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| − | |name= Mozilla Firefox
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| − | |image= [[file:NuFox.png|64px]]
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| − | |type= Free
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| − | |website= [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/]
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| − | '''Firefox''' is a free and open source [[browsers|web browser]] developed and maintained by the Mozilla Corporation which is owned by the Mozilla Foundation. It is known for its high degree of customizability through add-ons and its adherence to Web standards.
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| − | == Official branches ==
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| − | ''Unfortunately, [https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-36-no-longer-supported the v3.6.x series of Firefox is now unsupported]. It will no longer receive security or stability updates. Please use Pale Moon for those olde-skool aesthetics.''
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| − | Mozilla offers five officially compiled branches or channels of Firefox. These are Release, Beta, Dev Edition, Nightly, and [[ESR (Software)|ESR]].
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| − | *The [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ Release] branch of Firefox is geared towards the the average home or office Web user. It receives a major update every four weeks if all goes according to plan, but security and stability patches are issued as needed in the meantime.
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| − | *The [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/beta/ Beta] branch of Firefox is geared towards home users who want to try new features a few weeks early while contributing to Firefox development. It is generally quite stable with most remaining bugs being specific to certain configurations or drivers. In the course of a typical six week beta run, there are between seven and thirteen builds released.
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| − | *The [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/ Developer Edition] or alpha branch of Firefox replaced the Aurora branch and is geared towards Web developers and includes extra development tools and a special theme. Some instability and bugs should be expected.
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| − | *The [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/ Nightly] or pre-alpha branch is intended for testing and debugging purposes. It represents the bleeding edge of Firefox development, so the likelihood of encountering instability, security vulnerabilities, and major bugs is high. As the name implies, Nightly typically receives patches on a day-to-day basis and new features as soon as they become ready.
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| − | *The [https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/ Extended support release or ESR] branch of Firefox is geared towards large organizations who require long-term support for mass deployments, but it is can also be a good option for the technologically illiterate. It remains static for approximately one year after a major release, receiving new code only in the form of security and stability patches.
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| − | Regarding experimental features, Mozilla gives you the option to install an extension that allows you to enable them before they come enabled out of the box, if they ever make it to the stable branch. For more information, go to [https://testpilot.firefox.com/ testpilot.com].
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| − | == Notable forks ==
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| − | Due to the free and open source nature of its code base, Firefox has given rise to several forks.
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| − | *[https://gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ GNU IceCat] is a fork maintained by the GNU Project for those who happen to be of one mind with [[Richard Stallman]]. In addition to removing and replacing the copyrighted or trademarked parts of Firefox, the maintainer has added a couple of minor privacy and security features.
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| − | *[http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/iceweasel Iceweasel] is a fork maintained by the Debian Project. It is designed to allow the project to back-port as it pleased without running afoul of Mozilla's trademarks.
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| − | *[http://www.palemoon.org/ Pale Moon] is a fork of Firefox [[Extended Support Release|ESR]] dedicated to providing an optimised Firefox with the classic user interface layout of the v3.6.x series. Pale Moon is offered in both [http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml 32-bit] and [http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml 64-bit] builds, and uses a fork of the Gecko rendering engine called Goanna. For a complete list of the differences between Pale Moon and Firefox, see [http://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml#Firefox_Differences this page]. Note: it's made by a [[furry]] who has a fursona named Moonchild. He has art and has written furry stories. His furry website is [http://www.moonchildproductions.info/ here].
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| − | *The [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] is a package designed specifically to visit Onion sites and to browse the Internet through the Tor network.
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| − | *[https://github.com/intika/Librefox Librefox] Modern FF fork enhanced for privacy.
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| − | *[https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/ Waterfox] Maintains support for legacy addons and aims to be fast.
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| − | == Add-Ons ==
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| − | === Controversy and WebExtension Add-onpocalypse ===
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| − | In 2014, Brendan Eich the then CEO of the Mozilla '''Corporation''' (the for-profit entity that develops the Firefox browser), had been found to have donated $1000 to a proposition around banning same-sex marriage in California. Some employees of the Mozilla '''Foundation''' (the non-profit entity that decides the changes around the Firefox browser, which ironically Brendan Eich helped create) were upset with this, and did what they normally do; blog posts, activism and calling for Brendan to resign. That same year, Brendan did resign, but not without saying that he stands by his donation to ban same-sex marriage.
