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submitted 1 year ago by NickwithaC@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

We've all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago

pocket.enabled to false

First thing I do every clean install

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I need to remember to do this tomorrow.

Just had to entirely do a fresh install like 6 hours ago.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago
[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Just did it now, thanks for reminding me! 😊

[-] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Disables the builtin Pocket extension.

[-] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I looked up "pocket.enabled" in about:config, but there wasn't an entry by that exact name. There was "extensions.pocket.enabled" though. Is that the same?

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[-] memphis@lemmy.fmhy.ml 54 points 1 year ago

Setting full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 removes the notification at the top of the screen that tells you how to exit fullscreen mode.

[-] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago
[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, that's a lot!
Good to have something to read during commute.

[-] lw6352@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me:

browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedOrder: False

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True

dom.popup_maximum: 100

browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True

I use this too. Great feature for tab hoarding keyboard warriors like me. Use Alt/Cmd + 9 to jump to the last tab.

dom.popup_maximum: 100

What does that do?

browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False

Why?

[-] cs127 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

good stuff!

I always do the last one with browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir set to True

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have my default Download dir set to /tmp anyways, which practically also makes the browser do that I believe.

[-] independantiste@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On laptops, I really recommend everyone sets apz.overscroll.enabled to true. It adds the MacOS/iOS overscroll effect when you fling a page fast and you reach the bottom. It does not add any functionnality but it just makes everything so much smoother in my opinion

[-] gon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't change this but it's already True?

[-] independantiste@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think it could maybe be enabled by default in Windows now? Not sure as I haven't used windows in quite some time and when I did I had it enabled manually so maybe it's default now

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[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled -> false
It removes the tab manager. The down facing arrow next to the minimize button at the top right.

extensions.pocket.enabled -> false
Disable Pocket

identity.fxaccounts.enabled -> false
Disable Firefox account

media.autoplay.blocking_policy -> 2
You have to click the play button to play videos.

media.peerconnection.enabled -> false
Disable WebRTC

[-] AnAngryAlpaca@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

The firefox account is actually neat. It syncs bookmarks, history and passwords between desktop, phone, laptop or wherever you use firefox.

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I manually backup my bookmarks. Firefox is set to delete history when I close it. For passwords I use KeePassXC.

[-] mea_rah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It might still be useful to turn it off in some scenarios. For example you might not want firefox bothering you with the account on work PC where it might be against company policy to use the cloud sync.

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[-] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago
  • Mention 5 obscure about:config params to change without explaining them
  • Refuse to elaborate
[-] crowseye@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

hello brother

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

What do browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled and media.peerconnection.enabled do?

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

media.peerconnection.enabled it disable WebRTC.

browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled it removes the tab manager. The down facing arrow next to the minimize button at the top right.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

media.peerconnection.enabled it disable WebRTC.

Why would you want that? Doesn't that block you from using basically any online call?

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't do online calls. Yes, it does block you from making online calls.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And why would you want that disabled besides not requiring it?

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

WebRTC leaks your IP allowing third-party websites to exploit the WebRTC in your browser to detect your real IP address and use it to identify you.

You still can use desktop apps to do that.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Why would you want that? Doesn't that block you from using basically any online call?

Personally I have a separate Ungoogled Chromium installation for online calls, since some of those call/conferencing services kick up a fuss when launched inside Firefox ☹️

[-] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

Why not set to 5 for media.autoplay.blocking_policy ?

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[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

browser.self_destruct_shortcut -> disabled

gets me everytime

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

now when you press Ctrl+D it does not self destruct the computer

[-] Neikon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets ⇾ True

to load CSS themes that make Firefox, your Firefox

Here a theme's collection https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

If you're lazy, librewolf is hardened firefox (sometimes it can break sites though)

[-] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I like resistFingerprinting = true but it may be a bit much for some people. You lose some keyboard hotkey capabilities in RES and all your windows always open at a certain size upon relaunch/new window.

[-] Crul@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a slow connection, so privacy.partition.network_state = false was a game changer. It prevents firefox to re-download an image (or video, or whatever) when you open it in a new tab (State Partitioning in Mozilla docs).

Warning: the main goal of State Partitioning is to prevent cross-site tracking, so this option will make that easier. In my case it's worth it and I mitigate that by other means, but you should be aware of it.

[-] lightstream@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled - block sites from preventing you using copy+paste e.g. in email and password fields.

I've only recently started using this one, so ask me again in a couple of months if it solves the issue :] or if it has unwanted side-effects - I know at least it doesn't prevent websites interacting with the clipboard entirely e.g. with a button to click to copy text to the clipboard

[-] eh@nerdbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Not obscure but general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled=true is a must have IMO.

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[-] Fabrik872@apollo.town 5 points 1 year ago

Backspace behavior: 1 something like that. Sets backspace to go to previous page it was once default but it is not anymore

[-] dan@upvote.au 12 points 1 year ago

Browsers changed this because people kept accidentally hitting it. I'm glad it's gone. My mouse has back/forward buttons on the side and I remapped those to go back and forward in browser history.

[-] Fabrik872@apollo.town 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah i think someone might hit it accidentally i think it is a good decition to have it disabled by default but i still like it a lot and it is great to have a way to set it how i like it

[-] emptyother@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Really, its gone? I think I still got the command that disables the back keybind in my user.js file. Now I can remove that line.

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[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I always like to start over with a clean slate. The one that's been with me for about 15 years now is browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab set to false.

[-] Janis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

is there maybe a plugin that can remove all the moz shit mentioned here? i dont want to go through all comments. trimmedurls, pocket and actionbar...hate it.

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