

(Screenshots resized due to not wasting too much space.
Here’s a small one of how a website would look like.
Here’s a larger one of how my new tab page looks like (including multiple tabs to show how the tab bar looks like).
Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.
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(Screenshots resized due to not wasting too much space.
Here’s a small one of how a website would look like.
Here’s a larger one of how my new tab page looks like (including multiple tabs to show how the tab bar looks like).
// Enable userChrome.css
user_pref('toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets', true);
// Warnings
user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false);
// Style
user_pref('browser.tabs.inTitlebar', 0);
user_pref('browser.theme.content-theme', 1);
user_pref('browser.theme.toolbar-theme', 1);
// Extensions
user_pref('extensions.activeThemeID', 'firefox-compact-light@mozilla.org');
user_pref('extensions.pocket.enabled', false);
user_pref('extensions.screenshots.disabled', true);
user_pref('extensions.getAddons.showPane', false);
user_pref('extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled', false);
// Zoom
user_pref('toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues', '.5,.3,1,1.2,1.3,1.5');
user_pref('devtools.toolbox.zoomValue', '1.4');
user_pref('browser.zoom.siteSpecific', false);
// Privacy
//
// Basically do not leak URLs, IPs, etc. to external services
user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled', false);
user_pref('security.OCSP.enabled', 0);
user_pref('browser.contentblocking.category', 'custom');
user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.trending.featureGate', false);
// DoH explicitly off
user_pref('network.trr.mode', 5);
user_pref('network.trr.default_provider_uri', '');
// Cookies
user_pref('network.cookie.cookieBehavior', 2);
// AdBlock
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites', false);
// Remove weird URLS
user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpConfigURL', '');
user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpRelayURL', '');
user_pref('browser.partnerlink.attributionURL', '');
user_pref('browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl', '');
// Do not track
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.emailtracking.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.donottrackheader.enabled', true);
// Beahvior
user_pref('general.smoothScroll', false);
user_pref('signon.autofillForms', true);
user_pref('signon.firefoxRelay.feature', 'disabled');
user_pref('browser.download.manager.addToRecentDocs', false);
user_pref('security.tls.version.min', 1);
user_pref('browser.profiles.enabled', false);
// UI features
//
// https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js
user_pref('browser.discovery.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.addons', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.features', false);
user_pref('browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla', false);
user_pref('browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false);
user_pref('browser.aboutwelcome.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.uidensity', 0);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.trimURLs', false);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.showSearchTerms.enabled', false);
// Telemetry
//
// https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js
user_pref('datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled', false);
user_pref('datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.unified', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.server', 'data:,');
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out', true);
user_pref('toolkit.coverage.opt-out', true);
user_pref('toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base', '');
user_pref('browser.ping-centre.telemetry', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry', false);
user_pref('breakpad.reportURL', '');
user_pref('browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport', false);
user_pref('browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2', false);
user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false);
user_pref('app.normandy.enabled', false);
user_pref('app.normandy.api_url', '');
// Disable AI bullshit
//
user_pref('browser.ml.enable', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.shortcuts', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.sidebar', false);
user_pref('pdfjs.enableAltText', false);
user_pref('pdfjs.enableUpdatedAddImage', false);
and
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
/* Tabs styling */
#TabsToolbar {
background-color: #cccccc !important;
--toolbarbutton-inner-padding: 0 !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab {
padding: 0 !important;
}
.tab-background {
margin: 0 !important;
border-radius: 0 !important;
background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor) !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
#alltabs-button {
display: none !important;
}
#tabbrowser-tabs {
min-height: unset !important;
}
/* secondary label indicators */
@font-face {
/* copy font file to same directory as this CSS file */
font-family: 'SymbolsNerdFont';
src: url('SymbolsNerdFont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
.tab-secondary-label {
display: none;
}
.tab-text::before {
font-family: SymbolsNerdFont;
padding-right: 0.25em;
}
.tabbrowser-tab[soundplaying] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
.tabbrowser-tab[muted] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
.tabbrowser-tab[activemedia-blocked] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
/* unselected tabs */
.tab-background:not([selected]),
.tab-icon-image:not([selected]) {
opacity: 0.4 !important;
}
.tab-text:not([selected]) {
color: #555753 !important;
}
#tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox {
min-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
max-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
}
scrollbox[part="scrollbox"] {
gap: 2px;
}
and
/* Style about:home and about:newtab */
@-moz-document url-prefix(about:home), url-prefix(about:newtab) {
.logo-and-wordmark {
background-image: url(REPLACE_ME_WITH_YOUR_FAVORITE_IMAGE.jpg);
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
aspect-ratio: 16/9;
border-radius: 1em;
position: relative;
width: auto;
height: auto;
max-width: 80%;
max-height: 60vh;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.logo-and-wordmark .logo {
display: none !important;
}
.logo-and-wordmark .wordmark {
position: absolute;
right: 2em;
bottom: 0.5em;
--newtab-wordmark-color: #eb8819;
}
}
So … Basically just another preconfigured Firefox with extensions?
Let that sink in: They installed a mechanism to intentionally flood our underwater cave!
So there’s oceans at the bottom and above us? Are we in some kind of bubble now? What happens if the firmament leaks water down into the bubble? Will it fill up, and where does the air go? Has the Waters above the firmament ocean a surface? And whats above that surface?
You can create communities only on your own instance. For you that would be this link.
Do you get any error messages?
never trust AI
Statements from LLMs are to be seen as hallucinations unless proven otherwise by classic research.
Thanks! I just prefer simple UIs.