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| − | Since then, Firefox has been heading downhill fast. Current development of Firefox involves pushing it to become as much of a Google Chrome clone as possible. Performance has gotten worse, bloat has been added, the theme has become closer to chrome and the ability to rice it to autistic levels has been threatened. Trackers have been added, including screen recording software and for some reason it now also has its own instant message chat built into the browser. However probably the worst of them all was the WebExtension Add-onpocalypse.
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| − | The drop of support for legacy add-ons made every single add-on that had been developed, incomparable with Firefox. This was obviously controversial, but it wasn't enough. They also dropped every legacy add-on's page, so even if you made a way to support legacy add-ons, you wouldn't be able to find any.
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| − | Some browsers such as Pale moon, Waterfox and SeaMonkey, however, preserve the support for these legacy add-ons. Luckily, the Pale Moon and Waterfox Team have a [https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive working archive] of (almost) all the legacy add-ons, which you can install and use as an [https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases add-on] in the mentioned browsers.
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| − | As for what Brendan Eich is doing; he decided he wasn't done with the browser game, and is now the CEO of a company that is developing a browser called [https://brave.com/ Brave], which is basically just a browser with cypto attached to it.
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| − | === Tags ===
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| − | [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] — Is a legacy add-on, and can only be used on a Firefox fork that supports legacy add-ons (Waterfox, Pale Moon, SeaMonkey). Can be downloaded using the [https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive Classic Add-ons Archive].
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| − | [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]] — Is a WebExtension Add-on. Can be run on any modern Firefox or Firefox fork (Including Waterfox, Pale Moon and SeaMonkey).
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| − | === Notable add-ons ===
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| − | {{note|some of these listed add-ons may overlap slightly. They are both listed for modularity. Some people like one thing, and some like the other or a third. Pick your poison.}}
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| − | {{warning|With Firefox having a new addon engine with Version 55 and above, many of these addons no longer work!}}
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| − | ==== Adblocking, privacy, and security ====
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| − | [[File:Betterprivacy.png|48px]] '''BetterPrivacy''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/ BetterPrivacy] manages and auto-destroys '''flash''' cookies, aka super cookies. '''If you don't have flash''' (which is likely unless you love newgrounds or /f/) '''then you have no need for this addon'''.
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| − | [[File:Blender.png|48px]] '''Blender''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/ Blender] automatically spoofs your user agent string to another popular one.
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| − | [[File:Certificatepatrol.png|48px]] '''Certificate Patrol''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/?src=cb-dl-mostpopular Certificate Patrol] discovers when certificates have changed.
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| − | [[File:Cookiemonster.png|48px]] '''Cookie Monster''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/ Cookie Monster] manages cookies permissions. Its function can be replaced by uMatrix.
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| − | '''Cookie Autodelete''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ Cookie Autodelete] is a webExt replacement for Cookie Monster.
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| − | [[File:Decentraleyes.png|48px]] '''Decentraleyes''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ Decentraleyes] loads common CDN resources locally, minimizing your exposure to third-party servers and slightly decreasing page load times, as well as the amount of data transferred.
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| − | [[File:Httpseverywhere.png|48px]] '''HTTPS-Everywhere''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/ HTTPS Everywhere] encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. If you can only install a couple of add-ons, this should be one of them.
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| − | [[File:Httpsfinder.png|48px]] '''HTTPS Finder''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://code.google.com/p/https-finder/downloads/list HTTPS Finder] detects available https and creates HTTPS Everywhere rules.
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| − | [[File:Noscript.png|48px]] '''NoScript''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ NoScript] allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice.
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| − | [[File:RAS.png|48px]] '''Random Agent Spoofer''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer Random Agent Spoofer] spoofs your user-agent string to any value of your choice, with the option to change to popular agent strings randomly. It also includes the ability to spoof various HTTP Referer request values, as well as multiple about:config tweaks.
