Add an advanced settings page

• Introduce more customization options in the Librefox, possibly via a cooperation with CustomCSSforFx (Classic Theme Restorer).

• Something similar to chrome://flags or equivalent

• Enterprise policies (similar to enterprise-policy-generator)

• Also have a look at https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker this could be helpful

• mozilla.cfg and policy over a setting page

• Include https://ffprofile.com/ ?

• Include https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/39

• Include https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/53

• Develop an easy to use firewall system for extensions (button/hosts/allow/deny/per-addon)

• Take in consideration advanced users that want to have a hardened browser by default

[samuel8941]

I think it would be a good idea to use the ffprofile standard configuration and take it as the foundation for the default librefox profile within advanced settings. It should break almost nothing while taking away the bloat, adware, telemetry, etc.

A couple of privacy tweeks in ffprofile will probably break something and should be deactivated.

The important part I think is to start with few changes and then carefully evaluating changes. The biggest value of Librefox is already achieved with the easiest and most benign changes: No telemetry, no adware, no annoyances.

That’s probably what 90% of the future Librefox users want, and when offering a browser the most important thing is what users want, not what a couple of privacy nerds like. Average privacy-minded users will never use Librefox if it breaks casual browsing. A single bad config is enough to break the project.

Librefox can offer a home for privacy nerds, but they will have to tweak things. And that is what those people want by the way. Those Tech-savvy users will never use a browser that is ready-to-go.

This means a maximum hardened firefox will basically have no target group, and thus no users.

Extra Privacy and Security, while important, need to be worked out carefully, and, most importantly, they do not target the majority of users. It should be an extra.

I do think that the main value of Librefox is not in the privacy and security configs but in simply taking away mozilla code that bothers users, and cut connections to remote servers, where possible. That’s almost all that’s needed to increase privacy significantly. And luckily it doesn’t take much work to achieve.

The standard ghacks user.js can and should be included as a second Librefox profile, but there is no need for changing it. This is what a power users actually wants to do - when Librefox undertakes this fine tuning in the name of the user, then the browser will actually repel the power users. They do want to create “their own browser”.

Yes, it would actually be counterproductive to work on a “perfect config”. It’s like solving a 10000-piece puzzle with lots of effort and then trying to sell the finished puzzle to puzzle-lovers.

The default Mozilla Firefox profile can be an option for users also.

On a sidenote, very important settings like referer policy, privacy.resistfingerprinting and firstparty isolation probably deserve their own place in the main firefox privacy menu.

I think the focus of Librefox shouldn’t be in providing a “perfect user.js”, and #53 shows that it’s almost impossible to achieve without downsides and endless work hours wasted, and frustrated users. Librefox can give users complete control over the configs via advanced settings and let them experiment.

Different configs can be introduced as profiles any time, but I think the basic benefit over standard firefox would be the availability via advanced settings itself, which gives non-technical users the ability to control the configs.

When thinking about the default profile, “No telemetry, no adware, no annoyances” would be a good guidance imho.

[samuel8941]

suggestions:

• keep the basic mozilla firefox design principles (where possible) for user experience consistency and easier adaption to updates
• merge configs into easy-to-understand settings (this will probably be most of the work, ffprofile has already attempted something similar, build on top of that)
• provide different librefox profiles for different purposes
• provide a default focusing on usability
• some form of differentiation when setting deviates from the default, e.g. font-weight: bold (relative to the chosen profile)

quick UI mock up