Important Pale Moon & Firefox Browser Add‑ons
Serge Y. Stroobandt
Copyright 2014–2019, licensed underneath Artistic Commons BY-NC-SA
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Introduction
- Mozilla Firefox
- Pale Moon
- Netscape legacy
- adheres to the FLOSS philosophy
- precursors of recent net expertise RSS, javascript, add-ons, chrome, computerized updates, tabs
- copied by Microsoft and Google
- requirements compliant acid check
- The add-ons are what makes this browser so nice.
- plethora
- A lot of modifications had been launched to the person interface since Firefox variations 29 & 34; not all for the higher. Traditional Theme Restorer
- different to standing bar in Pale Moon
- All extensions particular to Pale Moon
- Firefox add-ons with compatibility points on Pale Moon
Don’t monitor
Right here is methods to set Do Not Observe from the menu: Edit > Preferences > Privateness > Monitoring. Nevertheless, Do Not Observe will also be set from the about:config URI. As a matter of reality, about:config could be thought-about the most popular route, as extra configuration variables should be set to make sure privateness. (See beneath.)
Do Not Observe
about:config
Coming into about:config within the deal with bar will carry up an interface for viewing and setting a large number of configuration variables, a lot of which aren’t in any other case accessible by means of the GUI. Take the vow of being cautious and enter beneath key values within the search discipline. Double click on to vary boolean values.
| key | new worth | FF | PM |
|---|---|---|---|
browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing |
false |
✓ | ✓ |
browser.search.showOneOffButtons |
false |
✓ | ✗ |
browser.sessionstore.interval |
1800000 |
✓ | ✓ |
canvas.poisondata |
true |
✗ | ✓ |
community.standard-url.escape-utf8 |
false |
✓ | ✓ |
privateness.donottrackheader.enabled |
true |
✓ | ✓ |
privateness.trackingprotection.enabled |
true |
✓ | |
safety.dialog_enable_delay |
|
✓ | ✓ |
social.* |
false or '' |
✓ | ✓ |
view_source.editor.exterior |
true |
✓ | ✓ |
view_source.editor.path |
gvim |
✓ | ✓ |
- The
browser.sessionstore.intervalsetting in milliseconds is probably the most vital right here, as a result of Firefox is consuming your SSD. - Pale Moon consists of an choice to make canvas fingerprinting far more troublesome. By setting the
about:config choice canvas.poisondatatotrue, any knowledge learn again from canvas surfaces might be “poisoned” with humanly imperceptible knowledge modifications. By default this feature is switched off, due to its massive efficiency impression on routines studying this knowledge.
Listed below are some extra cool about:config suggestions.
Safety
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
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Belgium eID | ✓ | ✓ | This Firefox add-on permits use of the Belgian digital id card (BeID) for authentication and signing functions. Moreover requires eID middleware and a card reader driver (e.g. ACR38). Lastly, additionally, you will must manually edit the belief settings of the Belgian Root Certificates in Firefox. Model 1.0.23 works accurately with Pale Moon. |
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Certificates Patrol | ✓ | ✓ | Reveals when a HTTPS certificates has been up to date, permitting one to test the legitimacy of this modification. |
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Flashblock | ✓ | ✓ | Adobe Flash’s safety file has brought on a number of safety specialists to suggest to both not set up Flash or to dam it. Additionally Steve Jobs closely criticised the safety of Flash Participant, noting that “Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009.” |
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HTTPS In every single place | ✓ | ✓ | Encrypt the Internet! Let Firefox routinely use HTTPS safety on many websites. Certificates can optionally be checked by the EFF SSL Observatory. |
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Parental Controls | ✓ | MetaCert’s dynamic realtime, cloud-based content material filtering system which provides many 1000’s of recent pages each hour. MetaCert blocks 700+ million pages of pornography. That’s greater than Norton, McAfee and OpenDNS mixed! |
Privateness
With out taking particular precautions, one occurs to be far much less nameless on the web than presumed.
