Feeling safer online with Firefox

Re:Feeling safer online with Firefox by hackermailman on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:12AM (#13391874)

FF you first start by looking at their long guide for version control/build instructions http://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.io/en/lates...

Then you make a custom mozconfig file to disable or enable features, or to add your own extensions (ie: windows): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

  ac_add_options --disable-activex  
  ac_add_options --disable-activex-scripting
  ac_add_options --disable-installer
  ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter

You can further abstract this with a mozconfig wrapper https://github.com/ahal/mozconfigwrapper

But I agree, I can't find any documentation what exactly every feature is and why you would not want to disable/enable them. The Chromium build process is much more straight forward, or you could just use 3rd party sandbox and regular release FF.

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Re:Feeling safer online with Firefox by mintplant on Friday January 13, 2017 @11:30AM (#13392099)

Your first link is misleading because it's targeted toward onboarding new Firefox contributors and includes a Mercurial tutorial and development workflow guide in addition to build instructions. Simple build instructions are here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

On Linux I clone the source and run "./mach build".

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Re:Feeling safer online with Firefox by hackermailman on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:34PM (#13393269)

Forgot to add there's a really good page around by the Chrome security team detailing all kinds of functions somebody might wish to remove such as dns lookups that expose your IP (the tails/torbrowser design document also has this list)

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Re:Feeling safer online with Firefox by putsteadywere on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:53PM (#13393503)

do you have a link?

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