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🦊 ffox_profile_tools 🐧

firefox profiles with security presets & userchrome styles

Summary

The purpose of this project is to provide a way to create new firefox profiles with security & privacy settings already preset.

It also includes some style customizations using userChrome.css.

Usage

Clone this repo and copy the files somewhere accessible.

You can then rename/copy the script to the profile name required (script filename = profile name).

Optionally you may also want to change the profile_folder variable (default is $HOME/.ffox_profiles)

Features

Creation of new profiles with:

  • Security & Privacy Related Settings Pre-Set
  • Find At Top Of Screen
  • RAM Caching Enabled
  • Sandbox Check (user namespaces kernel setting)
  • Auto Update Profile Preferences
  • Bookmark Bar Spacing
  • Disable Ugly urlbar Zoom (firefox >75)
  • Disable Ugly Drop Shadow On Search
  • Disable Search Suggestions
  • Disable Sponsored Suggestions
  • Restore Old Square Tabs
  • Smaller Tab Density
  • Cleaner Image Context Menu
  • Smaller Bookmark Menu Spacing

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userChrome Comparison

Here is a comparison to show the changes made with the userChrome styles.

Firefox Default

Firefox userChrome Applied

Short Changelog

# 19-05-2015 -  initial script with tweaks
# ref: https://equk.co.uk/2015/05/19/firefox-scripts/
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# 06-06-2015 -  disable pocket (bundled with firefox)
# 08-09-2018 -  added userChrome.css
# ref: https://equk.co.uk/2018/09/12/firefox-profile-tools/
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# 08-04-2019 -  added Enable U2F (FIDO) Authentication
# 11-09-2019 -  disable centralized DNS queries DNS-over-HTTPS to cloudflare
# 02-06-2020 -  Fix Ugly urlbar Zoom (firefox >75) to userChrome
# 16-09-2020 -  Disable Pocket Recommendations on New Tabs
# 16-10-2020 -  Feature - Auto Update Profile Preferences
# 16-10-2020 -  Anti Tracking urlbar Prefs
# 09-11-2021 -  Bookmark Menu Spacing
# 24-03-2023 -  Disable Firefox Suggest
# 27-03-2023 -  Restore Old Look With Square Tabs

Mozilla References

MozillaWiki

Security/Sandbox - Mozilla Wiki

Garf's blog: Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60