SPT Score - Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. In November 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name "Quantum" to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. Firefox is available for Windows 7 and later versions, macOS, and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix. It is also available for Android and iOS. However, as with all other iOS web browsers, the iOS version uses the WebKit layout engine instead of Gecko due to platform requirements. An optimized version is also available on the Amazon Fire TV as one of the two main browsers available with Amazon's Silk Browser. Taken from Wikipedia.

Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, EULA.

Disclaimer: I am getting all the info from the links above, which don't account for user hardening such as arkenfox user.js. Assume this score means no hardening whatsoever.

Part I: Accounts

Yes they exist lmao.

Score for Part I: 0

Part II: Use of service

Score for Part II: -70

Part III: Miscellaneous

Score for Part III: 0

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Total Score: 30

Analysis: What many herald as the more privacy conscious alternative to Chrome didn't exactly get a mark I expected. While a positive score does keep it ahead of the competition, a low one doesn't speak for much. That being said the only way to privately use it is to set it up with the aforementioned arkenfox user.js and if possible, customize some of the overrides with a separate user-overrides.js file to tinker it to your specific needs. I believe once Firefox is hardened then it is one of the most private ways to surf the web next to using Tor browser. Moral of the story, sometimes we just gotta do things ourselves and never assume anything is private out of the box unless you or a party you trust can verify that claim.

Oh, and here's an easy to follow tutorial on how to harden your Firefox.



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