Firefox is NOT private. Here’s how to fix it. (Firefox Hardening)

I bet you thought Mozilla Firefox was a privacy-respecting, secure web browser, right? But by default, Firefox actually has a lot of anti-privacy features and settings enabled. In this video, I’ll show you how you can disable a lot of the cruft that Firefox ships with, as well as turn on a lot of hidden preferences to make your browser even more private. We’ll also compare three popular files, including Betterfox, Arkenfox, and Narsil’s , each with different levels of privacy. After a little bit of configuration, you can finally have the web browser you always dreamed Mozilla would make... Betterfox: Arkenfox: Narsil’s : 🌐 My website: 💸 Support the Channel: 🎥 Watch my videos on Odysee: @ericnmurphy 💻 My GitHub: 0:00 Intro 0:19 Does Mozilla really care about privacy? 2:44 Advanced privacy options 3:08 Mozilla ads and annoyances 3:44 about:config 4:13 What’s a file? 5:36 Installing files 7:41 Making overrides in 8:56 Advanced privacy with Arkenfox 9:57 Arkenfox overrides 10:59 resistFingerprinting or not? 12:59 Arkenfox updater 14:21 What I don’t like about Arkenfox 14:43 Narsil’s 15:14 Google safe browsing or not? 16:42 Which add-ons should you use? 17:37 My recommendation 18:00 What about Librewolf? 18:37 Conclusion
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