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PrivacyFox tweaks various preferences in Firefox in order to enhance the privacy of users; it will also try to enforce these changes to maintain your privacy online.
Affected Preferences
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Preference</th> <th>Default</th> <th>New</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>media.peerconnection.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>WebRTC can leak a users IP address from behind a VPN or proxy.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>network.websocket.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Websockets can cause some dns requests to not be send over the active proxy.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>network.http.sendRefererHeader</td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>Tells the server which page the user came from.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Tells the server which https page the user came from.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>network.dnsCacheEntries</td> <td>400</td> <td>100</td> <td>Number of cached DNS entries (lower number=more requests but less data stored).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>privacy.trackingprotection.enabled</td> <td>false</td> <td>true</td> <td>This is Mozilla’s new built in tracking protection.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Websites can get notifications if you copy, paste, or cut something from a web page, and it lets them know which part of the page had been selected.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>dom.event.contextmenu.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables website control over rightclick context menu.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>geo.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables geolocation.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>geo.wifi.logging.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables logging geolocation requests.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.formfill.enable</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables saving of formdata.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.safebrowsing.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disable Google Safe Browsing and phishing protection. Security risk, but privacy improvement.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disable Google Safe Browsing malware checks. Security risk, but privacy improvement.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.send_pings</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Allows websites to track users clicks.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.cache.disk.enable</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables caching on hardrive.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables caching for ssl connections.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>browser.cache.offline.enable</td> <td>true</td> <td>false</td> <td>Disables the offline disk cache.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>webgl.disabled</td> <td>false</td> <td>true</td> <td>WebGL is a potential security risk.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>References
STUN IP Address requests for WebRTC
Firefox security bug (proxy-bypass) in current TBBs
Tracking Protection in Firefox