desktop_user.js/README.md

## user.js | Firefox, Firefox ESR and Firefox Nightly.
A `user.js` file for configuring and hardening Desktop Firefox privacy.

Concretely, this is a fork from the [arkenfox](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js) project:


## 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.
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.

However, 2 connections could not be blocked anymore:
* firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
* content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

So you will have to include them to the host list of your OS.

## Adding new search engines

Installing new search engines from mycroftproject.com web is not working. Besides, they have embedded Google analytic trackers recently.
Follow this guide instead:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox#w_add-a-search-engine-from-the-address-bar

## Thanks:

I really thank the following authors:

* [Arkenfox] (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js) - The majority of this user.js and updates.
* [Quindecim] (https://git.nixnet.xyz/quindecim/mobile_user.js) - Some unique strings.