Good point.tlu wrote:While I understand that redundancy is a good thing there is also a drawback: The more addons you're using, the more unique is your browser (fingerprint).
Please see the cache settings recommended at this article from GHacks, kindly posted by Thrawn here.tlu wrote:One aspect not mentioned here are ETags. The only way to prevent them, AFAIK, is by disabling your disk cache: user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
EDIT: As a compromise you could choose to delete the cache at shutdown since FF 11 (similar to session cookies).
I've always set to delete everything (cookies, cache, history, etc.) at shutdown, both in the browser and in Sandboxie.
I don't use Silverlight. I use Java at one site only, a trusted HTTPS-secured site.tlu wrote:(I should add that I don't use silverlight nor java so I'm not sure about them.)
*Personal* Best Practice is always to close all browsers and start a new one before doing anything sensitive, like online banking, etc., then to close that browser and start a new one before resuming usual insecure browsing. Takes a few seconds extra for a large gain in security and privacy. IMHO. YMMV.