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  • firefox-profile-switcher-connector

    Native connector software for the 'Profile Switcher for Firefox' extension.

    Have you tried the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on? It works just like the profile switcher on Chrome.

    - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

    - Connector (required for add-on): https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher-connect...

    - Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

  • Have you tried the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on? It works just like the profile switcher on Chrome.

    - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

    - Connector (required for add-on): https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher-connect...

    - Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

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  • firefox-profile-switcher

    Create, manage and switch between browser profiles seamlessly.

    Have you tried the Profile Switcher for Firefox add-on? It works just like the profile switcher on Chrome.

    - Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

    - Connector (required for add-on): https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher-connect...

    - Source: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

  • caniuse

    Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

    Developer notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

    Highlights:

    * CSS color-scheme support, which was the last of the major browsers:https://caniuse.com/?search=color-scheme

    * Web Locks API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_A... (Still not in Safari)

  • Librefox

    Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements

    Librefox[1] is a drop in replacement without the antifeatures.

    [1] https://github.com/intika/Librefox

  • gecko-dev

    Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html

  • WebKit

    Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • containerise

    Firefox extension to automatically open websites in a container

    Thank you for your suggestions. I've been considering what to do about my Firefox setup for some time (switching to ESR vs one of the forks, which I have to research first). Thing is, I'm using a heavily-customized profile with lots of extensions, Violentmonkey [1] userscripts, containers (including Containerise [2], and Temporary Containers [3]), and a custom user.js (based on [4]), so I should also revisit the settings for all of these at the same time as it's been a while since I last did so. It's all on my to-do list but as the current setup works well, there's always something more urgent to do instead.

    1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/

    2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

    3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

    4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

    The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using a heavily-debloated LTSC with lots of unnecessary packages removed (including the hidden ones, which are not supposed to be officially removable), and all kinds of customizations for privacy, security, performance, and convenience. While I'm satisfied with my setup (automated with custom scripts I've been maintaining since Windows 8), the number of hoops one has to go through to have their computer do what the user wants and nothing else, or a "User-Agent" that gives actual agency to the user these days is truly astonishing, and makes the goal unattainable for most people.

  • violentmonkey

    Violentmonkey provides userscripts support for browsers. It works on browsers with WebExtensions support.

    Thank you for your suggestions. I've been considering what to do about my Firefox setup for some time (switching to ESR vs one of the forks, which I have to research first). Thing is, I'm using a heavily-customized profile with lots of extensions, Violentmonkey [1] userscripts, containers (including Containerise [2], and Temporary Containers [3]), and a custom user.js (based on [4]), so I should also revisit the settings for all of these at the same time as it's been a while since I last did so. It's all on my to-do list but as the current setup works well, there's always something more urgent to do instead.

    1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/

    2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

    3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

    4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

    The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using a heavily-debloated LTSC with lots of unnecessary packages removed (including the hidden ones, which are not supposed to be officially removable), and all kinds of customizations for privacy, security, performance, and convenience. While I'm satisfied with my setup (automated with custom scripts I've been maintaining since Windows 8), the number of hoops one has to go through to have their computer do what the user wants and nothing else, or a "User-Agent" that gives actual agency to the user these days is truly astonishing, and makes the goal unattainable for most people.

  • temporary-containers

    Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers

    Thank you for your suggestions. I've been considering what to do about my Firefox setup for some time (switching to ESR vs one of the forks, which I have to research first). Thing is, I'm using a heavily-customized profile with lots of extensions, Violentmonkey [1] userscripts, containers (including Containerise [2], and Temporary Containers [3]), and a custom user.js (based on [4]), so I should also revisit the settings for all of these at the same time as it's been a while since I last did so. It's all on my to-do list but as the current setup works well, there's always something more urgent to do instead.

    1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/

    2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

    3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

    4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

    The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using a heavily-debloated LTSC with lots of unnecessary packages removed (including the hidden ones, which are not supposed to be officially removable), and all kinds of customizations for privacy, security, performance, and convenience. While I'm satisfied with my setup (automated with custom scripts I've been maintaining since Windows 8), the number of hoops one has to go through to have their computer do what the user wants and nothing else, or a "User-Agent" that gives actual agency to the user these days is truly astonishing, and makes the goal unattainable for most people.

  • user.js

    user.js -- Firefox configuration hardening (by pyllyukko)

    Thank you for your suggestions. I've been considering what to do about my Firefox setup for some time (switching to ESR vs one of the forks, which I have to research first). Thing is, I'm using a heavily-customized profile with lots of extensions, Violentmonkey [1] userscripts, containers (including Containerise [2], and Temporary Containers [3]), and a custom user.js (based on [4]), so I should also revisit the settings for all of these at the same time as it's been a while since I last did so. It's all on my to-do list but as the current setup works well, there's always something more urgent to do instead.

    1. https://violentmonkey.github.io/

    2. https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

    3. https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers

    4. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

    The LTSC suggestion is also good. I'm already using a heavily-debloated LTSC with lots of unnecessary packages removed (including the hidden ones, which are not supposed to be officially removable), and all kinds of customizations for privacy, security, performance, and convenience. While I'm satisfied with my setup (automated with custom scripts I've been maintaining since Windows 8), the number of hoops one has to go through to have their computer do what the user wants and nothing else, or a "User-Agent" that gives actual agency to the user these days is truly astonishing, and makes the goal unattainable for most people.

  • Firefox-UI-Fix

    🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.

    annoyingly, it breaks the Lepton UI fix: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

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