📝 Correction | elaborate on effect of browser tweaks #2347
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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.
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.
This can be done in #2081.
For this it's IMHO the best to use one profile for development and one for normal browsing.
browser.send_pings
isfalse
by default.oh, that's probably the reason why I wrote that one in my "not to tweak" list.
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/
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
ormedia.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?
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 forPart 5
and have been wrecked many times over. Not sure why this takes almost two years