arkenfox/user.js

This system is a privacy and security hardening toolkit for Mozilla Firefox, centered around a comprehensive user.js configuration template. It provides maintenance scripts to automate the merging of updated security settings with user overrides and to reset deprecated preferences to their defaults. Additionally, it includes diagnostic tools to help users troubleshoot configuration issues by isolating problematic preferences.

Two new JavaScript files have been added to the scratchpad-scripts directory to help users manage Firefox preferences. arkenfox-cleanup.js resets user-set preferences that have been removed or deprecated in Firefox versions 92 through 153, restoring them to their default values. troubleshooter.js provides an interactive diagnostic tool that isolates problematic preferences by systematically resetting and reapplying them to identify which settings are causing issues.

scratchpad-scripts · high confidence

This commit introduces the initial version of the arkenfox user.js project, providing a comprehensive template for hardening Firefox privacy, security, and anti-fingerprinting settings. It includes the core \user.js\ configuration file, a \README.md\ with documentation and links to the wiki, and an MIT \LICENSE.txt\. To assist users in managing their configuration, the release ships with platform-specific maintenance scripts: \updater.bat\ and \updater.sh\ for downloading and merging the latest template with user overrides, and \prefsCleaner.bat\ and \prefsCleaner.sh\ for resetting inactive preferences to their default values. The repository structure is further defined by \.gitattributes\ for line-ending normalization and a \.travis.yml\ file for basic syntax validation of the JavaScript configuration.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• CAI 44 → 44 (+0.7)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.12 → rubric-2026.09.18) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 82 → 91 (+9.1)
• Architecture 100 → 100 (+0.0)
• Maturity 36 → 36 (+0.0)
• Readiness 27 → 27 (+0.0)
• Security 75 → 75 (+0.0)

• Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
• Documentation: no usage examples (README.md)
• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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