<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>(POST) My New Browser Setup</title><linkrel="icon"type="image/x-icon"href="../../images/favicon.webp"><linkrel='stylesheet'type='text/css'href="../../style.css"><linkrel='stylesheet'href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"media="all"><metacharset="utf-8"/><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></head><body><ahref="../../"><divstyle="text-align:center"><imgsrc="../../images/sufyaan.webp"></div></a><hr/><p><ahref="../../">sf.cu</a> > <astyle="color:#bd93f9"href="../">Blog</a> > <astyle="color:#bd93f9"href=".">My New Browser Setup</a></p><h1><iclass="fa fa-firefox"aria-hidden="true"></i>My New Browser Setup</h1><pstyle="font-size:110%"><strong>Posted on 17 March 2023</strong></p><strong><p>Categories: </strong><astyle="color:#ff79c6"href="../software/"><iclass="fa fa-laptop"aria-hidden="true"></i>Software</a></p><p>I have a new browser setup on my desktop to increase my privacy and convenience. It is divided into two profiles that perform differently based on what I need to do in the moment.</p><h2><iclass="fa fa-question-circle"aria-hidden="true"></i>What is it?</h2><p>I use Librewolf as my browser. It is a fork of Firefox that is enhanced for privacy without heavily impacting user experience. I divided it into two profiles:</p><ol><li>Accounts (instances in which I need to login)</li><li>Browsing (general website browsing)</li></ol><p>Let me walk through how each profile is setup.</p><h2><iclass="fa fa-user"aria-hidden="true"></i>Profile Setup</h2><p>Firstly, let me talk about common settings between both profiles.</p><h3>Common In Both</h3><p>On both profiles, I have my settings to optimize my privacy. On Firefox-based browsers, it is very easy to use these settings because most of them have little impact on convenience. I use Brave Search as my search engine and will switch to my own SearX instance when I get a good server. In terms of extensions, I have the 'uBlock Origin' extension installed setup to block JavaScript and remote fonts by default. I have the default lists along all the others unchecked by default apart from language lists. I block every single domain from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other websites which are known for tracking. If a website breaks, I whitelist that website in particular.</p><h3>Accounts Profile</h3><p>My accounts profile is optimized to work well with day-to-day logins and important websites. I use this profile for all websites where I can login like Google or Microsoft.</p><p>I use the following extensions:</p><ol><li>Cookie AutoDelete<ulclass="nested-list"><li>Enabled with whitelisting to auto-delete cookies for websites which I open by accident.</li><li>Using extension instead of Librewolf's built-in setting because it currently does not work for me.</li></ul></li><li>Containers<ulclass="nested-list"><li>For multiple accounts</li></ul></li></ol><h3>Browsing Profile</h3><p>My browsing profile runs in permanent private browsing mode so my cookies, cache and browsing history are automatically deleted when I close my browser. I use it for general web browsing like watching videos, viewing articles and more. I have most of the content I like in an RSS feed but this profile is useful for some websites which either do not have an RSS feed or I only need to use once.</p><p>For this profile, I use these extensions:</p><ol><li>Dark Reader<ulclass="nested-list"><li>'Invert Listed Only' mode turned on because most websites I use have dark mode turned on already.</li></ul></li><li>LibRedirect<ulclass="nested-list"><li>To redirect common websites to their free, libre and open-source frontends.</li><li>Some examples are:<ulclass="nested-list"><li>YouTube --> Invidious</li><li>Twitter --> Nitter</li><li>Reddit --> LibReddit</li><li>Medium --> Scribe</li><li>Wikipedia --> Wikiless</li></ul></li><li>I highly recommend everyone to do the same because these frontends are lightweight and do not use JavaScript which makes them load swiftly.</li><
