The First Site to Visit After Installing Firefox 

Firefox should implement a "Click to enable WebGL/Canvas/etc" function tbh. That way it protects against fingerprinting without completely preventing web games and such from running

Watched this video at 12:28 AM started compiling icecat before finishing the video. I was planning to go to bed at 2:00 AM. It's just now done. It's 5:39 AM.

Firefox is meant to be Chrome competitor. If Firefox came with enhanced extra security settings enabled it would cause some inconveniences/changes mainstream user is not used to. It's not an fault at all. If you have any concerns about security, it honestly won't take long to turn Firefox into really robust private browser.

Nothing against, I loved the video, but I was just thinking something: By faking your user agent to the most commonly used browser (Chrome Latest version on Windows 10) you are literally contributing to the argument: "Well most of the internet is chromium/chrome anyway so lets just stop supporting firefox entirely on our website, or leave it to far third place, after safari" Because you are contributing to that usage % of chrome throughout the internet and sites you visit. Its sad, but we should embrace the firefox user agent, to keep its world usage % relevant. I know a lot of people that use firefox, so it's kinda shocking seeing it so low on worldwide % usage. Maybe a of of FF users are just obcessed with security and are faking their user agent? 🤔

Honestly, I love the fact that you don't exclude Windows users from your videos. Thanks.

There is "clone" of Firefox named Librewolf, basically it's firefox but with ripped all controversial firefox shit.

"if you're still using windows" lmao

"posting on image boards that require captcha s" I think we all know the image board you're referring to

The Pocket feature at 0:55 - For someone with ADD that was the worst feature I've ever seen. I pounded the table many times after realizing I'd forgotten why I opened a new tab because something "interesting" caught my eye in pocket.

Instead of clicking open, and just dragging everything into the profile window (2 seconds of work), he takes the terminal route.

Speaking of Firefox not being Chromium-based, my old Computer Science teacher would not even acknowledge it not being Chrome-based. The only evidence he had for it supposedly being Chrome-based was the fact the preferences URL was the same between Chrome and Firefox.

Thank you for this video. It's very informative for a relative normie like me who's still concerned with privacy but doesn't know what any of those things mean.

The issue with spoofing user agent in your config is that it's going to quickly become outdated and you'll standout just as much. The issue with doing it with an extension is that firefox has a major issue, which to my knowledge still hasn't been fixed, where only one extension at a time can modify an outgoing request and if you have multiple extensions doing that, which extension can apply its changes is basically determined by a race condition so very inconsistant.

Bruh honestly captchas make resistfingerprinting not worth it. I've done upwards of 15 captchas to access shit due to that.

Hi. I just switched to firefox after hearing about Manifest V3, and I wasn't expecting to need to do anything outside of giving firefox access to my bookmarks. The process has been a bit confusing for me, I'm sure there's a ton I still don't know, but videos like this have made the switch... actually interesting. It could've been overwhelming, but videos like these make it enjoyable to learn about all the stuff that makes firefox different. So thank you.

I love the canvas blocker utility. I use it to hide the "News"" "Community" and social media share icons - to cater youtube to my liking. Its nice you can just hide annoyances on any site with it, between that and ublock makes for a nice internet experience once again. The only thing doing this prevents that ive found in last 6 months or so is things such as bank websites wont allow login, but you only have to whitelist those sites to prevent that issue

mental outlaw is my favourite vtuber

My mind is blown! Thank you for sharing this. Good to know that there's less hackie ways to protect yourself while browsing.

would have been nice to add these option links in the dscriptions section.

Disable DNS over HTTPS where firefox uses TRR is set to 0 as default. 0 - Off (default). use standard native resolving only (don't use TRR at all) This means that by default the TRR resolver is not used at all so you can untick this. I use the latest firefox in windows 10 and have checked that it is 0 at default

9:35 Bruh Canvas fingerprinting has nothing to do with user agents.

And that's why I always set about:blank as the home page - this little change made my life so much easier and more productive...

Good gravy look at the size of those icons!