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| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Adblock Latitude | ✗ | ✓ | This can be a direct fork of Adblock Plus made particularly for the Pale Moon browser. |
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µBlock | ✓ | ✗ | µBlock is able to blocking out virtually all advertisements; together with the advertisements on this web site! It is apparently extra environment friendly on CPU and reminiscence than Adblock Plus. Much more importantly, it’s not disloyal to its customers, in contrast to Adblock Plus which has repeatedly been reported to cheat on its customers! |
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Crush These Cookies | ✗ | ✓ | Do away with a web site’s cookies together with its Adobe Flash (Native Shared Objects) from the second the pertaining tab is closed. This occurs to be the closest one can get to cookieless looking with out tedious micromanaging or breaking each different web site. ATTENTION: Make sure you filter out the whitelist whenever you begin out with this extension. Add-ons → Extensions → Self-Destructing Cookies → Preferences → Edit Whitelist → Take away All Websites |
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Self-Destructing Cookies | ✓ | ✗ | Do away with a web site’s cookies together with its Adobe Flash (Native Shared Objects) from the second the pertaining tab is closed. This occurs to be the closest one can get to cookieless looking with out tedious micromanaging or breaking each different web site. ATTENTION: Make sure you filter out the whitelist whenever you begin out with this extension. Add-ons → Extensions → Self-Destructing Cookies → Preferences → Edit Whitelist → Take away All Websites |
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Flashblock | ✓ | ✓ | Selectively permitting Flash could forestall Adobe Flash cookies from being set throughout a looking session. |
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Privateness Badger | ✓ | ✗ | A browser add-on of the Digital Frontier Basis (EFF) which stops advertisers and different third-party trackers from secretly monitoring the place you go and what pages you have a look at on the net. If an advertiser appears to be monitoring you throughout a number of web sites with out your permission, Privateness Badger routinely blocks that advertiser from loading any extra content material in your browser. To the advertiser, it’s as should you instantly disappeared. |
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anonymoX | ✓ | ✗ | Restore your anonymity on the net and achieve entry to blocked or censored web sites by tunnelling your IP-traffic by means of one of many many anonymoX proxy servers. As of just lately, anonymoX began introducing advert popups on sure pages. So, use with warning and solely when completely necesary! |
Above-listed countermeasures are solely partially efficient. Each browser will share details about its configuration with the websites it visits. This suggests {that a} browser is traceable to the level of its uniqueness. The Digital Frontier Basis (EFF) provides a free service to check the uniqueness of your browser configuration. For many of us, the outcomes are sobering. If all you need is to be much less traceable, use a “Private Browsing Window” in Firefox. Nevertheless, should you care about privateness, assume that any system is compromised by default. To attain the highest quantity of anonymity on the net at the moment obtainable, use Tor from a Linux-based OS that’s working from read-only media (e.g. a DVD) or a digital machine (VM) surroundings that’s recognized to be clear. The Tails GNU/Linux distribution will cater for these particular privateness wants. Additionally, use an web entry level that you just often don’t use since all governments are tapping into ISP entry information.
Energy administration
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Flashblock | ✓ | ✓ | Steve Jobs was proper; Don’t let Adobe Flash eat your battery! |
Person interface
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Traditional Theme Restorer | ✓ | ✗ | Restores the person interface to the pre model 29 look with add-on bar. |
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Darkish Backgrounds Switcher | ✓ | ✗ | Permits for night-time studying while stopping eye pressure, melatonin deficiency and sleep problems. At the flick of a button, this add-on will change the background black and set the textual content color to yellow or white. |
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GlobalFindBar | ✓ | ✗ | Reverts findbar to pre model 25 behaviour; i.e. discover phrases are international over all tabs. Dedoimedo additionally defined this in additional saucy phrases. |
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My CopyFixer | ✓ | ✓ | Use [Ctrl]+[C] when nothing is chosen to repeat the web page title and URL in varied codecs. Requires Traditional Theme Restorer. |
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It’s All Textual content! | ✓ | (✓) | This extension permits one to make use of his/her favorite textual content editor —like Vim as an illustration— to edit massive textual content blocks within the browser. Model 1.9.2 works with Pale Moon. |
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Velocity Dial | ✓ | ✓ | Organise favorite web sites in teams of fast dial buttons with stay preview photographs. |
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Tab Combine Plus | ✓ | ✓ | Improve Firefox’s tab looking capabilities. This add-on consists of such options as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking choices, undo closed tabs and home windows, plus far more. It additionally features a full-featured session supervisor with crash restoration that may save and restore mixture of opened tabs and home windows. Model 4.1.9pre.150815a1 works with Pale Moon. |
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VimFx | ✓ | (✓) | When you get used to modal textual content enhancing with Vim, your fingers will yearn for an add-on like VimFx! This extension provides Vim-style keyboard shortcuts for looking and navigation, successfully eliminating the want for a pc mouse. Model 0.5.3.1-signed works with Pale Moon. Nevertheless, be sure to disable updates for this particular add-on, by deciding on this from about:addons → VimFX → Extra. |
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xclear | ✓ | ✓ | Clear the contents of search fields and the navigation bar on the click on of a button. |
Downloading
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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MozArchiver | ✗ | ✓ | MIME HyperText (MHT) is Web Explorer’s single file net web page archiving format. Whereas the Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF), by means of its use of ZIP, leads to far more compact archive information for net pages containing video or audio. MozArchiver saves and opens each file codecs. |
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UnMHT | ✓ | (✓) | Save full net pages, together with textual content and graphics, right into a single MHT file. Permits for computerized filename string replacements by means of its in depth choice settings. Model 7.3.0.5.1-signed works with Pale Moon, however at the moment just for saving. |
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Video DownloadHelper | ✓ | ✓ | Obtain sequence of video and picture hyperlinks abruptly. Model 4.9.24.1-signed works with Pale Moon. |
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Internet Developer | ✓ | ✓ | Provides varied net developer instruments to the browser. |
Actual-time data
Most of beneath extensions are designed to indicate extra real-time data within the add-on bar on the backside of the browser window. Nevertheless, since Firefox model 29 the standing bar is now not obtainable by default. Use the Traditional Theme Restorer extension (see earlier part) to regain the standing bar.
