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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 47,504 5 days 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 318 4 days ago

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox
Changing the configuration 2,760 7 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 47,504 5 days ago a lighter-weight adblocker. All custom rules from AdBlock Edge can be imported through the clipboard. Has dynamic filters
uMatrix 4,562 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 2,346 4 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 about 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 325 over 4 years ago creating, reading, updating etc. SQLite databases from within the browser
VimFx 1,416 5 months ago if you have ever wanted to use Vim keyboard shotcuts for browsing in Firefox

awesome-firefox / Restyling well-known sites
Wide GitHub 382 about 1 month ago for those who don't like white space
Stylish 546 over 5 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 9,586 about 1 month 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

awesome-firefox / Where to look for other awesome lists
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