Firefox

I don't think it was there until I enabled firefox sync. I'd like to remove what is inside the red box. Does anyone know how to do that?

In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

I disable animations either through Gnome's accessibility setting or KDE's slider to instant. I find that Gnome's animations are just too slow by default and KDE's tend to be janky. So while I want my window manager to have instant animations, I don't need my applications to do so.

Is it possible to disable the animations from the DE's settings but to keep them like normal in Firefox? Example: when I press ctrl+t it's OK if the new tab has an animation when it's created in the browser's UI.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/

It says on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-firefox#w_keyboard-shortcuts that the hotkey to toggle PiP is CTRL Shift ]. When I play a video it shows the PiP button, but the hotkey doesn't work. The other PiP keys like seeking and volume work. I'm on Fedora 41 with KDE 6.3.3 & Wayland.

Right now when you go to settings and click on the cell for a search engine under the keyword column, it shows a text box for me to add keywords to use in the URL bar. You can't do so for bookmarks, tabs, or history which are locked to * % and ^ respectively.

This bug is driving me crazy. Watching videos in fullscreen does not inhibit the screensaver/sleep settings on Linux. Whenever I try to stream a movie in fullscreen, my screensaver kicks in at the appointed time, as if I'm just idle.

This bug has been around forever. This seems to be the active entry on Bugzilla.

I LOVE Firefox, and it's a great browser for using on my Linux HTPC. For my purposes, it's much better than Brave. But you know which browser doesn't have this problem on Linux? I'm sorry to say... it's Brave.

I've tried different versions of Firefox: Flatpak, ESR, Trunk. They all have the same problem. When I open them from nothing, they often work great. I can watch a movie fine. But then I close out the movie, leave Firefox open, and walk away. My computer goes to sleep, as it should. The next time I use my computer-- with Firefox still open from earlier-- and try to watch a movie in fullscreen, I get the screensaver/sleep issue.

I really don't want to leave Firefox but this bug (and its longevity) is making it hard.

Crossposted from https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1jd5nlk/convert_chrome_extension_to_firefox_addon/

There are a number of FF versions and forks that this will work with, but I used FF Beta (I've also confirmed it to work with FF Nightly & Iceraven. Conversely, it did not work for Mull and iirc, it cannot be done using FF Standard Release/Stable)

• Step 1 - have the CRX file for the Chrome extension handy. There are countless Chrome extensions and FF add-ons that will extract it for you.

• Step 2 - install the CRX Installer add-on (or get the XPI file by whatever means) →Extensions→Click CRX Installer→click "Browse"→ select the CRX file*, which should result in the creation of an XPI file.

• Step 3 - go to Settings→About Firefox Beta (or Nightly, Iceraven, etc)→Tap the logo at the top of the "About" section until you see a toast message saying "Debug Menu enabled" (I think 5 taps)

• Step 4 - navigate to "about:config" → search "xpinstall.signatures.required" →tap "Toggle" so that it displays "False" (make sure there's no whitespace; copy exactly what's between the quotation marks or the search won't return the corresponding flag)

• Step 5 - go back to the main Settings screen, and now under the Advanced section, after "Extensions" you should see "Install extension from file"→give that a tap tap taparoo (Happy Gilmore reference to lighten the mood 🤡)→select the previously created XPI file

• Step 6 = PROFIT!

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* I may have actually selected the .zip file converted from the extension CRX, but "conversion" in this case simply entails renaming the CRX file (i.e., change ".crx" to ".zip"). I doubt it makes a difference.

Edit - IDK why the link preview displays an add-on called WhatFont. The only hyperlink is for CRX Installer and I confirmed it redirects to its corresponding add-on store page ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit 2 - I forgot to mention that this process will work to convert most extensions into properly functioning FF add-ons, but there will be the occasional outlier that doesn't function as well (or possibly at all) as a FF add-on due to differences in API calls. There are 1-2 that aren't available to both browsers and if the Chrome extension depends on one, functionality may suffer. Also, because FF is more permissive than Chrome in this regard, performing the conversion the other way around (from add-on→extension) is more likely to fail or result in a dysfunctional extension. Fortunately, due to there being a billion extensions in the CWS, most FF add-ons are already available to install.

Edit 3 - for a more automated approach, check out this handy tool created for the same purpose by u/hypeserver

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/23409956

It moves the address bar up to the top though. There's presently no way to have it at the bottom.

Searched the net about it, but most of the articles on List all tabs seems to be on how to remove it

I use Firefox (LibreWolf with Mozilla sync) on multiple devices. To have my tabs, extensions and history easy available I use Mozilla for syncing that data.

Would it be possible to just use a generic sync service like rsync or something, to sync the profile folders and every file in it?

Or would that break or corrupt data?

One of the first things i learned about Firefox is that extensions don't work on an iPhone, they're simply not available. I've been using Firefox since forever both on pc and mobile. In the past few days, after the TOS fiasco, i've been looking around for another browser for my iPhone and i stumbled upon Orion by Kagi and to my surprise they let you install extensions from the official Firefox add-ons page and they work, too. I've always read that the app for iOS was just a "reskin" of Safari but is actually true? Are they just being lazy not to allow extensions on iOS? Did Apple put a gun on their heads and told them not to do that?

I didn't find many comparisons between the two let alone a recent one. So they're both packages for changing Firefox prefs for better performance and or privacy. I'm interested in applying them to Zen Browser. Can you provide detailed comparisons and if I should you use both?

Interesting (but not surprising) what Mozilla's stance is.

Having switched to Zen Browser, something I miss with Firefox was its stability. I find myself looking up Zen browser bugs and workarounds too much. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I'm downgrading Zen versions due to a bug in the stable version, I never had to do so during my years on Firefox. Devs on Github making an app on their free time have can't spend as long on QA as a multi-mullion dollar organization.

This is what I mean

I found these answers, this is WAY too hard.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1341555

https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/p485un/how_to_disable_the_audio_playing_icon/

Is there an easier solution ? To turn off these play/pause/mute button that I keep click on accidentally ? I already have good controls with "Find sound tab" audio addon and I don't need this

ℹ️ Edit

come on guys. 30 likes, 14 people gave a kudo? What kinda like is that? "Cool bro but not gonna make an account lol" IF YOU WANT THIS, GIVE IT A REAL LIKE

If you want, vote for my proposal to allow 2 sidebars in Firefox!

Firefox gets vertical tabs and a sidebar, cool huh? And you can open pages as sidebar popups, for example a small dictionary page, or a notepad or whatever else!

But when using vertical tabs and these site popups, it looks pretty ugly and pushes the main site to the edge.

Having a sidebar and a vertical tab bar would fix this.

Current state and mockup as images attached.

This is how it currently is: the sidebar and the vertical tab bar are the same. Placed extensions are unintuitive and popup windows (like Mozillas SideView or dedicated extensions) are next to the tabs, pushing the main website even further to the side

This is how I would like it to be. A sidebar and a tab bar. Extensions go on the sidebar and the tab bar is just for tabs. The browser view is centered and clean.

(Tbh I would like tabs on the left but I am too lazy to edit the mockup)