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I'm using this add-on to add a "Close Tabs to the Right" option. But after installing another add-on, the "Close Tabs to the Right" option isn't at the bottom anymore and I want to move it all the way to the bottom.

I searched and came across this guide to edit right click context menu items. However, I cannot get it to work.

This is what my userChrome.css looks like right now (scroll to the very bottom) https://pastebin.com/MWeTN19G

Here's the code I'm using to rearrange the tab context menu item

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important;
}

( I even tried setting -moz-box-ordinal-group to 2, 20, 200 but no luck)

This is the menu item id for the add-on's option I want at the bottom: _588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right

This is the menu item id for the add-on that is currently at the bottom: _c2c003ee-bd69-42a2-b0e9-6f34222cb046_-menuitem-5

And also, I'm using Lepton to change the look of right click context menus, tabs, menu panels etc.

Here's a screenshot of the menu item ids

Edit:

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
order: 2 !important;
}

It works now.

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I don't like notifications being shown in Windows Action Center, so I disabled it by changing alerts.useSystemBackend to false. The problem is Firefox built-in notification system just decides to mute notification sound and only shows the notifications. It's kinda annoying especially since I'm using this timer add-on. Please help me to enable notification sound. Thank you.

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I don't know when the option was removed since I hadn't updated Firefox on that machine in some time. Normally it's in the customize menu at the bottom left. I can confirm that the option still exists in 104.0.2 since I also haven't updated Firefox on my main machine (a different Ubuntu-based OS). And unless there's some way in 115.0.1 to remove the title bar then I am extremely reluctant to update. Anyone know how to remove title bars on this update?

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I opened this page that is in German: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/mozilla-ventures-investiert-in-blue-fever/

Previously on this website, Nightly would show a translate icon in the URL bar, allowing me to translate the articles to English. I don’t see that icon anymore. Why is that?

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TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!

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Is there an optimized version of Firefox that removed Pocket and other unneeded features? Does it use less memory?

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I tried giving NextDNS a shot. So far it looks great. My only problem it has 300k query limit for free in a month. I tried investigating the source of problem by looking a bit into about:networking and found out many queries has time to live of 300 seconds. I tried turning nextdns cache boost off and on but it made no difference. In order to reduce number of queries i send i set network.dns.get-ttl false (i don't know if it relevant since i am using DNS-over-https), network.dnsCacheEntries 1000, network.dnsCacheExpiration/network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod= 43200. While this setting sometimes apply to one or two queries occasionally it was pretty much ignored most of the time. I am on windows 10 and using arkenfox user.js. Does anyone have any idea how i can force a higher ttl on dns cache?

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7 reasons why you should really give Mozilla Firefox (web browser) a try.
Music: 'Invisible world' by Frankum & Frankumjay (CC-BY 3.0).

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Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering.

I've looked through many threads but didn't find any fix/workaround for this. I saw some users saying changing values for media.cache_readahead_limit and media.cache_resume_threshold to 99999 fixed it but that didn't help and actually caused Firefox to stop buffering midway through videos.

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someone in the mood to confirm a bug with me? I think this is new. Seeing this with F115 (on linux) on a clean, new profile. The code didn't change.

I used to be able to listen to a big audio file in a streaming manner when loaded from goldfire/howler.js library.

The new behaviour is: firefox will download the whole file before starting to play.

Example: (25MB bytes down will occur) https://jsfiddle.net/ugnt03jo/1/ -> click Run in upper left to render html

  • if you have traffic stats on your system you'll see bytes trickling in the moment you render the html - not when you click the Play button. This is acknowledged in the devtools network-tab after it is fetched in full
  • until fetched in full, the Play button will not stream the audio file

#firefox

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Is there a Keyboard Shortcut to put the focus on Firefox's Sidebar?

I use the Add-On "Bookmark search plus 2" which is really awesome. When I activate it's Keyboard Shortcut (Ctrl + Q), the Sidebar opens, but I have to use my mouse to click on the Sidebar to grant it focus. I looked around online and haven't found anything. If anyone knows of a way, a Keyboard Shortcut, a tool or another Add-On perhaps, please let me know! Cheers!

#firefox

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I really like using PWA's but FF does not allow them. I have seen a PWA extension but it requires a whole bunch of Software be added to achieve it.

Is there any other solution without resorting to a Chromium based browser ?

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/531479 Crossposting here as I saw this community mentioned on r/firefox.

FF's sync can be used to get the bookmarks onto a pc and then it can be exported. I've tried that and I do know that it works.

is there any other way to get it on Android Firefox(the stable/regular one, not beta or nightly, and on a non-rooted device). Is there any option to extract the bookmarks using usb debugging or so?

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I've accidentally tapped the D key when using Alt+F to open the File menu a few times. There is no matching shortcut or close-window command in that menu, yet it instantly closes the window. Can someone tell me why?

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I'm trying have firefox delete all site setting and cookies on close except a couple sites. I'm currently running firefox and firefox focus but rather just use one app.
I found https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308719 but the setting for the desktop app and mobile are different.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1175662

Good news, Kingsoft Antivirus users.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kaoxt@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

Is anyone else having Firefox hang when enabling the Addon - Google Search Fixer? Every so often I no longer will be able to do anything on the tab. I have to close tab and open a new tab then search again.

I removed the Addon and don't seem to be experiencing these issues since I removed it. I prefer the format with the addon enabled, so I am hoping there will be a fix. It's been doing this for about a week or so now.

I have experienced this same issue on my Pixel phone and Samsung Tablet.

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I know there are addons, but would be nice to have something native built in instead of having to trust an addon. Current method without addons that I know of is creating a container then deleting it, but that's not as convenient and pretty cumbersome.

Is there any about:config functions that might unlock what I want?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Xx@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

Most of the things on the internet relate to laptop users wanting to force firefox to use integrated graphics. I have a 3070ti and a 1660S and I want firefox to only use the 1660S for processing.

I have set the 1660S as the opengl renderer in nvidia settings and that changed nothing.
I've tried to disable primary gpu in device manager, then open firefox, then re-enable primary GPU and while that does make firefox switch the gpu in about:support it ends up crashing webgl and not really functioning correctly.
I've tried to change the power management settings in graphics settings and it still uses the 3070 as the primary.

any ideas?

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Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave or Vivaldi) a few years ago this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but today it’s bad for the health and freedom of an web that respect privacy and is not controlled by capitalist corporations, the so-called Big Techs.

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Specifically, when you open a reasonable number of tabs in any browser, the tabs look like this. However, as my friend has just imported all of his tabs and bookmarks over from Chrome to Firefox, he has an immense number of tabs open right now; in Chrome, he can see all the tabs at once with its UI. On Firefox, however, it keeps things actually legible by not squashing the tabs so obscenely.

"Okay, so I need some help. I've noticed Firefox doesn't show all tabs like Chrome does. Instead it shows a few, and makes me press a button to see more. Please, tell me there's a way to fix that."

I pointed out that this was an accessibility thing (being able to actually see and read the tabs is a useful feature) and they said it was "not good enough". Further explanation of basic things such as using their scroll wheel to scroll through their tabs, or double/triple clicking on the left/right arrows to jump by page or start/end, or using the Ctrl+# shortcuts, are all tools at their arsenal, but that also was not good enough. Personally I'm a 1,000-2,000 tabs kinda person and manage just fine with those instead of having each tab be literally a pixel wide, so I've never looked for an addon to crush all the tabs together like Chrome does, and my attempts at searching the extensions and themes has come up with nothing.

Is there something like this in the about:config page perhaps, or a convenient theme/extension/addon/plugin/etc that my friend can install to feel comfy using Firefox again?

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