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Re:Make Firefox Private Again by yu3zhou4 on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:56AM (#41317832)
Author mentions this: https://web.archive.org/web/20181120211720/https://make-linu...

pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier

Looks like a set of kernel params that turn off security features to speed up the OS. Did anyone test it in practice?

Re:Make Firefox Private Again by perchlorate on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:02AM (#41317880)
Just set mitigations=off if you want this, it's a meta-parameter that enables all the others. I used to run it on old hardware (Haswell) because of significant impact of all those mitigations on IO performance. It's not a problem anymore on my newer Zen 4.

Probably a bad idea in the general case if you work with anything remotely private (ssh keys, banking) and browse the internet routinely. I visit few weird sites and block JS almost everywhere, so it both made sense to me and was relatively safe.