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  • ironFox principally

    Curious why?

    I took a brief look and found some experience breaking changes like no dark mode and a general don’t do this since it can be a privacy risk even at the cost of speed which firefox has not been known for ages.

    Some points which I observed:

    • Dark Reader is known to be incompatible with IronFox’s changes and will cause significant breakage/slowdowns.

    • Dark mode for websites is disabled due to resist fingerprinting. Please do not disable RFP.

    • IronFox disables the JavaScript JIT to increase security at the cost of slowing down webapps, complex websites, and the PDF viewer. Navigate to about:config and change javascript.options.ion and javascript.options.baselinejit to true to restore their performance, though this is not recommended.

    • IronFox has strict certificate revocation checks. The CA revocation servers are occasionally down/blocked/inaccessible, so you may see a “Secure Connection Failed” error from time to time. Navigate to about:config and change security.OCSP.require to false, this is however a security and privacy risk.

    • IronFox requires safe renegotiation for connections. Certain websites do not support this and will result in a “Secure Connection Failed” error. Please report these errors to the impacted websites. You can navigate to about:config and set security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation to false to disable the requirement for safe renegotiations, this is however a security and privacy risk

    • IronFox has stripped referrers. This often breaks loading of images on websites with hotlink protection. Navigate to about:config and change network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy from 2 to 1 (or 0 if you’re still having issues), this is however a privacy risk.

    • IronFox has visited link highlighting disabled by default. Navigate to about:config and change layout.css.visited_links_enabled to true if needed, this is however a privacy risk