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My top tweaks:

-- Disable accessibility services https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/25/firefox-tip-turn-off-acces...

-- Enable webrender all https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/14/how-to-find-out-if-webrend...

-- Disable Pocket https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...

-- Add Ublock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

-- Disable Telemetry https://www.howtogeek.com/557929/how-to-see-and-disable-the-...

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Disable Pocket (two config toggles plus direct UI interaction with the Omnibar's Pocket icon)

  extensions.pocket.enabled = false
  extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs = false

It sort of annoys me that 'pocket' can't just be disabled from the UI bar to hide it everywhere, but that's not nearly as annoying as the last link you provided...

The Telemetry stuff is insanely invasive and really needs to all have one _system_ level toggle for it rather than the like _twenty_ different flags and settings (even with the 5 dupes from the article's dump cleaned up)...

  about:preferences#privacy
  Uncheck all
  .
  devtools.onboarding.telemetry.logged = false
  toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled = false
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry = false
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry = false
  browser.ping-centre.telemetry = false
  toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun = false
  toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.unified = false
  toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled = false
  devtools.onboarding.telemetry.logged = false
  toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled = false
  datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled = false
  datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled = false
  datareporting.sessions.current.clean = true
  .
  toolkit.telemetry.server = "" (empty string)

When I see this list, my question is, are there entries which are redundant and only in there, because the original author didn't understand them? From my understanding f.e.

toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false

Should disable everything under

toolkit.telemetry.*

Furthermore I would expect the UI flag to disable telemetry to overrule all other settings and globally disable telemetry

About half-way down: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

toolkit.telemetry.enabled and toolkit.telemetry.unified have a complex relationship.

  about:preferences#privacy
  Uncheck all
  .
  toolkit.telemetry.unified = false
  toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun = false
  datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled = false
  datareporting.sessions.current.clean = true

In a couple min of searching it looked unlikely that I'd find any current documentation about these flags, the bhrPing and hybridContent are probably remains, but were still present in my existing profiles.

  devtools.onboarding.telemetry.logged = false
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry = false
  browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry = false
  browser.ping-centre.telemetry = false
  toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled = false
  toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled = false

There are some additional prioping entries under the telemetry module which are associated with Nightly / dev builds.

That, plus TreeStyleTab because every monitor is wide enough to get rid of the tabs bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Try sidebery. I used to use treestyletab, but sidebery feels more modern. Its also easier to tweak with css :)

I used TreeStyleTab for a while but it never quite felt "right" and all the tweaks to get rid of the top tab bar are such a pain. It almost seems like too much with all the nested tabs (I know you can turn these off)

I hate to say it but the best vertical tab implementation I've seen is in Edge. Easily toggle-able between horizontal/vertical tabs, there's a way to collapse it to just favicons, you can use collections to group tabs together (like in Chrome). It's honestly one of the features that keeps me coming back to Edge, privacy be damned.

I think the only feature I really miss from Firefox is container tabs.

Aren't those vertical tab features all from Opera?

Probably, but Edge also has a lot of other features that I really like. It's all Chromium under the hood haha.

>nested tabs

For many users this is TST's main benefit.

Here is how i hide top tab bar with TreeStyleTab

  $ cat userChrome.css 
  /* Hide horizontal tabs at the top of the window */
  #main-window[tabsintitlebar="true"]:not([extradragspace="true"]) #TabsToolbar > .toolbar-items {
    opacity: 0;
    pointer-events: none;
  }
  #main-window:not([tabsintitlebar="true"]) #TabsToolbar {
      visibility: collapse !important;
  }
  
  /* Hide the "Tree Style Tab" header at the top of the sidebar */
  #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar-header {
    display: none;
  }

I prefer Simple Tab Groups and keep the tab bar.

gfx.webrender.all shouldn't be needed anymore. Does it make a difference for you? i.e. Does the value of "Compositor:" change if you change the pref and restart?

Kudos, just reset the about:config change and the about:support is still showing webrenderer on my Mobile and laptop.

Do you know if this includes all of the bells and whistles for webrenderer? I still see many webrenderer releated about:config options with false

Yep, this includes everything.

No, it doesn't. It doesn't seem webrender can be disabled anymore.

That first one only occurred on a small number of machines, and looks fixed now.

Have you seen ff config hardening by arkenfox?

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