How to make Firefox usable

Other HOWTO's

• How to eradicate Google from Firefox

Extensions

• * uBlock: This site has ads? Really? Never saw them :) - (ublock is the better adblockplus)
• * Ghostery: Block spyware.
• * openinbrowser: Open text files in browser instead of downloading them.
• * RightToClick: Lots of retards block text selection, copy, paste or context menus on their pages. This addon lets you fix thos pages :)
• * Classic Theme Restorer: Remove some of the uglyness of Australis (V29).
• Certificate Patrol: This add-on reveals when certificates are updated, so you can ensure it was a legitimate change.
• Cookiemonster: Better management of cookies.
• NoScript: Block all those annoying scripts. See also Surrogate Scripts vs Google Analytics and Script Surrogates Quick Reference.
• Quickproxy (only needed on MTS india network which often has severe routing problems, set to SOCKS proxy and use "ssh -D socks-port somehost")
• Stylish: Change the style of the web, make everything white on black :)
• AdNauseam: clicks all ads n teh background. flood the trackers!
• NoRedirect: Block unwanted redirects. (new, testing it now)
• RedirectBypasser: Scans the page for various obfuscated URLs and adds link buttons. (untested)
• Privacy Badger: Replacement for AdBlock+ or uBlock, and Ghostery.

* = really recommended!

Remove spyware (google)

1. Install a search engine, f.ex. Start Page or ixquick or whatever (everything is better than google, even Bing)
2. Uninstall google (In the search bar "Manage Search Engines"), and while you're there don't forget to move the new engine to the first place.
3. In the URL bar enter "about:config"
4. Change the default engine: browser.search.defaultenginename=Ecosia
5. Switch off the other google spyware: browser.safebrowsing.enabled=false browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled=false

Config tips (about:config)

• Change the direction of the zoom wheel to the way it should be (and how it has been before): mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = -1
• Don't show the download window, I can open it myself if I want to see it: browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting=false
• Show empty new tab instead of the recent page links: browser.newtabpage.enabled=faqlse
• Don't show images for drag&drop: nglayout.enable_drag_images=false
• Disable the slow inline PDF viewer: pdfjs.disabled=true
• These I don't know why I changed them but it's probably better this way:
  accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar=0
  browser.panorama.animate_zoom=false
  dom.event.contextmenu.enabled=false
  pref.advanced.javascript.disable_button.advanced=false
  urlclassifier.keyupdatetime.https://sb-ssl.google.com/safebrowsing/newkey=2012345678

User Styles

Needs the stylish extension.

• Hack A Day - Minimalist
• my own style for wikipedia (i modified an existing one "Wikipedia.org - black style"):

  @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
  
  @-moz-document domain("wikipedia.org") {
  
  * {
  	background: none !important;
  	background-color: #000000 !important;
  	color: #BBBBBB !important;
  	border-color: #111111 !important;
  }
  	a:link, a:active {color: #80DD80 !important;}
  	a:visited {color: #CCFFCC !important;}
  	a:hover {color: #FFFFFF !important;}
  	a.new {color: red !important;}
  	strong.mw-plusminus-neg{color: red !important;}
  	strong.mw-plusminus-pos{color: green !important;}
  	span.mw-plusminus-pos {color:green !important;}
  	span.mw-plusminus-neg {color:red !important;}
  	span.flaggedrevs-color-1 {color:#66CCFF !important;}
  	span.flaggedrevs-unreviewed {color:#FFDEAD !important;}
  	span.flaggedrevs-unreviewed2 {color:#B8860B !important;}
  	span.diffchange {color:red !important;}
  	span.mw-usertoollinks {color:blue !important;}
  
  }

 
 
 
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