[pbiggar]

Not a great attempt IMO.

The networking and UI things are a valiant effort. Mixing them with non-mainstream security concerns are a bad idea. You may feel that safe-browsing is tracking by the man, but advising newbies to turn it off is borderline irresponsible. Similar argument for ipv6 (wtf), error reporting (congrats: your bugs will never be fixed cause firefox doesn't know about them), and geolocation ("why doesn't google maps ever know where I am?").

If you apply these, some caveat emptor: when firefox upgrades it usually wont change these settings for you. So if firefox makes things awesome, you'll be left behind. You may want that, you may not. Personally, I'd advise against.

[pbiggar]

Made a PR: https://github.com/dfkt/firefox-tweaks/pull/1

[gry]

A critique and a follow-up. Better than almost everyone.

[logn]

> caveat emptor: when firefox upgrades it usually wont change these settings for you

It's not so bad. You can sort prefs by user-defined, they're in bold, and each one has a reset-to-default option.

Also you can do a whole browser reset which preserves only passwords/bookmarks. Instructions: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...

And firefox profiles might be handy for this too (from the command line add --ProfileManager or -P <profile name>).

[gry]

Yes it is. Everything you've described of my two brothers can't do.

[technomancy]

Well considering they don't browse HN or GitHub it's hard to see what the problem is.

[JoshMnem]

You can put the settings in a user.js file that goes in your Firefox Profile folder. Example: https://github.com/j127/firefox-tweaks/blob/master/user.js