So I frequently install firefox on different desktop devices and it’s a hassle to set up and configure all the privacy settings and extensions every time I install it on a new device.

Obviously using a FF account and sync would be the easiest way to set it up quickly, however the I don’t want to keep my account logged in on every device since some of the devices aren’t mine.

Having said that, is it possible for me to create a new sync account and configure it the way I want to; then log in on a new install, sync the config, logout, but retain my configuration there; essentially using the account to bootstrap config new firefox installations?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/465531

This isn't so much a support request as a piece of advice. I just wanted to pass along a heads-up to save someone else some work.

The Bionic Reader Firefox extension breaks my ability to comment and reply on Lemmy.

This Image is With the Extension Enabled.

As you can see, the reply button has been clicked. It's grayed out. But the page stays stuck there. And when I refresh, my attempted comment is nowhere to be found.

The Firefox error codes are also different between having this extension enabled and not having it enabled. I'll post those in the comments.

#TIL you can configure @firefox to resist fingerprinting by setting privacy.resistFingerprinting to true in your config. Just tried it and it greatly increased my score on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org ! 🕵️

Talking about these containers: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions.

Get Lemmy Go for Firefox

Get Lemmy Go for Chrome

More information about Lemmy Go on GitHub

Why

On Reddit, I had a simple search keyword for navigating directly to subreddits, where I could just type r firefox and be taken to reddit.com/r/firefox.

I wanted to have the same behavior for Lemmy, but the Fediverse makes this a lot more complicated.

So I made Lemmy Go to try and make it as simple as possible to jump to a community, or even find new ones more easily.

It's still a work in progress, so it might be a bit unstable and missing a bunch of features. But I've been using it myself for a few days, and it's already pretty helpful.

Usage

Type lg followed by a space (some browsers also accept tab instead), and then type the name of the community you're looking for.

Example: lg linux

Lemmy Go will search its database for any community that has the text linux in its name (e.g. linux_gaming) or title (Linux Gaming).

If you just type a community name and press enter, Lemmy Go will take you to the most popular community from that list.

If you don't press enter right away, you will be shown a list of communities that match that query. You can then select the specific one you want.

Preferred Instance

If you set your preferred instance in the user settings (click the extension icon), Lemmy Go will try its best to navigate to that community in your preferred instance, although this isn't always possible (in which case Lemmy Go will just navigate to the remote instance instead).

For instance, if your preferred instance is set to lemmy.ml and you select firefox@lemmy.world, Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.ml/c/firefox@lemmy.world.

But if lemmy.ml blocks the lemmy.world instance, then Lemmy Go will take you to lemmy.world/c/firefox instead.

Read the readme on GitHub for more information about how Lemmy Go works

I'm looking for an addon to automatically convert YouTube links to Piped or similar front end. Thanks!

*Edit: specifically for the android mobile browser

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1376783

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/

Fixed

• Fixed a startup crash experienced by some Windows 10 and 11 users by blocking instances of a malicious injected DLL (bug 1841751)
• Fixed a bug with displaying a caret in the text editor on some websites (bug 1840804)
• Fixed a bug with broken audio rendering on some websites (bug 1841982)
• Fixed a bug with patternTransform translate using the wrong units (bug 1840746)
• A security fix.
• Fixed a crash affecting Windows 7 users related to the DLL blocklist.

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

Hello! both firefox --help and man firefox return a list of flags and command line options, but options like --class and --name are missing. where can I find a complete list of options?

When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn't play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.

I have ff set to open everything in private tabs by default, but when i want to login to an account with my password manager i have to open ff, turn private browsing off and then paste the link from the password manager. I was wondering if some sort of syntax existed to tell ff to open it in a standart tab kind of like about:settings or mailto:

Can someone recommend a plugin to click through all those annoying GDPR cookie popups. In a perfecrt world, I woudl like it to automagically™ pick necessary only, but I'm sure that's asking for too much.

Good news, Kingsoft Antivirus users.

In the of all web pages I've checked so far there is always a line <link href="data:text/css,%5Bid*%3D'google_ads_iframe'%5D%2C%5Bid*%3D'taboola-'%5D%2C.taboolaHeight%2C.taboola-placeholder%2C%23credential_picker_container%2C%23credentials-picker-container%2C%23credential_picker_iframe%2C%5Bid*%3D'google-one-tap-iframe'%5D%2C%23google-one-tap-popup-container%2C.google-one-tap-modal-div%7Bdisplay%3Anone!important%3Bmin-height%3A0!important%3Bheight%3A0!important%3B%7D" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Does anyone know what it means? I tried to open a page in edge, and I do not see it there.

I am running mozilla-flatpak, version 115 on Fedora

I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what's reccomended

Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.

Thanks!

When I first opened Firefox after installing, I configured all the settings for myself. And I unchecked >Always check if Firefox is your default browser. It checked it back on by itself and now I can't uncheck it! It's grayed out.

I just went through a long list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. One that I didn't see that I would find useful is to press something like ⇧ Shift + ⌘ + C to copy the URL and then paste it into an email or message to send to someone. Does something like this exist?

Basically the send to device feature was solid for me but since around build 98 they redid it to be more chrome like sadly so instead of keeping devices linked forever you now have to log into them every couple of weeks. That makes me need something like Pushbullet again to send links to devices that I won’t log into for months on end.

I am looking for alternative knowledge sources to mozillazine that's a bit more up to date.

Specifically, I am after something that explains advanced about:config options and what each sqlite file and storage directories in my profile are actually used for. When I search online for things I get unhelpful support articles from mozilla and random reddit threads with conflicting information.

I've played around with a lot of things through a lot of trial and error (I can share some about:config values if anyone's interested in them), but I'd like to be directed somewhere I can go to and check first to make sure I won't break my profile tinkering.

I already use ffprofile to set up my user.js, but I'm looking for something with more documentation without having to resort to reading the source code of firefox.