Does regular Firefox disrespect privacy in some ways, or is the fork just better for privacy due to the additional privacy protection features listed on that page?
Default Firefox is full of Google related options and iirc telemetry and studies is on by default. That can be annoying if one uses more than one FF profile. Of course you can manually change those settings or create a tweaked user.js or install Librewolf or Seamonkey or Firedragon or Icecat etc.
There’s the possibility of a hardened user.js, e.g. this one by pyllyukko on Github to set many of these configuration items in a more secure or privacy-respecting way.
Does regular Firefox disrespect privacy in some ways, or is the fork just better for privacy due to the additional privacy protection features listed on that page?
Default Firefox is full of Google related options and iirc telemetry and studies is on by default. That can be annoying if one uses more than one FF profile. Of course you can manually change those settings or create a tweaked user.js or install Librewolf or Seamonkey or Firedragon or Icecat etc.
Normal Firefox is just worse by default, you can configure both to be almost identical
There’s the possibility of a hardened user.js, e.g. this one by pyllyukko on Github to set many of these configuration items in a more secure or privacy-respecting way.
That seems to do a lot! Would you recommend using that instead of hardening manually?
Everything is commented, so I’d go through the user.js once in a while and copy it to my own. I don’t use all of the settings.