Tweaking Firefox preferences

I posted about setting defaults for Firefox:

https://bkhome.org/news/202111/firefox-frustrations-continue.html

The blog announcement for Easy 3.1.10 lists some issues with Firefox:

https://bkhome.org/news/202111/easyos-version-3110-released.html

First startup having two tabs showing the home.htm page, item-2, is due to duplicate entries in 'policies.json' and 'prefs.js'. I have removed the entry from policies.json, it is now:

{
	"policies":
	{
		"DisableAppUpdate":true,
		"DontCheckDefaultBrowser":true,
		"ExtensionUpdate":false,
		"HardwareAcceleration":false
	}
}

I am wary about Firefox sending data to Mozilla. In "about:preferences#privacy", there are a couple of checkboxes under "Firefox data collection and use". I have un-ticked those, and added some lines to the default prefs.js in the firefox-skeleton PET:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "93.0");
user_pref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", false);
user_pref("layers.acceleration.disabled", true);
user_pref("startup.homepage_override_url","file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm");
user_pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url","file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm");
user_pref("browser.shell.didSkipDefaultBrowserCheckOnFirstRun", true);
user_pref("app.update.auto", false);
user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
user_pref("media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.enabled", false);
user_pref("privacy.sanitize.pending", "[]");
user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false); 

Users can turn it on if they want to, but I feel better with it defaulting to off.      

Tags: easy