Hi everyone,
I don’t know how the empty space around the web pages is called, but I would like to turn this feature off in firefox. It’s the thing that spoofs the size of the screen, but I prefer having a larger window. Where do I change it?
If you are using Tor or Librewolf, it is probably “letterboxing”, a part of ResistFingerprinting, which you should find in about:config or in the settings.
… but like the other person implied, its not a great idea to disable this. I would like to recommend checking out the EFF’s page on the topic – https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
But you are an adult, presumably, so I will leave you the information and let you decide. Be safe out there
i dont think librewolf does it by default. mullvad browser does
Librewolf indeed doesn’t have it enabled by default
Thanks for sharing that page, super insightful!
In Tor browser? No you don’t.
Well, its to spoof the screenresolution fingerprint, but it is absurd. Yes they can see which screen resolution you use, the same as 500 millones of other users. Spoofing some fingerprints is needed on the web, but some fingerprints are needed for websites to work as they should. Spoofing tecnical details have nothing to do with better privacy, it only make your webexperience worse, because some pages don’t work well or simply don’t work. Yes, they know that I live in Spain as other 40 millon users, showing the website in my lenguage and not in Japones when I use an VPN. Yes they know the OS I use, the same of 50% the internet user. They know my public IP and my ISP when I don’t use an VPN, but this only shows the ubication of the ISP server, not my real one. Only fingerprints which permits track my real personal identity must be spoofed or randomized, all other is using an tin foil hat and only serve as slogan for “the most Private Browser”, Eff org is nice, but it want that people use their PrivacyBadger. They say that I have an unique Fingerprint, but looking after this in the details, yes I have an unique fingerprint, but in every visit of the page a different one. Because of this I prefer to use Browserleaks to adjust muy privacy settings, way better and easier.
Hi. I wasn’t helpful. There’s two cases for what you might want. Tor presumably doesn’t letterbox if you set the resolution in Dev tools, such as if you want to take a screenshot. (Open Dev tools, click on the phone icon, set resolution at top. OR you could use the For daemon’s proxy on a regular browser.
The space? That will be based on how the website is designed (and many web frameworks do this). There might be an extension out there to do it, but I wouldn’t count on it working terribly well.
Your other option is to zoom in until the content fills your screen.
Though I’m only 62% sure I understand what you’re asking.
It’s called “Letterboxing”. It sets the resolution of a web page to a standardized resolution used on all other (afaik) Firefox based browsers.