I would love to be able to synchronize my Firefox profile kind of how you would do it with an account but do it over something like SSH. I don't need their centralized server to store my account information.

most of those settings (not all) can be accessed by clicking on the Tools menu at the top and going into options, and for extensions i never used Ublock or any other add blocker, i just use NoScript and practically block the internet and break all sites. (manually unbreaking them by adding only certain sites.) so captchas are always broken but unless i really need to, i usually don't go in the site.

Thank You for this tutorial. I find myself too lazy to do the other method of hardening ff.

Man, you're rocks! Thank You for your course !!! I've learned so much!!!

Are there going to be more gentoo/anime crossover memes?

HTTPS Everywhere states that Firefox supports its features now, I imagine somewhere in this site there is a setting to force HTTPS.

I don't like the idea of pretending to use windows because I want people to notice people are using linux.

I realize this is an old vid. Maybe someone will see this comment idk. I'm just wondering how is adopting Firefox a win? Ok, great it doesn't use Chromium. And it's produced by a nonprofit instead of Google. On the other hand, I find it suspicious that they aggressively bundle Pocket (a commercial service) by default, and force users to go on a research expedition and click through a scary warning to disable it. Is this really the behavior of a trustworthy, user-first organization? And why should disabling tracking and telemetry be so complex and difficult it requires a third party config tool? Maybe there's a privacy argument that isn't obvious to me. But at this point it seems like Chromium and Gecko seem equally hostile. But maybe I'm overlooking something. Always willing to learn new info.

Please put links to the resources used in the description or in a pined comment. If there is no link please put a small glossary with the terms that are useful, this is helpful for us non native English speakers.

You're literally the first person to ever aknowledge Vivaldi and I feel validated in my choice.

Decentraleyes is not really kept up to date anymore. Localcdn is better but not that much and tends to break websites (no idea if it's because these websites use an older or newer version of the script)

I just use chameleon with regards to spoofing user agent and OS. It automatically randomly chooses from certain categories of browsers and OSes (including mobile as an option, although it can be a PITA to use mobile ones). Then I also use Canvasblocker to spoof a bunch of fingerprintable features, Then uMatrix and uBlock Origin as a generic script/cookie/image/content blocker. Also I use Decentraleyes, but I think it usually doesn't end up doing much. I guess it works, just operates silently and smoothly in the background without causing problems (much like uBlock Origin usually)

This is amazing. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll pass. I have my own methods. When installing Firefox I usually start by using one of these two approaches: 1. Copy one of my existing profile folders into "profiles", then alter "profiles.ini" to point to that. This synchs *_everything_* , including bookmarks, settings (incl settings customized via "about:config"), passwords, credit cards, about two dozen add-ons, etc, etc, etc. 2. Import selected items via Firefox-Synch (built-in to Firefox), with synch settings set to "everything but settings and add-ons". This approach will grab bookmarks, passwords, and credit cards, but not settings, themes, or add-ons; those have to be done manually. This is for when I want a Firefox installation that differs substantially from my others, for some special purpose. Generally, the four most-important add-ons I always install on *_every_* Firefox installation are these: 1. Ad-Block-Plus (blocks nearly all ads) 2. NoScript (allows fine-grained control over which JS scripts are allowed to run, and I always disallow scripts that send data to Google or Facebook or push ads). 3. NewTabTools (replaces Firefox's ugly, useless, cluttered, garbage-filled NewTab with a clean grid which one can use to launch two dozen or so (depending on how you configure it) most-used web sites) 4. ContainterTabs (segregates cookies to prevent the web sites one visits from committing corporate collusion via cross-site cookies, which, believe me, many sites (especially Flacebrook and Gaggle!!!) do a LOT) So I'm afraid my existing procedures already go way beyond anything done by the "Firefox Profile Maker" site mentioned in this video. About 30 minutes after I install Firefox on any computer, it bears little resemblance to raw Firefox. I never use raw Firefox, any more than I would dump some raw, uncooked, unseasoned meat and veggies on a plate and call it a "meal". No, it's just raw ingredients; takes a half hour of work to make a meal out of it. Same with Firefox. That being said, interesting and informative video, and I think the less-tech-savvy of your viewers will find it an easy way to improve their Firefox.

