3 Ways to Fortify Your Firefox Browser

Tired of being tracked on the web? Firefox offers a host of privacy settings that you can tweak for maximum security.



Chapters:
0:00 An intro
0:23 Fortify your firefox browsing by tweaking the settings
2:45 Hardening firefox with the “about:config” tweak
4:04 Importing an already-hardened firefox profile



What you will learn
1. How to bring Firefox to new heights of privacy using simple tweaks within Firefox’s settings
2. Fortify Your Firefox Browsing by Tweaking the Settings
a. How to uncheck the box for Pages Saved to Pocket
b. How to disable web content from being saved to all of your devices connected with your Firefox account
c. How to block third-party websites from tracking you
d. How to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection
e. How to select Use custom settings for history
f. How to Always use private browsing mode
g. How to make Firefox never save history/autofill data
h. How to removes the accumulative data of your habits to be accessed, tracked, and analyzed by third-parties, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc.
i. How to avoid suggestions popping up when you are typing something in the address bar
j. How to block new requests
k. How to make sure there is minimal interaction between your browser and Mozilla
l. How to stops your browser from sending any telemetry data to Mozilla
m. How to uncheck Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection
n. How to make DuckDuckGo your default search engine instead of Google
o. How to decrease your internet browsing footprint by not sharing your interests with the providers
3. Hardening Firefox With the “About:config” Tweak
a. How to open more advanced security and privacy options hiding under Firefox’s hood
b. How to change values of telemetry
c. How to delete value box content of toolkit.telemetry.server
d. How to permanently disable any transmission of telemetry data between your browser and Mozilla, or anyone else who may be tapping into Mozilla
e. How to disable Mozilla’s studies and test features so that they can’t create a collection of data that you do not want to accumulate
f. How to disable networking prefetching
4. Importing an Already-Hardened Firefox Profile
a. How to override your own Firefox configuration profile
b. How to make a default profile for your Firefox browser
c. How to create a new profile
d. How to make a default profile with all the maximum security measures without manually shifting values for dozens of settings.
5. How to make Firefox into a formidable privacy-enforcing internet browser




Maximum security oriented profile – https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/




















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