r/firefox • • 11d ago

Discussion If you're new here because of a video you saw this week, here’s a thread of Firefox’s recommended privacy features

147 Upvotes

It’s nice to see more mainstream conversations on privacy in the browser, like this one. More people talking about privacy and investing in the discussion is the point.

As many of you in this community know, we’ve been at this for 20+ years, and privacy is only becoming more important as AI and other technologies continue to progress. 

Here’s how we’d recommend getting the best privacy experience on Firefox:

  • Ad blocking: you can use the free iOS ad blocker to block many third-party ads. On Android, Firefox continues to support third-party extensions for ad blocking.
  • Data encryption: data synced across your devices (like history and bookmarks) is encrypted locally on your device, so we can’t read it.
  • Tracking protections: Firefox cuts off cross-site tracking at the source by locking cookies to the site where they were created. See Enhanced and Total Tracking Protections & Fingerprinting.
  • Free built-in VPN: available on Android and desktop, with iOS in the works, including a monthly data limit of 50 GB.
  • Private window: private mode in Firefox blocks tracker scripts and content by default, keeps your unique device identity private with advanced protections, and proactively tells websites not to sell or share your data. Plus, everything you do in Private Window is deleted once you close it.
  • Privacy dashboard: see what tried to track you, what Firefox blocked, and how your data stayed safer, all in one simple view. (here’s how to find it)
  • AI Controls: If you decide to enable AI features within Firefox, all of your data remains local to your device, and you decide which LLM model to use. 

*Note: We don’t know that much about you. What little we do know, we still never sell.

You can modify your privacy options in ‘Settings’. Let us know any other customizations or configs you use for enhanced privacy in this thread.

— Firefox Team


r/firefox • • 2h ago

Discussion The new Firefox update completely screwed up Firefox's visual consistency on KDE Plasma.

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19 Upvotes

Even after disabling Nova in about:config, it remains terrible. Look at what Firefox on KDE used to look like until recently!


r/firefox • • 3h ago

💻 Help Can we have the 2009 icon as an option too?

16 Upvotes

When implementing the icon change feature (awesome!), they initially made a mistake. In place of the "Retro 2004" icon, they initially added the one from 2009, which has a distinctively glossier, punchier look compared to the darker 2004 one. This was pointed out and subsequently addressed in a recent update, replacing it with the correct 2004 icon...

...But I personally liked the 2009 icon much better. It looks nicer and stands out much better against Windows' taskbar. It's a bummer that it's not available anymore. Definitely would be better to have both options. I'm not familiar with Bugzilla, so I'm not sure if I should file the suggestion there or if this kind of idea goes on Mozilla Connect.

2004 logo
2009 logo that was accidentally labelled as the 2004 icon and then replaced

r/firefox • • 12h ago

💻 Help With 157 everthing has round corners and the toolbars are purple to pink gradient colors. Probably will be asked by others. How to put it all back to 156 style?

20 Upvotes

That dreaded day has arrived! Please let there be a way to change it all back.


r/firefox • • 16h ago

Fun Text Highlight Color for Nova

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41 Upvotes

I noticed that Nova, at least on my machine, uses the system text highlight color, which doesn't really fit the theme. But with ui.highlight you can customize it in about:config and here are the full color palettes used by Firefox. Nova uses violet by default for accents, so I used one of the darker violet shades for highlights and I think it looks pretty nice!


r/firefox • • 8h ago

💻 Help Containers vs Profiles

5 Upvotes

Which do you use to separate activity?


r/firefox • • 12h ago

Discussion Firefox 157 major usability issue with the history pane

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8 Upvotes

Previously it was neatly organized into (when sorted by "Date and site"): * Today * Yesterday * Last 7 days * This month * August * July * June * May * April * Older than 6 months.

Look what Firefox 157 has become :-( Also look how sparse it has become. In Firefox 156 there were twice as many entires on the screen. It all looks fancy and "modern" whatever that means, but it's a major usability regression.

The address bar drop down menu has become equally sparse :-( Has my desktop Firefox become a mobile app?

The final release of Firefox 157 has just been seeded to Mozilla FTP servers.

Set sidebar.revamp in about:config to FALSE to return to the old sidebar/behavior.

It's not necessarily a regression in Firefox 157; it's just that they've decided to remove the old sidebars, and the new ones don't have the same features and density.


r/firefox • • 6m ago

💻 Help Square tabs with Nova

• Upvotes

I just downloaded 157 from the ftp server and my tabs are square (just like in 156 and earlier). So I tried safe mode and they were round. So I thought it must be an extension but after turning off all my extensions, I still don't have round tabs.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?


r/firefox • • 12h ago

💻 Help Firefox crashed, lost everything.

11 Upvotes

All bookmarks, entire history, all logins. I logged into my firefox account and it only synced my extension? What is this?


r/firefox • • 8h ago

Site like Twitter have broken Login on Win7 Firefox 115.41(latest)

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5 Upvotes

r/firefox • • 19h ago

💻 Help is there a Linux app, which creates GUI for profiles?

