Firefox

Good news, Kingsoft Antivirus users.

In the of all web pages I've checked so far there is always a line <link href="data:text/css,%5Bid*%3D'google_ads_iframe'%5D%2C%5Bid*%3D'taboola-'%5D%2C.taboolaHeight%2C.taboola-placeholder%2C%23credential_picker_container%2C%23credentials-picker-container%2C%23credential_picker_iframe%2C%5Bid*%3D'google-one-tap-iframe'%5D%2C%23google-one-tap-popup-container%2C.google-one-tap-modal-div%7Bdisplay%3Anone!important%3Bmin-height%3A0!important%3Bheight%3A0!important%3B%7D" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Does anyone know what it means? I tried to open a page in edge, and I do not see it there.

I am running mozilla-flatpak, version 115 on Fedora

I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what's reccomended

Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.

Thanks!

When I first opened Firefox after installing, I configured all the settings for myself. And I unchecked >Always check if Firefox is your default browser. It checked it back on by itself and now I can't uncheck it! It's grayed out.

I just went through a long list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. One that I didn't see that I would find useful is to press something like ⇧ Shift + ⌘ + C to copy the URL and then paste it into an email or message to send to someone. Does something like this exist?

Basically the send to device feature was solid for me but since around build 98 they redid it to be more chrome like sadly so instead of keeping devices linked forever you now have to log into them every couple of weeks. That makes me need something like Pushbullet again to send links to devices that I won’t log into for months on end.

I am looking for alternative knowledge sources to mozillazine that's a bit more up to date.

Specifically, I am after something that explains advanced about:config options and what each sqlite file and storage directories in my profile are actually used for. When I search online for things I get unhelpful support articles from mozilla and random reddit threads with conflicting information.

I've played around with a lot of things through a lot of trial and error (I can share some about:config values if anyone's interested in them), but I'd like to be directed somewhere I can go to and check first to make sure I won't break my profile tinkering.

I already use ffprofile to set up my user.js, but I'm looking for something with more documentation without having to resort to reading the source code of firefox.

I am looking for alternative knowledge sources to mozillazine that's a bit more up to date.

Specifically, I am after something that explains advanced about:config options and what each sqlite file and storage directories in my profile are actually used for. When I search online for things I get unhelpful support articles from mozilla and random reddit threads with conflicting information.

I've played around with a lot of things through a lot of trial and error (I can share some about:config values if anyone's interested in them), but I'd like to be directed somewhere I can go to and check to make sure I won't break my profile.

I already use ffprofile to set up my user.js, but I'm looking for something with more documentation without having to resort to reading the source code of firefox.

It's been half a year now at least that this change was introduced and it's super annoying. I discover this behavior on MacOS many years but now this is happening in Linux. Because of that I really want to change browser.

Am I missing a reason for such a change?

Edit: to be clear I always setup Firefox to ask everytime what to do but the open option used to open the file without downloading it (or probably in a tmp folder somewhere) now with the open option you have the file in your download which misses the point of asking in the first place.

How to get rid of this? Or is it a OS problem? I would like a full screen version, thanks.

Github:

https://github.com/Bali10050/FirefoxCSS

Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful “Pocket” app our throats on every browser upgrade… it’s really useless tbh

@firefox

I've liked Firefox in the past on school computers, but lately I've been using brave on all my devices.

I love Brave, with its built in adblockers PLUS the ability to install more on top of it, so you can turn one off and still have protection. It feels pretty streamlined.

As someone who pirates stuff pretty frequently too, all of its pop up blockers make me feel more safe.

Should I make a switch to Firefox, and if so, why?

1. Is there a way to make th e tab row smaller?
2. I'd like to add the piped.kavin.rocks Youtube alternative search engine into Vimium C. What is the right row I need to write to make a shortcut command into the url bar?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1611805

And I called it...Mullem.

Mullem? What's Mullem?

Multiple Lemmy's....Multi Lem's...Mullem

It's a way of having MultiReddit-like experience until (if) the Lemmy devs incorporate that feature into Lemmy.

What?

It's a way to view multiple Communities from multiple instances in one unified feed.

FAQ

Will this work in a Chromium (Chrome, Brave etc) based browser?

No idea. I don't have a Chromium based browser on any of my machines and I ain't going to install one just to test this. If you want to port it, be my guest.

Is this compatible with KBin?

Nope. Part of the code needs to look for '/c/' in a URL and as KBin uses '/m/' it'll just break. Don't try it, it WILL break. I will add this in future development.

Will this work on a mobile browser?

No, it would be unusable as the interface would be all over the place. Mullem uses a Sidebar for one thing. There are zero plans to make this work on a mobile browser so don't ask.

