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Firefox on Desktop new install checklist (Linux)

Installation

The following procedure was tested with Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running the default Gnome desktop.

For Ubuntu Desktop I use the Mozilla Team PPA (add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa) to install Firefox.

Post install customization

After installation, I usually make the following changes in the browser's Settings:

  1. Make Firefox the default browser
  2. Import Browser Data: bookmarks only (usually from an HTML bookmarks backup)
  3. Replace your existing user.js with that from "Betterfox" [1]
  4. Website appearance: Dark
  5. Home: set a custom URL as the homepage, set new tabs to Blank Page
  6. Firefox Home Content: uncheck all
  7. Search: set Default Search Engine to DuckDuckGo
  8. DNS over HTTPS: If desktop at home, turn Off to use system DNS resolver(s), if a laptop set to "Default Protection"
  9. Sync: set up sync for bookmarks only and turn on
  10. Themes: Dark
  11. Install extensions: uBlock Origin, Bitwarden

[1] "Betterfox" provides a consistent approach to improving Firefox privacy and performance via a customized user.js file. Yokoffing. Betterfox [Software]. GitHub, https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox.

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