🦊 Firefox Privacy Toolkit – Beginner’s Guide (2025)

Take back control of your browser with this step-by-step privacy upgrade. This guide is written for beginners who want a faster, safer, and less invasive browsing experience using free and open-source tools.

✅ Step 1: Adjust Firefox Settings

Go to Settings → Privacy & Security and make these changes:

Enhanced Tracking Protection → Strict
Cookies and Site Data → Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
Send websites a “Do Not Track” signal → Always
Firefox Data Collection → Uncheck all boxes

⚙️ Step 2: Power Tweaks in `about:config`

Paste about:config into your address bar and hit enter. Accept the warning.

Change these values:

Setting	Value	Purpose
`privacy.resistFingerprinting`	`true`	Reduces tracking via browser fingerprinting
`privacy.trackingprotection.enabled`	`true`	Enables built-in tracking protection
`network.cookie.cookieBehavior`	`1`	Blocks 3rd-party cookies
`browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories`	`false`	Removes Pocket sponsored content
`toolkit.telemetry.enabled`	`false`	Disables telemetry to Mozilla
`browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.enabled`	`false`	Disables ad suggestions in address bar

🧩 Step 3: Must-Have Extensions

Search for these in addons.mozilla.org and install them.

🛡 uBlock Origin

Blocks ads, trackers, and malware
Lightweight and customizable

🛠 Greasemonkey

Lets you run custom scripts to improve or automate websites
Find user scripts here: greasyfork.org

📦 SingleFile

Save entire web pages as a single HTML file
Great for archiving or offline reading

🧠 Bitwarden

Open-source password manager
Syncs securely across devices

🎥 Video DownloadHelper

Download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other sites
Optional companion app for best results

🧙 Bonus: Supercharge with `user.js`

For advanced users, use Arkenfox’s user.js — a privacy-focused settings file that replaces defaults.

Install by:

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile.default-release/
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arkenfox/user.js/master/user.js

📚 More Resources

[PrivacyTools.io](https://www.privacytools.io/)

[Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/)

[RestorePrivacy Guide](https://restoreprivacy.com/)

[Greasemonkey Scripting Guide](https://wiki.greasespot.net/Greasemonkey_Manual)

[Arkenfox Hardened Firefox](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/)

[This guy thinks arkenfox is Meh](https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9619-arkenfox-userjs-is-meh-a-review)