@SweX, @imdb, I think there's some internal agenda that's pushing system-addons. Opposition is futile. They'll just say that the "majority" have no problem, blah, blah, blah.
@vasa1 @imdb Yes it seems so. Does any of the people on the following page work at mozilla or are they just discussing things generally ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231202
Hmmm...I use the Privacy Settings add-on, and I noticed this setting under the Advanced tab.... Not sure what counts as "entirely disabled" though. But I will set it to "false" as I am sure it won't have any bad effects
What made you go with "smart HTTPS" instead of HTTPS Everywhere? I'm not questioning your decision, I'm just a noob and am truly curious!
Way too many- 16. Crap. Problem is, to try and prevent as much tracking as possible, so many of them are necessary. UBlock Origin, No Resource URL leak, Canvas Defender, and self-destructing cookies (I suppose I could do without this and have cookies delete on close) are mandatory. I have to have a zoom extension because my screen is 1080p and it sucks having to constantly zoom every page because FF doesnt remember zoom settings. I hate having a titlebar so hide caption titlebar plus... it just goes on and on.
Two reasons 1) HTTPSE was (and i mean from day 1, in 2011) and still is very heavy on resources, both in ram and CPU (open about : performance and see the stats while you open some pages, in Chrome uses 145mg FFS!) Smart HTTPS on the other hand is very light. 2) Smart HTTPS picks the https page automatically and if there isn't one it returns back to Http , with HTTPSE you need to manually add the missing rules, assuming you know which site provide https or not.
Looks good, by why adblock plus instead of Ublock Origin? You might also consider No Resource URI Leak.
Only because I'm used to ABP and haven't got around to trying uBlock O yet. I'll get there one day. Thanks, I'll check out No Resource URI Leak too.
Dropping NoScript?! Hmm, I'm not sure about that. NoScript has protected me more often than Norton in the six years I used it (six years of Norton that is).
From the link: 'Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically whitelisted. Unlike NoScript however, you can easily point-and-click to block/allow scripts on a per-site basis.' I still use NoScript with scripts allowed globally to prevent XSS and clickjacking. But that's just me. Looking forward to the cricket tests.
2--just for security. A frou-frou loaded browser is....a frou-frou loaded browser. Ditched the Adobe plug-in also. Decorations will have to be whatever's on the webpages. Haven't felt the need for anything else offered.
Now only one > Ublock Origin (hard mode) – replaces Noscript and Request Policy (only use Firefox in my distro VMs)
I've installed uBO and looked into this but it is just so complicated that I couldn't be bothered with it. I may keep uBO installed on my low-spec machine because both Firefox and Cyberfox do seem a fair bit quicker, but I'll stick to NoScript.
After being a long time user of NS (and Adblock Plus), personally I found the dynamic filtering of uBO simpler and more intuitive. But OK, each to his own .
