• Notes for Mozilla Firefox

about:config

extensions.pocket.enabled

app.normandy.enabled

accessibility.force_disabled

media.peerconnection.enabled

geo.enabled

browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir

browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline

media.webspeech.synth.enabled

privacy.resistFingerprinting.pbmode

security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation

security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken

browser.ml.chat.enabled

• media.cubeb.backend to string sndio ¹⁾
• gfx.webrender.all Intel DDX
• layers.acceleration interestingly improves font rendering too (discussion)

media.cubeb.backend

gfx.webrender.all

media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled

layers.acceleration.force-enabled

• media.wmf.hevc.enabled to 1

media.wmf.hevc.enabled

media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled

gfx.webrender.all

• 40 is a good starting point for mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount; make sure Settings → General → Browsing → [x] Use smooth scrolling (towards bottom) is enabled

mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount

• See DNS Servers for other addresses
• Might not be ideal alongside a local DNS server ²⁾

https://security.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query

• uBlock Origin
• Decentraleyes
• Privacy Badger

• [x] Enable everything except under Regions, languages ³⁾

https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-problematic-sites.txt
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/r/fanboy-ultimate.txt
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster_ubo.txt
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt

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• https://www.youtube.com/html5

• https://decentraleyes.org/test/
• https://panopticlick.eff.org/
• https://browserleaks.com/

• https://librespeed.org/
• https://speedof.me/

• https://ipx.ac
• https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
• https://1.1.1.1/help
• https://on.quad9.net/

• https://www.phoronix.com ⁴⁾
• https://www.vsynctester.com/ ⁵⁾

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg0Sjh9VMTk (4K@60 HW-accel video test)
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block) (likely noto Fonts Linux)

about:networking#dns

• https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml