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Is there a simple app that can transfer everything easily? Like my favorites, browsing history and everything, including autofill setting and whatnot? I really just don't want to redo everything and essentially start fresh.

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Thank you everyone! I've used chrome for so long and the last time I tried fire fox over 13 years ago it didn't auto transfer anything, so I had no idea. And I will look into a 3rd party for password storage.

I'm not super savy with some things, so I don't really know what you mean by "self hosting" but I guess I'll look into that too.

Again thanks! Looks like I will make the switch!

One of the main arguments brought forth for the switching to the WebExtensions system for browser extensions was that it made cross-browser extensions easier. Firefox users may now reap the benefits of this promise, as Mozilla has implemented functionality in the browser to import extensions from other browsers.

The feature, which is in testing at the moment, can be enabled by all users of the latest stable version of Firefox.

The feature is limited at the time to Google Chrome and select extensions. Even though Firefox and Chrome extensions use the same framework, WebExtensions, they are not compatible immediately. Firefox users who attempt to install extensions from Chrome's Web Store may notice that this is not working.

In Firefox you can combine JS bookmarklets, keywords and params to do something like this:

javascript:(function(){
    var args = '%s'.split(' ');
    alert(args);
})();

Useful example:

javascript:(function(){
    var args = '%s'.split(' ');
    var subreddit = args[0];
    var search = args[1];
    document.location.href = "https://www.reddit.com/r/" + subreddit + "/search/?q=" + search + "&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new";
})();

Bookmarklet format:

javascript:(function() {var args = '%s'.split(' ');var subreddit = args[0];var search = args[1];document.location.href = "https://www.reddit.com/r/" + subreddit + "/search/?q=" + search + "&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new";})();

If you assign the keyword redditsearch to that bookmarklet, you can type redditsearch PixelArt zelda on the firefox navbar and you will be reditected to the Reddit search for 'zelda' on r/PixelArt.

In general this makes the navbar a very powerful command line in which you can add any command with multiple params.

It seems Mozilla has plans to get rid of this feature, see the ticket Migrate keyword bookmarks into about:preferences managed Search Engines. The good news is that the last comment, besides mine asking them not to remove this functionality, is from some years ago. I hope they change their mind, or forget about it...

TIP: If you don't want to remember the param order, you can also ask for them with a prompt if no arguments are specified:

javascript:(function(){
    var args = '%s'.split(' ');
    var subreddit = args[0] != "" ? args[0] : prompt("Enter the subbreddit:");
    if (!subreddit) return;
    var search = args.length > 1 ? args[1] : prompt("Enter the text to search:");
    if (!search) return;
    document.location.href = "https://www.reddit.com/r/" + subreddit + "/search/?q=" + search + "&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new";
})();

Bookmarklet format:

javascript:(function(){ var args = '%s'.split(' '); var subreddit = args[0] != "" ? args[0] : prompt("Enter the subbreddit:"); if (!subreddit) return; var search = args.length > 1 ? args[1] : prompt("Enter the text to search:"); if (!search) return; document.location.href = "https://www.reddit.com/r/" + subreddit + "/search/?q=" + search + "&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=new"; })();

Sorry for the reddit examples, this was posted originally on r/firefox some time ago and adapting them to lemmy seemed a bit too much work :P.

I was searching through about:config and saw this, looks interesting. What does this do? and is this worth enabling?

privacy.resistFingerprinting.randomization.daily_reset.enabled

Sur #iOS, le navigateur #chrome de #google va maintenant permettre d'avoir la barre d'adresses en bas de l'écran, comme...#safari depuis 2 ans.

Cette disposition améliore #UX en facilitant l'utilisation à une seule main, il est ainsi très facile d'accéder à cette barre avec le pouce.

Mais #apple n'a pas été le précurseur de cette fonctionnalité, puisque le navigateur #sailfishos, basé sur @firefox, permettait déjà cela en...2014.

https://sailfishos.org/

I'm trying to switch to Floorp right now from Firefox, where I have both the regular horizontal tabs, and a flat vertical list with the Tree Style Tab extension. I use the later a lot, and while I could keep this setup in Floorp, I like that the vertical tabs can be native instead of using TST. However, it just feels weird to not have horizontal tabs. I think I might miss seeing a bunch of my tab titles at a glance with it, but I have to use it more and see how I feel.