What Manifest version does Mullem use?

v2. I'll port this to v3 if Mozilla kill off v2.

Why haven't you set up a proper Git repository so I can see the code?

Can't be bothered. If you want to see the source, download the file, uncompress it and have at it. If you're really paranoid, run it through a virus checker.

Can I make changes? What License is this released under?

No license of any kind. Do what you want with it. But bear in mind the licenses of the three files bundled with it - jQuery, FeedEk.js and skeleton.css.

I'm American, can I change the date formatting?

Nope. Adding this option at some point though.

Can I change the colours?

Nope, working on it.

Are there size/Community/Mullem limitations?

Yes. Community and Mullem data gets placed in Local Storage which has a size limit. You'd have to add god knows how many Mullems and Communities though. Each entry is literal bytes.

Each Mullem fetches a maximum of 100 items. So whilst a Mullem can theoretically contain hundreds of Communities (seriously though don't do that), the combined feed of all those Communities can never exceed 100 items.

Does this Add On respect my privacy?

Absolutely. It contains no tracking of any kind. It contains no adverts of any kind. It does not collect, store or transmit any information about you, your browser, your connection or your OS. The data you enter to create Mullems and add Communities to Mullems is stored in Local Storage in the browser you installed the Add On to and can be wiped at any time if you see fit.

What have you successfully tested on?

Plain vanilla Firefox v.114.0.2 and LibreWolf v.114.0.2-1 on Debian and Fedora

Installation

1. It's here, on the Mozilla Add On Store
2. When it's done, look at the main browser address bar. To the right of it, you might see the Mullem icon.
3. If not, click the 'Extensions' icon (looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece)
4. You'll see the Mullem extension listed in the drop down, click the cog icon to the right of it and click 'pin to toolbar'
5. The Mullem extension icon should now be on your toolbar alongside the 'Extensions' icon.

Uninstall

1. Right click the extension icon in the toolbar
2. Click 'Remove Extension'
3. Uninstalling will delete all Mullems and Communities. If you want to keep that data, then before uninstalling the add-on, go to 'about:config' in the browser. Search for 'keepUuidOnUninstall' and set it to 'true'. Then search for 'keepStorageOnUninstall' and set that to 'true' also.

Using Mullem

Click the Mullem extension icon and the Mullem sidebar will apear. You might need to manually adjust the width of the sidebar after adding Mullems and Communities.

First time?

If this is the first time you've used Mullem then you (obviously) have no Mullem's yet. So step 1 - create a Mullem. Let's say you want a Mullem for Politics so you can view multiple Lemmy political Communities in one feed.

1. In the 'Create Mullem' section, enter 'Politics' in the 'Mullem Name' text box.
2. Click the '+' button.
3. You should now have a new Mullem called 'Politics' (all icon links to the right are explained later in this document but at this point, without any communities added to this Mullem, they do nothing, except the Delete icon, which will delete the Mullem)

Now you can add Communities to your Politics Mullem. To do this:

1. Copy the link to the Community (e.g. https://sh.itjust.works/c/ukpolitics). NOT the federated link (e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/ukpolitics@sh.itjust.works). Using the federated link may well break Mullem.
2. In the 'Add Community To A Mullem' section, paste the Community link to the 'Add community URL' text box
3. Choose the Mullem (Politics in this example) to assign this Community to
4. Click the 'Add' button.
5. Click the title of the 'Politics' Mullem, you should now see the Community you just added listed under it.
6. Repeat for all the Communities you want to add to this Mullem

NB: A good place to search for Communities across all Lemmy instances, by subject, is browse.feddit

Management of Mullems and Communities

Communities

You can do 2 things with Communities you've added - delete them completely or move them to a different Mullem

1. Click the Mullem name that contains the Community you want to manage
2. When all the Communities for that Mullem are listed below, find the Community you want to manage and click the gear icon to its right
3. When the popup box appears, to delete this Community, click the 'Delete' button.
4. Or, to move this Community to a different Mullem, click the 'Move to' dropdown box then select the Mullem you want to move it to.
5. Click the name of the Mullem you just moved it to and you should now see it listed there instead.

Mullems

You can delete Mullems by clicking the minus icon link on the top right of each Mullem. This will delete both the Mullem AND any Communities you have associated with it so if you want to keep a Community, move it to a new Mullem first (see step 4 in the section above).

Viewing the Mullem

As we've learnt, clicking the name of the Mullem reveals a list of all the Communities in that Mullem. To view all these Communities as one feed (i.e. view this Mullem), click on of the four icons to the right of the Mullem name. These are (from left to right), this Mullem sorted by Hot, this Mullem sorted by Active, this Mullem sorted by New and this Mullem sorted by Old.

