Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy, security, and speed

Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by getcrunk on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:35PM (#36778071)

Does this turn off dns leaking in ff when it doesn’t find a domain.

And does this turn off wasm or web gpu?

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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by kevingadd on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:03PM (#36778358)

For turning off wasm you're probably better off with something like noscript or umatrix, turning it off globally will cause mysterious problems with an increasing number of websites

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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by hdjjhhvvhga on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:51PM (#36778891)

This is probably what I would want - I'd prefer to know them and never visit them again except for a chosen few. (Wasm has many legitimate uses and I'm happy it exists but being old enough to see the evolution of the web I'm 100% sure it will be abused also in the ways we have no idea about yet.)

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Re:Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy... by yokoffing on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:42AM (#36786182)

Do you mean DoH? Not everyone uses DoH or even the same DoH provider, so no, it cannot make this change universally for everyone.

You can make DoH strict by adding user_pref("network.trr.mode", 3); to your user.js. Or you can also go to about:config in the address bar, searching for network.trr.mode, and changing the value to 3.

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