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The sidebar should also surface https://lemmy.world/c/firefox@fedia.io to help grow the community.

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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!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

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?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by this_name@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

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

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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?

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

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Certain websites and addons follow browser default theme or timezone in order to determine whether or not to display day or night mode.

Websites such as a Lemmy and addons like Auto Night Mode need to be able to determine my timezone so they can automatically switch between day and night at the appropriate time.

is there a way to set my local time while making sure the rest of the privacy protections remain active?

Thanks

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Help toggling top tab bar on firefox.

A while ago someone helped me to eliminate the top tab bar so i could just have my Tree Style Tab on the side. It works great but i was wondering if there was any way to make that a toggle? Cause sometimes I move my computer to a smaller monitor and the horizontal space that it takes can be inconvinient.

Here's the snippet for removing it in the first place:

/* hides the native tabs */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; }/* leaves space for the window buttons */ #nav-bar { margin-top: -30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: -4px; }

Also, since i have you here, i couldn´t manage to create a floating o just an existing "three buttons" (like the minimize maximize and close buttons). So if you know about any one of those it´d be really helpful.

Thanks in advance !

#firefox

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redmi 4a. android 11, Qualcomm MSM8917 Snapdragon 425 (28 nm) CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53 GPU Adreno 308

firefox 115.2.0 (Build #2015961523), ff36f634f8+ GV: 115.0.2-20230710165010 AS: 115.0

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Many years ago there was a very cute Firefox fox that you could buy - unfortunately all the stores that sold it are down now. So that Firefox / Mozilla sells him again we need your vote! On https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-the-firefox-plush-toy/idc-p/35504 you can login with your Firefox account, GitHub account or Google account and give this suggestion your Like. We hope that we will have the honor to be in the presence of such a cute cuddly animal again!

More than 17 years ago was possible to buy this super cute Firefox plush (look at the images here 😍), but now this toy become extremely rare, I think that a lot of people could be interested in buying it, also from people asked me to buy one of this toy for her and was hurt when I told her that is quite impossible to have.

This issue was opened many years ago (you can check here) but since now nothing has been done. I can understand that this is not primary in Mozilla's projects, but I think it is not so hard to realize, considering that the product has been already done and the Mozilla shop still exists.

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I'm using this add-on to add a "Close Tabs to the Right" option. But after installing another add-on, the "Close Tabs to the Right" option isn't at the bottom anymore and I want to move it all the way to the bottom.

I searched and came across this guide to edit right click context menu items. However, I cannot get it to work.

This is what my userChrome.css looks like right now (scroll to the very bottom) https://pastebin.com/MWeTN19G

Here's the code I'm using to rearrange the tab context menu item

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important;
}

( I even tried setting -moz-box-ordinal-group to 2, 20, 200 but no luck)

This is the menu item id for the add-on's option I want at the bottom: _588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right

This is the menu item id for the add-on that is currently at the bottom: _c2c003ee-bd69-42a2-b0e9-6f34222cb046_-menuitem-5

And also, I'm using Lepton to change the look of right click context menus, tabs, menu panels etc.

Here's a screenshot of the menu item ids

Edit:

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
order: 2 !important;
}

It works now.

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I don't like notifications being shown in Windows Action Center, so I disabled it by changing alerts.useSystemBackend to false. The problem is Firefox built-in notification system just decides to mute notification sound and only shows the notifications. It's kinda annoying especially since I'm using this timer add-on. Please help me to enable notification sound. Thank you.

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I don't know when the option was removed since I hadn't updated Firefox on that machine in some time. Normally it's in the customize menu at the bottom left. I can confirm that the option still exists in 104.0.2 since I also haven't updated Firefox on my main machine (a different Ubuntu-based OS). And unless there's some way in 115.0.1 to remove the title bar then I am extremely reluctant to update. Anyone know how to remove title bars on this update?

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I opened this page that is in German: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/mozilla-ventures-investiert-in-blue-fever/

Previously on this website, Nightly would show a translate icon in the URL bar, allowing me to translate the articles to English. I don’t see that icon anymore. Why is that?

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TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!

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Is there an optimized version of Firefox that removed Pocket and other unneeded features? Does it use less memory?

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I tried giving NextDNS a shot. So far it looks great. My only problem it has 300k query limit for free in a month. I tried investigating the source of problem by looking a bit into about:networking and found out many queries has time to live of 300 seconds. I tried turning nextdns cache boost off and on but it made no difference. In order to reduce number of queries i send i set network.dns.get-ttl false (i don't know if it relevant since i am using DNS-over-https), network.dnsCacheEntries 1000, network.dnsCacheExpiration/network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod= 43200. While this setting sometimes apply to one or two queries occasionally it was pretty much ignored most of the time. I am on windows 10 and using arkenfox user.js. Does anyone have any idea how i can force a higher ttl on dns cache?

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7 reasons why you should really give Mozilla Firefox (web browser) a try.
Music: 'Invisible world' by Frankum & Frankumjay (CC-BY 3.0).

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Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering.

I've looked through many threads but didn't find any fix/workaround for this. I saw some users saying changing values for media.cache_readahead_limit and media.cache_resume_threshold to 99999 fixed it but that didn't help and actually caused Firefox to stop buffering midway through videos.

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