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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=15931730LOOKING GLASS - the tombstone for Mozilla
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648179Installing 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/278447,986almost 2 years agoMozilla 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-255089138321almost 2 years ago

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox

Changing the configuration2,766over 2 years agoa checklist of things to do with to reduce information leaking to Mozilla, Google and other corporate mastodons
Firefox vulnerabilitiesan up-to-date list of vulnerabilities from US NIST (the official Mozilla list is )
Certificate Patrolan extension to watch out for (MITM) certificate attacks
NoScriptan extension to keep JavaScript activity at a minimum, and protect from cross-site scripting
uBlock Origin47,986almost 2 years agoa lighter-weight adblocker. All custom rules from AdBlock Edge can be imported through the clipboard. Has dynamic filters
uMatrix4,569about 5 years agorequest blocker for advanced fine-grained filtering (blocks cookies, iframes, other types of content). Positively awesome, takes no time to learn
HTTPS Everywherean extension to enforce encrypted protected connections no matter what
GreaseMonkey2,360about 2 years agoa 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 GoogleRemoves Google redirects and exposes "Cached" links
GitHub White NavBar24about 9 years agomakes Github navigation bar white

awesome-firefox / Hardening your Firefox / User script repositories:

GreasyFork
OpenUser.JS

awesome-firefox / Making workflow comfortable

ScrapBook Xan extension for bookmarking and wholesale saving page content for future perusal
LuciFoxan extension for reading e-books in Firefox
SQLite Manager326about 6 years agocreating, reading, updating etc. SQLite databases from within the browser
VimFx1,414over 2 years agoif you have ever wanted to use Vim keyboard shotcuts for browsing in Firefox

awesome-firefox / Restyling well-known sites

Wide GitHub386almost 2 years agofor those who don't like white space
Stylish546over 7 years agoIf 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

LaZagne9,661almost 2 years agorecovers passwords

awesome-firefox / Firefox clones/forks

PaleMoonGitHub repo is called
IceCata GNUish fork which unfortunately lags behind FF at the moment
Mozilla Build Instructionsthe dev environment is huge
Linux build pre-requisites

awesome-firefox / Where to look for other awesome lists

awesome-awesome2,844about 2 years ago
awesome-awesomeness32,173over 2 years ago
sindresorhus/awesome337,709almost 2 years ago
freshcodea re-incarnation of Freshmeat, a directory of open-source/free software, with update notifications available

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