How to configure the Firefox browser in the cloud

Online customization of the Firefox configuration file

We first access the "Firefox profilemaker" Configuration Web site (https://ffprofile.com), which helps users quickly configure a range of parameters such as privacy, security, extension, and so on. After entering the site, click on the "Start" button in the page, then go to the "Firefox tracking" tab, according to their own needs of the options to check it (Figure 1).

For example, if you check the "Disable Health" item, you can disable the browser to send the software to Mozilla related information. Of course, before disabling certain options, the user needs to have some trade-offs, such as checking the "Disable phishing protection" and "Disable malware Scan" options to disable the browser's phishing and malware scanning capabilities. This may speed up the browser, but it may also lead to network security issues, so be cautious. Below each option, there is a line of simple feature description, you can choose before you take a closer look before making a decision.

Click the "Save & Next" button below to save the current settings and go to the "Website Tracking" tab. For example, users choose the "Enable do-not-track" option, is to tell the site do not have their own online behavior tracking.

Then click the "Save & Next" button to go to the "Privacy" tab. If the user wants to disguise the browser's useragent information, first click on the "popular useragent string" link below, and then select a useragent message that needs to be disguised in the pop-up page. I am here to select the "Firefox 46.0 Linux" Information, copy this information paste into the "Fake another useragent" inside can (Figure 2). Then the user continues to follow the wizard to configure the operation, but to remind you that the "Addons" tab will recommend several feature extensions. If the user does not like it, you can remove the check for these feature extensions. After the user completes all the configuration steps, click on the "Download profile.zip" button on the page to download a compressed package format configuration file (Figure 3).

Replace Local configuration information

After downloading the configuration file, we only need to use it to replace the original configuration file on this machine. First enter "About:support" in the Address bar and press ENTER to enter the browser's "Troubleshooting Information" page. Locate the Application profile area, and then click the "Show Folders" button in the page "Configuration folder", and the Pop-up folder window is the folder where the Firefox browser stores the configuration information (Figure 4). The next step is to close the running Firefox browser, and then to the download of the configuration file compression package for decompression, the extracted files copied to the configuration folder can be. Finally restart Firefox browser, you can use just the configuration file to operate the Firefox browser.