Serious Discussion Firefox 145 and new Anti-fingerprint protections.

[Jonny Quest]

Leave privacy.resistFingerprinting on false. This setting is hidden on purpose and is only for paranoid people; it disables pretty much every possible identifier, lowers down refresh rate, massively reduces performance and breaks a lot of websites. I tried it and I had terrible experience surfing the web.

You can set Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) to Strict for maximum protection and it won't break the websites though. You can also check Fix major site issues and Fix minor site issues to minimize breaking.

LOL...so it wasn't just me when I enabled it to True, and found the couple of webpages I visited loading slowly. Thanks again for your help

 

[Marko :)]

LOL...so it wasn't just me when I enabled it to True, and found the couple of webpages I visited loading slowly. Thanks again for your help

Glad I could help!

Oh yeah, ETP set on Strict will block Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok embeds from loading on websites. You'll have to click on blue button to show the element every time. I fixed this by adding following entries in about:config.

urlclassifier.features.socialtracking.skipURLs = https://www.facebook.com/*,https://*.fbcdn.net/*,https://www.instagram.com/*,https://platform.twitter.com/*,https://*.twimg.com/*

urlclassifier.trackingSkipURLs = https://www.facebook.com/*,https://*.fbcdn.net/*,https://www.instagram.com/*,https://platform.twitter.com/*,https://*.twimg.com/*,https://www.tiktok.com/embed*,https://*.reddit.com/*

These entries allow social media embeds on websites, but block everything else. If you don't care about embeds, you don't have to do this and enjoy faster website loading.

 

[lokamoka820]

Glad I could help!

Oh yeah, ETP set on Strict will block Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok embeds from loading on websites. You'll have to click on blue button to show the element every time. I fixed this by adding following entries in about:config.

urlclassifier.features.socialtracking.skipURLs = https://www.facebook.com/*,https://*.fbcdn.net/*,https://www.instagram.com/*,https://platform.twitter.com/*,https://*.twimg.com/*

urlclassifier.trackingSkipURLs = https://www.facebook.com/*,https://*.fbcdn.net/*,https://www.instagram.com/*,https://platform.twitter.com/*,https://*.twimg.com/*,https://www.tiktok.com/embed*,https://*.reddit.com/*

These entries allow social media embeds on websites, but block everything else. If you don't care about embeds, you don't have to do this and enjoy faster website loading.

I don't use social media at all, would you advise me to set my ETP to "Strict" for my situation?

 

[Marko :)]

I don't use social media at all, would you advise me to set my ETP to "Strict" for my situation?

ETP on Strict doesn't block social media at all. Even if you used it, you could continue using it with setting enabled. The only thing this setting blocks are social media embeds, that's all.

Should you add these exceptions in about:config? It's entirely up to you.
If you want to see social media embeds here on forum, or news sites, then yes (so you don't have to click allow every single time).
If you don't care about social media embeds, then no. As a benefit, websites will load faster as Firefox doesn't have to load resource from third party.

 

[Jonny Quest]

@Sampei.Nihira I don't mean to derail your thread again..LOL but, what is this forum boards software? With FF when I add an emoticon the cursor stays on the left side of it, and I can't get it on the right side to continue typing. Is there a work around or a trick to get past it? With Brave and Chrome it was never an issue. @harlan4096 or @silversurfer do you have any suggestions or ideas other than using a Chromium browser? This was Perplexities' reply:

This behavior is caused by a known incompatibility/bug between Firefox’s text editor behavior and the rich‑text editor used by some forums (often XenForo and similar software).

What is happening
Many forums convert emoticons into inline images or special emoji elements inside a contenteditable editor.
Firefox sometimes mishandles the caret (text cursor) around these elements, “pinning” the cursor to the left side so you cannot move it to the right with the mouse or arrow keys as expected.

Why it’s Firefox‑specific
The same forum editor usually works correctly in Chromium‑based browsers (Chrome, Edge, etc.), which indicates the problem is in how Firefox handles the DOM and caret around emoji/image elements, not the forum itself.

Forum developers have reported and worked around this as a Firefox‑only cursor placement bug when inserting smileys/emojis.
What you can do
Try another browser on the same forum; if the problem disappears, it confirms the Firefox/editor interaction as the cause.Check if the forum offers a plain‑text or BBCode editor mode; using that often avoids the buggy rich‑text handling around emoticons.

 

[SeriousHoax]

@Sampei.Nihira I don't mean to derail your thread again..LOL but, what is this forum boards software? With FF when I add an emoticon the cursor stays on the left side of it, and I can't get it on the right side to continue typing. Is there a work around or a trick to get past it? With Brave and Chrome it was never an issue. @harlan4096 or @silversurfer do you have any suggestions or ideas other than using a Chromium browser? This was Perplexities' reply:

I have faced this in the past also in Firefox when I used it. I might have even reported this in the forum issue thread. For Firefox for Android, there are also issues, such as holding down the Like button doesn't behave properly.
Jack probably can't fix this since the reply you got from Perplexi indicate that it's an issue with of the forum software.

 

[Jonny Quest]

I have faced this in the past also in Firefox when I used it. I might have even reported this in the forum issue thread. For Firefox for Android, there are also issues, such as holding down the Like button doesn't behave properly.
Jack probably can't fix this since the reply you got from Perplexi indicate that it's an issue with of the forum software.

Thank you I also found Brave and Chrome's clipboard to be easier to use (cleared previous clips), more user friendly than FF.

 

[simmerskool]

@Sampei.Nihira I don't mean to derail your thread again..LOL but, what is this forum boards software? With FF when I add an emoticon the cursor stays on the left side of it, and I can't get it on the right side to continue typing. Is there a work around or a trick to get past it? With Brave and Chrome it was never an issue. @harlan4096 or @silversurfer do you have any suggestions or ideas other than using a Chromium browser? This was Perplexities' reply:

yeah I see this too with firefox but more so I think in linux, in win10 I do not recall it as an issues, (but I could be mistaken)