Windows.
- Create a new Firefox profile or use an existing one and move to the profile directory. You can navigate to
about:profilesand find the location for your current profile's root directory as well as find the option to create a new profile. - If you want to try this out, you can go with creating a new profile.
- Copy user.js to your profile's root directory test it out for sometime and make the required changes in your original profile.
- For changing some prefs you can create a new file in profile's Root Directory,
user-overrides.jsand fill it with the prefs you want to override. Now, append the content at the end ofuser.jsfile. You can download from here. - Done! Happy browsing.
The user.js file is taken from various other preexisting projects like arkenfox, betterfox and other projects and modified to suite the needs of a normal user.
Refer to this guide - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
- If you also want to change the appearance of Firefox to give it a look you prefer, you can try searching for some userchrome projects on GitHub or elsewhere and giving them a try.
- A few of the nifty tricks used are present in the
tricks.mdfile. - Flags mentioned in the about:config are largely undocumented. Here's an effort to document most of the flags present. Intial pages are scraped from https://kb.mozillazine.org/ and are present in the
mzpagesdirectory.
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