currently doing a fix of the code, wait for the 0.2 release!
Thunderbird is great, but very complex and possibly insecure and not private.
Threat model is an important key word here. Imagine you would write Mails over Tor/Tails only and need a secure Mail client.
(Btw I can recommend Carburetor Flatpak for that).
Because of this, the thunderbird hardening user.js, similar to the Arkenfox project exists.
But it is a bit too strict for most threat models. Also settings might change or break, and this has no automatic updating mechanism.
(I should upstream the updater)
The user.js is also just a template, so a ton of mostly not needed configs will stay there.
This project makes the setup of the hardening user.js easy.
Once setup, the script is placed in ~/.local/bin and a user systemd service runs it every once in a while.
You can comment out lines if you want to keep certain settings.
Interesting, learning new things!
I did the “git clone and use only one file” stuff a lot and it sucks having all these files in the homedir.
I now use a subdir called “Git”, and I would recommend that too. Or I would remove the other files, that are not needed.
The setup script can execute a lot of things, you should read it anyways. So yeah it may be a benefit to be sure that it is one git clone and then everything is local.
I was just annoyed about all the unneeded git repos in my home dir, so I started never using the actual git stuff, and always using wget or curl.
Damn this is really good. I will use that and make quite a few scripts like 99% faster XD
Thanks!