by popular demand.
viola, a thread into which we can start keeping better track of all these firefox suggestions that keep popping up all over the place.
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my suggestion was/is
a multi-profile setup, so that one can have a vanilla browser, and one kitted out with a tin-foil hat (noscript, request policy, adblock, flashblock, better privacy, and ghostery ~ oh, and startpage or duck duck go instead of google, of course)