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Firefox suggesting Autofill logins from other sites

By: ron

On: 2021-04-01

For some time the password-manager built into firefox presents for each website a long list with obviously not useful proposals: „Want to login into Amazon? Try the Azure-Password!“, Firefox whispers. A bug couldn’t be more annoying, but this is a feature. (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/) Hard to believe this could be useful for some corner case, but for daily usage i’d prefer to get only the right password for one web-site to get proposed. Fortunately you can turn it off: Thank you, i’v been thinking about switching to another browser. This is really a killer non-feature.Read More →

Firefox: „Certificate Viewer“ – How to disable

By: ron

On: 2021-02-03

In: awayfromevernote, stupid defaults

With: 0 Comments

Firefox 70 added a new „Certificate Viewer“ feature which moves the „Window“-based GUI to a „Web-Page“-View. different look no new features missing features Export Certificate So this is no „new feature“ but a „modification of an existing feature“ – with less features. Reenable the former full featuresetRead More →

Firefox: Don’t ignore the Windows Enterprise-CA Store

By: ron

On: 2021-02-02

In: awayfromevernote, stupid defaults

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Not a new Feature for Windows, to use an enterprise CA to create server certificates. And Firefox added the possibility to trust those certificates ages ago – but still you’ll get an TLS-error-message (in German „Kein Verbindungsversuch unternommen: Mögliches Sicherheitsproblem“). This is no Security-Problem, it’s just a problem of using stupid defaults causing people to waste their time and providing no little level of security, since a CA operated on my own is much more trustworthy than public CAs which firefox trusts blindly. Solution Open about:config and changeRead More →

Annoying Firefox-Defaults to be changed

By: ron

On: 2021-01-23

In: awayfromevernote, stupid defaults

With: 0 Comments

The Firefox-Developers know best what’s good for their users, so they hide a bunch of Settings in about:config so it’s hard to find them. Some of them I change in every Firefox installation: ask me if i want to download MP4-Files, disable the build-in Media-Player media.play-stand-alone = false use the DNS, not Google – if I enter a single word as URL keyword.enabled = false stop asking me if I really want to leave a page dom.disable_beforeunload := true stop autocompletion in the URL-Bar browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.prefix = (empty) browser.fixup.alternate.suffix = (empty) accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0 browser.fixup.alternate.suffix prod.localbrowser.fixup.domainwhitelist.wiki trueRead More →