Firefox Config

Description:

In my quest to move from closed source to open source, I decided to move my web browsing from Chrome to Firefox. Here are the steps I used:

To Resolve:

1. After installation, first thing is Hamburger menu (top right) - Customize - Themes - Dark

2. Download, install, configure Extensions (as of 2019-06):
   • uBlock Origin
   • Bitwarden - Free Password Manager
   • Black New Tab
   • Close Right Tabs Button
   • Download History Cleaner (Eraser)
   • Greasemonkey
   • HTTPS Everywhere
   • Notifier for Gmail™
   • Print to PDF
   • Stylus

3. Now we configure Firefox itself, open a new tab and type about:config and select yes, I agree

   • In the Search field box at the top, type browser.tabs.warn and set the first 3 to false (warnOnClose, warnOnCloseOtherTabs, warnOnOpen)
   • I think these sync now by the following settings, but verify:
   • services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.tabs.warnOnClose = True
   • services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.tabs.warnOnOpen = True

4. Customize:

   • Set the address bar from Left to right as follows:

   • Back, forward, reload, home, => Clear tabs Right (extension) => Address bar => Downloads (but check the auto-hide option), uBlock, Bitwarden, Notifier for Gmail

   • All other extensions go to Overflow menu

5. Finally, Add Download history cleaner as the very last item on the overflow menu. Click that button every time I download something to hide the download icon on main taskbar.