Firefox

edit: Yeah, the problem has worsened.

So yeah, I wanted to paste a video on chatbox of a friend on Whatsapp web but I wasn't able to. When I tried to find a solution for it, I found this (Mozilla forums link) and it says, I have to reset my firefox browser. Now, my firefox is pretty customized, is there a way to save the extensions I have downloaded and their settings before I purge everything basically?

I use Linux btw, but, this is not Distro specific. If you follow the forums link, you would see that that guy was using some shitty distro called Windows 10

PS: I love firefox and can never bring myself to use Chrome, but this has been a utter waste of time and I wish I didn't have to do this. This wasted a lot of time.

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

As of last night, my Logitech mouse's custom functions no longer seem to function with Firefox, and only button defaults are working.

This seems to be regardless of restarting/updating Firefox, computer restart, etc. Works everywhere else on the computer just fine, and giving Firefox specific custom functions with Logi Options+ doesn't fix the issue. Anyone have any idea what's going on or if there could be a work-around? Would be incredibly thankful of even just any info of what could be going on.

On Windows 10, mouse is M510 if it's relevant.

Background

I'm using GNOME and it has this problem where it deletes all notifications coming from a single application when they exceed 3, so, without even having many websites that send notifications, I find myself opening the browser, getting a slew of them and most disappear immediately to make way for the others that all come in quick succession, so I don't get the chance to actually read them.
That's especially annoying when I spot a notification, try to dig up where it could have come from and don't manage to find anything, either because the website redacted it or because I misread it at a glance so I'm unable to point to which one it could have been

Actual question

How do we keep in a log all the notifications that are coming through? Preferably not in a way that is dependent on the OS, with Dbus in this case, but all inside Firefox

Look at it! What is that? It looks kind of like a cross section of a human, kind of, except the eyes are pools of blackened fire and the brain is sending electrical pulses out to... are those Jupiters? Why? Why??? This is absolute nightmare shit lol

I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I noticed that closing all windows when in private mode, does not trigger the deletion of the session and cookies. Steps to reproduce:

1. Open private window in FF
2. Login into any website in the private window
3. Go to tabs overview and tap on "close all windows"
4. Go to website from before.
5. See that I'm still logged in

Is this on purpose? If yes, why?

Firefox has been improving drastically in terms of performance with every release. It's pretty evident in recent months, which is very heartwarming to be honest.

I, however, do to some bad circumstances, have been stuck with a not-so-good laptop (8 GB RAM, a 6th gen processor in AMD A8 7410) and Firefox doesn't run that well on it. This is something that I've observed with Firefox- if you have a decent machine then it will run amazingly fast. However, on lower-end machines, performance can be a struggle AT TIMES.

Any tips on making this browser run at it's best potential on a weak system are appreciated!

I'm not talking about an extra 10-15sec, but easily 2-3 full minutes (I've sat here with a timer checking) to load pages, sometimes not loading them at all. Particularly with login pages, but even just homepages.

Dropbox, Cloudflare, Various companies forums, My bank, Google; each of these sites and more I've had firefox either not load at all, or take so long I've been able to copy the link into Chrome, do what I need there, then come back to Firefox still 'loading' a blank white page.

I just don't understand. I want to migrate away from Chrome and use Firefox, but it's been unusably slow when it even loads anything at all.

P.S. In the time I've taken to write this (~5min) plus the time to decide to post and find this community firefox has still not loaded my cloudflare dash... (typed in the address, waited a while, gave up and came here but left it open)

/edit: I should note I have ublock installed, but I get the same results with it disabled most of the time.

As in title - is there a way to opt out from getting beta updates on Firefox Developer Edition? I don't want to constantly restart my browser, also it crashes a lot most likely because I'm always on beta version (currently on 117.0b8).

Been tinkering with alot of parameters in about:config, but I finally a viable solution:

We all know that changing mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_Any particular Axis values changes the minimum number of lines being scrolled

But what this does not change is the sensitivity of the smallest "fling" gesture when scrolling with a touchpad.

