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policy-templates
- Is It Possible to Export a Policies.JSON File from a Golden Firefox Installation?
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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
There is no such thing as a "known trusted extension" ever since they killed sideloading extensions and forced auto-updates. 10 years ago not force updating extensions was also a thing they moved behind a flag, and then just dropped.
Also - if you want to blacklist certain extensions from certain sites, you abso-freaking-lutely can already... see: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/READ...
you want the `restricted_domains` field.
It gets worse - Mozilla is the fucking worst at checking submitted extensions. They tried to the play into the whole "app store" thing that Google/Apple were doing, but those are justifiable cost centers at those two companies in a way that just doesn't work for a player like Mozilla.
Mozilla's store checks for extensions are fairly pathetic. You can submit a near empty shell with excessive permissions, get approved the first time, then auto-update to a new release (which will deploy to users immediately thanks to auto-updates). That new version has to pass a battery of useless automatic SAST checks, which will happily highlight all sorts of things it doesn't like (it flags words like "hello" because it contains a curse word) but which won't do shit to check if you're hoovering up credentials, browsing data, tracking users, etc.
If you're unlucky, at some point in the next 24 months you'll trigger a real review from Mozilla and get caught.
To be blunt - I have 15 years experience writing extensions. I don't like Google. If you think Mozilla is better you're wrong.
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Can you prevent users from changing or disabling extensions / add-ons?
You can do that with policy templates. Use the Discussion tab at the top of the GitHub page if you need help setting them up.
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How to preset an item from the settings "about:config" permanently?
Policy Templates for Firefox
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We Must Fight for Firefox
They very well could do this for a a company that requires really strict privacy and security, but unfortunately in its current state Firefox doesn't have nearly the corporate sysadmin-friendly tooling that Chrome and especially Edge do.
When I was tasked with implementing CIS browser hardening policies at a previous job a few years ago, this was just a matter of enabling some Group Policy template settings for Chrome and Edge, but for Firefox this involved distributing a prefs.js file to all the workstations. In any corporate environment it's very likely going to be point and click Windows admins that are implementing browser standards, who tend to be allergic to anything resembling code and are already used to using GPOs for just about everything.
Yes, Firefox does have GPO templates but it's not nearly as rich as Chrome and Edge. Edge has even more GPO templates than does Chrome iirc, Chrome already had a lot to begin with and then Microsoft added even more of their own on top of that.
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v4.11/READM...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-micro...
That alone already puts Firefox at a huge disadvantage for corporate deployment, the other thing that makes it even less attractive, even to companies where privacy/security is a huge requirement (like my previous job) is that Edge is already bundled with the OS, and is one less thing that needs to be manually patched. In high security corporate environments, just keeping things patched is always a huge task so it's very hard to convince someone that they need to put in more work to keep an extra piece of software patched (which is already very difficult considering how frequently browsers are updated). To make things even worse, just about all vendors will only support Chromium-based browsers for whatever SaaS they sell you, so Firefox is a nonstarter for getting support, even if it will work just fine 99.9% of the time.
For all these reasons, I lost the battle to keep Firefox around, which is a huge shame because of how much I love it and wanted to fight the Chromium monoculture. So I guess for a corporation to support Firefox despite how corporate-friendliness the alternatives are, they'd have to reaaaally want to.
- Disable telemetry
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Automating Pinning Extensions to the Toolbar
You can see the relevant JSON code in the changelog. As I said, you can post a comment on this page to remind Mike to update the documentation for policy templates.
- Firefox does not save logins after update to 112.0
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Firefox app configuration on Android - MDM
This GitHub repository has a Discussions tab where you can ask questions about deploying Firefox: Policy Templates for Firefox.
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Set startup default but allow user to change
Check out the official documentation here: Policy Templates for Firefox. You can use the Discussions tab if you have any questions.
h264ify
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Web bloat impacts users with slow devices
I have no idea if it still works, but the "h264ify" browser extension used to be great for working around this issue https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
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Prime Video on Proton
Not true. When using browsers on Linux, at the moment, Netflix goes up to 720p and PrimeVideo 480p. With Netflix, you can use this extension, which is available for Chromium-based browser and Firefox, but PrimeVideo doesn't have something like that.
- Enable HEVC support in Edge.
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Can FX-8350 + 6500XT handle 4K 60Hz YouTube?
with h264tify you will have 1080p60 max
- I'm have a lag problem with this old Hp pavilion 15 notebook. I replaced the old HDD with a new SSD. And a fresh install of windows but it's doing this. Please help
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Battery drains I'm just watching youtube?
h264ify can help with the youtube part a bit.
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Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
h264ify is free and open source. You can inspect the source code and also compile it yourself:
https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
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Switching to Linux
If your stepdad uses Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to watch YouTube, also install the h264ify extension to force YouTube to you use an older codec when streaming video which can be decoded in hardware by older GPUs. This can make the laptop feel faster and run less hot. https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
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Daily reminder to use h264ify for every AMD user with GCN GPUs in order to properly use Hardware Acceleration on YouTube. It's limited to 1080p 60fps, but you gonna save a lot of CPU workload.
github
What are some alternatives?
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
ExtPay - The JavaScript library for ExtensionPay.com — payments for your browser extensions, no server needed.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
webextensions - Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)
settings
h265ify - Enable HEVC(H265) in Edge
ffprofile - A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
productivityowl - Productivity Owl is the number one Open Source owl based productivity solution.
primevideo-linux - Guide about how to watch Prime Video in HD quality on GNU/Linux