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Screw you Mozilla
(lemmy.nz)
If this isn't a targetted advert in my browser, I don't know what is.
And here's where you turn it off:
anyone know the about:config value key?
edit: found it. Set
browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.allto false. For anyone not using user.js, I highly recommend it. It means you only ever have to find these settings once. I keep mine in a git repo so it's easy to transport between machines.Can you expand on user.js.
Is that the arkenfox user profile? How do you upload it? How often is it updated?
Sure. User.js is a file you can add in your Firefox profile directory which gets loaded each time Firefox starts.
Pretty good documentation here: https://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
The arkenfox one is a fully loaded pro-privacy user.js made by some knowledgeable people. I did use that one for my initial version iirc: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/master/user.js
How often do I update it? Just when mozilla rolls out a new feature I don't like. I commit it to my repo, that way I easily take my settings to each different machine. You cannot change every FF setting with that file, but you can change the majority of them.
So two things: basically install user.js and forget it (except changing minor settings you want).
What about recommended extesnsions. It just says minimize extensions (which is a good policy), but which extensions are recommended to use with it.
Are there certain privacy extensions that are redundant because of it?
I understand I may be asking things outside of your purview, but I am curious how does this work.
Interesting enough, if I visit a fingerprinting site such as kuber.studio/cookie, it still recognizes me as a visitor, even with user.js.
Yeah, I'm not a privacy expert. And I didn't ever think of user.js as privacy protection personally. I use it to turn off AI and other things that annoy me. Privacy-wise I use OBO and few others. The arkenfox settings I used as a basis but I removed anything that wasn't ai related or that I didn't understand.
I think the main protection I'm looking for at the moment is fingerprinting protection. ON their site they do claim that, but there isn't much info (at least that I can understand about that).
Okay, that is a different topic in my mind. User.js is about settings. The settings it impacts can be anything. You may want to try librewolf if privacy is your focus.
You can, that's easily found and the point of the post. I don't want to do that on four machines every time I end up needing to reset Firefox