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* [Ecosia search engine at Mycroft Project ](https://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=ecosia.org )
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## Firefox containers
* [Facebook Container ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ )
* [Google Container ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-container/ )
* [Firefox Multi-Account Containers ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ )
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* [Temporary containers ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/ )
* Especially in Automatic mode it renders Cookie Autodelete unnecessary
in my opinion and is likely more secure.
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* **READ THE FINE MANUAL ON THAT PAGE!**
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## Firefox language packs
* [Czech ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/czech-cz-language-pack/ )
* [English-US ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-us-language-pack/ )
* [Esperanto ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/esperanto-language-pack/ )
* [Finnish ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/finnish-language-pack/ )
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## Firefox about:config
* `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` to `1.25` or `2.0` on macOS Retina to increase font size.
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* `privacy.firstparty.isolate` to `true` for preventing domains from
accessing each other's data.
* If something breaks, it's most likely related to this. I am yet to
test if this breaks Finnish strong electric authentication.
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* `privacy.resistFingerprinting` = `true` multiple effects to make your
browser appear less unique, the ones I have found/understood:
* warns if `intl.accept_languages` is not `en-US, en` .
* starts the browser with common size (I love this on big displays).
* spoofs the user-agent as the latest Firefox ESR version.
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* [Firefox's protection against fingerprinting ](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting )
has the upstream list.
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* `privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled` = `true` so cryptomining
on some websites gets blocked and won't waste resources.
* `privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled` = `true` I am not
entirely sure what this does, but as I already recommend
`privacy.resistFingerprinting` , why not?
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* `intl.accept_languages` to `en-US, en`
* see above.
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* `extensions.pocket.enabled` to `false` so the Pocket integration goes away
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* On Linux `widget.content.gtk-theme-override` (a string that has to be created by
user) to `Adwaita:light` so text boxes in dark themes become readable,
thank you [Dovydas Venckus ](https://www.dovydasvenckus.com/linux/2018/08/20/fix-firefox-dark-input-fields-on-gnome/ )
* [Bug 70315: text in menus and boxes unreadable if using dark GTK theme ](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315 )
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* `image.animation_mode` to `none` in order to stop gifs everywhere.
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* `network.security.esni.enabled` to `true` in order to enable encrypted SNI.
* Requires DoH, see the next section!
#### DNS over HTTPS
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* `network.trr.bootstrapAddress` DNS server to use for resolving the DoH
name, e.g. `84.200.70.40` (Resolver 2 of [DNS.watch ](https://dns.watch/ )
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in Germany) or `149.112.112.112` (Resolver 2 of [Quad9 ](https://quad9.net ))
* `network.trr.mode` 2 to prefer DoH, but fallback to system resolver (or 3 to enforce DoH without fallback)
* [DoH is required by Firefox ESNI support ](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500289 ) which encrypts SNI which would still leak which
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sites you visit. [Another bug about ESNI + Android DoT ](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542754#c3 )
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* I have ended up to recommending 2 as otherwise the DoH server going
down stops DNS from working on your Firefox entirely, which may be
more of a problem than unencrypted SNI as not everyone supports it.
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* `network.trr.early-AAAA` `true` to hopefully prefer IPv6
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* `network.trr.uri` for the actual resolver address, e.g.
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`https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query` or `https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query` or
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[check curl wiki ](https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-available-servers )
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Some notes:
* You can confirm TRR working by visiting `about:networking#dns` where
you should be seeing DNS cache of Firefox and a lot of `TRR: true` .
* Quad9 became my preferred resolver through anxiety about other options
being small (and possibly more likely to go down) or commercial while
Quad9 is non-profit organization and 2019-03-20 apparently the default
fallback resolver of dnscrypt-proxy (at least in Debian).
* Quad9 while having filtering of malicious domains should be easy to figure
out as the problem if something doesn't work on my computers as due to the
previously mentioned bug I am mainly using it on Firefox.
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## Passwords
* [Firefox: Bitwarden ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitwarden-password-manager/ )
* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitwarden-free-password-m/nngceckbapebfimnlniiiahkandclblb )
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## Privacy
* [Firefox: Cookie Autodelete ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ )
* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/fhcgjolkccmbidfldomjliifgaodjagh )
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* [Firefox: HTTPS Everywhere ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/ )
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* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/gcbommkclmclpchllfjekcdonpmejbdp )
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* [Firefox: Privacy Badger ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/ )
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* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp )
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* [Firefox: Decentraleyes ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ )
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* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/decentraleyes/ldpochfccmkkmhdbclfhpagapcfdljkj )
* [Chrome HTTPS Everywhere fix page ](https://decentraleyes.org/configure-https-everywhere/ )
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* [Firefox: Google search link fix ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/ )
* Copied from [PrivacyTools.io ](https://privacytools.io ), cleans Google
results links.
