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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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/

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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.

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

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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
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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.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

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.)

An example where I searched for Lemmy and tried to edit the search query

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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)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

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?

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cross-posted from: https://gehirneimer.de/m/[email protected]/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.

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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

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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:

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

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

@firefox

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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

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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!

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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!

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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).

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