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📝 Correction | elaborate on effect of browser tweaks

Open imme-emosol opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Description

Add more notes to the browser tweaks.

Why I am making the suggestion

It would be nice to know more about the (side) effects of certain settings. To better determine whether it is a change you want.

My connection with the software

Using the browser for development as well, some changes might have undesirable effects.

  • [x] I will keep the issue up-to-date if something I have said changes or I remember a connection with the software.

imme-emosol avatar Jun 18 '21 10:06 imme-emosol

That would have saved me a lot of time if it existed back in the days :D Here's my list for things, which I didn't tweak with the reason: network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy = 1 --> You can't watch videos on facebook anymore (I know you shouldn't have facebook, some of us still wants it. Also, I suppose Facebook videos are not the only one who will get affected by this) dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false --> You can't copy fotos and paste them in your browser anymore (for sending photos on web.whatsapp.com or pasting it to a website) browser.send_pings = false --> I'm not sure why I didn't tweak this, it broke something but I didn't write it down.

Things may have changed, or I may have wrong conclusions. So this should be checked over again.

youdontneedtoknow22 avatar Jun 18 '21 10:06 youdontneedtoknow22

This can be done in #2081.

Using the browser for development as well, some changes might have undesirable effects.

For this it's IMHO the best to use one profile for development and one for normal browsing.

browser.send_pings = false --> I'm not sure why I didn't tweak this, it broke something but I didn't write it down.

browser.send_pings is false by default.

rusty-snake avatar Jun 18 '21 11:06 rusty-snake

browser.send_pings is false by default.

oh, that's probably the reason why I wrote that one in my "not to tweak" list.

youdontneedtoknow22 avatar Jun 19 '21 22:06 youdontneedtoknow22

Also, privacy.resistfingerprinting seems to affect the dark mode which may be important for some users. We shouldn't make people tweak everything and then hate on firefox for not letting them surf the web as they want. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/ohmbw8/firefox_enabled_privacy_aboutconfig_darkmode_gone/

youdontneedtoknow22 avatar Jul 10 '21 18:07 youdontneedtoknow22

TBH this is the list that don't affect site. All other options (can) affect site. Some only a few sites (e.g. privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled = true or media.eme.enabled = false) and others more sites.

  • browser.send_pings = false
  • browser.urlbar.speculativeConnect.enabled = false
  • browser.sessionstore.privacy_level = 2
  • browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled = false
  • Disable Firefox prefetching pages it thinks you will visit next:
  • network.IDN_show_punycode = true
  • Looking for TRR, DoH or ESNI?

rusty-snake avatar Jul 10 '21 18:07 rusty-snake

This can be done in #2081.

only just over three more months to go to celebrate the 2 year anniversary

This issue is effectively Part 4 of that list. I gave up waiting for Part 5 and have been wrecked many times over. Not sure why this takes almost two years

Thorin-Oakenpants avatar Jul 12 '21 07:07 Thorin-Oakenpants