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| − | '''Chameleon''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chameleon-ext/ Random Agent Spoofer] is a potential webExt replacement for Random Agent Spoofer
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| − | [[File:Refcontrol.png|48px]] '''RefControl''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ RefControl] controls what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.
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| − | '''Referer Controler''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referercontrol/ Referer Controler] webExt replacement for RefControl.
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| − | [[File:Priv8.png|48px]] '''Priv8''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/priv8/ Priv8] is a Firefox addon that uses part of the security model of Firefox OS to create sandboxed tabs and manage them. Updated infrequently and might be incompatible with certain addons.
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| − | '''Multi Account Containers''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ Multi Account Containers] successor to Priv8.
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| − | [[File:uBlock.png|48px]] '''uBlock Origin''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ uBlock Origin] is a lightweight and low-resource adblocker. Has many filter lists built in, with EasyList, Peter Lowe’s Ad server list, EasyPrivacy, and Malware domains enabled by default. Can fully replace NoScript in advanced mode and outperform it, whilst offering more features.
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| − | *Not to be confused with 'uBlock', an EXTREMELY outdated fork with some very slight changes to the UI.
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| − | *If you feel bad about blocking advertisements, make a deal with yourself: you'll stop blocking ads when major international internet companies stop [http://uk.businessinsider.com/yahoos-advertising-network-is-being-targeted-by-hackers-malwarebytes-says-2015-8?r=US&IR=T serving] [https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/08/large-malvertising-campaign-takes-on-yahoo/ malware].
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| − | *Supports the WebExtensions API.
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| − | [[File:uMatrix.png|48px]] '''uMatrix''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [[File:matrix.png|thumb|uMatrix's fine-grained control]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ uMatrix], made by the creator of uBlock, is a high performance matrix-based firewall that supports hosts files, capable of blocking a myriad of objects, complete with per-hostname and global toggles, as well as plenty of privacy oriented features. Able to replace NoScript<sup>1</sup>, policeman, and request policy continued. Can be used with uBlock.
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| − | *<sup>1</sup> - Cannot replace NoScript's surrogate script functionality (which is very, VERY rarely used anyway). uBlock has a similar [https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Experimental-filters feature called redirect], whose purpose is to redirect blocked resources to locally-hosted, neutered contents.
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| − | [[File:Tabgroups.png|48px]] '''Tab Groups''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ Tab Groups] allows you to create tab groups, a feature that was once part of Firefox.
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| − | '''Panorama View''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view/ Panorama View] is a WebExt replacement for tab groups
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| − | [[File:Treestyletabs.png|48px]] '''Tree Style Tabs''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ Tree Style Tabs] shows tabs like a tree.
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| − | '''New Tab Homepage''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/ New Tab Homepage] will load your homepage whenever you open a new tab.
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| − | '''Stylus''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ Stylus] lets you customise websites by setting custom CSS for them. It is a replacement for the previously recommended add-on Stylish, which was brought out by a company and is now [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ spyware that steals browsing history] and more.
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| − | '''OneLiner''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://github.com/khuedoan98/one-line-firefox OneLiner] (also exists as "Liner") puts all the different bars at the top of the page, into a single bar (url, tabs, etc all on the same line). This can also be achieved with css.
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| − | [[File:FxIF.png|48px]] '''WxIF''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wxif/ WxIF] is a WebExt port of the legacy add-on FxIF. A tool to view EXIF data in image properties.
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| − | [[File:Greasemonkey.png|48px]] '''Greasemonkey''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ Greasemonkey] manages [[Browsers#Recommended_User_Scripts | Userscripts]].
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| − | [[File:ViolentMonkey.png|48px]] '''Violentmonkey''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/violentmonkey/ Violentmonkey] manages [[Browsers#Recommended_User_Scripts | Userscripts]] as well as Greasemonkey.
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| − | [[File:Tampermonkey.png|48px]] '''Tampermonkey''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ Tampermonkey] manages [[Browsers#Recommended_User_Scripts | Userscripts]] as well as Greasemonkey and Violentmonkey. The downside is that it is not Free Software.