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* [Firefox: True Sight ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/detect-cloudflare-plus/ )
* This is a CDN detector and it being a privacy extension can be debated
but I just feel like putting it here. I will still say that not all
CDNs are bad (IPFS).
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### Tor
* [Firefox: Privacy Pass ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/ )
* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-pass/ajhmfdgkijocedmfjonnpjfojldioehi )
* May reduce captchas with CloudFlare.
* [Firefox: Healthy.Onion ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/healthy-onion/ )
* **Only for Tor Browser** or other browser going through Tor all the
time as it redirects clearnet addresses to Tor .onion hidden
services that cannot be accessed outside of Tor.
## Productivity
* [Firefox: Mind The Time ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mind-the-time/ )
* [Chrome equivalent: Webtime tracker ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webtime-tracker/ppaojnbmmaigjmlpjaldnkgnklhicppk )
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* [Firefox: Nudge by Siempo ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nudge-by-siempo/ )
* [Chrome: Nudge by Siempo ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nudge-by-siempo/hjoookglknijcfdlbcfnehfhicbknemj )
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## Misc
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* [Firefox: IPvFoo ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfoo-pmarks/ )
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* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipvfoo/ecanpcehffngcegjmadlcijfolapggal )
* [Chrome: RSS ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-extensio/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd )
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* [Firefox: IPFS Companion ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companion/ )
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* [Firefox: beta channel of IPFS Companion ](https://bafybeibjozlsoxzrxsoklis775aglnwpal2hjl42ippo57jdwiv6zoij7m.ipfs.dweb.link/ )
* doesn't sync automatically with Firefox Sync.
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* [Chrome ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nibjojkomfdiaoajekhjakgkdhaomnch )
* At the time of writing, 2018-09-22, I consider IPFS as
**incompatible with Tor Browser** as Tor browser would use the local
IPFS daemon, which **is not using Tor** and thus the IPFS network
**could see your real IP** especially if not many nodes are
requesting the fetched content.
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* [Firefox: Foxy Proxy ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/ )
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* [Chrome? ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxyproxy-standard/gcknhkkoolaabfmlnjonogaaifnjlfnp )
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* Onions to Tor, I2P to I2P. [My rules ]({{site.ipfsGateway}}/ipfs/QmQUc6SmBS8jgvceRLjFsVJNy2NrikDotcQVFxHeRwtQRz/foxyproxy.json )
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* [Firefox: Tab Counter ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-counter-webext/ )
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* [Firefox: Lightbeam ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/ )
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* I especially like *nicer dark* with Memrise.
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* [Firefox: RSS feed preview ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ )
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* [Firefox: Duolingo Boost ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duolingo-boost/ )
* [Chrome: Duolingo Boost ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/duolingo-boost/mgecoicpalmpphlgfkdepgpofjcnggkn )
* [Bitbucket ](https://bitbucket.org/Richdark/duolingo-boost/ )
## Usability
* [Firefox: Tree Style Tab ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ )
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* ~~[Firefox: Text Contrast for Dark Themes](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/text-contrast-for-dark-themes/)~~ see *about:config section*
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* [Firefox: Dark Mode (WebExtension) ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-webextension/ )
* [Firefox: Zenfox (Solarized themes) ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/zen-fox/ )
## Videos
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* [Firefox: PeerTubeify ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/ )
* [Chrome: PeerTubeify ](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/peertubeify/gegmikcnabpilimgelhabaledkcikdab )
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* [Firefox: Alternate Tube Redirector ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alternate-tube-redirector/ )
* to redirect YouTube videos to https://invidio.us/
* [GitLab ](https://gitlab.com/2vek/alternate-tube-redirector/ )
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## Firefox Dictionaries
* [Esperanto ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/esperanta-vortaro/ )
* [UK English ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/ )
* [Czech ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/czech-spell-checking-dictionar/ )
* [Swedish ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g%C3%B6rans-hemmasnickrade-ordli/ )