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<h2
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id="note-this-list-is-now-deprecated-and-unmaintained-since-mozilla-has-officially-turned-evil">NOTE:
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This list is now deprecated and unmaintained since Mozilla has
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officially turned evil</h2>
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<p>Hilariously, incompetently evil at that.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>LOOKING GLASS - the tombstone for Mozilla
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730</li>
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<li>Installing addons covertly - the beginning
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648179</li>
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<li>http://technewslog.com/mozilla-plans-to-collect-anonymous-firefox-browsing-data/</li>
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<li>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708</li>
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<li>Mozilla is covertly feeding customer data to Google Analytics.
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https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2784</li>
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<li>Mozilla has systematic deficiencies in vulnerability handling and
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responsible disclosure
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<ul>
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<li>https://lwn.net/Articles/656683</li>
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<li>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754199</li>
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<li>https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issuecomment-255089138</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 id="awesome-firefox">awesome-firefox</h1>
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<p>A curated list of resources for and about <a
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href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/">Mozilla
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Firefox</a> - a <a
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href="http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2015/06/20/mozilla-making-firefox-bloated/">bloated</a>
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but versatile popular modern browser with nice user interface.
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Unfortunately, after Firefox 42 Mozilla has instituted unwelcome changes
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in how addons work entering the already familiar territory of “walled
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gardens”. Please see the <a href="#firefox-clonesforks">forks</a>
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chapter to review your alternatives.</p>
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<h2 id="hardening-your-firefox">Hardening your Firefox</h2>
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<p>PSA: Mozilla is covertly feeding customer data to Google Analytics.
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https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2784</p>
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<p><strong>Important security warning</strong> - Mozilla has systematic
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deficiencies in vulnerability handling and responsible disclosure. See:
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https://lwn.net/Articles/656683
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754199
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https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issuecomment-255089138</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js">Changing the
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configuration</a> - a checklist of things to do with
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<code>about:config</code> to reduce information leaking to Mozilla,
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Google and other corporate mastodons.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=firefox&search_type=all&cves=on">Firefox
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vulnerabilities</a> - an up-to-date list of vulnerabilities from US NIST
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(the official Mozilla list is <a
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href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/">here</a>).</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/">Certificate
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Patrol</a> - an extension to watch out for <a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack">Man-In-the-Middle</a>
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(MITM) certificate attacks.</li>
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<li><a href="https://noscript.net/">NoScript</a> - an extension to keep
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JavaScript activity at a minimum, and protect from cross-site
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scripting.</li>
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<li><em>Privacy tip</em>: put
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<code>127.0.0.1 secure.informaction.com</code> into your
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<code>hosts</code> file (NoScript dials home at startup).</li>
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<li>Adblockers:</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock">uBlock Origin</a> - a
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lighter-weight adblocker. All custom rules from AdBlock Edge can be
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imported through the clipboard. Has dynamic filters.</li>
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<li><del>
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge/downloads/">AdBlock
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Edge</a> - adblocker with a slightly different interface
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</del>
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(<strong>discontinued in June 2015</strong>).</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix">uMatrix</a> - request
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blocker for advanced fine-grained filtering (blocks cookies, iframes,
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other types of content). Positively awesome, takes no time to
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learn.<br />
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</li>
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<li>Please note that using ready-made third-party block lists may open
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up your computer for surreptitiously whitelisted requests - <em>caveat
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emptor</em>!</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere">HTTPS Everywhere</a>
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- an extension to enforce encrypted protected connections no matter
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what.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey">GreaseMonkey</a> - a
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versatile extension to rewrite pages on the fly.
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<strong>WARNING</strong> - official version of GreaseMonkey sends some
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data to their servers.
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<ul>
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<li>Useful user scripts (do <strong>not install</strong> without
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reviewing the scripts):
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/568-direct-google">Direct
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Google</a> - Removes Google redirects and exposes “Cached” links.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/victor-li/github-white-navbar">GitHub
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White NavBar</a> - makes Github navigation bar white.</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>User script repositories:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://greasyfork.org/">GreasyFork</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://openuserjs.org/">OpenUser.JS</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<p><em>A note on add-ons published by Mozilla: the review times are <a
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href="https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/14/add-ons-update-92/#comments">spiking</a>.</em></p>
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<h2 id="making-workflow-comfortable">Making workflow comfortable</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook-x/">ScrapBook
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X</a> - an extension for bookmarking and wholesale saving page content
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for future perusal.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lucifox/">LuciFox</a>
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- an extension for reading e-books in Firefox.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/lazierthanthou/sqlite-manager">SQLite
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Manager</a> - creating, reading, updating etc. SQLite databases from
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within the browser.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx">VimFx</a> - if you
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have ever wanted to use Vim keyboard shotcuts for browsing in
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Firefox.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="restyling-well-known-sites">Restyling well-known sites</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/xthexder/wide-github">Wide GitHub</a> -
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for those who don’t like white space.</li>
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<li>If you want to restyle <em>any</em> site, you don’t need any more
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extensions (<a
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href="https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/stylish">Stylish</a> etc.) Simply
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edit <a
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href="https://gist.github.com/Hunter-Github/446d8fd36899a7d9180a">this
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gist</a> and add it to GreaseMonkey to suit your case.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="recovering-passwords">Recovering passwords</h2>
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<p>While <a href="#hardening-your-firefox">you shouldn’t keep passwords
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in Firefox</a> sometimes you have to:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne">LaZagne</a> -
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recovers passwords.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="firefox-clonesforks">Firefox clones/forks</h2>
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<p><em>Mozilla is entering into partnerships with commercial entities
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(like Telefonica) and considering radically changing the API which may
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kill the browser and its ecosystem. This necessitates starting an early
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search for respectable substitutes.</em></p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.palemoon.org/">PaleMoon</a> - GitHub repo is
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called <a
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href="https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon">Pale-Moon</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/icecat/">IceCat</a> - a GNUish
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fork which unfortunately lags behind FF at the moment.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_build">Mozilla
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Build Instructions</a> - the dev environment is huge.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites">Linux
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build pre-requisites</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The easiest way to get a modern and performant browser, though, is
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switching to an <a
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href="https://download-chromium.appspot.com/">‘unstable’ Chromium</a>.
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Although it still requires some customization, it supports uBlock
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Origin/uMatrix.</p>
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<h2 id="where-to-look-for-other-awesome-lists">Where to look for other
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awesome lists</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/emijrp/awesome-awesome">awesome-awesome</a><br />
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</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness">awesome-awesomeness</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome">sindresorhus/awesome</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://freshcode.club/">freshcode</a> - a re-incarnation of
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Freshmeat, a directory of open-source/free software, with update
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notifications available.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><sub><a
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href="(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)%5D"><img
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src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png"
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alt="“Creative Commons License”" /></a> This work is licensed under a <a
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href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons
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Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</sub></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/Hunter-Github/awesome-firefox">firefox.md
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Github</a></p>
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