Ungoogled-chromium: [User discussion] ungoogled-firefox (Librefox)

[intika]

Just published an equivalent work for firefox
https://github.com/intika/privafox-firefox

Privafox-Firefox : Tuning firefox settings (about:config) for a better security, privacy and performances. Firefox does not need to be rebuilt to be cleaned from privacy/security issues; as all settings can be changed in the about:config This project aim to fix all security/privacy issues related to firefox and also tune it to gain some speed performances.

[nchv]

Firefox does not need to be rebuilt to be cleaned from privacy/security issues; as all settings can be changed in the about:config

I question that and you should question it too (unless you have inspected personally all the millions of lines of code).

This project aim to fix all security/privacy issues related to firefox and also tune it to gain some speed performances.

This is an impossible task, so no serious project should ever claim even an attempt for full security and privacy, especially in conjunction with speed performance. Not only because security and speed are contradictory (in today's computer world) but also because of all the issues in the hardware itself which cannot be fixed - neither at kernel level, even less at browser settings level.

[intika]

I question that and you should question it too (unless you have inspected personally all the millions of lines of code).

i don't have the time to maintain a more elaborated version... but this work is based on a lot of other works aiming to secure firefox i am not alone watching settings changes over new versions... all what could be done at this scale is done... awaiting hardware manufacturer to come with a new solid machine we do what we can to solve/mitigate the problems

This is an impossible task, so no serious project should ever claim even an attempt for full security and privacy, especially in conjunction with speed performance. Not only because security and speed are contradictory (in today's computer world) but also because of all the issues in the hardware itself which cannot be fixed - neither at kernel level, even less at browser settings level.

Impossible is not in my vocabulary ^^ there is always 0days and there will always be uncovered exploits it is what it is now using Original-Firefox or Privafox-Firefox i prefer using the later... it does not solve everything nor make coffee lol but it aim to

One thing for sure the user have the choice if he want to enforce advanced settings like disabling javascript, but this is meant to remain usable.

[nchv]

i don't have the time to maintain a more elaborated version

This is quite different from the claim about aiming to fix all security/privacy. Also please bear in mind:

I am not alone != everyone who is with me is right
Aiming to secure != secure
Mitigation != fix
Not in my vocabulary != not a fact (and vice versa)
Usability <-> security (in today's computers)

In any case this is much more off-topic than the issue about implementing Tor functionality in UC, so we should probably stop here :)

[intika]

In any case this is much more off-topic than the issue about implementing Tor functionality in UC, so we should probably stop here :)

Indeed