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Firefox

Firefox is a free and open-source web browser.

Configuration

Firefox has many possible settings and precerences. This section addresses possible settings and preferences for specific use cases.

Telemetry

Telemetry is the remote measurement and transmission of data. To change the telemetry of Firefox navigate to about:telemetry and click the options to toggle between enabled and disabled.

Enable/Disable Scrolling

On Linux distributions auto scroll is disabled by default. This means that you cant click the middle mouse button to use it for scrolling. To enable it go into the preferences and check Use autoscrolling.

Enable/Disable Sponsorings

Sponsorings are embedded ads in Firefox. After navigating to about:config enabling and disabling of sponsorings can be done at browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored.

Usage

The following section addresses different uses and add-ons of Firefox.

Compact Mode

In Firefox compact mode is a configuration to make tabs and navigation elements including bookmarks smaller. After navigating to about:config the configuration can be done at browser.compactmode.show.

List of useful Firefox add-ons

Following is a list of useful Firefox add-ons. They can be removed and configured under about:config.

  • Cameleon spoofs your browser profile including user agent and screen size.
  • ClearURLs removes tracking elements from URLs.
  • Dark Reader creates an automatic dark mode for sites without native dark mode.
  • Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you separate cookies in different containers on a per site base. With this add-on a proxy can be selected for each container which enables usage of a VPN proxy.
  • Floccus syncs your bookmarks across devices (supports Nextcloud and WebDAV (ownCloud, etc)).
  • hide-scrollbars hides scrollbars.
  • Never-Consent automatically refuses GDPR consent to a bunch of platforms.
  • NoScript blocks all javascript so that the parts you need can be reenabled and the rest is not used.
  • Privacy Badger blocks unwanted invisible trackers.
  • Privacy Redirect redirects youtube, instagram, twitter, etc to free alternatives or alternative frontends.
  • Sidebery is a sidebar with treestyle tabs and bookmarks.
  • SponsorBlock skips YouTube video sponsors automatically, works with invidious too.
  • Tampermonkey is a userscript manager that can be used to bypass YouTubes age restrictions.
  • Temporary Containers opens tabs and websites, that are not already managed by Firefox Multi-Account Containers in a new container.
  • Tree Style Tab shows tabs like a tree. This is especially useful if many tabs are used.
  • uBlock Origin blocks unwanted content like ads.
  • User-Agent Switcher and Manager spoofs websites that try to gather information about your webbrowser.
  • Vim Vixen enables vim movement for Firefox.

Add a new search engine

You can add a new search engine with the add-on Add custom search engine. Make sure to replace <url to search engine> with the according url.

It is possible to add it without an add-on. Navigate to the search engine and click the ... in the address bar. Then click Add Search Engine