alt Hacker NewsI keep meaning to make a guide "how to make firefox not suck" but I never get around to it.
It's a great browser, but I always forget the default settings are super stupid. Myself and power users all have it customized to the hilt.
It takes some serious work to get a new new FireFox install working nicely.
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Likewise. The main thing I change is enforcing separate address bar and search box. It takes a lot of configuring to make the address bar stop being "smart" (i.e. never send things I type there to a search engine even if they're not valid URLs), and I can't even remember what options I used to fix it.
This. Since Firefox claims to be a privacy-first browser, it should, by default, use the Arkenfox settings (report spoofed values for language, screen size, fonts, and many other attributes that aid fingerprinting), and include uBlock Origin out of the box.
But it should go even further; the ultimate goal should be for all Firefox users to basically look the same from the point of view of third parties and put an end to tracking in the modern Web.
Could you mention some of these settings? I moved to Firefox from being a Chrome user and interested to know improvements
The only things I do with a new copy of Firefox is install uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger and it works quite nicely.
(Oh, and an extension that redirects reddit links to old reddit, and RES)