Firefox

Even after all these years firefox keeps using mozilla hidden directory instead of XDG base directories. For how long will this continue?

Watch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 for updates to this request.

~/.mozilla/firefox/ is a mish-mash of data, config, and cache. It's not simple to unravel that. Beyond that, it would be a breaking change, and that requires more caution.

credit: u/yo_99 on Reddit.

original link: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/vkgk78/why_does_firefox_keeps_using_mozilla_directory/

Intel 8th gen, 8gb of RAM, windows 11

Hi all,

I'm trying to make aware people of the recent Google movements to close gate the internet to their services and suggest to folks to move to Firefox.

One of my colleagues encouters this problem though:

and it doesn't happen in Chrome. Any ideas? It seems that it mostly happens when the font used on a page is sans-serif

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2287782

Personally, while I've been using Tab Session Manager for years, I've had lots of issues with it. There have been a few times where all my sessions would be completely wiped after restarting Firefox or having it crash, which is why I have the backup folder setting enabled. Very occasionally within the past few years, but much more often lately, when I'd try to restore sessions, all of which consist of 100s of tabs, I'd find a bunch of tabs missing, being replaced with blank new tab pages. Also note that this has happened across different computers and Firefox installations.

Looking at the changes / commits made to the extension since its last update made last September, the developer has only updated the readme page and a few other non-code related things. there are hundreds of unaddressed issues on the repo.

It seems like I should really move away from it, what are alternative extensions you would recommend?

The dropdown menu is here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select

I’d like to change the CSS of the dropdown elements in a <select> element in dev tools, but I can’t make the dropdown stay open.

I recently switched to Firefox from chrome but I noticed a bug that when I go full screen on Firefox my dock disappears on my second screen. Is there a fix for that?

I just made the switch from chrome to firefox but I keep running into this issue. I have 2 monitors and when I go full screen the dock will go to the screen that is now full screen and I can’t work on things on my other monitor without having to minimize the other screen. Is there a solution to this?

I just made the switch from chrome to firefox but I keep running into this issue. I have 2 monitors and when I go full screen the dock will go to the screen that is now full screen and I can't work on things on my other monitor without having to minimize the other screen. Is there a solution to this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.tf/post/380255

So I'm having some problems with Firefox for Android whereby one, whenever scrolling through my tab list, I accidentally swipe them away constantly. Is there a setting I can modify to make them more resilient?

The other issue is that I'm a huge fan of the setting where tabs are opened as private tabs by default. Despite the fact this feature isn't finished. But I noticed that if I'm in my normal tabs, let's say to play Wordle and then I switch to my private tabs, when I press the normal tab lost, Firefox has no idea what tab I was looking at. Anyway to fix this?

Blink (Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Edge...) now implements the hyphenate-limit-chars property. This is great news for typesetting in #cssprint ! Seven years I've been waiting for this feature 🎉, beautiful day in web practices. (@firefox we're waiting for you :ablobcatheartsqueeze:)

#web2print #typo #pagedjs @prepostprint

I heavily rely on these to keep myself organized. I've tried a few extensions on Firefox that didn't emulate the experience close enough. Does anyone know of any setting or extension that does tab groups in the tab bar like Chrome does?

Was casually reading through Firefox release notes for version 115, and in "Changes" section there is an introduction of a new back-end feature that restricts extensions behavior

We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns.

This feature is obviously still under development, but it already forced people to look for fixes. This suggests the user-unfriendliness of this feature, which may be related to the goals that the infamous Web Integrity API is seeking: partly, controlling and limiting extensions, which are there for the community(!)

I, of course, understand that this update dates back to 4th of July 2023 - some time before this DRM-the-web thing exploded, but still it contradicts things that Mozilla stated in opposition of Google's plan to hijack [even more] the internet.

How long before the YouTube page will be too private, sensitive and important to allow uBlock Origin from running on it? Will Mozilla decide that youtube.com is "quarantined domain" or will it accept suggestions from its monopoly colleagues?

This ~~feature~~ bug can be fixed by going to about:config and setting "extensions.quarantinedDomains.enabled" to "False". For now.

Not trying to make a fuss and/or cause a hysteria, just pointing out that such a thing was introduced and slipped under the radar (haven't seen a discussion about this on the internet). Mozilla may have other intentions for it, but it doesn't look like something made truly "for the people, not for profit" as some of Mozilla's slogans state.

Will be happy to discuss.

EDIT: "uBlock" > "uBlock Origin"

I have the option in settings unchecked, but when pressing / or ’, it still shows up. Can this feature be entirely disabled? Ideally, Ctrl + F should still work, but if I need to disable it entirely through the about:config somehow, I’d be willing.

Mine's is the nightly version

I've always wondered, why does Android forks of Firefox are not (or cannot?) get rid of ALL the trackers? Even Tor browser!

The browser with the least trackers is Mull, but it still has 1 Mozilla telemetry tracker, which the devs claim is completely disabled. I can't really read and inspect code, so I don't actually know.

So why is it? Does Mozilla make the browser unusable if you try to remove the tracker from the code?

Content deleted by creator due to lemmy.ml tolerating brigades from hexbear

I've installed Fennec on my Android 12 device, since it still has about:config accessible. I've been following this old guide from 2014 in order to set a custom download path, however unfortunately without luck. Is it still possible to set the download folder and if it is, what options do I need to set?

I found browser.download.useDownloadDir and have set it to false. I've tried to set browser.download.dir to /storage/C05C-A00E/Test, which is what my file explorer app tells me my sdcard is mounted under, and to /sdcard/Test, which is what the tutorial showed. Both did not work, downloads still land in the default download folder.

I'm choosing a main browser, and I think that firefox with ublock and brave are probably equally good in terms of privacy and security, both of them look quite nice, and both are FOSS. The final thing that I'm considering is resource consumption. This reddit post shows that firefox is better than brave in benchmarks and ram consumption, but what about when firefox has ublock running and brave has all their preinstalled "extension" like brave rewards and wallet disabled (except brave shields is left enabled)?

Edit: some people are mentioning brave's cryptocurrency. I don't want to use that, and I would just turn it off and use brave as an improved chrome.

Previously there was a checkbox to toggle the title bar of firefox on the "Customise Toolbar..." page.

As you can see on my screenshot, this checkbox is no longer there.

Is that a bug i should report or did the checkbox move somewhere else ?

BTW, i'm running Firefox 115.0.2 for ubuntu.

Whenever I try to use threejs, and possibly other 3d webgl on Firefox, it will stutter and halt/freeze Firefox periodically, possibly when doing something intensive, but chromium never halts when doing the same thing.

I looked online, but results were inconclusive. I am using Manjaro Linux with a 1660 ti

#Fediverse peeps: @brave vs @firefox on countering #DRM…go! Gimme more than “Brave is still based on Chromium…”

I would like to make it really thin (and potentially rounded) I rememeber having something like that on my previous PC a while ago but I can't find the CSS for it. This customization also applied to all websites I visited (including iFrames). Would greatly appreciate any help!