Hello fellow Pedes, I know some of you are concerned about your online privacy while browsing in these spying times and want to keep China out of your business. I have shared detailed directions on how to create secure private browsing session. I hope some on you find the information useful. **INSTRUCTIONS**: These instructions will walk through the steps to setup a Virtual Machine with a secure browser. Follow the instructions to create a master image in in VirtualBox. Create a clones of this master for either for each browsing session, daily or weekly…your preference. Delete the clone and create another to ensure your privacy. **VPN Service** You should have a VPN service installed and in use on your host computer. I use PIA...but there are plenty to choose from. **Set up a VM** Install, configure, and launch VirtualBox, https://www.virtualbox.org/ . VMWare or Hyper-V. The instructions here are for VirtualBox but you could use any VM. **OS Setup ** Download Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop from https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/ Within VirtualBox, click on the button labeled 'New' Provide a name of 'Secure Browser Master' Choose your desired location to save the machine on your host Select 'Linux' as the type, and 'Ubuntu 64-bit' as the version Click Continue In the Memory size window, move the slider to select 50% of your system memory Click Continue Leave the hard disk file type as VDI and click Continue Select the default option of 'Dynamically allocated' and click Continue Choose the desired size of your virtual hard drive (20GB+) Click Create Click the Settings icon Click the Storage icon Click the CD icon which displays 'Empty' in the left menu Click the small blue circle to the far right in the 'Optical Drive' option Select 'Choose a Disk File' Select the Ubuntu 20.04 ISO downloaded previously Click 'Open' or Choose' if prompted Click 'OK' If prompted, Select the Ubuntu iso again Click 'Start' in menu Select 'Install Ubuntu' Select your desired language and location, then click 'Continue' Select 'Normal Installation', 'Download Updates', and 'Install third party' Click 'Continue' Select 'Erase disk and install Ubuntu', then 'Install Now'. Confirm with 'Continue' Choose your desired time zone and click 'Continue' Choose a name, user name, computer name, and password for each make it something easy to remember. Select 'Log in automatically' then 'Continue' Allow Ubuntu to complete the installation, and choose 'Restart Now' Click 'Enter' or click on 'Restart Now' until reboot Remove the Installation media from the VM, if you receive this message Open setting go to storage and remove the ubuntu iso from the optical drive Click 'Skip' then 'Next' Select 'No' and then 'Next' when asked to help improve Ubuntu Click 'Next' then 'Done' to remove the welcome screen If prompted to install updates, click 'Remind me later' In the VirtualBox Menu, select Devices > 'Insert Guest Additions CD Image' Click 'Run' when the dialogue box pops up, provide your password when prompted, then 'Authenticate' Once the process is complete, press enter, and shut down the VM (Upper right) In VirtualBox, select your VM and click 'Settings' In the 'General' icon, click on the 'Advanced' tab Change 'Shared clipboard' and Drag n Drop' to 'Bidirectional' In the 'Display' icon, change the Video Memory to the maximum In the 'Shared Folders' icon, click the green '+' Click the dropdown menu under 'Folder Path' Select 'Other' Choose a desired folder on your host to share data back and forth Select the 'Auto-mount' option and then 'OK' Click 'OK' to close the settings window Click on Start to restart your Ubuntu VM In the left dock, right-click and eject the CD Click the 9 dots (Applications Menu) in the lower left and launch Settings Click 'Notifications' and disable both options Click the 'Privacy' option, then click 'Screen Lock' and disable all options Click 'File History & Trash', then disable the option Click 'Diagnostics', then change to 'Never' Click the back arrow and click Power, changing 'Blank Screen' to 'Never' Click 'Automatic Suspend' and disable the feature Close all Settings windows Open and Configure Firefox Click on the menu in the upper right and select 'Preferences' In the General options, uncheck 'Recommend extensions as you browse' In the General options, if present, uncheck 'Recommend features as you browse' In the Home options, change 'Homepage and new windows' and 'New tabs' to 'Blank page' In the Privacy & Security options, select the Strict option under Content Blocking Check the box titled 'Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed' Uncheck the box titled 'Ask to save logins and passwords for websites' Change the History setting to 'Firefox will use custom settings for history' Uncheck the boxes 'Remember browsing and download history' and 'Remember search and form history' Check the box titled 'Clear history when Firefox closes' Uncheck 'Browsing history' from the 'Address Bar' menu In the Permissions menu, click 'Settings' next to 'Location, Camera, Microphone' Check the box titled 'Block new requests' on each of these options Uncheck all options under 'Firefox Data Collection and Use' Uncheck all options under 'Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection' Close all menus and return to Firefox Enter 'about:config' into the address field and hit enter Search and change geo.enabled to FALSE Search and change browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled to FALSE Search and change browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled to FALSE Search and change media.navigator.enabled to FALSE Search and change dom.battery.enabled to FALSE Search and change extensions.pocket.enabled to FALSE Search and change network.trr.mode from 0 to 2 Search and change network.security.esni.enabled from False to True Search and change media.peerconnection.enabled to FALSE Search and change media.peerconnection.turn.disable to TRUE Search and change media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers to FALSE Search and change media.peerconnection.video.enabled to FALSE Search and change devtools.jsonview.enabled to FALSE (If using MJSONViewer below) **Helpful Addons for Firefox** Click the Firefox menu and choose 'Addons' Search and Install Add-on titled Multi-Account Containers Search and Install Add-on titled uBlock Origin Search and Install Add-on titled DownThemAll Search and Install Add-on titled VideoDownloadHelper Search and Install Add-on titled Full Web Page Screenshots Search and Install Add-on titled Nimbus Search and Install Add-on titled HTTPS Everywhere Search and Install Add-on titled MJSONViewer Search and Install Add-on titled User-Agent Switcher Search and Install Add-on titled OneTab Search and Install Add-on titled Image Search Options Search and Install Add-on titled Resurrect Pages Search and Install Add-on titled Copy Selected Links Search and Install Add-on titled KeePassXC Browser Close Firefox Shutdown the VM Clone the Master VM Give the Clone a different Name You are ready to browse securely and privately.