Firefox Profile 🦊

Setup

1. Set up repo in a new profile or use an existing one
2. Sign In and Sync Settings → Sync → Choose What To Sync → Change...: Bookmarks, Add-ons, Settings.
3. Customize toolbar
4. Remove default bookmarks-row items
5. Extension configuration…

   • CanvasBlocker
     Preferences → APIs: Disable everything except Canvas and Audio.
   • Terms of Service; Didn't Read
     Preferences: Disable "Send Notifications"
   • Ublock Origin
     Manage: Enable "Run in Private Windows"
   Preferences → Filter lists …
       → Privacy: Enable "ADGuard URL Tracking Protection"
       → Custom → Import: Enter https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt^GitHub
   Apply changes
   • Smart Referer
     Preferences → Whitelist Sources: Disable "Use default whitelist"
   • Sidebery
     Preferences → Help → Import: ./preferences/sidebery.json
   • Chameleon
     Extension Popup → Settings → Import: ./preferences/chameleon.json
   • Forget Me Not
     Extension Popup → Settings → General → Import..: ./preferences/forget-me-not.json
   • Enhancer for YouTube
     Preferences → Backup → Import: ./preferences/enhancer-for-youtube.json
   • Imagus
     Preferences → Info → Import: ./preferences/imagus.json
   • Violentmonkey
     Preferences → Settings → Import from zip: ./preferences/violentmonkey.zip
Save
   • Redirector
     Options → Edit Redirects → Import: ./preferences/redirector.json
   • Foxy Gestures
     Preferences → Backup & Restore → Restore settings from file: ./preferences/foxygestures.json
   • I still don't care about cookies
     Manage: Enable "Run in Private Windows"

Existing profile

cd rice.dev-edition-default
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:runarsf/ffprofile.git
git pull origin main
# If there are conflicting files, remove local conflicts and pull again
git checkout main
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main
git config --local core.hooksPath ./dev/hooks
./dev/hooks/post-merge

New profile

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox
git clone git@github.com:runarsf/ffprofile.git rice.dev-edition-default
cd rice.dev-edition-default
git config --local core.hooksPath ./dev/hooks
firefox about:profiles
# Create New Profile > Next
# Enter Profile Name: Rice
# Choose Folder... > rice.dev-edition-default
# Finish
./dev/hooks/post-merge
# Launch profile in new browser

Setups

• Tree styles:
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/rmi8dg/yet_another_sidebery_setup/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/rqo5z6/some_people_asked_for_the_css_so_here_is_my_setup/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
  • https://github.com/UnlimitedAvailableUsername/Edge-Mimicry-Tree-Style-Tab-For-Firefox?ref=codetea.com
  • https://github.com/ranmaru22/firefox-vertical-tabs
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/lx3z12/edgelike_vertical_tabs_but_better_with_continued/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Other things

• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/wiki/useful-customizations/
• https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
• find what options changes in about:config: diff <(cat prefs.js) <(sleep 5; cat prefs.js)
• arkenfox/user.js#1080
• If you're using GitHub Desktop, you have to either enable File > Options... > Advanced > Use system OpenSSH or change the remote to use http auth (git remote set-url https://github.com/runarsf/firefoxcss.git).
• Check status with many files: git status -uno (https://stackoverflow.com/a/57514326)
• https://ffprofile.com/
• https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
• https://arkenfox.github.io/gui/
• https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/blob/master/user.js
• Profile suffixes - https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1264072
  • Default: .default-release
  • Developer Edition: .dev-edition-default
  • Nightly: .default-nightly
• To only add the files you want, either set up .gitignore or git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no and manually add them.
• Live-debug: enable Enable browser chrome and add-ons debugging toolboxes and Enable remote debugging in devtools settings -> ctrl+shift+alt+i
• On windows, make sure to do git config core.autocrlf false so git doesn't automatically turn line endings to CRLF