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 Posted: Tue, 25th Dec 2018 03:49 Post subject: Librefox: Browse With Freedom (NoFork) |
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Librefox: Browse With Freedom
This project aims at enforcing privacy and security of Firefox without forking the project.
Librefox uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings (gHacks and additional options), patches, Librefox-Addons (optional) and a cleaned bundle of Firefox (updater, crashreporter and Firefox's integrated addons that don't respect privacy are removed).
Features:
*Updated browser: because this project is not a fork, it is kept updated with the latest Firefox version.
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Updated browser: because this project is not a fork, it is kept updated with the latest Firefox version.
Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions (firewall-test-feature)
IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up): embedded server links and other calling home functions are removed (zero unauthorized connection by default).
User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within mozilla.cfg and policies.json, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/Firefox or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing mozilla.cfg and policies.json.
Librefox-addons: set of optional Librefox extensions
Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
Tested settings: settings are performance aware
ESR and Tor version (Librefox TBB Beta)
Tor Librefox-addons: adapted Librefox extensions for TBB
Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/and soon Android)
Dark theme (classic and advanced)
Recommended and code reviewed addons list
Community-Driven
And much more...
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some interesting features:
Extensions Firewall:
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This is a test experiment feature and it is disabled by default !!! A new section Extensions Manager is added to manage addons globally (and addons networking in the subsection Extensions Firewalling). Firewalling the network for addons is doable, but it requires a considerable amount of additional work in Librefox to make it usable through a button or in a per addon basis (this may or may not be added in a future version, it also could be abandoned as it is a test feature). Currently you can block a list of domains or block the whole network for all the extensions.
Extensions Firewall - The Settings:
Available native network restriction settings for addons:
Restricted domains list: extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains this is a list of restricted domains that will be used to block some hosts for all the extensions, Firefox uses this setting to block extensions from accessing mozilla's domains/sites, by default in Librefox this setting is set to allow extensions to access all the web (You can edit that list to match your needs or to block a specific domain, note that the domain name has to be 'exact' (for instance facebook.com will only block facebook.com not mobile.fabcebook.com)
Content security policy: extensions.webextensions.base-content-security-policy and extensions.webextensions.default-content-security-policy the later settings can be redefined/changed within an extension so it's not efficient for a firewall purpose. CSP settings are used in Firefox as an added layer of security that helps to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks, including Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. These attacks are used for everything from data theft to site defacement to distribution of malware; In short: CSP settings block and allow certain domains under certain circumstances and thus could be used to firewall the extensions (CSP Documentations, its sources code and implementation)
Extensions Firewall - Blocking A Domain:
Edit the restricted domains setting as follow under the about:config page:
Restricted Domains Setting: extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains Value: ExactDomains1,ExactDomains2,ExactDomains3 etc.
Extensions Firewall - Blocking The Network:
To enable the feature and block the network for all the extensions open mozilla.cfg search for Enable-Firewall-Feature-In-The-Next-Line and remove the // in the next line.
Note that this will block the network access for all the extensions and a lot of extensions needs to be connected in order to work. In the current version of Librefox you can block the network for all the extensions or allow it for all of them, a future version may provide additional features like "per addon" setting (By default Librefox allows networking for extensions). |
IJWY (I Just Want You To Shut Up):
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more infos and Download @ https://github.com/intika/Librefox
gonna keep my eyes on this one, might be an good alternative..(fast and secure)
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I am not willing to go for this unless Mozilla is proven to do shady things. I trust them more than Google and some telemetry stuff is OK.
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | | I am not willing to go for this unless Mozilla is proven to do shady things. I trust them more than Google and some telemetry stuff is OK. |
amen
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