I am subscribed to this community from Lemmy and the icon is broken. I don't even see it on ~~kbin.social~~ fedia.io. Let's get our favorite mascot back!

Here's what it looks like from lemmy.world:

EDIT: If the icon is working for you, either your browser or your instance may be caching the icon and thereby hiding the issue.

So, it's "migrate to Firefox because Google is doing more evil things to the web" day. Because of my need to remain constantly connected to my email, I configured Google Chrome to launch several pages at start up: my personal email, calendar, and drive, my university email, calendar, and drive, Facebook Messenger, and Messages by Google. I've found a way to configure Firefox to load these pages at browser start up, however this option also loads this set of pages every time I open a new FF window, which is sub-optimal as I like to keep the first window free of any other junk while using subsequent windows for browsing. Might anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get the desired functionality (launch Firefox and get a window with the above tabs, but not have them re-spawn every time I open future FF windows)? Thanks.

Amid the regular drumbeat of revelations regarding the abuses of FISA, Mozilla calls on Congress to significantly reform it now.

This looks awesome, found on HN, thought i'd share.

Go little fox, you got this!

I installed Firefox Beta on MacOs, and noticed that the icon is the normal icon, not the beta icon. Is that correct, or a bug?

Edit: I figured it out. It was caused by the User-Agent Switcher and Manager addon, I use it to switch user agents on one site. I switched it to whitelist mode in the settings and now it works.

Like when I try to log into chat.openai.com, I click the checkbox that I'm human and it just keeps reloading that checkbox without progressing the page. But when I open the tab in a Firefox container (which you can install with the Firefox Multi-Account container addon), it works.

I want it to work without a container open.

Personally, while I've been using Tab Session Manager for years, I've had lots of issues with it. There have been a few times where all my sessions would be completely wiped after restarting Firefox or having it crash, which is why I have the backup folder setting enabled. Very occasionally within the past few years, but much more often lately, when I'd try to restore sessions, all of which consist of 100s of tabs, I'd find a bunch of tabs missing, being replaced with blank new tab pages. Also note that this has happened across different computers and Firefox installations.

Looking at the changes / commits made to the extension since its last update made last September, the developer has only updated the readme page and a few other non-code related things. there are hundreds of unaddressed issues on the repo.

It seems like I should really move away from it, what are alternative extensions you would recommend?

So, with google being who they are wanting to create a more and more hostile environment using chrome is increasingly becoming more meh.

But no other browser really has the ok feel to it. And certain let's call it quirks to others make them feel just meh and annoying to use because of how used i am to chrome, and I've tried.

And I was hoping that the one with Firefox, could be changed, or "fixed."

Feel free to call it weird but when you're used to something for more than a decade it's not easy to change, and I've tried FF on occasion, but this just makes me unable to stick.

Open tabs. I want to see them all, always. I want to be able to open and open and open, and all that happens, is like in chrome, (and now edge I believe? I've not seen it behave like FF) is that it just squeezes the tabs thinner and thinner, and, in the end, you can barely click them.

the behavior in FF seems to open a certain amount, then start pushing them "off screen" accessible through 'drop down', you know what I mean.

simply put, how can I make Firefox, not do that, and just let me open freely, create an awful mess that probably is harder to navigate?

It all probably sounds very counterintuitive but as mentioned after 10+ years of that being a feature I really do love, being unable to find that in settings or any other way seemingly to do this, is it possible for FF to do this at all somehow?

I've tried googling and I only seem to find people wanting the opposite, which is of course understandable but, people are different :P

Hello, I have a new pc and installed w10 from 0 with all the programs that I have always used; the problem is that firefox has crashed after a long inactivity, the same thing happened on my previous pc i thought it was because i had mistakenly deleted the information from the roaming folder, but not because the event was repeated today, this is happening since firefox 113. now what i have changed lately is this value

gfx.webrender.all is set to FALSE
&
gfx.webrender.software is set to TRUE (now I have set it to false to see how it works)

I’m new to Firefox and I’m just wondering what everyone thinks about the other services like Monitor, Mozilla VPN, Pocket, Relay etc.

Are they worth it? Do other people use these? Why or why not?

Thanks in advance!

Looking for a "Back Button" or a "Back Feature" that can bring me back to my previous position on a Webpage. Similarly to the Alt + Left Hotkey, I'm looking for a Hotkey that would bring me Back to my Previous "Views" or Previous "Positions", but on the same Page. For anyone who uses Visual Studio Code, I'm looking for that same "Back" feature. Perhaps there's a Firefox Add-On, or maybe even there's a built in feature to Firefox?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

#firefox

I want to know the cookies a web page uses and whether they use cookies placed on the computer by other websites.

Is there a way of knowing this or even an addon for it?

If I have a GIF like this: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=web+gif+example#vhid=YGtfdlLW95ObWM&vssid=l, How can I scrub it in Firefox / show video playback controls on it?

Since it seems #Google has decided to uni-laterally force through their new anti-#adblock #DRM euphemistically named "Web environment integrity", I decided to add a little bit of code to my website that blanks out the page and displays a protest message with a link to the firefox download page when you visit it from a browser with this DRM feature. Here's the source inside one toot, feel free to copy and put it at the end of your website's before the closing tag:

Hey guys, I use Firefox Developer Edition as my main and have tweaked user.js to my liking. It's generally great for me and I don't really have a need to switch off of it.

However, I was just exploring and found Librewolf and Waterfox as well.

It seems like it wouldn't make too much of an impact (since I've toyed with my own user.js) but I might just keep them around for secondary browsers and experimenting. I actually like having Firefox sync, so I'm not sure about Librewolf, even though it's nice and privacy hardened right out of the box.

Any thoughts and opinions on that in 2023?

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 333!

Come join me while I livehack on #Firefox!

I'm going to be reviewing a patch, and then we're going to be continuing on with our journey with the WindowsJumpList stuff. We're finally positioned to write a GTest. Let's try to do it!

Starts at 1PM ET:

https://mikeconley.ca/joc/

also it is the iceraven browser and im on android if that helps.

Way to prevent new tabs from opening and downloads?

Hi, new to fedia.

I was looking for settings or add-ons that would let me toggle the ability to open new tabs on or off on certain domains and also toggle on or off downloads. Occasionally I find spyware in my downloads and would also like to prevent pop up ads.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

#firefox

Just wondering if I can somehow track if all that data was used by a particular add-on or tab or what.

Historically I've been using about .5gb every month, I haven't done anything different today but here we are. What can I do to find out what happened and prevent the same scenario?

In Brave I can see a preview of the page by hovering over the tab. Is something like this possible in firefox? Add-on or from settings?

It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I'm not quite sure why it adds "?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d" to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.

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