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3.2 Overrides [Common]

Thorin-Oakenpants edited this page Aug 26, 2024 · 31 revisions

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🟥 Summary: Arkenfox v115.1+ makes approx 110 pref changes. Of those, a tiny few cover almost all usability issues

  • Your mileage may vary
  • You can always change your overrides at any time and "undo"/"redo" things
    • ⚠️ except deleted items (such as cookies, history and session restore)
  • See that warning above? Now make sure to read the tiny few items below, because arkenfox deletes items by default

⭐ There is also an interactive version of the user.js at https://arkenfox.github.io/gui that you can:

  • search, filter, collapse and expand to your heart's content
  • use to lookup items, decide what to override, and troubleshoot

🟪 SECURITY

  • 0403: We disable binary checks not in Safe Browsing local lists
    • ⚠️ If you do not understand the consequences, override this

🟪 KEEP LOGINS

  • We delete all cookies and site data on close
    • There is no need to change any prefs - to keep some cookies and logins, just add site exceptions: either
      • Ctrl+I > Permissions > Cookies > Allow (when on the website in question)
      • ☰ Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies & Site Data > Manage Exceptions
    • For cross-domain logins, add exceptions for both sites
      • e.g. https://www.youtube.com (site) + https://accounts.google.com (single sign on)
    • ⚠️ Be selective with what cookies you keep, as they also disable partitioning, see bugzilla 1767271

🟪 COMMON

  • 0102: We disable session restore
  • 0810: We disable search & form history
  • 1223: We enforce strict pinning
    • Override if you have issues with antivirus
  • 2811: We delete history (download, form and browsing histories) on close
    • And 2820 for manual sanitizing

🟪 OTHER

Other preferences may cause site breakage, but nothing that can't be fixed. You won't "lose" anything...- it's not the end of the world.

  • Check our override recipes
  • Check already answered issues
  • While not 100% definitive, search for [SETUP in the user.js; e.g.
    • [SETUP-WEB] can cause some websites to break
    • [SETUP-CHROME] changes how Firefox itself behaves (i.e. NOT directly website related)
  • You may also want to add items e.g.
    • 5000s optional

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