sensible-config-firefox

A fork of mobile-config-firefox which removes mobile specific features making it suitable for desktop computers, laptops and laptops with touch screen.

Changes from default Firefox configuration

• Enable zooming with fingers
• Disable Firefox studies
• Disable Telemetry
• Set DuckDuckGo as default search engine
• Empty homepage
• Empty "new tab" page
• No default bookmarks from Firefox
• Disable First Run Page
• Disable Post Update Page
• Disable "User Messaging" (What's new, Extension/Feature Recommendations, Urlbar Interventions)
• Disable Pocket

Changes from mobile-config-firefox

• Remove mobile user agent
• Do not disable search suggestions
• Remove custom start page
• Remove layout customizations

How to install and use

# make install

After restarting Firefox, configuration should be applied. If you are experiencing issues with touch input (scrolling selects text), launch Firefox with the MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=yes variable set.

upstream: mobile-config-firefox