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## user.js | Firefox, Firefox ESR and Firefox Nightly.
A `user.js` file for configuring and hardening 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 is not working.
Follow this guide instead:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
## 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.