Every time I install firefox I go to customize and move the bookmarks toolbar to the right side of the address bar then proceeed to hide the bookmarks toolbar space. Then I just remove the title from the sites and use it as a quick way of going to my most used websites.

When I were a Chromium user, whenever I was looking to buy something it took like 2 minutes for all the platforms to start showing me adds of what I was looking for. Since firefox it took like 1 week for platforms to know what I was looking for... And for sure is bekause leaked info on other platforms

Just great! I lost all my passwords and settings changing the profile. It was not worth the trouble!

this is all basically my settings but i have an extensive array of customized addons and userscripts in addition to many about:config settings so I just save my profile and copy it where I need it

I don't even have Chrome installed, but it has the best settings for a default user. Firefox looks just kind of overloaded, if you don't customize it. But Edge is worse, IMO it's one of the best browsers but the default search engine Bing scares people who are not into such stuff, and the News on the front page look like MSN from IE. Protip: If you unpin everything from the Firefox startpage (except search), you have the Firefox logo, and a Firefox sign. I think this should be the default setting.

10:12 dat wallpaper I like

why Firefox consume much of ram?

It is worse than I thought with the privacy-settings of Firefox. Telling a website from which website you came or on which link you click. That is none of their business!

such a handy site. makes me want to try firefox again

Always used firefox, and I do not intend to switch. At work I am forced to use edge for work-integrated stuff, and it is a horrible experience.

Great vid; can you do an update for this for present time?

Definitely close the actually profile browser before deleting the default files and moving the new files in, or firefox will auto generate some new files.

what should i do if i cant log in to google?

0.4% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 For me as well. I use Charmellion add on sometimes to pretend I'm on windows. Thanks for this. I go to ffprofile and change over all my browser profiles.

also one of the browser that crashes more often than any other chromium-based browsers. despite all the claims of fixing memory leaks, they still persist and it's been going on for years with no resolution.

I do all the configurations manually, in Firefox, cause I'm a glutton for punishment,but it's all worth it, I feel in control!

I actually did the "hardened Firefox" which, not gonna lie, is time taking. And besides that, I use some plug-ins to stop websites from getting my data. And finally, my backup browser is Brave Browser.

I do not see disable DNS over HTTPS anywhere in my about:config. Where is it!?!?

The reason firefox still had pocket and stuff in your instance is because you should've closed firefox before deleting the files in the profile's root folder and copied it afterwards.

epiphany aka gnome web isn't bad, but it lacks the ability to deal with DRM or obvious extensions. I suspect because gnome doesn't want you to use extensions on their desktop.

The best browser in the world

when firefox updates how much of this goes away?

One issue I had with Firefox is that some website will give me a Forbidden error if I reject all cookies. And honestly it's infuriating

i have been using firefox for almost twenty years with no problems. you can use what you want and cancel what you don't. it is not that difficult. i run linux only, so firefox is baked in.

7:57 so *THAT'S* why I'm having hard times with recaptcha! I thought it was just my bad luck as usual 😂

Thanks for this video, it's great. But I have a question. When run the test, it still says that I not protected for fingerprinting. But I the information they still get from is for example which GPU card I have. And I followed your steps. Does this have anything to do with the Canvas "enabled"?

Do a video on Pale Moon browser

Thanks for this video!

Kinda neat. But I've stopped tweaking my user.js and just switched to librewolf which handles 95% of that automatically.

1:53 using a privacy focused browser with windows *B r u h*

I was about to say that the user agent string was probably out of date then I looked at the date the video was published.

bro even electron is chromium there is no escape

Maybe the too late quitting of ff saved over the extracted files. Lesson learned better check twice but the recommended options are great.

Firefox is that web browser that each year is worse and I dislike more and more, but as it changes as the same time as chrome, which I dislike even more, I had stuck with Firefox. Just feeling deeply unhappy about web browsers. Unless it's lynx. that one might be a text only browser, but at least it never let me down.

i love my firefox, just like my 128gb of ram getting filled up to 60% from my ridicilous tab hording issue. Not saying this is firefox fault but its certainly funny seeing it in task manager.

