Table of Contents

(Cripple) Disable HSTS

Notable Addons

Restore Drag & Drop Images to Desktop

Due to new security changes to Firefox, drag and drop of an image to the desktop might have stopped working. Firefox will try to delevate as much as possible such that dragging and dropping to the desktop will be restricted by the new Firefox security measures. One option is to run Firefox with the –no-delevate command line parameter or to go to the Firefox about:config settings and set browser.launcherProcess.enabled to False.

Install Acrobat Add-on / Extension

Given that Adobe Acrobat DC is installed on the machine, the XPI addon package for FireFoxmight be located on the computer at:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\Browser\WCFirefoxExtn\WebExtn\signed_extn\adobe_acrobat-1.0-windows.xpi

In order to add the XPI to FireFox, navigate to about:addons, click the gear symbol and select Install Add-on From File….

Prevent Firefox from Switching to a Direct Connection in Case Proxy Servers Fail

There exists a hidden setting network.proxy.failover_direct accessible from about::config that is set by default to true. This means that in case a connection to a website cannot be established by a configured proxy server, then Firefox will fall back and bypass the proxy server and access the website directly. By toggling network.proxy.failover_direct to false, firefox will display an error page stating that the configured proxy cannot be reached and will not access the website directly.

This setting is particularly important with addons such as proxy switchers in order to ensure that the connection is established through configured proxies.

Fixing Drag and Drop Issues with Firefox when UAC is Disabled

Due to Firefox' attempt to be holider than thou, Firefox delevates privileges without even running under the same credentials as the current user. This ends up with the user not being able to drag and drop items to the Desktop or to other applications from Firefox. The suggested fixes involve running Firefox with the -no-deelevate parameter, for instance by changing the shortcut to Firefox:

and by setting browser.launcherProcess.enabled to false in about:config.