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Changes using the Pale Moon everyday preferences/options dialog.

This documentation is from before the minor changes in 27.5.0 (2017-09-26).

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• either

  • Tools > Options
  • or
  • Edit > Preferences

General ∞

Startup

• When Firefox starts: [Show my windows and tabs from last time]

  • BAD DEFAULT – The web browser should remember tabs by default. This is a motherfucking important feature.
  • A new tab already covers the concept of a home page.

• Home Page: about:blank

Tabs ∞

• [x] Insert related tabs next to the current tab

Content ∞

[Colors]

Web Page Color Scheme
When a web page asks for my preferred color scheme:
(o) Use dark colors

Languages

(the defaults are fine)

• NOTE – Changing language preferences may be a security issue! Does it request the language from the website somehow?

Applications ∞

(the defaults are fine)

Privacy ∞

Data Privacy
[x] Tell sites not to share or sell my data

Spoiler

The old “Tell sites that I do not want to be tracked” was a bit of an unusual concept. Websites can disregard this. Furthermore, then can note this preference (browser fingerprinting), so it’s leaking information.

Location Bar

• When using the location bar, suggest:

[x] History
[_] Bookmarks
[_] Open tabs

The history (control-h) already has a search feature.

Open tabs might be a good idea, if it weren’t annoying as fuck when you want to open a new tab with the same link. You can’t cursor down, and control-enter to open it as a new tab, as you can elsewhere.

Security ∞

Passwords

• [_] Remember passwords for sites

  • Firefox (and therefore Pale Moon) is not trustworthy for keeping passwords!
    – Use a specialized piece of software like KeePassXC

Sync ∞

(The defaults are fine. That is, don’t use it.)

I don’t use this functionality. Holy fuck, why ever would I want to leak out my personal information?

Advanced ∞

General ∞

Browsing

• [_] Search for text when I start typing

Network ∞

(the defaults are fine)

Update ∞

Automatically update:

• [_] Search Engines

  • Fuck no. I don’t even use this functionality.

Certificates ∞

(the defaults are fine)

Scrolling ∞

(the defaults are fine)