10:11 I laughed my ass off when I saw that wallpaper what the fuck why would u do that

I used this to make a new profile to test out, and honestly im disappointed. The about:config settings are largely unaffected it seems and the autoplay blocking still requires manual disabling in the configs, pocket was still showing on the homepage, and a few other things make this slightly annoying. I still have to go into the config and do my usual work to get the browser to not piss me off. I find myself using chromium browsers more and more due to this, seeing as how FF keeps making itself worse per update imo.

A while ago I red on 4chengz that Firefox is a little borked and is permanently writing on the SSD which could destroy it after some time, do you know about this and if yes, is this fixed?

i like this browser but i want the extensions to show up like chrome how can i do that sir

I heard it announced to become chromium based as well. Any update on this ?

One thing chrome destroys Firefox is at extensions. Firefox extensions are scarce and plague with issues.

The only reason i sometimes use chrome is for its lighthouse feature.

Great video! Is this doable on FF Android, or is there a better alternative browser there?

If you fake your UA to be a popular browser, after that browser is updated it will become rare. And as someone else has said that makes FF even lower in stats. HTTPS everywhere is obsolete since FF has a built in feature that does the same, doesn't it? It's enabled by default I think. You deleting the files wouldn't work on Windows because the files would be open.

Not installing uMatrix should come with capital punishment.

4:15 why disabled DNS over HTTPS? Isn't this supposed to be a method for more privacy? I just added a custom provider (Quad9) that I found on PrivacyTools.io. At least, this is what I gathered from your "Secure your DNS queries with Encrypted DNS" video.

So far, the only one easy option to use a really secure Firefox is using a fork. I use Iceweasel from Parabola and find an equivalent of this fork on Windows is a butthurt.

I was going to do this but then it said I have to delete my current profile which will get rid of all my data and I decided it's not worth the trouble.

"Not the best defaults". LOL. Perhaps the understatement of the year. I've been using FF for a long time, but I'm about to dump it. Why? The feature set is actually quite good, but the performance sucks. Don't know why FF always generates a high CPU load on my Debian linux systems. The Mozilla folks of course are in complete denial: "Oh no, can't reproduce it here, must be your system". Ok, then why don't the other browsers exhibit this behavior? Crickets. And I've tried everything: disabling add-ons, safe mode, disabling defaults - nothing helps. I'm not the only one having this problem which seems to have been around for a while yet there are no answers that fix this issue once and for all for everyone that experiences it. Like for any piece of software that malfunctions at some point a fix should be available. At a minimum the Mozilla folks should be more helpful. In the absence of these two FF is just degenerating into abandonware.

Thanks for the video. After the latest chrome CVE ( the freetype CVE ) i switched to firefox and this will be very helpful. Thank You Ken

>Don't use Windows because you have to do a lot of third-party f*ckarounds to make it good >Use Firefox but be sure to perform these third-party f*ckarounds to make it good que

Why does 4chan keep giving me endless reCAPTCHA challenges on the Cloudflare page? I have no fucking idea how to get around this other than using a "private" window in FF or some other browser.

Ive never seen those blog popups

I got pissed with firefox when they pulled some shit with Gab's dissenter, but that crashed and burned (because it was run by torba, a very self-destructive man). I still don't really feel like I can trust the firefox team, but to be frank there aren't really many good alternatives.

Thanks for the links in the description.... ohh wait!

How hard is to download ublock origin?? I will rather jump off the cliff than using chrome

It doesn't work for me except for the add-ons and you also get the pocket icon. I don't think it's turned off.

great, now the stats that count the ammount of people who use linux will count 0, and developers will follow the trend and not support our platform...

How do you feel about Opera??

Yeah I don't even know other useful browsers that aren't chrome

you can disable the pocket articles in settings lol

Did you try Waterfox ? My default for years 😃

Does Lynx support Javascript?