So I'm finally switching to Firefox (admittedly for the quite shallow reason that Chrome has dropped its dark mode for websites toggle)

Wondered if anyone had any pro tips? I've installed uBlock Origin and Dark Reader extensions. I've made an account so it'll synch tabs etc across my tablet and phone. Just wondered if Firefox on mobile had any nice features worth trying out

I'm running KDE Plasma, with the latest Firefox and have the titlebar turned off in the customize settings. When I set Firefox to use the "System theme - auto" it correctly uses my window decorations from the GTK theme I set in KDE's settings (top). Any Firefox theme I apply changes the window decorations to the below pic. Is there a way I can edit a theme to respect my system defined window decorations, or else I guess I'm looking for how edit the theme itself so I can define what decorations to use manually.

Okay so i have a addon that gives me a google logo i can press to try my search in google if i cant find something on duckduck go but i would like to have the opposite too so a button that would let me click to search on duckduck if googleing isn't successful eg. If someone sends me a google search link

Does @firefox not support wasm on #riscv? I see back in janurary spidermonkey js was ported to riscv but i dont see any references to the wasm side of things and it looks like a test wasm video editor doesn’t work on my #pinetabv while the js portion works fine https://d2jta7o2zej4pf.cloudfront.net/

I've made the mistake of building my workflow around a non-open thirdparty tool... Tactiq automatically saves the transcriptions of online meetings on google meets and Teams. I know both allow you to save transcripts if you're the meeting organizer but I'm usually not the organizer. I've tried to find similar tools for Firefox but haven't found much and what I did find didn't work the way I expected.

Is there anything that does a similar job but works with Firefox and preferably saves everything locally.

source code is availabe here. I'd appreciate feedbacks!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1924228

Hey everyone, check the Linguist

• you can translate texts offline (with sent no one single byte to a Google and stay private)
• a lot of features and flexible configuration
• dictionary + history for learn languages
• it is are hackable - you can write code to use your own translation service

Why @firefox is not implementing this UI by default and why none of the Firefox-derived web browsers implementing this.

I somehow managed to build this, but its not prefect.

@librewolf

At this point the there has been almost no significant improvement.
How Mozilla Ruined Firefox --> https://youtu.be/ugnOM2mzgNU

Hoping @firefox wont forces me to move to brave.

#Linux #foss #privacy #firefox

EDIT:- New UI with Minimize Close Maximize button, giving space which can be used to drag.

When you open a new tab, you can instantly start typing and press ENTER which sends your query to the search engine.

However once that's done, there's no easy way to edit the query directly from the URL bar. The URL bar will contain, well, the URL and not the original query anymore.

Is there a way to edit the search query w/o using the search engine's web page or retyping the whole query again? In other words, is there a way to tell Firefox to show me the previous query in the URL bar instead of showing the URL?

I'd like to try to send as many queries as possible to Google directly from Firefox rather than using Google's webpage (more $$$ for Firefox.)

Some setting in about:config maybe? It's kinda ridiculous that it disappears with like 12 tabs open.

(I know I can click scroll-wheel on my mouse to close it, but it's still a problem when I'm using trackpad)

I run Windows 10 and I have never done anything with Profiles at all. I am completely new.

When I go to about:profiles I see three Enteries,

• Profile: default-release
• Profile: default
• Profile: dev-edition-default

Of which default-release seems to be default. Indicated by Default Profile: yes

First off, why are there 3 profiles if I never created one?

In Each profile, there is Root Directory and Local Directory which point to the same directory in all 3 cases. What are the differences?

cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/57607

The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

After the last 2 update I noticed that a lot of times fennec and mull just hangs or freezes when opening a website and needs to be force closed with cache cleared. I disabled dark reader and so far the issue hasn't happened. Is this just in my case or are others also experiencing it as well? Edit: I also have ublock origin if that matters

I originally wrote IPvFoo for Chrome in 2011, to observe whether websites are served using IPv4 or IPv6:

https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo/

In 2017, Firefox added initial WebExtensions support, so I dropped the extension on addons.mozilla.org, technically functional but full of bugs, and hoped for the best.

This week, I finally sat down with Firefox and ironed out all the problems:

• Added a separate manifest.json that uses "scripts", as Firefox Manifest V3 doesn't support "service_worker"
• Added a button to grant webRequest permissions, as Firefox Manifest V3 doesn't do this automatically
• Hacked the popup dialog to avoid unnecessary scrollbars
• Added an in-RAM hostname-to-IP cache, as Firefox doesn't remember the IP address of cached requests
• Examined details.documentUrl when handling requests from a Service Worker, as Firefox doesn't use details.initiator

I'm pretty sure that covers everything, so IPvFoo now provides an equivalent user experience on Chrome and Firefox. Enjoy!

#firefox wont let me paste anything in #whatsapp web ???

@firefox