What is this hardened Firefox I hear about? (lemmy.ca)

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The one video I saw suggested running this betterfox.js file or some more elaborate ones. Is that really necessary?

Or are there just some settings that I should change?

(Already run ublock origin if that matters.)

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[-] digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As many others have pointed out Arkenfox is a great way to harden Firefox that saves much of the effort of manually editing about:config

Because I didn't see one already here's a link to an install tutorial for Arkenfox in case it helps anyone to get started.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023

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