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Please Mozilla, don't touch the user.js functionality in Firefox

A bug report opened about nine months ago on Mozilla's Bugzilla bug tracking site for Firefox suggests that the organization could disable reading the user.js file of the Firefox browser by default […]

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Automation comes to the Ghacks user.js configuration for Firefox

The Ghacks user.js configuration file for Firefox contains a list of mostly privacy and security-related preferences for the web browser. Firefox updates may change preferences. Updates may remove preferences, modify them, or […]

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Firefox 56: new preferences and Ghacks user.js changes

Mozilla released Firefox 56 to the release channel a couple of days ago, and this overview provides you with information on new, updated, and removed changes made to the Ghacks user.js file. […]

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Firefox 55: new preferences and Ghacks user.js changes

This guide offers information on changes made to the Firefox 55 preferences, as well as new, deprecated, or removed Ghacks user.js preferences. Mozilla released Firefox 55.0 to the Release channel on August […]

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Control Firefox System Add-ons with the Ghacks user.js file

Some time ago part of development for Firefox shifted from integrating new features and experiments in the core browser directly to using system add-ons for that. Mozilla did integrated Pocket in Firefox […]

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Firefox 54: new preferences and Ghacks user.js changes

This article offers information on changes made to the Firefox 54 preferences, as well as new, deprecated, or removed Ghacks user.js preferences. Mozilla released Firefox 54.0 this week to the Stable channel. […]

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Firefox 53: new preferences and Ghacks-user.js changes

The following article provides you with information on new Firefox 53 preferences, deprecated or removed preferences, and changes to the Ghacks-user.js file for the Firefox web browser. Mozilla released Firefox 53 on […]

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Ghacks user.js goes github

When Pants approached me in 2015 about publishing his Firefox user.js configuration file on Ghacks, I never imagined how far the project would come. Now, 20 months later, the project has made […]

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Ghacks.net Firefox privacy and security user.js 0.11 is out

The most comprehensive Firefox privacy and security settings collection has been updated to version 0.11 to take into account changes in newer versions of Firefox. Ghacks champion Pants created the initial list […]

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The most comprehensive Firefox user.js has been updated

We released a first version of a user.js file for Firefox that concentrated on privacy and security settings back in 2015. It was the most comprehensive undertaking of its kind back then, […]

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The Ghacks user.js Firefox privacy and security list has been updated

We released a privacy and security settings list for the Firefox web browser back in August 2015. That list, created by Ghacks reader Pants, has been updated regularly since then. The newest […]

Waterfox G6.0 ships with DNS over Oblivious HTTP support and performance optimizations

A new version of Waterfox is now available. The Firefox-based web browser is already available for new and existing users. Waterfox G6.0 introduces a number of new and interesting features. Besides DNS […]

Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository

Why Mozilla's decision to remove Bypass Paywalls Clean extension is a wake-up call for internet users everywhere

Bypass Paywalls Clean is a popular extension for Firefox, Chrome, which as the name suggests, circumvents paid subscriptions on popular websites, allowing users to read the content for free. The add-on is […]

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Create custom Firefox installations with Firefox Profilemaker

Firefox Profilemaker is a new online tool that helps you create custom Firefox installations. To be precise, it can be used to customize Firefox profiles, e.g. to block Telemetry, enable Enterprise policies […]

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GoodTwitter 2 is a userscript that restores Twitter's legacy interface

Remember GoodTwitter? It was a very useful add-on that helped users stick to the legacy interface of Twitter. It did so by spoofing the browser's user-agent to an older version, which tricked […]

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Firefox 71: new about:config interface lands

Mozilla plans to launch the redesigned about:config interface in Firefox 71, the next stable version of the web browser. The internal page about:config provides Firefox users with access to an advanced set […]

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How to block Blockadblock manually using uBlock Origin

A few days ago I encountered an issue with a website. It was displaying a "disable your ad blocker" page; this particular site did not provide a choice in this regard as […]

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Firefox CSP Issue may cause extension conflicts

Mozilla Firefox has an issue right now that is causing conflicts if multiple extensions are installed that modify CSP headers on visited sites. CSP, which stands for Content Security Policy, is a […]

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Your Firefox extensions are all disabled? That's a bug!

