# Firefox Privacy Settings

Go to Settings.



## General

#### Files and Applications
- Always ask you where to save files

#### Browsing
- Recommend extensions as you browse: Off
- Recommend features as you browse: Off

#### Network Settings
Click Settings
- Enable DNS over HTTPS: On
- Use Provider: NextDNS, Cloudflare or select Custom and provide URL for other secure DNS from [this list](https://privacyguides.org/providers/dns/)



## Home

#### Firefox Home Content
- Recommended by Pocket: Off
- Snippets: Off



## Search

#### Default Search Engine
- DuckDuckGo or add any other privacy respecting search engine like Qwant, Swisscows etc.

#### Search Suggestions
- Provide search suggestions: Off



## Privacy & Security

#### Enhanced Tracking Protection
- Strict
- Send websites a “Do Not Track” signal that you don’t want to be tracked: Always

#### Logins and Passwords
- Ask to save logins and passwords for websites: Off

NOTE: Never save passwords in browsers. Use a password manager instead. Check out [Additional Resources](https://github.com/the-weird-aquarian/privacy-settings#additional-resources) for more info.

#### Permissions
- Warn you when websites try to install add-ons: On

#### Firefox Data Collection and Use
- Turn off everything

#### Security
- Turn on everything

#### HTTPS-Only Mode
- Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows



## Further Hardening
- For further hardening of Firefox, check out [Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/browsers/#about_config) and [arkenfox user.js](https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js)