Hey, would you mind posting some tips (or an article/link) describing how you stripped the bloat from your Firefox config?
I'm in the same situation as a lot of others here, where I'm thinking about permanently migrating back to Firefox after Chrome takes their Manifest v3 + WebRequest API changes live, and I'd love to know how I can improve the performance of Firefox & ensure my configuration is as good as it can be.
I use these settings to clear all visual clutter. Basically looks like Librewolf then. For privacy related settings I check Arkenfox user.js and add the ones I find useful and don't cause breakage manually (but going thoroughly through settings already does most of it).
In a more perfect world, all of your "Remove *" items would be implemented as extensions that come pre-installed, and this process would be as simple as opening the Add-ons Manager on a new install, doing a Select All, then hitting Delete.
Out of curiosity, why are people so concerned about Pocket?
I personally use it to quickly bookmark things in a cross-platform "i'll look at this later" box (although not a fan of how it tries to show me pages in-app). Recommendations for alternatives would be equally accepted.
My main problem with Pocket is that when Mozilla acquired them in 2017, Mozilla promised to open source the Pocket back-end. That was a big fat lie, and they've never even owned up to it.
I don't have a problem with Pocket qua Pocket. I didn't even have an issue with the "recommended stories" that rolled out years ago. But when I just tried FF I was appalled by the spammy "stories" all over the recommended stories section.
I'm sorry, but credit card advertisements are not stories. For the first time ever, I turned off the Pocket section, which means that instead of generating some revenue from having clicked on stories in the past, I will now generate no revenue because I won't see this section at all.
I'm in the same situation as a lot of others here, where I'm thinking about permanently migrating back to Firefox after Chrome takes their Manifest v3 + WebRequest API changes live, and I'd love to know how I can improve the performance of Firefox & ensure my configuration is as good as it can be.