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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

(andrewmarder.net)
263 points amarder | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 11:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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1oooqooq ◴[30 Aug 25 21:18 UTC] No.45078100[source]▶
remember that "firefox -p" opens the profile manager so you can have one profile without the last two items on that list, just for when you need one or two sites that have broken login code that requires 3rd party cookie (it's always for malicious reasons rather than incompetence, but if you have to login you have to login)
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1. pndy ◴[30 Aug 25 22:55 UTC] No.45078716[source]▶
Mozilla introduced new profile manager for Firefox somewhere around May. This thing uses new storage format and ignores already existing "old" profiles, except for the default one. Data remains untouched, profiles created in the past are still here accessible by about:profile and if you don't want to use that new profile manager set browser.profiles.enabled entry to false.

From what I've seen around people using the popular customized Firefox variants, like Floorp, Librewolf were surprised by this and not fond of the change.