Arkenfox-softening VS browser-bits

There is a project of mine where I tried to script the changes, but its currently a mess and I dont think it works. Should take care of everything, downloading the file, applying the changes, and also creating the fitting profile and launching it.

I made a script (currently linux only but for native, snap and flatpak) to change a few settings and make it usable again.

What do you mean by "lightweight"? You can use SimpleMenuWizard to reduce context menu entries, you can use Arkenfox or my adapted version to remove Pocket, Telemetry e.g. and make it a perfect privacy browser.

Look at this script, it automates the Download of Arkenfox user.js and applying of a few settings making it more user friendly while not really limiting usability.

But using Firefox with the Arkenfox hardening (custom script I made, changing some minor usability settings and handling updates), it was reeally slow.

You can download my changes here, and Arkenfox here. What you do is, open your profiles folder (visible in about:profiles, link it somewhere where you can easily find it!) And copy the user.js in it (Firefox has to be closed during that). Take my additions and copy paste them to the top of the script. Now there will be double lines, search for them (Kwrite etc. support that) and deactivate the original line with //.

I use Firefox with the Arkenfox settings (you can change them to be less annoying) and this as the standard search engine

Info/examples here.

Try firefox-v109-change-order-under-extensions-button.js, it helps you edit browser.uiCustomization.state with a UI to sort/get/drag'n'drop extension order (including disabled extensions).

I have a simple drag and drop interface for doing this, open about:addons (Ctrl+Shift+A) then Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K) and run my code from firefox-v109-change-order-under-extensions-button.js. It has buttons for 'Set' (you need to restart Firefox to see the change), 'Cancel' and also 'Get' to import your current order.

When you click on an extension under 'about:addons' there is a "Last Updated" date shown. Using the web console you can easily make a list showing these dates in order, see: https://github.com/icpantsparti2/browser-bits/blob/main/javascript/firefox-extensions-list-with-last-updated-order.js

(I use DarkGray around most icons when using a dark theme ref)

Grab a text editor, then copy and paste the code from This Github page

open this page on GitHub to view the code required

I like your option 1 way. My way is similar to your option 2 but using JavaScript in the web console when on about:addons page: firefox-v109-change-order-under-extensions-button.js.