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Firefox toolkit

A list of resources and tools for securing and customizing Mozilla Firefox

[deprecated since Mozilla turned evil] A list of resources for and about Mozilla Firefox

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NOTE: This list is now deprecated and unmaintained since Mozilla has officially turned evil
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730 LOOKING GLASS - the tombstone for Mozilla
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648179 Installing addons covertly - the beginning
http://technewslog.com/mozilla-plans-to-collect-anonymous-firefox-browsing-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2784 47,986 3 months ago Mozilla is covertly feeding customer data to Google Analytics

NOTE: This list is now deprecated and unmaintained since Mozilla has officially turned evil / Mozilla has systematic deficiencies in vulnerability handling and responsible disclosure
https://lwn.net/Articles/656683
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754199
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issuecomment-255089138 321 4 months ago

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox
Changing the configuration 2,766 11 months ago a checklist of things to do with to reduce information leaking to Mozilla, Google and other corporate mastodons
Firefox vulnerabilities an up-to-date list of vulnerabilities from US NIST (the official Mozilla list is )
Certificate Patrol an extension to watch out for (MITM) certificate attacks
NoScript an extension to keep JavaScript activity at a minimum, and protect from cross-site scripting
uBlock Origin 47,986 3 months ago a lighter-weight adblocker. All custom rules from AdBlock Edge can be imported through the clipboard. Has dynamic filters
uMatrix 4,569 over 3 years ago request blocker for advanced fine-grained filtering (blocks cookies, iframes, other types of content). Positively awesome, takes no time to learn
HTTPS Everywhere an extension to enforce encrypted protected connections no matter what
GreaseMonkey 2,360 8 months ago a versatile extension to rewrite pages on the fly. - official version of GreaseMonkey sends some data to their servers

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox / GreaseMonkey / Useful user scripts (do without reviewing the scripts):
Direct Google Removes Google redirects and exposes "Cached" links
GitHub White NavBar 24 over 7 years ago makes Github navigation bar white

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox / User script repositories:
GreasyFork
OpenUser.JS

awesome-firefox / Making workflow comfortable
ScrapBook X an extension for bookmarking and wholesale saving page content for future perusal
LuciFox an extension for reading e-books in Firefox
SQLite Manager 326 over 4 years ago creating, reading, updating etc. SQLite databases from within the browser
VimFx 1,414 10 months ago if you have ever wanted to use Vim keyboard shotcuts for browsing in Firefox

awesome-firefox / Restyling well-known sites
Wide GitHub 386 5 months ago for those who don't like white space
Stylish 546 almost 6 years ago If you want to restyle site, you don't need any more extensions ( etc.) Simply edit and add it to GreaseMonkey to suit your case

awesome-firefox / Recovering passwords
LaZagne 9,661 5 months ago recovers passwords

awesome-firefox / Firefox clones/forks
PaleMoon GitHub repo is called
IceCat a GNUish fork which unfortunately lags behind FF at the moment
Mozilla Build Instructions the dev environment is huge
Linux build pre-requisites

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