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I already want an add-on that allows me to disable certain CSS features just like I block JS by default. It's becoming a problem for sure.

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I already want an add-on that allows me to disable certain CSS features just like I block JS by default. It's becoming a problem for sure.

You’ve pretty much always been able to do this via user style sheets [1], which override author (the author of the website you’re viewing) stylesheets.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Cascade#use...

What I'm missing is a sane set of defaults applied to every page automatically with a nice UI so I can enable specific features on a per-domain basis with a couple clicks. If I get the time I'll write the firefox add-on myself, but in the meantime I'm hoping someone else will save me the trouble

In about:config you can enable or disable features individually.

Recently they added ":modal" that will make paywalls harder to bypass. Most sites haven't implement yet, but I've already disabled this "feature" on config.

thanks for this! I've already got a huge list of changes I make in about:config on every install but it looks like it's time for an update

Every once and a while I have a look at the changelog of the FF dev. It is good way to find the flags to disable features and to have an idea how the web is changing overall.

The downside of cherry picking features is that your browser fingerprint becames pretty much unique.

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