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| − | [[File:Redirector.png|48px]] '''Redirector''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/redirector/ Redirector] automatically redirects to user-defined urls on a per-hyperlink basis.
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| − | [[File:Vimfx.png|48px]] '''VimFx''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimfx/ VimFx] offers [[Vim]] bindings without changes in the UI.
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| − | '''Vimium-FF''' [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/ Vimium-FF] offers vim bindings via WebExt. However all WebExt extensions offering vim bindings are limited and will not work as well as they should (you will still need the mouse), due to how WebExt/nu-firefox works.
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| − | '''Other Vim Binding Options''' [[File:LegacyTag.png|x14px]] [[File:WebExt.png|x14px]]
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| − | There is a [https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_key_bindings_for_web_browsers list] on the vim wiki that goes over all the vim extensions/add-ons.
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| − | === [https://github.com/perfect7gentleman/pg_overlay/tree/master/www-client/firefox/files/kde-opensuse OpenSUSE-KDE] [[File:Active.png|x14px]] ===
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| − | This patchset makes trivial changes to Firefox to improve its aesthetic and functionality.
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| − | *Adds KDE integration to Firefox.
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| − | *Changes your {{ic|general.useragent.locale}} to {{ic|chrome://global/locale/intl.properties}}.
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| − | *Adds higher resolution icons.
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| − | === [https://github.com/perfect7gentleman/pg_overlay/blob/master/www-client/firefox/files/firefox-48.0-pgo.patch PGO] [[File:Stalled.png|x14px]] ===
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| − | This simple patch enables Profile-Guided Optimization techniques for the [[GCC]] build. PGO builds consist of two passes: the first one builds instrumented binaries, and the second one to rebuild optimized binaries. It might result in a [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/PGOBenchmarks slight performance increase of roughly ~5%], for double the compilation time.
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| − | As it stands, the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064049 clang-pgo.patch] may not be working.
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| − | *The Makefile.in file might not have the compile rule called pgo-profile-run<sup>[http://mynixworld.info/2015/03/09/fix-firefox-pgo-linux/ 1]</sup>.
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| − | **Solution: add the pgo-profile-run rule to the Makefile.in.
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| − | === [https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=firefox-esr-privacy Privacy] [[File:Active.png|x14px]] ===
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| − | This patchset aims to disable certain Firefox 'features' that might undermine one's attempt at staying anonymous. In a way, it debloats it.
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| − | *Certain connections to Mozilla are removed.
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| − | *Disables: telemetry, location.services, sponsored tiles, Pocket, Hello, and Reader View.
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| − | *Applies certain privacy conscious settings to about:config by default.
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| − | *Enables tracking protection by default (disable if you use uBlock and/or uMatrix).
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| − | [[File:ESNI.png|thumb|How ESNI makes the internet opaque. Website support may vary.]]
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| − | Newer Firefox versions support DNS over HTTPS and Encrypted SNI. For an introduction to ESNI read [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/esni-privacy-protecting-upgrade-https this article from the EFF].
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| − | Upsides of DoH: Your ISP knows less about you.
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| − | Downsides of DoH: Your DNS resolver knows a lot more about you including your browser and operating system, and can set cookies. (Bet you didn't know).
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| − | * Set {{ic|network.trr.uri}} to a DoH compliant server such as {{ic|https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query}}.
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| − | DNS over HTTPS is an ESNI prerequisite.
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| − | For ESNI set {{ic|network.security.esni.enabled}} to {{ic|true}}.
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| − | [[https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ Test your configuration courtesy of CloudFlare]]
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| − | You can edit Firefox's appearance with [[CSS]] (Cascading Style Sheets). To be more general, you can alter ANY web page with CSS. This is achieved with the usage of userstyles. To use and take complete advantage of them, you need a userstyle manager. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ Stylish] is the most common.
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| − | The Stylish button that appears after you install it is useful. For instance, to write a userstyle for Firefox, you need to go to:
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| − | And select Write new style -> For this URL, and it'll have a template set up.
