Privacy and tranquility. If those words means something, then you came at the right place.

Some (really) nice tips & addons for Firefox#

Privacy and tranquility. If those words means something, then you came at the right place :

Search engine#

Open a page on your favorite search engine, like :

Then click on the address bar, and click on the bottom right favicon that got the small "plus" icon ; it will add this search engine to Firefox.

Alternatively, you can use https://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html then search and add the search engine you like ! For instance I use the « Startpage - français (no filter) » search engine. Useful and discrete, as it's not adding my search queries to the address bar.

Preferences#

Some little things I do when using Firefox for the first time... But you can go much deeper (see bellow)

DNS : maximum protection

Deeper privacy protections#

A user.js is a configuration file that can control Firefox settings. The "arkenfox" user.js is a template (see all its options with a nice UI here) which aims to provide as much privacy and enhanced security as possible, and to reduce tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible - while minimizing any loss of functionality and breakage (but it will happen).

Pocket#

Pocket is a mozilla third-party that I don't use, so I'm disabling it

You're done, no more "pocket" entries in the toolbar, ciao.

Toolbar#

Right click on it, customize.

Drag & drop the "Send a link" email icon to the toolbar.

Because it's just cool to email nice URLS to our nice friends, without using any (private) social media or (private) instant messaging. And don't tell me that you or your friend is using Gmail.

Addons party time#

Click on the addon "puzzle" icon, then :

Installation#

Search & add to Firefox :

Also seen the "LibRedirect" extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends. Looks great, but I haven't tested it, yet.

Configuration#

uBlock Origin configuration#

Click on the extension (puzzle) icon on the tool bar, click on uBlock origin, open the dashboard (cogwheel icon), Filter lists tab, Click on "update now".

You can also click on the extension (puzzle) icon on the tool bar, right click on uBlock origin and choose "pin to the toolbar", to see the trackers being blocked for every page.

Click on the extension (puzzle) icon on the tool bar, click on Cookie AutoDelete, parameters, click on "activate automatic cleanup", scroll down, other options, then click on every checkbox to activate cache cleaning, indexedDB cleaning, etc.

Scroll down a little bit and don't forget to disable "display notification after automatic cleanup".

You can also click on the extension (puzzle) icon on the tool bar, right click on Cookie AutoDelete and choose "pin to the toolbar", to see the cookies being blocked (or authorized) for every page.

Privacy Redirect#

I personally do redirect for :

I also use the following instances :

Credits#

The photograph "Firefox" is from Paul Copeland and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

And thanks to SebSauvage for his Firefox essential addons article (french)

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