// settings to make firefox a little more comfy for me // many tips taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17hlkhp/what_are_your_must_have_changes_in_aboutconfig/ // // // better ui // use system titlebar user_pref("browser.tabs.inTitlebar", 0); // big square scrollbar that doesn't disappear, in lieu of native them user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style", 4); user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.orverride", 24); user_pref("widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled", false); // make the buttons smaller user_pref("browser.uidensity", 1); // make websites use the colours i choose user_pref("browser.display.document_color_use", 2); user_pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", true); user_pref("browser.display.background_color", "#ffffe8"); // don't let websites set their own fonts user_pref("browser.display.use_document_fonts", 0); // always enable cursor key navigation // user_pref("accessibility.browsewithcaret", true); // nicer settings in view source user_pref("view_source.wrap_long_lines", true); user_pref("view_source.syntax_highlight", false); user_pref("view_source.tab_size", 8); //user_pref("view_source.editor.external", true); //user_pref("view_source.editor.path", "emacs"); //user_pref("view_source.tab", false); // open source view in new window // disable user interface elements user_pref("browser.toolbars.bookmarks.visibility", "never"); // clean new tab page user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topsites", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSearch", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", false); // TODO: still shows top sites. Unsure how to get rid. // boring url bar: show protocol, don't grey bits out, don't "pop it out" user_pref("browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.trimURLs", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus", false); // disable url bar suggestions // user_pref("browser.urlbar.maxRichResults", -1); // use text in the toolbar, not icons //user_pref("browser.chrome.toolbar_style", 1); // don't pop up menu on alt user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses", false); // default to empty headers when printing user_pref("print.print_footerleft", ""); user_pref("print.print_footerright", ""); user_pref("print.print_headerleft", ""); user_pref("print.print_headerright", ""); // don't show a disclaimer for about:config user_pref("browser.aboutConfig.showWarning", false); // backspace to go back user_pref("browser.backspace_action", 0); // // // Disable unused features // disable firefox view user_pref("browser.tabs.firefox-view", false); // disable pocket user_pref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false); user_pref("extensions.pocket.showHome", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.sendToPocket.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.saveToPocketCard.enabled", false); // disable reader view user_pref("reader.parse-on-load.enabled", false); // disable telemetry user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyAcceptedVersion", 2); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyNotifiedTime", "1450604664862"); user_pref("datareporting.policy.firstRunTime", "1450604654097"); // disable https only. user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode_ever_enabled", false); user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode", false); // disable experiments user_pref("experiments.enabled", false); user_pref("experiments.supported", false); // don't save passwords user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false); // disable firefox accounts user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.enabled", false); // disable picture-in-picture video user_pref("media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.enabled", false); // disable safe browsing user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled", false); // // // Enable used features // enable userchrome user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", true); // always prompt me for download location user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false); // // // Window oriented behaviour // Middle clock opens in a new window user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", false); user_pref("middlemouse.openNewWindow", true); // open links in the current tab (1), even if the website says otherwise (0) user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 1); user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 0); // Closing the last tab closes the browser // user_pref("browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab", false); // // // speed related things user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); // // // Settings to increase caches etc, which ostensibly speed firefox up but that many people recommend against // dont save browsing session to disk so often user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true); // Lower cache size as we are now storing it in memory not on disk user_pref("media.cache_size", 102400); user_pref("media.memory_caches_combined_limit_kb", 102400); user_pref("image.mem.surfacecache.max_size_kb", 102400); // Only save the session once per day user_pref("browser.sessionstore.interval", 86400000); // Don't store recently parsed recent pages in memory user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 0); // Increase the defaults for a bunch of settings related to http requests. user_pref("network.buffer.cache.size", 524288); user_pref("network.buffer.cache.count", 128); user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 1800); user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 12); user_pref("network.http.max-urgent-start-excessive-connections-per-host", 10); user_pref("network.http.pacing.requests.burst", 32); user_pref("network.http.pacing.requests.min-parallelism", 10); user_pref("network.websocket.max-connections", 400); user_pref("network.ssl_tokens_cache_capacity", 32768); // also see "security.pki.crlite_mode" and "browser.cache.memory.capacity" /* misc stuff */ //user_pref("browser.fixup.dns_first_for_single_words", true); //user_pref("browser.reader.detectedFirstArticle", true); //user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false); //user_pref("browser.search.update", false); //user_pref("browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand", false); //user_pref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", false); //user_pref("browser.tabs.animate", false); // //user_pref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", false); //user_pref("browser.warnOnQuit", false); //user_pref("browser.warnOnQuitShortcut", false); // // //user_pref("general.smoothScroll", false); //user_pref("keyword.enabled", false); //user_pref("layout.spellcheckDefault", 0); //user_pref("mousewheel.system_scroll_override.enabled", false); //user_pref("network.allow-experiments", false); //user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false); //user_pref("pdfjs.disabled", true); //user_pref("security.webauth.u2f", true);