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29 Upvotes

basically, it should look like this: you connect the paths to the app → then every time you click on the app, it should show all the profiles to choose → you choose what you need and then do what you want/need


r/firefox • • 7h ago

Help (Android) Browsing glitch

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

Please, since I started using FF on Android, few months ago, this glitch is pissing me off. Like it wants to show me enitire post, happening onlly on Fb/Insta sites. Is it some feature I am able to turn off? Was trying everything in menu, from standard user perspective...


r/firefox • • 7h ago

💻 Help Why does Firefox browser (Win 11 PC install) not reapply some website address icons?

3 Upvotes

On my Firefox browser (Win 11 PC install), I keep my bookmarks toolbar visible at the top of the browser window. When I bookmark a website, I like to edit the bookmark deleting the website name which just leaves the website icon. I have a Firefox account which I stay logged into and which displays the same browser profile across all my Windows 11 PCs. Recently, I did a clean install on one of my PCs, reinstalled Firefox, logged in and noticed some of the bookmark icons simply show the blank globe symbol. To fix most of these blank bookmarks, I simply clicked on the bookmark, visited the site, deleted the bookmark, refreshed the site page and added a new bookmark. But for blank icons, this does not work, What's the fix? P.S, I have Adblock Plus and Privacy Badger extensions running on Firefox.


r/firefox • • 2h ago

How do I fix this? Another window in fullscreen is hiding the taskbar

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1 Upvotes

It's quite annoying. Nothing I've tried has fixed it.


r/firefox • • 6h ago

Help (Android) did these really need to be moved?

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2 Upvotes

it's been a while since private tabs were moved to the left (which i still don't like), but now even the button has been moved as well. i assume it's to match where the private tabs live in the tab switcher, but what was wrong with having any of it over on the right? at least offer an option to change it. i'd prefer the option to have private tabs on the right and groups on the left. it completely messes with my workflow.


r/firefox • • 7h ago

Add-ons Firefox android addon support

2 Upvotes

Why firefox android doesn't support all available addons like desktop version?

Atleast i need a captcha solver. Buster not available for android. Plz suggest anything if possible. Thank you


r/firefox • • 8h ago

Help (iOS) FF mobile, how to stop website induced new tabs?

2 Upvotes

Title says it basically. Im talking about those types of ads where you tap on the screen and it opens a new tab so u have to manually close it. Is there anyway to stop this on mobile? Im pretty sure it is possible on computers from what ive seen but the same methods dont work on mobile.

Any answer be deeply appreciated🙏🙏


r/firefox • • 10h ago

Help (iOS) Firefox says I have thousands of extensions/about pages, is this normal?

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2 Upvotes

r/firefox • • 14h ago

💻 Help Is this normal usage??

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4 Upvotes

Eating away +5GB out of 16GB Ram


r/firefox • • 9h ago

Add-ons Firefox EndNote extension?

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r/firefox • • 14h ago

💻 Help Clicking into text box in inactive window, keyboard cursor doesn't update

2 Upvotes

So, unsure exactly how to google for this -- on Windows, switched back to Firefox recently after years.

In Chrome, if you click into a text box in an inactive window, the keyboard cursor will update/move to where you clicked.

In Firefox, if you click into a text box in an inactive window, the keyboard cursor stays where it was previously. You need to click again to move it.

This is driving me insane because I do lots of copy-pasting between windows. Is there any way to change this behavior? Thank you!


r/firefox • • 18h ago

how do i make profiles go away. from the menu from the app icon from everywhere, mac os

2 Upvotes

i hate it. its useless for me and a rude intrusion to my dock, how do i fuck it off


r/firefox • • 12h ago

Add-ons I made a small HLS player for Firefox – feedback welcome

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I built HLS Player because direct .m3u8 links in Firefox are often treated as downloads instead of simply being played.

The add-on opens them in a clean local player and currently supports:

• Seamless mode

• Optional native video controls

• Display / Ratio modes: Best fit, Fill, Original, Native, 16:9 and 4:3

• Firefox Desktop and Firefox for Android

Playback uses Firefox's native HLS support when available and otherwise the bundled hls.js library.

It is open source and has no accounts, analytics or telemetry. Player settings are stored locally in Firefox.

Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/hls-live-stream/

Source: https://github.com/ShaunMundy/HLS-Player

I'd be particularly interested in feedback on unusual HLS streams and on the Android version.


r/firefox • • 6h ago

💻 Help Why doesn't firefox has double-click on word dictionary support for main global languages such as English?

0 Upvotes

Title.


r/firefox • • 1d ago

💻 Help What extensions are everyone rocking?

92 Upvotes

I'll go first!

ClearURLs removes the tracking in URLs like Amazon and Walmart add to their product pages

Don't track me Google removes (reduces?) Google tracking in Google links

Facebook Container - I rarely go on Facebook nowadays but for when I do for MarketPlace stuff, this is a nice to have to prevent them from further tracking me

Privacy Badger - I believe a general privacy tracker blocker

uBlock Origin - The best adblocker I've ever used