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2025

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Remove ads for Mozilla services from Firefox

For some reason, Mozilla feels it's a good idea to litter Firefox with ads for their own value-added services. At least most of them can be disabled, usually by some about:config options.

  • Hide the "Try other protection tools from Mozilla" area in Firefox Account menu
    identity.fxaccounts.toolbar.pxiToolbarEnabled = true

  • Remove Pocket
    extensions.pocket.enabled = true

  • Remove Sponsored Links on New Tab Page
    browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored = false
    browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites = false

(Alternative: Open New tab -> Click Settings icon (bottom right) -> Uncheck "Sponsored shortcuts"

(to be continued -- enshittification intensifies 🙄)

References:

  • https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/
  • https://www.quippd.com/firefox/wiki/useful-customizations/
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PRE Workbench maintenance update

After some time of hibernation, I'll publish a new release of Protocol Reverse Engineering Workbench.

  • Updated Qt-Advanced-Dock-Layout to version 4.3.1, this should fix the problems where Floating (non-docked) sub-windows couldn't be re-docked again.
  • Fixed occasional error messages during scrolling in HexView
  • Provide flake for NixOS, you can run it with nix run github:luelista/pre_workbench.

For more information on PRE Workbench, refer to the website.