DESKTOP: Rather than automatically grabbing the latest version of our
assets.jsonconfiguration file for uBlock Origin, we now specify a specific commit and download it directly from Phoenix's Codeberg repo. This helps to improve trust/transparency and security, by ensuring the file is only updated with the rest of Phoenix (rather than updating on its own) - meaning it's easier to audit, and keeps the user always in control. -assetsBootstrapLocation(Policy) &librewolf.uBO.assetsBootstrapLocation->https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/raw/commit/08d147ee865c1d740540e8ec83c758d7a4df3e8b/uBlock/assets.json- https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/issues/48#issuecomment-2665313 https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix/issues/4#issuecomment-2627740229DESKTOP: Similar to the
assets.jsonfile, we now also specify both a specific commit and specific version for our included search engines/'extensions' inpolicies.json, and we explicitly disable automatic/out of band updates for them - meaning these 'extensions' are now also only updated alongside the rest of Phoenix, and never on their own. This further helps to improve transparency/auditability and protect users. - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/issues/48#issuecomment-2665313 https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix/issues/4#issuecomment-2627740229DESKTOP: Similar to what we've already been doing on Android, we now manually enable various ETP/ETP Strict tracking protections/features. We still enable & enforce ETP Strict itself (meaning we're still covered by Mozilla's updates/enhancements); but unfortunately, Firefox doesn't honor/configure ETP Strict on its first launch, so we need to ensure we also enable these protections manually to always protect users. - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/commit/4a6e135e3647ef34021e3786f28cc64914554335
Set
browser.policies.loglevel,geo.provider.network.logging.enabled, &permissions.memory_onlyto their default values, so that they can be easily set in theabout:config... -browser.policies.loglevel->error,geo.provider.network.logging.enabled&permissions.memory_only->falseDisabled the Beacon API (
Navigator.sendBeacon) -beacon.enabled->false- https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/commit/a3d7322f5de7fe72bf12753e2fa685497a827bcfOther minor tweaks, fixes, and enhancements.
Codeberg: See here for more details.
GitLab: See here for more details.
GitHub: See here for more details.
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