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https://github.com/Narga/user.js

NARGA customized preferences to Enhance Firefox Productivity - user.js
https://github.com/Narga/user.js

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## user.js

NARGA customized preferences to Enhance Firefox Productivity - user.js



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This is personaly [NARGA Firefox's tweaks](http://www.narga.net/ultimate-guide-tweaks-enhance-firefox-productivity/) which focusing on debloated, speed, performance UI/UX, and more to enhance Firefox's productivity with some tweaks, disabling or removing unnecessary features, component, bloatware as well.



Unlike other similar projects, I built it by myself with my opinions, so may be all of these configuration is not best for you.



So, most important of all: *use your brain*, **don't just copy & past**



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## Installation

- Copy then past the `user.js` file into your Firefox's profile folder (you can find the path of your profile folder via about:support).

- Restart your firefox to apply these tweaks.



## TODO

- [x] Arrange tweaks, settings in category with notes.

- [ ] Focusing on perfomance and privacy/security



## Source to know

Here are some resource that I've using in this collection of tweaks.

- pyllyukko's [user.js](https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js)

- [firefox-debloat](https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat)

- There are a lot of `user.js` with multi purpose goals, I recommend [compare-user.js](https://github.com/jm42/compare-user.js) to get the best settings for your `user.js` file.

- To start a fresh new Firefox profile, why don't you trying [profile-maker](https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker) to create Firefox profile with good defaults.



## What does it do?

Here are some of the *highlights* from each category. For a full list of settings and references, check the `user.js` file itself.



### Firefox features

- Remove DRM media playback (Encrypted Media Extensions - EME)

- Disable Firefox Hello

- Disable Pocket intergration

- Disable built-in PDF viewer

- Disable HTML5 DOM local storage

- Enabled IndexedDB

- Disable Speed recognition

- Disable getUserMedia screen sharing

- Diasble sensor API

- Disable HTML5 pings

- Disable gamepad input

- Disable virtual devices

- Disable web notification services

- Disable webGL

- Disable face detection

- Disable Gnome Shell Integration

- Enable Click to Play feature

- Disable SVG OpenType fonts rendering ability

- Disable Share feature

- Disable "Snippets" (Mozilla content shown on about:home screen)



### Network Performance

- Enable Pipelining

- Tweak content timer-based reflows

- Decrease the waiting time before first displaying the page (default 250)

- Disable link prefetching

- Improve page load time by performing overhead for connections

- Enable Search suggestions

- Disable SSDP

- Disable support openh264 codec for peer-to-peer video when disable Hello

- Stop predictive connections to sites when the user hovers their mouse over thumbnails on the New Tab Page

- Disable Auto-update checking



### Firefox Performance

- Relocate cache to RAM

- Enabled HTTP Cache to get rid of most UI lags and other browser slowness issues

- Show full URLs in the address bar

- Get rid of the useless/redundant "Visit (site)" and "(keyword) - search with (engine)" dropdown in the URL bar (since FF43)

- Load searches from right-click context menu in background tab

- Remove "(site) is now fullscreen" nag message

- Disable tab animation

- Prevent sites from disabling the default right-click menu

- Prevent sites/popups from messing with certain UI elements

- De-crap new tab page, get rid of "directory tiles" ads

- Disable (broken) auto-scrolling via middle-click



### Privacy & Security

- Disable Google Safe Browsing

- Disable Block Reported Attack Sites

- Disable Safe Browsing remote lookups fore downloaded files.

- Stop Firefox stats collecting

- Disable Telemetry

- Enable Tracking Protection

- Prevent WebRTC leaks real IP

- Disable Gelocation & Geotargeting detect

- Don't reveal internal IP

- Stop getUserMedia

- Disable sending of the health report

- Disable New Tab tile ads & preload

- Disable Heartbeat



### Development Tool

- Enable eyedropper

- Use dark theme



### Plugins & Extensions

- Allow install unsigned addons

- Disable plugins & addons phone-home

- Opt-out of add-on metadata updates

- Update addons automatically

- Enable blocked addons

- Disable flash and get rid of missing flash plugin