Mozilla has gone SJW evil and Firefox is ever more quickly running down the drain. With financial backing from George Soros, future versions of Firefox can be expected have propaganda, spyware and thought policing (two-way censorship) all built in!
This thread is for those nutters who stubbornly remain loyal to the brand. Let's talk about how to sanitize a new installation of Firefox to make it as privacy and freedom friendly as possible. Don't derail by talking about other browsers please, thanks.
Here's my list, post yours:
1. Install an old ESR version from Mozilla FTP. [Sidestep future SJW fuckery.] 2. Install uBlock Origin addon. [Block ads.] 3. Install uMatrix addon. [Block scripts, cookies and more.] 4. Disable automatic updates for browser. [Sidestep future SJW fuckery.] 5. Disable health report and telemetry. [You are not a product.] 6. Disable "Block reported attack sites + web forgeries". [Google doesn't need to know when you go online, neither can they be trusted to blacklist only malware sites.] 7. Switch search engine default to DuckDuckGo, ixquick or searx. [Sidestep Google SJW fuckery.] 8. about:config->media.peerconnection.enabled=false [Block WebRTC internal IP leak.]
Better install IceCat, which is ESR but with privacy in mind. You're using a Linux distro, right?
Privacy Settings should be a recommended addon, it lets you visualize each of those about:config options about security, and with a little explanation of what it is.
Carson Bell
Not new. I want source about this or it didin't happen. It already has It's removed in icecat. Already began some time ago. Install Icecat Icecat is still firefox :p
Bad idea because of the lack of security fix Good idea, just remember to go in the options and select the list on the third party filter. Correction uMatrix is a web-browser firewall. To make it the most efficient you need to use a white-list policy see these rules: https-strict: * true https-strict: behind-the-scene true matrix-off: about-scheme true matrix-off: addons.about-scheme true matrix-off: behind-the-scene true matrix-off: chrome-extension-scheme true matrix-off: chrome-scheme true matrix-off: localhost true matrix-off: opera-scheme true referrer-spoof: * true referrer-spoof: behind-the-scene true ua-spoof: * true ua-spoof: behind-the-scene true * * * block * * cookie block * * frame block * * media block * * other block * * script block * * xhr block * 1st-party * allow Good idea if you are on a MS platform. Again good idea. Still a good thing but you need to go in the about:config to remove the auto update bullshit that you can't deactivate in the GUI search for the word "safebrowsing" in the about:config and you'll get loads of shit. m8 if you are going to use DuckDuckGo or ixquick just use searx you can make request from searx to DuckDuckGo and ixquick. github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances Just go in the preferences and you'll have almost any search engine. You can do this from µblock origin it's in the options Also you should disable CSS beacons. Change the value to false like this: beacon.enabled;false
One should check also what random-agent-spoofer did because besides spoofing the user agent they could change loads of other privacy options. github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
Carter Diaz
Mozilla is retarded, but nothing prevents you from using secure forks and plugins or making them yourself. Good tips though, uMatrix should be mandatory in any decent browser.
Dylan Wood
And people wonder why they are going in the direction of a chrome clone when everyone who uses the browser disables statistics that they use to influence the future of the browser.
Isaiah Butler
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Elijah Cox
Not an argument.
Christopher Foster
Can people who don't know what they're talking about stop making threads? This is literally a retard advising you to install an outdated browser.
media.peerconnection doesn't even handle webRTC you retard, loop.enabled does.
Colton Miller
Don't shill so hard. If Mozilla actually cared about what the users want there are much better ways to find out, such as polls, forums or even comment sections on their putrid blogs.
Tell me, did they introduce Australis because people were disabling health reports? Was it because people asked them to make Firefox look more like Chrome? No, they did it because they didn't give a fuck what the established userbase wanted as long as there was a chance to attract newbies. Again, don't shill so hard for Mozilla.
Luis Bennett
There's a difference between spying and anonymous usage metrics. Or are you going to tell me youbarent using Tor in your infinite wisdom?
