Watwerfox / Firefox Hacks

Disable Auto Updates

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox /v DisableAppUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f 
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Firefox /v DisableAppUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f 

These settings are overrides in about:config

• When getting insecure login at password prompt (disable)
  • security.insecure_field_warning.contextual --> False

• When getting password autofil from other sites (disable)
  • includeOtherSubdomainsInLookup --> false

• Set tls minimum level (default seems to be 3)
  • security.tls.version.enable-deprecated --> true
  • security.tls.version.min --> 1

• Browser Cache Control
  • Set browser.cache.use_new_backend (default False)
  • Set True

• Do Not Display Download status bar
  • Set browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel (default true)
  • Set false

• Bad Sync Login Security Rick - Use this
  • I managed to work around the same exact problem by navigating to
  • ​https://accounts.firefox.com/?context=fx_desktop_v3&entrypoint=preferences&action=email&service=sync
  • from inside the browser.

• Open link in new tab
  • Bring up Firefox's Advanced settings/config page by typing the following into your url bar: about:config
  • Search 'bookmarks' (or 'browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs' if you only want the exact preference name)
  • Locate 'browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs' and double click it to change the value from false to true.

• Run Unrestricted (aka save download anywhere)
  • "C:\Program Files\Waterfox\waterfox.exe" -no-deelevate

• New Open from Link

  (A) browser.link.open_newwindow - for links in Firefox tabs
  
  This is the one that has a checkbox on the Preferences page and determines whether targeted links are allowed to open in a new window or are diverted to a new tab instead; there's no effect on untargeted links:
  
      3 = divert new window to a new tab (default)
      2 = allow link to open a new window
      1 = force new window into same tab 
  
  (B) browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction - for links in Firefox tabs
  
  By default, if a page sets width, height, or toolbars for a popup, Firefox will open it in a "dialog-style" window. To force those into a tab as well, you can change this preference to 0:
  
      0 = apply the setting under (A) to ALL new windows (even script windows with limited features)
      2 = apply the setting under (A) to normal windows, but NOT to script windows with features (default)
      1 = override the setting under (A) and always use new windows 
  
  (C) browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external - for links in other programs
  
  This preference governs those external links that open in Firefox (not directly relevant to your question):
  
      -1 = apply the setting under (A) to external links (default)
      3 = open external links in a new tab in the last active window <== if the default doesn't work, try this one
      2 = open external links in a new window
      1 = open external links in the last active tab replacing the current page 
  

Disable Crash Recovery

• browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash --> false

Edge Turn off Ads

Type edge://flags in the address bar and press enter
Type Show feature and workflow recommendations in the search bar on top
Click on the dropdown menu beside the option and select Disable
Restart Edge

Chrome

Disable Set as default

Go to chrome://flags/ and look for "Default Browser Prompt Refresh" and set that to Disabled. I believe that will turn that off. 

• Disable Security warning
  • about:config and sets block_download_insecure -- > false