CustomBangSearch VS user.js

yeah, takes only minutes to setup a custom search engine (or bangs) for any website with browser extensions. I recommend having default search terms like '1080' or whatever else automatically appended for convenience. qbitorrent with 'download in sequential order' and you'll be enjoying anything in any medium at any time in less than 30 seconds. Make sure to only p2p share public domain files I don't condone piracy ;)

Yeah usually not great quality, but it seems like certain search results on Google are worse than in the past too now since they've changed their algorithm. Can usually get away without using the bang. Honestly the alleged privacy and bangs are keeping me around, but with the custom bang extension those reasons are less appealing..

I'd use duckduckgo instead, better privacy and uses bing under the hood iirc. Plus you get bangs like !g for google search. Also if you want custom search queries I recommend this extension that works with most search engines

Ah cool. Diese Extension hat ähnliche Funktionalität: https://github.com/psidex/CustomBangSearch

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.