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

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[–] 62 points 3 years ago (4 children)

pocket.enabled to false

First thing I do every clean install

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Thanks, I need to remember to do this tomorrow.

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

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    [–] 52 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    For me:

    browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedOrder: False

    browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True

    dom.popup_maximum: 100

    browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years 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?

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    [–] 24 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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

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    [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    media.peerconnection.enabled it disable WebRTC.

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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 ☹️

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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago*

    toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets ⇾ True

    to load CSS themes that make Firefox, your Firefox

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

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    browser.self_destruct_shortcut -> disabled

    gets me everytime

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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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