IVprep VS Arkenfox-softening

You can downgrade the X230 BIOS to version 2.60 from Windows using IVPrep.

If your Bios is above the vulnerable version, you need IVprep, this only works on Windows10 (or above), maybe using Freedos too, but no guide online I could find.

Installed thinkpad-ec patch and coreboot (with skulls/ivyrain) on my x230t but I reverted back to the stock keyboard so I don't want thinkpad-ec anymore. I tried to flash back the stock bios to get rid of it with [this]( IVprep/X230t.FL1 at master · n4ru/IVprep · GitHub ) FL1 file converted to a ROM with dd, but flashrom says that my chip size doesn't match and is 12MB. I've looked online for a while and extracted an FL1 file from a Lenovo BIOS update but none I can find are 12MB. Does anyone have any links to one?

I think that just pushes a UEFI capsule too, at least that is what this suggests.

And IVprep https://github.com/n4ru/IVprep/

if you want to install https://github.com/lynxis/thinkpad-ec so that you can use a *20 keyboard and a *20 battery on *30 or if you want to prepare to that with https://github.com/n4ru/IVprep/ or if you want to install https://github.com/n4ru/1vyrain after that to gain more options in BIOS and/or be able to use non-Lenovo-approved Wi-Fi card - you don't need a hardware flasher; you don't need it for either of these 3 projects; all 3 use normal software flashing; I also understand all 3 are fairly safe to use; lots of people have used them and I haven't seen much complains

Once you run IVprep you should be on BIOS version 2.64 on the T430.

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