Modern browsers vessel pinch an insane magnitude of bloatware.
You tin constituent and click successful the browser settings to disable astir of it.
Or, you tin de-slop the browser by unit utilizing a argumentation file.
To get started, create a JSON record astatine the due way for your distribution.
Here’s a fewer that I’m alert of:
Allegedly, these policies are besides supported connected Windows via Group Policy and MacOS utilizing plist files.
I wouldn’t know, since I usage a existent operating system.
You should read the docs for each option
to understand what it does. My configuration present does a fewer things:
{ "policies": { "ExtensionSettings": { "[email protected]": { "install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/ublock-origin/latest.xpi", "installation_mode": "force_installed" } }, "3rdparty": { "Extensions": { "[email protected]": { "toOverwrite": { "filterLists": [ "user-filters", "ublock-filters", "ublock-badware", "ublock-privacy", "ublock-quick-fixes", "ublock-unbreak", "easylist", "easyprivacy", "adguard-spyware-url", "urlhaus-1", "plowe-0", "fanboy-cookiemonster", "ublock-cookies-easylist", "fanboy-thirdparty_social", "ublock-annoyances" ] }, "toAdd": { "trustedSiteDirectives": [ "intranet.example.com" ] } } } }, "UserMessaging": { "WhatsNew": false, "ExtensionRecommendations": false, "UrlbarInterventions": false, "SkipOnboarding": true }, "OverridePostUpdatePage": "", "OverrideFirstRunPage": "", "EnableTrackingProtection": { "Value": false, "Cryptomining": false, "Fingerprinting": false, "Locked": false }, "Cookies": { "Behavior": "reject-tracker-and-partition-foreign", "BehaviorPrivateBrowsing": "reject-tracker-and-partition-foreign" }, "NoDefaultBookmarks": true, "DisablePocket": true, "DisableAppUpdate": true, "CaptivePortal": false, "Certificates": { "Install": [ "/usr/local/share/certs/trusted/your-custom-root-ca.crt" ] }, "DisableFeedbackCommands": true, "DisableFirefoxAccounts": true, "DisableFirefoxStudies": true, "DisableTelemetry": true, "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true, "OfferToSaveLoginsDefault": false, "DNSOverHTTPS": { "Enabled": false }, "SearchSuggestEnabled": false, "Homepage": { "URL": "about:home", "StartPage": "homepage" }, "SearchEngines": { "Add": [ { "Name": "ddg", "URLTemplate": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}", "Method": "GET", "IconURL": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico", "Alias": "ddg", "Description": "DuckDuckGo", "SuggestURLTemplate": "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list" } ], "Default": "ddg" }, "FirefoxHome": { "Search": true, "TopSites": false, "SponsoredTopSites": false, "Highlights": false, "Pocket": false, "SponsoredPocket": false, "Snippets": false }, "AIControls": { "Default": { "Value": "blocked", "Locked": true } }, "ExtensionUpdate": true, "Preferences": { "dom.security.https_only_mode": { "Value": true, "Status": "locked" }, "dom.push.connection.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "default" }, "browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.toolbars.bookmarks.visibility": { "Value": "newtab", "Status": "default" }, "browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredCheckboxes": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.weather.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "default" }, "browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.all": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "default" }, "signon.management.page.breach-alerts.enabled": { "Value": false, "Status": "locked" }, "privacy.fingerprintingProtection.pbmode": { "Value": false, "Status": "default" }, "signon.firefoxRelay.feature": { "Value": "disabled", "Status": "locked" } } } } You should read the docs for these
settings to make judge they’re correct for you. My configuration present does a fewer things:
Unfortunately, Chrome does not support adding civilization certificate authorities via the argumentation record anymore
(I resorted to immoderate hacky automation
that adds the certificate to the user’s ~/.pki/nssdb connected first login).
{ "AdvancedProtectionAllowed": false, "AlternateErrorPagesEnabled": false, "AutofillCreditCardEnabled": false, "BackgroundModeEnabled": false, "BlockThirdPartyCookies": true, "BrowserGuestModeEnabled": false, "BrowserLabsEnabled": false, "BrowserNetworkTimeQueriesEnabled": false, "BrowserSignin": 0, "CloudPrintProxyEnabled": false, "CloudReportingEnabled": false, "DefaultBrowserSettingEnabled": false, "DefaultCookiesSetting": 1, "DnsOverHttpsMode": "off", "EnableAuthNegotiatePort": true, "EnableMediaRouter": false, "MetricsReportingEnabled": false, "NetworkPredictionOptions": 2, "PasswordManagerEnabled": false, "PaymentMethodQueryEnabled": false, "PrivacySandboxAdMeasurementEnabled": false, "PrivacySandboxAdTopicsEnabled": false, "PrivacySandboxPromptEnabled": false, "PrivacySandboxSiteEnabledAdsEnabled": false, "PromotionalTabsEnabled": false, "SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel": 0, "SearchSuggestEnabled": false, "SyncDisabled": true, "TranslateEnabled": false, "UrlKeyedAnonymizedDataCollectionEnabled": false, "DefaultSearchProviderEnabled": true, "DefaultSearchProviderName": "DuckDuckGo", "DefaultSearchProviderImageURL": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico", "DefaultSearchProviderEncodings": ["UTF-8"], "DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}", "DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL": "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list", "DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL": "https://duckduckgo.com/chrome_newtab", "ExtensionSettings": { "ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh": { "installation_mode": "force_installed", "update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" } }, "3rdparty": { "extensions": { "ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh": { "disableFirstRunPage": true, "defaultFiltering": "complete", "noFiltering": [ "intranet.example.com" ], "rulesets": [ "+default", "+annoyances-cookies", "+annoyances-notifications", "+annoyances-others", "+annoyances-overlays", "+annoyances-social", "+annoyances-widgets", "+adguard-spyware-url" ] } } } }