It is also available for Android and iOS. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix. Firefox is available for Windows 10 or later versions, macOS, and Linux. In November 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name ' Quantum' to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Gecko, Quantum, and SpiderMonkey WebKit on iOS C++, JavaScript, HTML, C, Rust, and others 'Make Startpage your default search engine in Firefox'.

Sync: set up sync for bookmarks only and turn on.DNS over HTTPS: If desktop at home, turn Off to use system DNS resolver(s), if a laptop set to 'Default Protection'.amd 'Improve the Firefox Suggest experience' Privacy & Security: Turn off 'Suggestions from the web', 'Suggestions from sponsors'.Privacy & Security: Uncheck everything under 'Logins and Passwords', 'Forms and Autofill', and 'Address Bar - Firefox Suggest'.Search: set Default Search Engine to Startpage.Home: set a custom URL as the homepage, set new tabs to Blank Page.Performance: uncheck both 'Use recommended performance settings' and 'Use hardware acceleration'.Import Browser Data: bookmarks only (usually from an HTML bookmarks backup).MimeType=text/html text/xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml application/rss+xml application/rdf+xml image/gif image/jpeg image/png x-scheme-handler/http x-scheme-handler/https x-scheme-handler/ftp x-scheme-handler/chrome video/webm application/x-xpinstall Īfter installation, I usually make the following changes in the browser's Settings: Icon=/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png Keywords=Internet WWW Browser Web Explorer I then create a file for the desktop shortcut: Once extracted, I make a symlink from /opt/firefox/firefox to /usr/local/bin/firefox. The following procedure was tested with Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running the default Gnome desktop.įor Linux desktops (and laptops) I install Firefox to /opt/firefox by downloading and extracting the latest binary package from Mozilla to /opt/firefox ( tar xjf firefox-120.0.1.tar.bz2 sudo mv firefox /opt/ chown -R root:staff /opt/firefox). Firefox on Desktop new install checklist (Linux) Installation

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