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Though the long wait is finally over. Firefox 116.0 ships with custom formatters support!

The main point of bringing custom formatters to Firefox was to allow the CLJS DevTools (custom formatters for ClojureScript) to work in Firefox.

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Right now I'm on 117.0a1 and I only see the search term in the url bar, which is improper.
Is there am about:config toggle for this.
I have the default one URL bar view set.

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Some more tech support, yeah :/

well, as to try to solve my other issue I’ve reinstalled Firefox on my iPhone, however, this has created more issues. Whenever I “restart”(drag at the bottom of the screen and drag the Firefox app up) Firefox forceboots me out of the app. This happens 50% of the time, aka every other time the app force boots me out then it just allows me to use it as normal. A side effect of this is that it keeps opening the oldest tab opened, instead of the one I was most recently viewing.

Is there any way to fix this? As I said before, Firefox 116 on iOS 16

#firefox

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As the title said I'm trying to customize my keyboard shortcuts with autoconfig.js, but I don't have much experience coding with javascript so I'm a little lost. The autoconfig.js solution was suggested in this thread (https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1381773#answer-1517102), but the example they used was for a different shortcut. Specifically, I'm trying to change the private window shortcut from the default to ctrl + shift + n, but I wasn't sure how. If anyone could offer some guidance besides third party extensions it would be greatly appreciated 👍

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SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 116 and 117 Nightly release cycles.

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How to see full URL when searching using Google in Firefox Nightly?

Right now I'm on 117.0a1 and I only see the search term in the url bar, which is improper.
Is there am about:config toggle for this.
I have the default one URL bar view set.

#firefox

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I currently have a puny 380 tabs open that consume 42GB RAM on my MBP '21 Max whatever (with 64GB total, shared with the GPU).

I have gone through most troubleshooting and it's clear that the unload mechanism isn't achieving it's goal (I mean, aside from an absolutely psycho amount of tabs I am hell-bent on having to "come back to later"). The reason that these tabs are open and have been loaded is that I've been transferring my other browser tabs over and setting up my Containers & Sidebar Panels, so each tab would have to be open within the last week.

Question: Most of resources I've found online lead me to believe that all I need is to modify browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb. But it's nowhere to be found. about:config on MacOS is just returning an empty value and offers me to set it. Dare I? Would it actually work?

And yes, the browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory is set to true and browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload is a default 600000 (which is in ms IIRC, so it's 10 minutes)

My main issue is that even manually triggering the Unload from about:unloads doesn't help the situation, and it can't be that all of the tabs are using WebRTC or are somehow considered to be active? Can it be a side-effect of Sidebery extension? Surely not? Many of the tabs list "Last Accessed" datetime between 3-9 days ago and still have the Base Weight of 0, so that part probably works, but Firefix decides not to unload them?

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Random thought: It would really help if people wouldn't need to chase this. I assume that the way that MacOS handles RAM with it's swap and whole "memory pressure" is probably isn't the most simple thing to work around but unless I can fix this it'll be very difficult to consistently use, and I can imagine people less inclined to figure things out be easily turned off. And yes, I didn't use to have this problem with the other browser with just as mental number of tabs.

Day 9 of (finally) moving away from Chrome after Web Integrity API proposal is going swimmingly, as you can see.

Edits: formatting, added more details of troubleshooting

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

when loading these pages:

https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/139515/Mozilla-officially-opposes-Web-Enviroment-Integrity-API-DRM-for-web

https://fedia.io/m/firefox/t/45506/Pride-Month-Logo-Contest

I get this error:

500 Server error

why is that? other threads loads without issues.
how to fix?

thanks.

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I got an issue with youtube not recommending videos on firefox, i tried going to safe to see if it was an extension issue but it isn't, i tried in chrome if the recommendations was working and it did ( i did this when logged out). It just recommended the new trending videos that i don't like. I'm in firefox 116

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Tech support

Forgive if this is not going to be formatted well, I’m still very new here. Anyways

I run iOS 16 and Firefox 116. The problem is that sometimes all my tabs(even private one) randomly close. This is really annoying as I often open new tabs when skimming wikis. The only real answer I can think of is having too many tabs open, but this is ruled out since my most recent crash happend when I had 10 tabs opened. I really want to stop this from happening.

Thanks in advance!

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I'd like a keyboard shortcut to act in the same way as the toobar button "show sidebars":

  • If the sidebar is open, it hides it

  • If the sidebar is closed, it opens to the last used sidebar

This page, Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly only describes how to toggle individual sidebars. History, bookmarks etc. So depending what is open you have to use unique shortcuts.

Is it possible?

I <3 FF but they are really stingy about the keyboard shortcuts.

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I've been having issues with Firefox on certain sites like Nexusmods.

Whenever I get a notification on the bell on the website, I get an error " Connection Error: Try reloading the notifications" and it doesn't go away even if I reload. I have to mark all notifications as read with the Mark All as Read button to get the notifications to disappear.

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Been having this issue for a while now, basically whenever I try to swap over to another account or log out of an existing account, it won't update. It'll refresh the page, but I'll still be on the same account. I've tried all the troubleshooting methods. it happens in safe mode, but doesn't happen in private window mode. If someone could help me figure out why this is happening that would be awesome!!

EDIT : If I change "set cookies" in the little padlock to "Allow for Session" then it works, but logs me out whenever I restart. updated setting

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So i just checked in on Desktop Beta 117 and noticed that CBR is available in settings so i started to wonder if anyone has any clue if there are plans to implement this on the iPhone/iPad app?

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I'm a web developer working on an app running in Docker on my MacBook. Chrome, Edge and Safari trust the self-signed certificate that has been imported into the Mac's root certificate store and have no security issues, but when I try and access the web app, I'm hit with "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" and the error code is MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_CA_CERT_USED_AS_END_ENTITY

I really miss Firefox, particularly the multi-account containers feature. What do I need to do so that Firefox will trust my certificate for my local web app?

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You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

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When I write something into the address-bar to "google it", it can often take 20 seconds to load the page. And if I simply click the address-bar again and click enter again, it will load right away.
I don't remember changing anything, so I wonder if it's just me.
I use Firefox Developer Edition 116, now actually 117 and the issue is still here.

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i have cleartype disabled in windows bc i think it makes notepad and system text look better but these same fonts look terrible when full page sized on firefox. is there a way to force enable it only for firefox or use some other antialiasing option?

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Firefox 116 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved Picture-in-Picture mode, improved Wayland support, and more.

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