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| − | The most useful feature in writing userstyles is the Inspector. You pop it up by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C and it'll let you see what elements you can style on the page.
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| − | Below are options in '''about:config''' worth considering.
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| − | * '''dom.storage.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Disable "client-side session and persistent storage" cookies (bad for 8ch - the replies hypelinks next to the post number disappears).
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| − | * '''geo.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Disable location data.
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| − | * '''general.useragent.override''' - Create as a String value and insert your own useragent.
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| − | ** [http://techblog.willshouse.com/2012/01/03/most-common-user-agents/ Dynamically updated list of common user agents].
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| − | * '''network.dns.disablePrefetch''' ''TRUE'' - Stop Firefox looking up IP addresses of links of the page you haven't/aren't going to.
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| − | * '''network.http.pipelining''' ''TRUE'' - Possible speedup for some servers (send multiple files through one connection).
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| − | * '''network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests''' ''8'' - Total number of pipelines.
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| − | * '''network.http.pipelining.ssl''' ''TRUE'' - Pipeline with HTTPS sites.
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| − | * '''network.http.proxy.pipelining''' ''TRUE'' - Pipleline through proxy connections.
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| − | * '''network.http.sendRefererHeader''' - ''0'' = never (bad for 8ch), ''1'' = domain only, ''2'' = full url (default).
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| − | * '''network.prefetch-next''' ''FALSE'' - Don't download pages linked to the current page unless we click the link.
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| − | * '''dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Don't allow webpages to mess with the clipboard.
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| − | * '''dom.disable_window_move_resize''' ''TRUE'' - Don't allow webpages to move or resize the browser window.
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| − | * '''dom.ipc.plugins.flash.subprocess.crashreporter.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Don't report flash plugin crashes.
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| − | * '''media.autoplay.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Don't autoplay media.
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| − | * '''media.peerconnection.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Important for VPN users. Don't allow p2p downloading of media.
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| − | * '''pdfjs.disabled''' ''TRUE'' - Don't run javascript within the builtin pdf viewer.
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| − | * '''reader.parse-on-load.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - disable "reader view".
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| − | * '''browser.pocket.enabled''' (or '''extensions.pocket.enabled''') ''FALSE'' - disable pocket.
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| − | * '''network.http.speculative-parallel-limit''' ''0'' - don't create connections to links [http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/08/14/2321202/how-to-quash-firefoxs-silent-requests you only hover over].
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| − | * '''dom.push.connection.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Disable push notifications (FF44+).
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| − | * '''dom.push.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - (as above).
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| − | * '''dom.webnotifications.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - (as above).
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| − | * '''dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - (as above).
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| − | * '''loop.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - Disable loop/conversation calling features.
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| − | * '''browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete''' ''FALSE'' - Disables the "Search With" popup when typing into the location bar.
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| − | * '''media.ffmpeg.enabled''' ''FALSE'' (linux only as of FF44) - Disable mp4 playback through ffmpeg, to stop ffmpeg bugs breaking your firefox.
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| − | * '''media.eme.apiVisible''' ''FALSE'' - Stops pages from using a JavaScript library for DRM (Digital Rights Management/
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| − | Digital Restrictions Management) in html video.
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| − | * '''media.eme.enabled''' ''FALSE'' - (as above).
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| − | For a privacy conscious user.js, study https://github.com/crisbrm/user.js for a user.js that comes with minimal breakage, or https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js for one with even more emphasis on security (occasionally at the cost of functionality, like when you completely disable DOM storage, for instance), and less emphasis on blending in.
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| − | To compare a myriad of privacy-conscious user.js files, use [https://github.com/jm42 jm42's] [https://jm42.github.io/compare-user.js/ compare-user.js]
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| − | == External links ==
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| − | * [https://github.com/CrisBRM/user.js Panopticlick compliant guide]
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| − | * [http://www.logicalincrements.com/firefox/ Falcon's Firefox /g/uide.]
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| − | * [https://gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/addons.html A list of free software add-ons compiled by the GNU Project.]
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| − | [[Category:HowTo]]
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| − | [[Category:Recommendations]]
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