frequently, users configure their about:config for privacy or minimalism
settings such as disabling dom storage can cause websites to stop working.
what are some common or uncommon about:config settings that can be toggled to fix a website if it is acting dysfunctional?

  • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I set browser.link.open newwindow = 1 so that all links open in the same tab. I like the consistency of left-click is always same tab and middle-click always new tab as opposed to getting whatever convention the site author decided upon.

    However this frequently causes a number of issues:

    • Some sites don’t use real <a> tag links so middle-click doesn’t work. Now I can only open in the same tab. I consider these sites broken but it is still annoying as often these sites are also very slow to load so it can be annoying to lose the current page (for example if I want to quickly open a lot of search results in new tabs).
    • Some sites try to open a pop-up for login or other authorization but don’t explicitly set a request for a new window so it overwrites the current tab where JS is expected to receive the authorization result. Therefore you can’t do this authorization. This one I can’t really blame the site as much because while they weren’t explicit every other browser would behave as expected here.
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    22 years ago

    A good way to get minor breakage on a lot of websites is disabling gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled. This controls font downloading which is often used for icon fonts. While icon fonts are not recommended anymore there are still a huge number of sites that use them. You’ll end up with either text versions that don’t fit like they are supposed to for ligature-based icon fonts or missing character symbols for fonts that use characters from a reserved range.

    But hey, I like my system fonts.

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    2 years ago

    Disableing DRM

    Tbo, I have librewolf and a hardened firefox and I haven’t seen a website braking.

    Or disabling js which will brake a couple of sites.

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    I wonder if professional programmers have a good experience with carefully disabling certain features and not all of them.
    I am not a professional programmer and i disable everything and half of the populat mainstream sites are spamish and fail to load at all.