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#26 2017-03-10 08:53:18

Wilco
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Registered: 2008-11-09
Posts: 440

Re: Firefox privacy patches

New version is up, 52.0 ESR. It took some time to make sure FF does not connect to any site on a fresh profile.

Good news:

  • Pocket and Loop have been taken out by the devs

  • Overall few compilation problems

Bad news:

  • Requires an old autoconf version

  • There are still pieces of Pocket code left and compiled in, I had to create a new patch

  • On a new profile (and slightly less on an existing profile) FF now connects to a ton of sites for various reasons: malware blacklists, phising lists, unsafe downloads, etc.

  • Disabling these options in about:config is not enough! FF still connects to a lot of sites unless you empty the safebrowsing URLs.

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#27 2017-03-22 07:54:19

Perfect Gentleman
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 222

Re: Firefox privacy patches

@Wilco, is it a feature that "Restore previous session" doesn't work, always empty tabs ?

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#28 2017-08-11 08:36:19

Perfect Gentleman
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 222

Re: Firefox privacy patches

@Wilco, there is patch to remove unneeded extensions/features - https://github.com/perfect7gentleman/pg … ures.patch, you can adopt it to ESR-version.

Last edited by Perfect Gentleman (2017-08-11 08:37:06)

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#29 2017-12-17 05:38:28

processbit
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Registered: 2017-12-17
Posts: 1

Re: Firefox privacy patches

Was just wondering if this project is still active? Looking for a patch for the shield component if anyone can help? Thank you.

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#30 2018-07-26 09:22:01

Wilco
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Registered: 2008-11-09
Posts: 440

Re: Firefox privacy patches

After a long absence there is an update to the latest ESR, 60.1.0 at this moment

I've tested the browser intensively for the last few weeks, including tests with Wireshark. It completely prevents all automatic contact with external URLs, both on new profiles and existing profiles.

Some new features:
- Default search engine is now DuckDuckGo
- The new tab page is completely functional, except Pocket and auto recommend sites are completely removed
- The degenerate software known as PulseAudio is not needed when running Firefox, only when compiling

Overall there is a lot more pinging from Firefox to other sites by default in FF 60. However, Mozilla has done a good job of preventing information disclosure and I'm impressed with the way the vanilla topsites are implemented, it seems to properly protect your privacy. This patch however completely removes all automatic pings and updates to remote sites.

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#31 2018-07-26 18:04:10

jbenge1
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Registered: 2018-04-09
Posts: 151

Re: Firefox privacy patches

this interests me very much so, however when trying to install from the AUR I am confronted by a validity check error

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    firefox-60.1.0esr.source.tar.xz ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-data-sharing-infobar.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-location.services.mozilla.com.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-pocket-leftovers.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-newtab-page-remote.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-reader.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-telemetry.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-prefs.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-first-run-privacy-policy.patch ... Passed
    firefox.desktop ... Passed
    mozconfig ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pas the validity check!

I'm wondering if this is something I'm assuming I am doing something incorrectly. Here are the steps I followed (and do so with every aur package I have installed, so maybe like 2 hmm  )

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-esr-privacy.git
Cloning into 'firefox-esr-privacy'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 128, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (128/128), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (68/68), done.
remote: Total 128 (delta 75), reused 102 (delta 60)
Receiving objects: 100% (128/128), 88.75 KiB | 1.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (75/75), done.
$ cd firefox-esr-privacy/
$ less PKGBUILD 
$ makepkg -si

Also I apologize as well if this is not the thread to bring this up on!


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#32 2018-07-30 07:27:17

Wilco
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Registered: 2008-11-09
Posts: 440

Re: Firefox privacy patches

jbenge1 wrote:

this interests me very much so, however when trying to install from the AUR I am confronted by a validity check error

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    firefox-60.1.0esr.source.tar.xz ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-data-sharing-infobar.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-location.services.mozilla.com.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-pocket-leftovers.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-newtab-page-remote.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-reader.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-telemetry.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-prefs.patch ... Passed
    firefox-60-disable-first-run-privacy-policy.patch ... Passed
    firefox.desktop ... Passed
    mozconfig ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pas the validity check!

I'm wondering if this is something I'm assuming I am doing something incorrectly. Here are the steps I followed (and do so with every aur package I have installed, so maybe like 2 hmm  )

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-esr-privacy.git
Cloning into 'firefox-esr-privacy'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 128, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (128/128), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (68/68), done.
remote: Total 128 (delta 75), reused 102 (delta 60)
Receiving objects: 100% (128/128), 88.75 KiB | 1.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (75/75), done.
$ cd firefox-esr-privacy/
$ less PKGBUILD 
$ makepkg -si

Also I apologize as well if this is not the thread to bring this up on!

Good find, the mozconfig wasn't checked in yet. If you download the snapshot again it should compile without errors.

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