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## user.js | Firefox, Firefox ESR and Firefox Nightly.
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A `user.js` file for configuring and hardening Desktop Firefox privacy (or related forks)
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Concretely, this is a fork from the [arkenfox](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js) project:
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## Goals
* enhance privacy
* improve performance
* better fingerprint possible
* reduce automatic connections to the minimum posible
## Considerations
This user.js is a fork from the arkenfox project with a substantial divergence. It tries to avoid all the automatic connections even though security could be reduced slightly.
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For instance, OSCP is a privacy breach. Nevertheless, it is also a security feature. This user.js disables them as well as safebrowsing, automatic addons connections and so on. You will have to check manually addons updates in the related preferences section.
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However, one connection could not be blocked anymore:
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* firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
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[How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections) (last section)
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So you will have to include it to the host list of your OS.
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## Updating addons
Write about:addons
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Choose Extensions
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Click the icon above on the right (Tools for all add-ons) and Check for updates.
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## Adding new search engines
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Installing new search engines from mycroftproject.com web is not working. Besides, they have embedded Google analytic trackers recently.
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Follow this guide instead:
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[Add a search engine from the address bar](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-a-search-engine-from-the-address-bar)
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## Thanks:
I really thank the following authors:
* [Arkenfox] (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js) - The majority of this user.js and updates.
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* [Quindecim] (https://git.nixnet.xyz/quindecim/mobile_user.js) - Some unique strings.