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I'd like a keyboard shortcut to act in the same way as the toobar button "show sidebars":

  • If the sidebar is open, it hides it

  • If the sidebar is closed, it opens to the last used sidebar

This page, Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly only describes how to toggle individual sidebars. History, bookmarks etc. So depending what is open you have to use unique shortcuts.

Is it possible?

I <3 FF but they are really stingy about the keyboard shortcuts.

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I've been having issues with Firefox on certain sites like Nexusmods.

Whenever I get a notification on the bell on the website, I get an error " Connection Error: Try reloading the notifications" and it doesn't go away even if I reload. I have to mark all notifications as read with the Mark All as Read button to get the notifications to disappear.

#firefox

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Been having this issue for a while now, basically whenever I try to swap over to another account or log out of an existing account, it won't update. It'll refresh the page, but I'll still be on the same account. I've tried all the troubleshooting methods. it happens in safe mode, but doesn't happen in private window mode. If someone could help me figure out why this is happening that would be awesome!!

EDIT : If I change "set cookies" in the little padlock to "Allow for Session" then it works, but logs me out whenever I restart. updated setting

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So i just checked in on Desktop Beta 117 and noticed that CBR is available in settings so i started to wonder if anyone has any clue if there are plans to implement this on the iPhone/iPad app?

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I'm a web developer working on an app running in Docker on my MacBook. Chrome, Edge and Safari trust the self-signed certificate that has been imported into the Mac's root certificate store and have no security issues, but when I try and access the web app, I'm hit with "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" and the error code is MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_CA_CERT_USED_AS_END_ENTITY

I really miss Firefox, particularly the multi-account containers feature. What do I need to do so that Firefox will trust my certificate for my local web app?

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You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

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When I write something into the address-bar to "google it", it can often take 20 seconds to load the page. And if I simply click the address-bar again and click enter again, it will load right away.
I don't remember changing anything, so I wonder if it's just me.
I use Firefox Developer Edition 116, now actually 117 and the issue is still here.

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i have cleartype disabled in windows bc i think it makes notepad and system text look better but these same fonts look terrible when full page sized on firefox. is there a way to force enable it only for firefox or use some other antialiasing option?

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Firefox 116 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved Picture-in-Picture mode, improved Wayland support, and more.

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I am subscribed to this community from Lemmy and the icon is broken. I don't even see it on ~~kbin.social~~ fedia.io. Let's get our favorite mascot back!

Here's what it looks like from lemmy.world:

EDIT: If the icon is working for you, either your browser or your instance may be caching the icon and thereby hiding the issue.

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So, it's "migrate to Firefox because Google is doing more evil things to the web" day. Because of my need to remain constantly connected to my email, I configured Google Chrome to launch several pages at start up: my personal email, calendar, and drive, my university email, calendar, and drive, Facebook Messenger, and Messages by Google. I've found a way to configure Firefox to load these pages at browser start up, however this option also loads this set of pages every time I open a new FF window, which is sub-optimal as I like to keep the first window free of any other junk while using subsequent windows for browsing. Might anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get the desired functionality (launch Firefox and get a window with the above tabs, but not have them re-spawn every time I open future FF windows)? Thanks.

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Amid the regular drumbeat of revelations regarding the abuses of FISA, Mozilla calls on Congress to significantly reform it now.

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I installed Firefox Beta on MacOs, and noticed that the icon is the normal icon, not the beta icon. Is that correct, or a bug?

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Edit: I figured it out. It was caused by the User-Agent Switcher and Manager addon, I use it to switch user agents on one site. I switched it to whitelist mode in the settings and now it works.

Like when I try to log into chat.openai.com, I click the checkbox that I'm human and it just keeps reloading that checkbox without progressing the page. But when I open the tab in a Firefox container (which you can install with the Firefox Multi-Account container addon), it works.

I want it to work without a container open.

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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?

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So, with google being who they are wanting to create a more and more hostile environment using chrome is increasingly becoming more meh.

But no other browser really has the ok feel to it. And certain let's call it quirks to others make them feel just meh and annoying to use because of how used i am to chrome, and I've tried.

And I was hoping that the one with Firefox, could be changed, or "fixed."

Feel free to call it weird but when you're used to something for more than a decade it's not easy to change, and I've tried FF on occasion, but this just makes me unable to stick.

Open tabs. I want to see them all, always. I want to be able to open and open and open, and all that happens, is like in chrome, (and now edge I believe? I've not seen it behave like FF) is that it just squeezes the tabs thinner and thinner, and, in the end, you can barely click them.

the behavior in FF seems to open a certain amount, then start pushing them "off screen" accessible through 'drop down', you know what I mean.

simply put, how can I make Firefox, not do that, and just let me open freely, create an awful mess that probably is harder to navigate?

It all probably sounds very counterintuitive but as mentioned after 10+ years of that being a feature I really do love, being unable to find that in settings or any other way seemingly to do this, is it possible for FF to do this at all somehow?

I've tried googling and I only seem to find people wanting the opposite, which is of course understandable but, people are different :P

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Hello, I have a new pc and installed w10 from 0 with all the programs that I have always used; the problem is that firefox has crashed after a long inactivity, the same thing happened on my previous pc i thought it was because i had mistakenly deleted the information from the roaming folder, but not because the event was repeated today, this is happening since firefox 113. now what i have changed lately is this value

gfx.webrender.all is set to FALSE
&
gfx.webrender.software is set to TRUE (now I have set it to false to see how it works)

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I’m new to Firefox and I’m just wondering what everyone thinks about the other services like Monitor, Mozilla VPN, Pocket, Relay etc.

Are they worth it? Do other people use these? Why or why not?

Thanks in advance!

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Looking for a "Back Button" or a "Back Feature" that can bring me back to my previous position on a Webpage. Similarly to the Alt + Left Hotkey, I'm looking for a Hotkey that would bring me Back to my Previous "Views" or Previous "Positions", but on the same Page. For anyone who uses Visual Studio Code, I'm looking for that same "Back" feature. Perhaps there's a Firefox Add-On, or maybe even there's a built in feature to Firefox?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

#firefox

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I want to know the cookies a web page uses and whether they use cookies placed on the computer by other websites.

Is there a way of knowing this or even an addon for it?

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