genfox-overlay

Essential privacy and usability addons for Firefox, handled like Gentoo packages.

Motivation

• Automatic updates are great until a rugpull happens.
• Manual updates can be forgotten.
• Global configuration is useful for multi-user computers.

Installation

1. eselect repository add genfox-overlay git https://github.com/ivan-boikov/genfox-overlay.git
2. emaint sync --repo genfox-overlay
3. emerge www-misc/firefox-policy installs a system-wide policy for blocking updates for the browser and addons specified with USE flags.
4. emerge www-misc/arkenfox installs the arkenfox configuration system-wide. WARNING by default this clears your history on exit, among other potentially destructive things. Apply user-overrides.js with savedconfig USE flag.

Notes

• Addon policies are permissive: they can be disabled/deleted by a user.
• Since 2020 Firefox no longer supports addon sideloading except for ESR, Developer, Nightly and unbranded editions. Only binary packages for addons are supported, although there is a source-based uBlock Origin package.
• Excess addons harm privacy, so only a few addons are included.