
Firefox isn’t just fast and smooth, it also has lots of features and options that make it more efficient and more private.

(Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit.)įive months later, I’ve got plenty of reasons for sticking with Firefox, and no urge to use Chrome (or my previous Chrome alternative of choice, Vivaldi).

I also just liked the idea of using a product that’s not run by a tech giant. At the same time, it continued to take strong stances on privacy, offering simple tools to prevent Facebook and other sites from following you around the web.

Open userContent.The venerable web browser had received a visual overhaul and a new engine a year earlier, and had been getting even faster ever since. Go to the chrome directory and (a) create a directory called img and (b) create a file called userContent.css. It should open your Firefox profile directory, which is usually in your $HOME directory.Ĭreate a directory called chrome inside the opened directory, if it's not already there. View the section "Application Basics" ➔ Profile Directory (or "Profile Folder" on MacOS) ➔ click the button "Open Directory" (or "Show in Finder" on MacOS):

In Firefox, there's no way to change the background image of the home page (new tab) from the Settings.
