* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
@ 2020-12-26 6:03 ` tibequadorian
2020-12-27 11:04 ` anjandev
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From: tibequadorian @ 2020-12-26 6:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by tibequadorian on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-751322405
Comment:
I believe this is a bad idea because packages should be as close to upstream as possible.
If maintainers consider to add such a package, please do not make it the default.
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* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
2020-12-26 6:03 ` tibequadorian
@ 2020-12-27 11:04 ` anjandev
2020-12-27 11:04 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " anjandev
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From: anjandev @ 2020-12-27 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by anjandev on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-751453776
Comment:
I think that is a good point. I stopped using gnu icecat because the browser was very much out of date when compared to regular firefox. I just tried it out again and icecat is now 78.6.0.
Im closing this issue. If you care about these settings and want to protect your privacy, I recommend just installing gnu icecat.
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* Re: [ISSUE] [CLOSED] Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
2020-12-26 6:03 ` tibequadorian
2020-12-27 11:04 ` anjandev
@ 2020-12-27 11:04 ` anjandev
2021-01-11 11:12 ` Piraty
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From: anjandev @ 2020-12-27 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Closed issue by anjandev on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419
Description:
So firefox's default settings are not the most privacy respecting:
- google is the default search engine
- Firefox studies enabled
- Telemetry enabled
All of these dont affect usability of firefox but they do affect privacy a great deal.
The people over at postmarketos have a `mobile-config-firefox` package that is installed automatically when the user installs firefox.
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox
This package changes alot of those settings to be more privacy respecting and I appreciate not having to dig through settings on every new firefox install to change those settings. The user can of course uninstall this package to get a vanilla firefox experience.
I was wondering if we could take a similar approach to firefox in void linux's repositories.
Thanks for your hard work maintainers!
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* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
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2020-12-27 11:04 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " anjandev
@ 2021-01-11 11:12 ` Piraty
2021-01-11 11:15 ` Piraty
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From: Piraty @ 2021-01-11 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by Piraty on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-757882435
Comment:
as this is something that needs to be applied to the firefox profiles in your homedir, there's not chance Void will touch that.
there are generators for firefox profiles out there (for example: https://ffprofile.com/) that help you do this
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* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
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2021-01-11 11:12 ` Piraty
@ 2021-01-11 11:15 ` Piraty
2021-01-11 13:07 ` q66
2021-01-11 13:09 ` q66
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From: Piraty @ 2021-01-11 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by Piraty on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-757882435
Comment:
~as this is something that needs to be applied to the firefox profiles in your homedir, there's not chance Void will touch that.~ there are indeed system-wide files that are used for profile initialization
there are generators for firefox profiles out there (for example: https://ffprofile.com/) that help you do this
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* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
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2021-01-11 11:15 ` Piraty
@ 2021-01-11 13:07 ` q66
2021-01-11 13:09 ` q66
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From: q66 @ 2021-01-11 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by q66 on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-757940220
Comment:
I think packaging this does not seem too bad, actually
it seems it does not affect ordinary firefox at all and would be something people can just optionally install
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* Re: Default firefox settings
2020-12-25 6:30 [ISSUE] Default firefox settings anjandev
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2021-01-11 13:07 ` q66
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From: q66 @ 2021-01-11 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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New comment by q66 on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27419#issuecomment-757940220
Comment:
I think packaging this does not seem too bad, actually
it seems it does not affect ordinary firefox at all and would be something people can just optionally install
though we could not just take this as is at seems very mobile oriented, we'd want more like just a portion of this
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