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Waterfox Essentials: How to enable Windows SSO login in Waterfox

Windows single sign-on (SSO) is a new Waterfox feature that allows you to log in to Microsoft, work, and school accounts using credentials from your Windows 10 or 11 operating system. To enable it, click the Waterfox menu button, click Settings, select Privacy & Security on the left, go down to the Logins and Passwords section and check the box next to the Allow Windows single sign-on … setting. Note This feature is available to Windows 10 and Windows 11 users starting in Waterfox version 91. It may be expanded to other Windows users in a future release. To see if you have any accounts configured, enter accounts in the Windows taskbar search field, and click on Email & accounts . You’ll see a window that looks like this: If you have accounts in the Accounts used by other apps section, Waterfox will use that information to log you in to Microsoft sites including Outlook and Office 365, as well as any work or school accounts that use Microsoft authentication. ...
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Waterfox Essentials: Waterfox’s protection against fingerprinting

Like other browsers, Waterfox’s functionality is influenced by your operating system, hardware, graphics cards, additional software, and even the fonts you install. Some website technologies, like HTML5 Canvas, can even uniquely identify you based on how your computer draws images. Some websites, particularly those using HTML5 Canvas, look at this unique combination of factors and assign you a number, or a “fingerprint”, which makes you identifiable across the Web. This “fingerprint” is potentially used to profile you for targeted content without the use of cookies. Waterfox already has an Enhanced Tracking Protection feature that blocks a list of known “fingerprinters” when your privacy settings are set to Standard (the default) or Strict. Fingerprinting Protection is a different, experimental feature under heavy development in Waterfox. It is likely that it may degrade your Web experience so we recommend it only for those willing to test experimental features. How am I prot...

Waterfox Essentials: Waterfox advanced customization and configuration options

Waterfox supports a wide range of customization options that are well-suited to all skill levels. The toolbar layout can be customized , numerous settings can be configured , and the Waterfox Add-ons directory contains a massive library of extensions and themes to add additional functionality and make Waterfox reflect your own needs and personality. Two additional forms of advanced configuration allow even further customization: about:config and userChrome.css modifications. However, Waterfox highly recommends that only the developers consider these customizations, as they could cause unexpected behavior or even break Waterfox. Waterfox is a work in progress and, to allow for continuous innovation, Waterfox cannot guarantee that future updates won’t impact these customizations. For this reason, Waterfox does not officially support setting custom style rules with a userChrome.css file or using the about:config configuration editor to change preference settings. If Waterfox s...

Waterfox Essentials: Configuration Editor for Waterfox

The Configuration Editor, about:config lists Waterfox settings known as preferences that are read from the prefs.js and user.js files in the Waterfox profile and from application defaults. Many of these preferences are advanced settings that are not present in the Options panel. This article describes how to use the about:config page to view, change, or reset Waterfox preference settings, if you need to do so. Danger Changing advanced preferences can affect Waterfox’s stability and security. This is recommended for advanced users only . Opening about:config Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. A warning page may appear. Click Accept the Risk and Continue to go to the about:config page. Click Show All to view all preferences currently set in the profile or use the Search preference name box to filter the list. Searching for preferences You can use the Search preference name box at the top of the about:config page to quickly find specific pref...

Waterfox Essentials: Complete Guide to Secure & Private Browsing

Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by myself (Alex Kontos), a then 16 year old student. I had a fascination for the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what Mozilla had for a free and open web. And so I decided to make Waterfox, a 64-Bit browser based on Mozilla’s free and open source platform. Waterfox was one of the first widely distributed 64-Bit browsers on the web and quickly gained a loyal following. At a time Waterfox had one thing in mind: speed, but now Waterfox also attempts to be an ethical, user-oriented browser. The browser is all about balance of privacy and useability. Too much focus on privacy and the web becomes too broken to use. Too little and data leakage happens. With Waterfox, you should find comfort in knowing that what you are doing inside your browser is only known by you. Waterfox is an open-source web browser based on Firefox, but with a focus on speed, privacy, and customization for advanced users. It differs from Firefox in that it ...

Bing Webmaster Tools Complete Guide (Part 10a, Best Practices for 404 Pages)

A 404 page is a page not found or an error page that appears when a user clicks on a broken link. These pages are often sparsely populated with little content other than a message such as “Page not found”. 404 pages are designed to inform users that the link or resource they clicked on is unavailable or no longer available, and directs visitors to other content in your website. Few things to keep in mind while building your 404 pages: Una página 404 es una página no encontrada o una página de error que aparece cuando un usuario hace clic en un enlace roto. Estas páginas suelen estar poco pobladas, con poco contenido aparte de un mensaje como «Página no encontrada». Las páginas 404 están diseñadas para informar a los usuarios de que el enlace o recurso en el que han hecho clic no está disponible o ha dejado de estarlo, y dirige a los visitantes a otros contenidos de su sitio web. Algunas cosas que debe tener en cuenta al crear sus páginas 404: Advertising of any kind ....

Complete Guide to Bing Webmaster Tools (Part 9, Search Performance)

We continue with the step-by-step guide dedicated to Bing. While Google is a superpower, accounting for almost 90% of searches, Bing+Yandex account for more than 6%, according to statistics provided by StatsCounter. This suggests a market worth exploring in some countries Search performance. The Search performance report contains information about how well your website is doing on Bing search. It shows the pages on your website that are getting clicked, and for which keyword phrases your webpages appear in search results. It also captures the contribution of various traffic sources to your website. You can analyze this data to get useful insights to drive more users to your website, for example: Find out on which queries your website is performing well, and the ones you need to optimize your website. Check page-wise performance, find out which queries are driving traffic to specific pages. Examine how visitors reach your website through different traffic sources....