An option for starting new windows with a randomized size #4088
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Window/canvas size is one of fingerprinting factors.
Libre Wolf has an option to make canvas within new windows randomly smaller, not filling the whole window to address this issue. I am not competent to comment of whether simply resizing the window itself would not serve the same purpose.
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The solution has to balance two competing aspects: effectiveness in mitigating fingerprinting and usability. Because I am not competent to address the former, I would accept anything a privacy-minded developer decides best. What I envisioned, from the usability perspective, is:
If a new window is opened from a non full screen window, it's size in both directions is random with normal distribution, with the size it currently would have as the mean, and a parameter as the standard deviation. That parameter is derived from three factors:
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