Some Firefox users started to notice that installed browser extensions were all disabled in the web browser suddenly. Extensions would display "could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been […]

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Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

Librefox is an open source project designed to provide anyone with a copy of the Firefox browser that comes with privacy and security enhancements included. Librefox is not a fork of Firefox […]

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Can you use the Tor Browser without Tor connection?

Tor Browser is a web browser specifically designed for privacy and anonymity. The web browser is a modified version of Firefox ESR that includes privacy tweaks and even some extensions to improve […]

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Browse files of GitHub repositories comfortably

Insight.io for Github is a browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that adds a directory tree structure to Github repositories to browse all files of the repository comfortably. Browsing repositories […]

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Study on the effectiveness of fingerprinting countermeasures

Fingerprinting is a common technique used by sites and organizations either on its own or complementary to track and identify Internet users. Fingerprinting uses two core approaches to assign unique identifiers to […]

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A history of Fingerprinting protection in Firefox

Fingerprinting is a common technique used predominantly by advertising agencies and marketing companies to track people on the Internet. Mozilla introduced the preference privacy.resistFingerprinting in Firefox 41 as part of the Tor […]

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Firefox 59: Referer Path Stripping in Private Browsing

Mozilla plans to strip path information from the referer when visiting third-party sites starting in Firefox 59 Stable. The new feature applies to the browser's private browsing mode only. Web browsers provide […]

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Firefox 57 delays tracking domains

Mozilla implemented a new feature in Firefox 57 that its lead developer calls tailing. Tailing delays the loading of scripts from a list of known tracking domains to improve the page load […]

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A solution to ETAg tracking in Firefox

The ETAg -- entity tag -- is a web cache validation method that web servers use for identifying resources. The core idea behind the feature is to use it to compare resources […]

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Add some window drag space to Firefox

Mozilla modified the interface and design of Firefox 57 significantly; a lot for the better, some things not, or at least not right away. One of the things that you may have […]

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Firefox 58: Mozilla will collect only base Telemetry data (release channel)

Mozilla will change Telemetry collecting in Firefox fundamentally for users on the release channel; in short: only base Telemetry is collected in release channel versions. Traditionally, Mozilla collected two sets of Telemetry […]

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How to deal with Firefox extensions that require cookies

Some Firefox extensions require access to local storage and/or indexedDB, for instance to store data on the user device Firefox runs on. These extensions may break if cookies are blocked. Extensions like […]

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Firefox WebExtensions may be used to identify you on the Internet

All modern web browsers leak extension information to sites if the sites run scripts to pull the information. We talked about the findings of a research term that published its findings recently […]

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Abandoned Firefox add-ons that break can be fixed but not uploaded to AMO

Firefox 55 and the coming Firefox 56 and 57 releases mark an important point in the history of the browser. Mozilla plans to switch off the Firefox legacy add-on system in Firefox […]

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Firefox 48 Release: Find out what is new

Firefox 48 Stable will be released on August 2, 2016 according to the Firefox release schedule. Firefox 48 is a major release that makes add-on signing mandatory on Stable and Beta versions […]

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Tor Privacy settings coming to Firefox

Mozilla works on uplifting privacy settings of the Tor browser project to the Firefox web browser to provide privacy conscious users with additional privacy-related options. While the Tor browser is based on […]

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Firefox Add-on YouTube Unblocker blocked by Mozilla

Mozilla banned the popular Firefox add-on YouTube Unblocker yesterday after it was confirmed that it tampers with Firefox security preferences, and downloads and installs an unrelated add-on from an unofficial website. The […]

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Pref Helper reveals preference names of Firefox options

Pref Helper is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that reveals preference names behind Firefox options. The Firefox Options provide users of the web browser with customization settings. While those […]

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List of Pale Moon specific about:config preferences

The following article lists known preferences of the Pale Moon web browser that are unique to it which means that they are not found in Firefox. Our list of Firefox privacy and […]

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ConfigFox 1.4 update improves search among other things

ConfigFox 1.4 is the first public update of the Firefox advanced configuration manager that introduces new features and improvements across the board. When we created Firefox's extensive list of privacy and security […]

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ConfigFox: manage advanced Firefox privacy and security settings

ConfigFox is a new program for Windows that you can utilize to make advanced privacy and security changes to the Firefox web browser based on our security and privacy list. The program […]

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A comprehensive list of Firefox privacy and security settings

Mozilla Firefox is without doubt the web browser that gives the most control to users in regards to privacy and security. Firefox users find some of those options listed in the graphical […]