Here's the values you want to alter when trying make the scrolling feel more "tighter" or more "Windows like" or to fix the issue described above:

set apz.fling_friction 0.002 --> 0.005

apz.fling_min_velocity_threshold 0.5 --> 1.5

the above will make the smooth scrolling with touchpad actually feel smooth and in control. As opposed to simply changing the delta multiplier values.

Is this fairly simple patch a step in the right direction?

diff --git a/browser/components/tabs/TabStack.kt b/browser/components/tabs/TabStack.kt
index 99684d7..50b0304 100644
***
a/browser/components/tabs/TabStack.kt
+++ b/browser/components/tabs/TabStack.kt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class TabStack(
     val tabs: List = emptyList(),
     val onTabSelected: (Tab) -> Unit = {}
 ) : FrameLayout(context) {
+    val tabStackCompose = TabStackCompose(tabs, onTabSelected)

     override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec: Int, heightMeasureSpec: Int) {
         super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
@@ -54,6 +55,17 @@ class TabStack(
         tabStackCompose.measure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
     }

+    override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int) {
+        tabStackCompose.layout(left, top, right, bottom)
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        fun create(tabs: List, onTabSelected: (Tab) -> Unit = {}): TabStack {
+            return TabStack(tabs, onTabSelected)
+        }
+    }
 }

I know I could use an addon like RunWith to download files to the Downloads folder without it asking where to save them, but I want files downloaded through Firefox the official way. I have “Always ask where to save files” unchecked in settings, but that doesn’t do anything.

Hello all,

Firefox on iOS is for me lacking something : it's own engine. As Apple is forcing browsers to use their own engine, WebKit, Firefox on iOS is in the end not a lot more than a wrapper to Safari. And I'm not happy with that.

I remember reading news last year that Apple will be forced by the EU to get rid of this limitation and allow browser to use their own engine.

I stumbled upon a lot of articles dating February stating that Firefox is actively working on having Gecko on iOS, but I cannot find any news about that since.

Do somebody know where we stand with that ? Is it abandoned, still in progress ?

Firefox is my number one browser of choice, and the only mature and good alternative to Chromium based browsers today. I would love to be able to use it on my phone as well as on my desktop...

I am just curious because I had it off for a long time but have recently started to opt back in because I am too lazy to report every single bug I encounter when browsing the web but I do want to see Mozilla improve Firefox.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3232301

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On the surface, this update brings a handful of features integrating the extension with other tools and services. We have the first of many features from the LemmyTools userscript, as well as the support for Alexandrite and Photon frontends. You can also directly search for communities through Lemmyverse.net and for posts through search-lemmy.com, among other small changes.

The biggest change was behind the scenes. I've completely refactored the code throughout the extension. Now that we have a clearer plan for the extension, I simplified all around, such as consolidating most functions to a central utils.js file. I also reworked the settings, and unfortunately this means you may have to add your home instance again. Moving forwards, it should be a lot easier to maintain the extension and for people to collaborate, which brings me to:

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Hello, so I'm using Garuda, is a bit customized but the desktop layout is still the same. I have Firefox, and as you can see, the window buttons appear on firefox itself, but I have on the top panel a widget for the buttons, so what happens is that when I have Firefox Opened, 2 rows of window buttons appear.

But I was trying out Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox, and the Windows Buttons appear only on the top panel, so is possible to do it.

I wonder what I have to do to have it this way on regular firefox.

Edit: I got a comment here to use the RunWith addon. I create a shell script to open images in the preview app.

Sometimes on my Mac I want to open a image that could be opened in a new tab, directly into the Preview app (the default photo viewing app). It would be great if I could have a context menu option when right click images, to open them in the app, I wonder if there's an addon to do this.

I have had these add-ons installed for a long time. But, do I need them all?

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Hey! I am trying to ditch chromium based browsers on android. They have a feature of clearing everything including cookies on exit and you can set exceptions like example.com's cookies won't be cleared. There is that option on pc but I couldn't find it on the android app. Do you know a way? Thanks.