Hagan's Firefox and Pale Moon Setup Guide (List Only) See: http://www.haganfox.net/Main/FirefoxSetup PREFERENCES/OPTIONS ---------- GENERAL Set home page to about:logo (or about:blank) Optional: Always check if Firefox is the default browser. Save files to Downloads. (Windows only) Check Show tab previews... SEARCH Change the default search engine Uncheck "Provide search suggestions" CONTENT (Optional) Advanced - Minimum font size: <one size smaller than monospace font's size> APPLICATIONS Set "mailto" to "always ask" (or appropriate) PRIVACY Tracking manage your Do Not Track settings Always apply Do Not Track History Use customs settings for history Keep cookies until I close Firefox Clear history when Firefox closes SECURITY Uncheck Remember passwords for sites. ADVANCED General Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload Data Choices Uncheck Enable Firefox Health Report Uncheck Allow Firefox to send backlogged crash reports ESSENTIAL EXTENSIONS (Ctrl-Shift-A) ---------- uBlock Origin No settings changes Self-Destructing Cookies Grace Period 90 seconds Clear cache when idle 30 minutes Disable Hello, Pocket & Reader+ No settings changes Canvas Fingerprint Blocker In Pale Moon, set canvas.poisondata to true INTERMEDIATE EXTENSIONS ---------- HTTPS-Anywhere For Pale Moon: Encrypted Web DecentralEyes QuickJava or FlashDisable FlashDisable settings: Reload current tab on Flash activation Disable Flash on Firefox startup QuickJava Settings: Inxlude In Favorites whichever are installed Java, Flash, Silverlight On Initial Load (for each): Off User Agent Overrider (Optional) Preferences -> Edit the strings list (substitued current FF release) Windows / Firefox 51: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Linux / Firefox 51: Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Linux / Firefox 51: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Ubuntu / Firefox 51: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Fedora / Firefox 51: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 macOS / Firefox 51: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 For Pale Moon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/user-agent-overrider/versions/ ADVANCED EXTENSIONS ---------- NoScript Request Policy OPTIONAL EXTENSIONS ----------------------- Context Search WebToPDF Zoom Page (For seniors, Hi-DPI users) Pale Moon Commander (For Pale Moon tinkerers) Plugins ---------- Set as many as possible to Never Activate (or remove the app). Especially: Java, QuickTime Then set as many as possible to Always Ask. Plugin Checkup: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ CONFIG PAGE - ESSENTIAL ---------- Geolocation Search for: geo. (<-- geo<dot>) Set geo.enabled to false Delete the contents of geo.wifi.uri Pre-Connections and Prefetching Search for: specu Set network.http.speculative.parallel.limit to 0 Search for: disablep Set network.dns.disablePrefetch to true Feedback-collection Search for: selfs Delete the contents of browser.selfsupport.url. Health Reporter and Telemetry Search for submissione Set datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled to false Search for report.u Set datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled to false Search for service.e Set datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled to false Search for reporter.e Set dom.ipc.plugins.flash.subprocess.crashreporter.enabled to false Search for imgu Delete the contents of devtools.gcli.imgurUploadURL Delete the contents of devtools.gcli.imgurClientID Search for clienti Delete the contents of toolkit.telemetry.cachedClientID Clipboard Search for: clipboarde Set dom.events.clipboardevents.enabled to true Fingerprinting Search for batt Set dom.battery.enabled to false Search for senso Set device.sensors.enabled false Face Detection Search for face_ Set camera.control.face_detection.enabled to false New-Tab Targeted Ads Firefox Search for: newtab Set browser.newtab.preload to false Delete the contents of browser.newtabpage.directory.ping Delete the contents of browser.newtabpage.directory.source Set browser.newtabpage.enabled to false Set browser.newtabpage.enhanced to false Pale Moon Search for: browser.newtab.url Change it to about:logopage Anti-canvas-fingerprinting (Pale Moon only) Search for canvas.p Set canvas.poisondata to true CONFIG PAGE - INTERMEDIATE ---------- Block Auto-Refresh (Missing setting in Pale Moon) Search for: blockautorefresh Set accessibility.blockautorefresh to false CONFIG PAGE - ADVANCED ---------- HTTP-Referer Trimming Search for referer.trim Set http.referer.trimmingPolicy to 1 0-> full URI (default). 1-> scheme, host, port and path (GET params trimmed) 2-> scheme, host and port. (path and GET params trimmed) FINISHING TOUCHES ---------- Search Engines Add SSL Search Bar addons, then delete non-SSL ones & rearrange https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/collections/sslsearch/ssl-search-bar-add-ons/ Set default to StartPage Location Bar Buttons Add Subscribe button Bookmarks Show the Bookmarks Toolbar Alt-v -> Toolbars -> Check Bookmarks Toolbar