Firefox

When I use a calculator website such as desmos, geobra, or symbolab, the numbers will randomly stop inputting when I press them on the keyboard. Has anyone else had this experience?

I'm using Fedora Linux.

I use ctrl + alt + x to translate pages, this chatbot uses the same shortcut so translate addon can't

since last update, my image of shortcut, in new tab page, are super tiny.

I though it was to allow to add more row or something, but no. Just tiny images.

Can I change the size of the image without css? Or should I wear glass

EDIT: ~~> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant a and b to false.~~ Unfortunatly the variant get back to true randomly after some time

EDIT2: you need to opt out of some study it seems : https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-134-new-tab/m-p/83021/highlight/true

EDIT3: the opt out of Firefox:study about the new UI doesnt help: the variant still revert to "true" after some time, not even after relaunching the browser, just after some time on its own.. which is pretty scary

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Hi,

I find bookmarks tedious to use and largely a huge waste of time. I have 10s of thousands of bookmarks and I never ever open any of them except the 10 or so on my bookmarks toolbar

Will bookmark ever improve, they seem to be solidly stuck in their functionality from 1996 and stagnant. Probably because nobody uses them there is no point in improving something no one uses.

So anyway, I thought bookmarks could be potentially useful if you could search text inside them. Except of course being 1996's finest technology, they never considered possible to save the text of a website as metadata of the bookmarks and they are built on this really naive idea that the bookmark will still work in the future, how pure in innocent of them.

So anyway, I'd like to just ask my locally running offline copy of deepseek 621B to search inside my bookmarks for a specific text and look at all images, video and audio transcript for a certain topic. I know this is a lot to ask of the outdated and obsolete bookmark technology so I'm curious if maybe there's someone that thought of improving that functionality or if I'm the first one to ever realize that ?

I found it on my DNS logs. Not sure what it does.

Open up about:config and go to layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override and set it to one of the following:

0 => Force a Dark background

1 => Force a Light background

2 => Follow the System theme (default in Firefox 94)

3 => Follow the Browser toolbar theme (default in Firefox 95+)

Today I saw the AI chatbot in the sidebar for the first time (I remember turning the setting of in the Labs settings, but they turned it on IG). Looking the options, it supports a number of models, but all of them seems to be on a remote servers. Is there any way to use an LLM run on my own machine?

I'm in the middle of learning a new language and trying to expose myself to the language. And this add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-dual-subtitles/), I found this very helpful. But because it had access to YouTube, it will automatically download the subtitle (or the auto-generated one) and translate it. What worries me is where and how it got translated and what it's doing with my activity. Also, sometimes it just doesn't work at all.

So are there any add-ons similar to this? That you can customize it how it translates stuff, e.g. via local LLM or via translation service of your choosing. Other suggestions to achieve the same goal are welcomed!

~~I hope Firefox has more capabilities like Auto Translate Live Caption~~

Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What's next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type "McDonald's" before I can actually navigate there?

For reasons I have been unable to decipher, FirefoxCP Web Content is munching all the memory on my machine that it possibly can. I have gone through every about:config setting I am aware of or was able to find information about. Tabs should be unloading, memory settings should be deliberately restrictive, etc. However, my laptop is absolutely crushed by my browser.

I'm running the latest version of Firefox. I have UBlock Origin running but that shouldn't be this much of a lift. This is a 2020 MacBook Pro with an M1 chip and 16GB of RAM (I have no control over this. It's a work laptop. No, I can't just ask for a different laptop. Yes, I have tried.)

If anyone knows of tips or tricks I can use to hopefully restrict Firefox's memory usage ceiling, I'd be greatly obliged.

I have a SearXNG instance running locally, and I have a proxy entry for this (search.home). When I go to https://search.home/ in Firefox, it works as expected and brings me to SearXNG, however if I try adding this as my default search, it instead resolves to the IP and not the hostname, which fails because the IP does not have a cert on it and it tries to hit it with https (as would work with the hostname).

This works in Firefox mobile, and every other web browser I've tried on desktop, just not Firefox for some reason. I've tried various about:config changes but so far no luck. Anyone else have a workaround for this? It would be nice if Firefox showed you what it actually has saved for the url/hostname/IP of the search engine in the Search section of the Settings, but sadly it just has the name and shortcut listed.

I just recommended someone to use Firefox for its excellent translation capability. And I think my reply warrants an entire post, so here is a copy of my reply. This is just a reminder that you can visit websites with other languages too. However Japanese and Korean are not supported yet, which would be helpful for me. Hopefully they add the support soon. But for German in example it works:

You could use a translation tool, for something that looks interesting to you. At least Firefox makes this easy, with its builtin translation functionality (without Google as far as I understand, and I think local/offline only, but can be wrong). Firefox is my main way to interact with Lemmy:

Directly in the addressbar for non native languages:

Or through menu:

BTW I just saw the link that describes it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

Note: Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There's no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

One more reason to use Firefox.

Edit: User Lazycog in the comments pointed out that you can also open a new tab for free text translations. Type about:translations in the addressbar and you get this:

Edit: Another user Arthur Besse in the comments pointed out that you can translate current selection only too. And you need to install language packs, so those will be available offline too. Otherwise its online connected I assume.

Select text and right click, so you can translate that part only:

Go to Firefox General Settings page, scroll down to Translations section and download the packages you need. Also checkout what its own settings has to offer, for some customization:

We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension.

I have problems with Formfill and i don't understand how Firefox works here. Obviously, no form data is saved for me. The saving of form data is activated in the settings under Security, in the History section. No data is deleted when closing the application. Even in a freshly created profile, without special settings and plugins, the saving of form data no longer works.

I have also tried to fill out the form at https://www.roboform.com/filling-test-all-fields. No data is saved. With Chrome, however, this is not a problem. Is there a hidden setting or is this a bug?

I edited the title to switch Apple with Labor because that's the real gist of the news item, not that they had worked and organised at Apple, although that's no small part.

I'm not sure if this paywalled so here is a archive.today link in case it is.