user.js v.116

🦊 Firefox Release

• 116.0
  • 116.0.1 | 116.0.2 | 116.0.3

✅ Community Updates

• Betterfox has blasted off from 800 to 1800 ⭐ in the last two months 🔥 🚀 🌔 Thank you for the support!
• 🆕 We now have an ESR branch 🎉
• Betterfox is an optional install in the Floorp browser 🎊
• 🆕 Betterfox is now used in Waterfox, starting in G6 Beta 3 💦
  • Special thanks to Alex Kronos for helping us optimize prefs for performance and privacy 🙏

📝 Release Notes

• 116 beta changes
• 116 release changes
  • memory cache adjustment

General

• Fast, Secure, and Pesky all received a facelift to their documentation, esp. the former two
• The README is now more streamlined, with easy download instructions for new users
• While still WiP, we are making more use of the wiki

Fixes

• Added note in the user.js for Windows users to manually enable gfx.canvas.accelerated
  • Caused issues for Windows users with integrated GPUs.
• removed default-browser-agent.enabled as it breaks the Make Default... button in the Firefox UI
  • It also affected FF forks that use the user.js.
  • 🆕 Added this pref to the Optional Hardening document.
• improved network.dnsCacheExpiration for longer browsing sessions: set to 86400 (1 day)
  • This corrects an assumption from the 110 release about network.trr.mode (DoH) being enabled by default.
  • Note that dnsCache prefs only work for non-DoH users.
    • Recommended DoH solutions: NextDNS with Cache Boost or ControlD with TTL overrides.

Fastfox

• removed ineffective or unnecessary tweaks for performance
  • If your machine has > 8GB, then you're welcome to go through the Fastfox and increase values.
• added new network enhancements
• 🆕 disabled HTTP request pacing
• Speculative Connections category was moved from Securefox to Fastfox

Securefox

• strengthened secure connections:
  • enabled security.mixed_content.block_display_content
  • enabled security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation
  • see possible error codes
• removed out-of-scope categories and prefs:
  • PROXY / SOCKS / IPv6 category
  • geolocation category
  • browser.sessionstore.privacy_level pref
• removed privacy.query_stripping.strip_list as the params are default in Firefox

Peskyfox

• 🆕 Firefox will now ask to translate pages in certain foreign languages 💬
  • Set Firefox to auto-translate pages by adding user_pref("browser.translations.autoTranslate", true); to your overrides.
    • You can disable translations for specific languages or pages in URL bar.
• 🆕 disabled focus indicator for links
• disabled browser.aboutConfig.showWarning
• disabled browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled (affects Windows only AFAIK)