personal-privacy-security-firefox-user.js

Brought to GitHub in hopes of tracking source changes easier.

Personal: Might contain personal edits for my own convenience at the expense of...
Privacy/Security: With no real intention of "blending in".
Firefox user.js: This is a user preferences file!

How to Use

  1. Go to page "about:support"
  2. Under "Application Basics", click the "Show Folder" button next to "Profile Folder".
  3. Copy/Move this user.js file to the resulting directory.
  4. Restart Firefox.
  5. Return to page "about:support"
  6. Confirm the file has been installed correctly by examining the following sections:
  7. Important Modified Preferences: There should be a lot of new entries that correspond to lines from this file.
  8. user.js Preferences: This section might not have existed before, but now does.

Reminder: Merging from Further Upstream

Use the respective *-port/filter branch to only capture differences from the pyllyukko base template.
Then merge into the *-port branch by "translating" the filediff into a user.js file that can be copied straight into trunk master.

Edit History

18 Mar 2016

  • Synched with https://gist.github.com/2cfe333d19adbf03ef7b.git (BytesTuner's gist)
  • Synched with https://gist.github.com/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5.git (haasn's gist)
  • Added note that dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled ; false will break Google Docs copy/paste functionality.
    (Can temporarily re-enabled through about:config)
  • Modify: browser.safebrowsing.*.enabled ; false
    It is advised to use a hosts file instead of depending on Google.
    Even if it appears that you are comparing the current site's hash against a pre-downloaded blacklist, Google can possibly censor sites as "malicious" [citation needed: what do they base these blacklists off of?]. Also, this might possibly reduce exposure to Google.

7 Mar 2016

  • New section: Personal additions
    • + browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction ; 0
      Loads pop-ups as a normal tab (no UI minimisation/restriction)

6 Mar 2016

8 Jan 2016

  • Commented out privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown and related entries
    (I'm a half-arse pleb that likes being able to restore previous sessions.)