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curious, what do you want to do with about:config on FF for Android?

Mostly, basic security things like disabling prefetch, disabling WebRTC, disabling redirects, preventing sites from reading my battery level, preventing firefox from changing what I type in the address bar (fixup), etc

Battery status was disabled in Firefox in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/firefox-d...

Disabling telemetry for one. Not that this should be enabled in the first place.

You don't need about:config to disable that, you can do it from the regular settings screen.

Not all of it and not in a way that has a chance of staying disabled when they add new ways to exfiltrate data.

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