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20241225-1

**🎄 Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! 🎅**

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Since the last release:

* Fixed sanitizing cookies & site data by default. This was already Phoenix's intended behavior, but it appears to have been working improperly - so this fixes it. Preferences related to sanitizing are also now unlocked - so you may easily override this behavior via `about:preferences#privacy` or the `about:config` if desired *(though this is not recommended)*.

* Added support for installing Phoenix on macOS if Firefox is installed in ~/Applications (Previously, only /Applications was supported).

* Hardened Firefox's sandboxing - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/commit/6927a985d6ab197462493037fc2151a3620841d3.

* Removed useless Firefox View preferences - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/commit/ae60e05fea752db6dce237a4f6cfab4364b1ae9e.

* Set 'browser.search.separatePrivateDefault' to false by default to ensure Google isn't set as the default search engine for private browsing windows...

* WebXR/Virtual Reality is now only disabled by **default**, instead of being **locked**. This preference isn't fingerprintable - still useful to disable by default for reducing attack surface, but now users can override & enable this functionality if they really want to for whatever reason.

* Unlocked preferences so that users may now disable automatic updates of add-ons and system extensions via the `about:config` - though this is **NOT RECOMMENDED**.

* We no longer enable [Web Task Scheduling](https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2022/06/02/prioritized-task-scheduling-api-is-prototyped-in-nightly/) (`'dom.enable_web_task_scheduling') by default - as it appears to be causing issues (https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/issues/355) & is still experimental.

* Extensions can now **only** be installed from profile & application directories  - This prevents extensions being installed from the system itself/via other programs...

* Revamped & heavily improved Phoenix's `README` & Wiki/Documentation.

* General clean-up & improvements to project organization.

* Various tweaks & fixes.

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Codeberg: See [here](https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/compare/20241216-1...20241225-1) for more details.

GitHub: See [here](https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix/compare/20241216-1...20241225-1) for more details.
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:)