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Collin M. Barrett

Collin M. Barrett is a staff software engineer in Memphis, TN.

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A collection of my blog posts tagged as being related to Firefox including its products, features, performance, policies, etc.

Incognito Debugging With Any Browser in Visual Studio

Incognito Debugging With Any Browser in Visual Studio

Published: 1.4.18

How to configure Visual Studio to debug a web application in any Windows browser’s incognito or private mode. This solution allows every debugging session to be free of preexisting cache and cookies. Supported in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. Edge support is not yet available. [Read More]

Hardening Firefox. Replacing Chrome.

Hardening Firefox. Replacing Chrome.

Published: 8.7.17

Using Firefox instead of Chrome on the desktop, and how I am hardening Firefox to increase security and privacy. [Read More]

Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy

Blocking Web Fonts for Speed and Privacy

Published: 4.11.16

How to configure your browser to block web fonts to speed up your web browsing and protect your privacy. [Read More]

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Optimizing Self-Hosted Web Fonts

Published: 2.23.16

By implementing .woff2 and slimming down my icon font, I reduced the weight of my site’s fonts by about 50KB. [Read More]

Decentraleyes: Block CDN Tracking

Decentraleyes: Block CDN Tracking

Published: 2.3.16

Decentraleyes is an add-on for Firefox that blocks CDN tracking by intercepting requests to common JavaScript libraries and serves them from a local store. [Read More]

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