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

The dropdown menu is here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select

I’d like to change the CSS of the dropdown elements in a <select> element in dev tools, but I can’t make the dropdown stay open.

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)

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!

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

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?

If I have a GIF like this: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=web+gif+example#vhid=YGtfdlLW95ObWM&vssid=l, How can I scrub it in Firefox / show video playback controls on it?

Since it seems #Google has decided to uni-laterally force through their new anti-#adblock #DRM euphemistically named "Web environment integrity", I decided to add a little bit of code to my website that blanks out the page and displays a protest message with a link to the firefox download page when you visit it from a browser with this DRM feature. Here's the source inside one toot, feel free to copy and put it at the end of your website's before the closing tag:

Hey guys, I use Firefox Developer Edition as my main and have tweaked user.js to my liking. It's generally great for me and I don't really have a need to switch off of it.

However, I was just exploring and found Librewolf and Waterfox as well.

It seems like it wouldn't make too much of an impact (since I've toyed with my own user.js) but I might just keep them around for secondary browsers and experimenting. I actually like having Firefox sync, so I'm not sure about Librewolf, even though it's nice and privacy hardened right out of the box.

Any thoughts and opinions on that in 2023?

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 333!

Come join me while I livehack on #Firefox!

I'm going to be reviewing a patch, and then we're going to be continuing on with our journey with the WindowsJumpList stuff. We're finally positioned to write a GTest. Let's try to do it!

Starts at 1PM ET:

https://mikeconley.ca/joc/

also it is the iceraven browser and im on android if that helps.

Way to prevent new tabs from opening and downloads?

Hi, new to fedia.

I was looking for settings or add-ons that would let me toggle the ability to open new tabs on or off on certain domains and also toggle on or off downloads. Occasionally I find spyware in my downloads and would also like to prevent pop up ads.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

#firefox

Just wondering if I can somehow track if all that data was used by a particular add-on or tab or what.

Historically I've been using about .5gb every month, I haven't done anything different today but here we are. What can I do to find out what happened and prevent the same scenario?

In Brave I can see a preview of the page by hovering over the tab. Is something like this possible in firefox? Add-on or from settings?

It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I'm not quite sure why it adds "?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d" to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.

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The sidebar should also surface https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] to help grow the community.

Web Clipper allows you to quickly capture any webpage to OneNote where you can easily edit, annotate, or share it.

I still have the add-on installed and it is working just fine. If I remove it, I won't be able to re-install it.
This feels like another dishonest statement pushing users towards Edge.

Please, upvote this issue on their feedback portal and preferably, add a comment too. Spread the message to fellow Firefox users.

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/ac08ce3c-a920-ee11-a81d-0022484cae1d

The add-on should be brought back to Firefox!

For those who don't know,
The Multi Key is a key you can set on linux, with which you can type an insane amount of unicode characters. It is commonly bound to scroll lock, I will represent it with ↓ here.

A few examples of shortcuts would be
↓TM → ™
↓|v → ↓ (the character I am using here)
↓+- → ±
↓co → ǒ

Now, most of those work just fine in Firefox, but weirdly there are some that don't. For example ↓PP produces ¶ just fine, but ↓RR doesn't type ℝ. for ↓RR the Multi Key input stops, like it does once no more valid sequences are left that match the current input. ↓CC also doesn't type ℂ, but it doesn't stop but continue on as if there was a different sequence starting with CC. I don't see anything special about the sequences that don't work compared to the majority that do.

After some trial an error, I think what is happening is that firefox does read my .XCompose, but the line include "%L", that is supposed to load the default Compose file located in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose is ignored. It is not a language configuration error, as include "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" is ignored too. Entering some deliberate modifications or even removing existing sequences from the Compose file doesn't affect Firefox.
I even found some sequence ↓a_ which is supposed to yield ā but firefox has as ª (not to be confused with ᵃ the superscript a) instead.

Searching for the place Firefox' Compose is defined, I grepped for "ª" which is a pretty rare character, and hit libxul.so. I tried a bunch of other characters and found pretty much everything that has a compose sequence is found in that file.

So thus my question would be: Are Firefoxes default compose sequences statically compiled into libxul.so? And if so, why?

I've got a couple hundred GB to download with Google Takeout, so selected the 50GB file sizes but unfortunately the browser crashes at ~46GB. It actually crashes the whole machine (MacOS) with activity monitor showing firefox "using" 46GB of memory.

Is there some weird niche problem I'm running into here? I'd expect firefox to just be streaming the download into its .part file, so keeping the 46GB in memory is odd.

Is there some way to mimic the firefox download with all cookies as a wget/curl? Dev tools let you copy anything in the network console as a curl request, but since this goes straight to the download I don't think the console sees it.

Honestly any ideas on how to move forward would be appreciated.

Edit:

I ended up using an extension called cliget that does all the "copy as wget" work for me. I added a -c to the wget so I could use the partially downloaded 40GB file and went from there. I think copying the download link would have worked because it's from some random domain and probably uses a jwt-like auth protocol, but it's unclear whether it would deny a wget without correct user-agent or other headers. YMMV

Using Firefox on Windows 11 and it is taking 10GB of RAM. it's slow and hangs so I cant use it.
Firefox on Android is awesome: fast and responsive!
Why does it take so much RAM on Windows but works very well on Android with 2GB of RAM?

With Firefox 115, users on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).

I did the things that these sites say:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/#firefox

Please help, I cant watch videos!