The Mullem will now be generated and appear in a new tab, sorted depending on which of the four icons you clicked.

There is no auto-refresh so if you want to see any new posts, you'll need to refresh/reload the page in the normal way (CTRL + R, or F5 , or clicking the browser 'reload current page' icon to the left of the address bar).

The Code

There's nothing in this section about how to use Mullem, it's just an explanation of the code and a few provisos.

• I'm not a JavaScript expert so I used jQuery. The code is far from perfect and someone more expert with JavaScript could probably optimise the shit out of this. If that's you, feel free.
• This is my first Add On, so there's probably ways I could've made this better too.
• The whole plugin, including images, weighs in at less than 236kb uncompressed and less than 57kb compressed.
• I've used 3 things for this add-on - jQuery, a minified jQuery plugin called FeedEk.js to manage the RSS and skeleton.css to make my life easier.
• The add-on grabs the RSS feed(s), sorts them in the requested way then presents them as one big feed. I used RSS rather than the Lemmy API as it's easier. The documentation of the API is a bit lacking. No diss intended, Lemmy devs are busy as hell right now.
• Hardly any Lemmy instances have CORS enabled their RSS feeds (seriously instance Admins, please do this) meaning the jQuery RSS plugin (FeedEk.js) uses a proxy to grab the feeds. This is admittedly a concern. If their proxy fails, the feed fails and the add-on becomes useless. I'm looking at ways around this as a matter of urgency.
• All Mullem and Community data is stored in Local Storage.

Road Map

1. Option to format the date in the Mullems for Americans.
2. Add ability to rename Mullems.
3. Allow colour theming of.
4. Support KBin Magazines
5. Find a way to not rely on proxies to get around CORS issues

edit: It turns out it was because I had made a minor change in my firefox config to make my browser cosplay as an edge browser (so I can use their new search AI), it's because of that minor change that I am facing this problem. Revert back and everything works out.

I have had this problem for a few days now, Firefox has been distorting the voice of videos for a good while now and I don't know the cause of the problem, it's unlikely the extensions are doing it because I tried opening a random reddit video on a private tab and it didn't work out either. Any help regarding this would be helpful!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskThe_Donald/comments/14m3kyu/comedians_dana_carvey_david_spade_go_in_on_dr/

This is the original video, again, I am not into the politics of it, but this video was instantly available and I recorded it.

Here is what I heard: https://imgur.com/a/kYxyBvV

Which extensions do you like the most for the usecase described in the title?

✨NEW✨ Sister Kbin community: https://fedia.io/m/firefox ⭐ r/Firefox is protesting Reddit, and is DOWN, but you can join our sister Kbin community. ⭐ Official Matrix room for the r/firefox community on reddit. The latest news and developments on Firefox and Mozilla, a global non-profit that strives to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.

https://matrix.to/#/#reddit-firefox:mozilla.org

Firefox has a link that goes to their sister kbin community, but you don't see it until you click chat with us. So I don't think lot of people knew /r/firefox has gotten set up on the fediverse.

I don’t know what it is on Firefox but Lemmy is just terrible on it. It takes forever to load or just won’t load icons and everything. Whenever it does that I just need to retype in Lemmy.world in the address bar and then it’s good for like 3 minutes and it happens again. I don’t experience this on any other browser.

Does anyone else experience this? I’m on iOS. Firefox on my android tablet is also buggy along with my iOS experience

I signed up for a Firefox account and everyday I am getting at least 1 mail from Firefox. I have clicked on "Unsubscribe" link and even checked the last checkbox to unsubscribe from everything. It does say that it might take a week for the setting to take effect. It's been almost a week. And I am still getting mails.

Has anyone faced similar issue? Could you resolve it?

Looking to move to Firefox but I definitely need something like edge drop. I know FF used to have a very similar product but it was discontinued. Any suggestions?

For example, let's take the website github.com

If you don't want to have to log in everytime you restart the browser, you have to whitelist the entire website as follows

But you would only need to whitelist the following cookies to do so.

on .github.com
logged_in

on github.com
_device_id
user_session
__Host-user_session_same_site
_gh_sess

I found an add-on called "Cookie Quick Manager" which is a great way to consult your cookies on a per-site basis, is container aware, it's great.

In that add-on there was a "protect cookie" function

Unfortunately, it would only only protect cookies from getting deleted by "Cookie Quick Manager" and not firefox's "delete data when Firefox is closed" but that would have been a fantastically convenient way to handle this

I think what would make sense would be the ability to append cookie name and container names to the "delete data when Firefox is closed" exception list

So instead of just

https://github.com

You might be able to specify containername!cookiename@https://github.com

With both the containername part and the cookiename part being optional limits to the whitelisting

Here is a mockup of what that might look like