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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FoxClocks | ✓ | use Pale Moon model | Reveals occasions across the world within the standing bar. Daylight saving time is routinely handled. Requires Traditional Theme Restorer. |
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Solar Cult | ✓ | Worldwide Dawn, Sundown, Twilight, Moonrise and Moonset… | |
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Climate Watcher Reside | ✓ | Get real-time climate circumstances, hourly & each day forecasts, and extreme alerts from WeatherBug and NWS climate stations. | |
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What’s the Tide? | ✓ | ✓ | Present up-to-date worldwide tidal knowledge within the standing bar, from whatsthetide.com. |
Maps
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Fast Maps | ✓ | Get a Google Maps™ tooltip field connected to any deal with on any web site or spotlight textual content + use right-click menu to indicate it on a map instantly! |
Spell Checkers
Spell checkers to be used in kind fields are put in routinely with (X)Ubuntu on a system large degree. Firefox —and for that matter Pale Moon— is not going to bear in mind the default spell checking language because of a persistant software program bug.
This may be remedied by putting in one —and just one— spell test dictionary add‑on. This can then create the lacking Dictionaries tab within the Add‑on view. Extra importantly, this single dictionary add‑on will impose the default spell checking language upon Firefox and Pale Moon. In the meantime, another system large languages stay obtainable.
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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British English Dictionary | ✓ | ✓ | British Dictionary model 2 for Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, forked by Marco A. G. Pinto. |
Dictionaries
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Oxford Dictionaries | ✓ | ✓ | Search Oxford Dictionaries On-line for World English phrase definitions, pronunciation, instance sentences and etymology. No subscription required. |
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S3 Google Translator | ✓ | ✓ | Add the energy of Google Translate’s computerized translations to your browser! Helps the translation of chosen textual content, an entered phrase or a complete webpage between any of 80+ languages. |
Encyclopædia
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia (SSL) | ✓ | ✓ | Encrypt data-exchange with the English language Wikipedia utilizing SSL, with these limitations. | |
| Wikipedia DE SSL | ✓ | ✓ | Encrypt knowledge trade with the German language Wikipedia utilizing SSL, with these limitations. | |
| Wikipedia (fr) | ✓ | ✓ | Non-encrypted French language Wikipedia | |
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Wikipedia (es) | ✓ | ✓ | Non-encrypted Spanish language Wikipedia |
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Wikipedia (nl) | ✓ | ✓ | Non-encrypted Dutch language Wikipedia |
Engines like google
| icon | add-on | FF | PM | use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Firefox Add-ons | ✓ | ✓ | Maybe the most hidden search engine of all of them; As soon as on the Firefox Add-on net web page, click on on the down arrow within the browser’s search discipline and choose “Add Firefox Add-on”. Now you should utilize this search engine to search for a particular Firefox add-on. |
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Ixquick HTTPS Privateness Search Engine | ✓ | ✓ | Ixquick.nl is the Dutch English-language counterpart of Startpage.com, “the world’s most private search engine” — if we could imagine this. Anyhow, being positioned within the Netherlands, this browser is topic to European rules which have a tendency to guard privateness far more so than US laws. |
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Search by Picture for Google | ✓ | ✓ | Proper click on on an picture to rapidly discover larger decision variations through Google Reverse Picture search. |
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