[HN Gopher] Firefox Profilemaker
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Firefox Profilemaker
Author : KubikPixel
Score : 68 points
Date : 2021-12-18 14:37 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ffprofile.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (ffprofile.com)
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Sadly the site is nearly unusable on Firefox mobile
| Someone1234 wrote:
| I like it design wise, but like a lot of these "de-clutter" tools
| it defaults to disabling security features without warning and
| will break some sites while making _most_ sites slower. Plus it
| ironically installs a bunch of browser addons.
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| So if you hit next, next, next you'll lose: Google Safebrowsing
| (security), malware scan (security), DNS over HTTPS (security and
| sometimes functionality), Automatic Browser Updates, access to
| content that requires Widevine, all third-party cookies-based
| authentication, anything that relies on referers, anything that
| relies on IndexDB, anything that relies on extended session info,
| anything that uses WebGL or WebRTC or WebAudio, et al.
|
| As I said, I like the design, but the current defaults get 0/10
| from me. Simply awful. If use the default profile here your
| browsing experience will be objectively worse and less secure.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| It's making trade-offs, and differently than the Mozilla
| defaults. Google Safebrowsing reduces privacy (not because of
| the content, but because it says "hi Google, I'm running
| Firefox at this IP address"), DNS over HTTPS happily sends all
| your DNS queries to Cloudflare (and since we're arguing over
| functionality, breaks some split-horizon DNS), Widevine is
| blatantly anti-user, third-party cookies are a privacy problem,
| referers are a privacy problem, ... oh, actually the rest of
| your list from there is all privacy issues.
|
| Anyways, the people who made this would say that Mozilla's
| current defaults get 0/10 from them and are simply awful, and
| that using them means your browsing experience will be
| objectively worse and less private.
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| And on the other hand one of the biggest annoyances of the web
| - autoplaying videos - is enabled by default! Clearly shows
| that you cannot please everyone with your defaults, no matter
| how hard you try.
| atoav wrote:
| Afaik the way autoplay works is that if it is on, it does
| only autoplay videos without sound. This can be useful for
| looping video backgrounds, memes and such. If they want audio
| too, autoplay does not work (not even if you try to manually
| trigger it via js).
|
| In my eyes (browser-configurable) autoplay without sound is
| an acceptable use case. Autoplay with sound is not.
| franga2000 wrote:
| Autoplay with sound is a perfectly legitimate use case, but
| I agree with the status quo that it should not be allowed
| by default.
|
| In general, the "not an acceptable use case" argument is
| almost always a harmful distraction - it angers people with
| legitimate use cases and that in turn gives fuel to those
| supporting it only for their own harmful use-cases. Call it
| what it is - a useful feature that happens to be commonly
| abused.
|
| s/autoplay/cookies/g, etc.
| VTimofeenko wrote:
| Very interesting, I have been looking for a tool like this for a
| while. Probably it would be possible to combine this with
| something like home manager to manage the Firefox config along
| the rest of user settings from a single place.
| wackget wrote:
| This is great but it's also enormously depressing that there is
| such a massive amount of crap you have to do to have a reasonably
| private/secure/frictionless web browser these days.
| GNOMES wrote:
| Wizard is cool, but would love if this also included the
| GUI/about:config option to make this change.
| nerdponx wrote:
| So does this let me actually use the "multiple profiles" Firefox
| feature? I was always so confused by Firefox having "profiles"
| but apparently no interface for using or switching among them.
| newhotelowner wrote:
| I use multiple profiles for NSFW stuff.
|
| I just go to about:profiles, and click on Launch profile in new
| browser.
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| I can use incognito mode, but this way I don't have to login,
| and keeps browsing history.
| Arkanosis wrote:
| Use `firefox -ProfileManager --no-remote` to get the profile
| selection dialog on startup.
| deft wrote:
| Launch firefox with the -p flag and you'll have a profile
| interface.
| user764743 wrote:
| This is great although some of the add-ons they suggest are
| either redundant or no longer supported like uMatrix. Since it's
| also now an option in Firefox settings you no longer need HTTPS
| Everywhere and Privacy Badger is useless if you have Ublock
| Origin. Also if you use Resist Fingerprinting, Canvas Blocker
| will just mess with your ability to blend in the crowd,
| effectively making your browser more unique than it should be.
| yegle wrote:
| Nit: the preferred abbreviation is Fx or fx, instead of ff. See
| FAQ 8 on https://website-
| archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
| poisonborz wrote:
| No one can decide the preferred usage but the public. Through
| these two decades I hardly ever saw the Fx abbreviation in use.
| contradictioned wrote:
| This is the first time I saw "Fx".
| sharmin123 wrote:
| Let's Say No to FB Hacker Online And Prevent Facebook Hack:
| https://www.hackerslist.co/lets-say-no-to-fb-hacker-online-a...
| momenti wrote:
| You can also enforce most of these settings in all profiles with
| a policy: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates
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