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Yulan

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Registered: 2023-07-25

Posts: 2

How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

I followed this leadership https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy
But this did not protect my browser
Problems even arise in Cloudflare. Because there is no way to replace through about:config property navigator.appVersion
I replaced general.oscpu.override on Windows NT 10.0 and that's all that is available
navigator.appVersion shows 5.0 (X11) but on Windows it shows a different meaning. Because of this, you can understand that I use Firefox on Linux and all the privacy comes down to zero
Are there any solutions or browsers based on Firefox to solve it?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,111

Re: How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc … appVersion

On my firefox that property doesn't exist, have you tried deleting it ?

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Yulan

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Registered: 2023-07-25

Posts: 2

Re: How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc … appVersion

On my firefox that property doesn't exist, have you tried deleting it ?

It cannot be removed, for this need to compile the browser and deal with the source code for a long time. What is your system? I have arch linux and will have to install windows to check

Last edited by Yulan (2023-07-25 11:47:39)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,111

Re: How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

just archlinux, when searching about:config for navigator.a (search is case-insensitive)  it only finds 2 properties :

media.navigator.audio.fake_frequency
media.navigator.audio.use_fec

Below those 2 there is a line to create a new option with the searched name.
Normally that means that property doesn't exist .

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Ferdinand

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From: Norway

Registered: 2020-01-02

Posts: 338

Re: How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

I have only the same two settings as Lone_Wolf.
Considering this property is deprecated, maybe it's down to Firefox version?
I have 115.0.2-1, what do you have?

Btw. if you want good protection in Firefox, I recommend Enhanced Tracking Protection, and using add-ons such as ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, Facebook container, Firefox multi-account containers, NoScript (build up a good block-list, so you don't have to click so much), Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin

Last edited by Ferdinand (2023-07-25 16:45:03)

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growler

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Registered: 2022-09-26

Posts: 25

Re: How to make Firefox private and not distinguishable from Windows

I followed this leadership https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy
But this did not protect my browser
Problems even arise in Cloudflare. Because there is no way to replace through about:config property navigator.appVersion
I replaced general.oscpu.override on Windows NT 10.0 and that's all that is available
navigator.appVersion shows 5.0 (X11) but on Windows it shows a different meaning. Because of this, you can understand that I use Firefox on Linux and all the privacy comes down to zero
Are there any solutions or browsers based on Firefox to solve it?

User-Agent Switcher ? (Firefox Add-ons)