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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management Post 303033252 by bakunin on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 07:04:29 AM

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Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management

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Original post from this thread on browser caching.

To add to this, it is an effective security measure to clear absolutely all cached data (cookies, web content, ....) when closing the browser - i.e. in case of a shutdown. It takes a bit of work to re-login to all the sites but websites will not be able to identify you personally across sessions.

Also notice that some websites use information about your window size to identify you. This is why it is unwise to have maximized browser windows. Use fixed-size windows (like the for instance the TOR-browser does) instead which you should resize only in case you trust the website shown in this window.

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FIREFOX(1)                                                      Linux User's Manual                                                     FIREFOX(1)

NAME

       firefox - a Web browser for X11 derived from the Mozilla browser

SYNOPSIS

       firefox [OPTIONS] [URL]

DESCRIPTION

       Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

USAGE

       firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable.

OPTIONS

       A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.

   GTK options
       --gdk-debug=FLAGS Gdk debugging flags to set

       --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
              Gdk debugging flags to unset

       --gtk-debug=FLAGS
              Gtk+ debugging flags to set

       --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
              Gtk+ debugging flags to unset

       --gtk-module=MODULE
              Load an additional Gtk module

   X11 options
       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use

       --sync Make X calls synchronous

       --no-xshm
              Don't use X shared memory extension

       --xim-preedit=STYLE

       --xim-status=STYLE

       --g-fatal-warnings
              Make all warnings fatal

   Firefox options
       -h, -help
              Show summary of options.

       -height value
              Set height of startup window to value.

       -width value
              Set width of startup window to value.

       -v, -version
              Print /usr/bin/firefox-bin version.

       -CreateProfile profile
              Create profile.

       -P profile
              Start with profile.

       -ProfileManager
              Start with profile manager.

       -UILocale lang-region
              Start with lang-region resources.

       -contentLocale lang-region
              Start with lang-region resources.

       -remote command
              Execute command in an already running Firefox process.  For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

       -no-remote
              Don't try to control an already running instance.

       -jsconsole
              Start with Javascript Console

       -chrome url
              Load the specified chrome.

       -new-window url
              Open URL in a new window if Firefox is already running.

       -new-tab url
              Open URL in a new tab if Firefox is already running.

       -preferences
              Open Firefox preferences menu.

       -safe-mode
              Disables extensions and themes for this session.

       FILES  /usr/bin/firefox - shell script wrapping firefox
              /usr/lib/firefox/firefox - firefox executable

VERSION

       3.0

BUGS

       To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

SEE ALSO

       mozilla(1)

AUTHORS

       The Mozilla Organization
              http://www.mozilla.org/about.html

firefox                                                          January 04, 2006                                                       FIREFOX(1)