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Anything to replicate Opera's Easy Files? It allowed you to upload images, notably anything in your clipboard, easily as shown in the photo attached. I need something like this (media.kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by minnieo@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I hate having to save shit to my laptop when sites won't let me paste instead of upload. Alternative anything that lets you access clipboard from windows file explorer could work too

#firefox #opera

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difficulty signing up for lemmy in firefox (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by drascus@sh.itjust.works to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I don't know if other people have had this experience. When I try to sign up for a lemmy server in firefox it just hangs indefinitely. I've had to use alternative browsers to sign up for accounts. I hope this is something that will be fixed. Lemmy and firefox should be natural allies.

EDIT: I appreciate the replies but don't frankly understand the downvotes. I will leave this up for now despite all the downvotes. if this really is that bad of a post I will leave it up to the mods to remove it.

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Prevent sidebar reloading when re-opening (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by r2dj@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Hi folks, are there any extension developers here? I've a question, not sure if it is possible.

I created a very simple extension which opens chatgpt in the sidebar. This works great, but the thing is, every time I open the sidebar, it refreshes the page. I don't want that, I'd rather it opens where I left off. Is there any way to accomplish this or is it a pipe dream? I'll post my code here:
manifest.json:

{

  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "ChatGPT Sidebar",
  "description": "Displays ChatGPT in sidebar.",
  "version": "1.0",
  "browser_specific_settings": {
    "gecko": {
      "strict_min_version": "54.0a1"
    }
  },

  "sidebar_action": {
    "default_icon": "icons/ChatGPT_logo.svg",
    "default_title" : "ChatGPT Sidebar",
    "default_panel": "sidebar/panel.html"
  },

  "permissions": ["tabs"],

  "commands": {
    "_execute_sidebar_action": {
      "suggested_key": {
        "default": "Alt+Shift+9"
      }
    }
  }

}

And the panel.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://chat.openai.com/" />
  </head>
<body></body>
</html>

[edit] formatting

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Linux Firefox Isolated Web Container Mem Leak? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ozoned@beehaw.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Good day all. I'm on Fedora 38, firefox-114.0-1.fc38.x86_64. Whenever I go to beehaw it seems that the Isolated Web Container just starts consuming my entire ram, then swap, essentially halting my system.

That other site listed issues, but they're all private now. Anyone else hitting memleaks with the isolated web containers?

I do have quite a few extensions, but I was hitting this even in private browser mode with the extensions off and Chromium doesn't appear to suffer any issues.

So I'm thinking this is a memleak int he firefox Isolated Web Containers.

EDIT: Just tried downgrading to firefox-111.0.1-1.fc38.x86_64 and while the Isolated Web containers does take up a lot of memory is seems to balance out.

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Is there any extension to prevent/deny cookies banners from websites? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by RomanRoy@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Is there anything like that? Most of these banners are invasive and I generally decline all by default, besides necessary ones.

I have "I don't care about cookies" extension on desktop, although it doesn't really fix it most of the times. Also, some sites keep showing them if I navigate through it or refresh the page.

But for Android I couldn't manage to find any extension for it.

Is anyone aware of any?

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How can I neutralize this annoying "use the app" popup on Reddit while using Firefox Android mobile? (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Blacklist addon --- block reddit (or any site really) from google searches (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Guru_Meditation_@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I have a bad habit of clicking on links before checking the source. This plugin gives me peace of mind while shunning the fallen one. Hopefully in the near future, appending 'lemmy' to google searches will prove just as fruitful. Until then I guess I will just grit my teeth and bear it. I find it's worth the hassle.

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How trustworthy is Mozilla Firefox with user accounts and data? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by sysadmin@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I want to sync things between 2 computers and apparently the only way to do this is to login to Firefox. Preferably I want to avoid tracking and stuff but sometimes it’s just a bit inconvenient. Is Mozilla trustworthy in terms of privacy with logging in, like data sales, especially data breach with passwords?

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How do I change the priority of suggested URL? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by tubbadu@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Hello! My first Lemmy account was on lemmy.one, but I later changed to lemmy.world because lemmy.one disabled downvotes. I've used lemmy.world much more than lemmy.one now, but whenever I type in my address bar le it autocomplete it with lemmy.one. how can I change this behavior making it suggest lemmy.world instead of lemmy.one? I'd rather not remove all lemmy.one entries from my history...

thanks in advance!

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Disable Firefox going back and forth in history when overscrolling horizontally (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/332512

Whenever I accidentally scroll too far left or right in Firefox, it goes back or forth in my history, which is very annoying. How could I disable this?

EDIT: Fixed it by disabling the gestures. Thanks @sudotstar@kbin.social!

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Lemmy Link Extension for Firefox (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Extension to make it easy to interact with different Lemmy communities

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Firefox pinch to zoom? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by conrad82@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I use Fedora on a laptop with touchscreen.

Some months ago, I could pinch to zoom on the screen (and on touchpad?). But now, touching the screen only marks the text.

Does anyone know what happened, and how to enable pinch to zoom in firefox? I think it may have happened after updating to newest Fedora version 38. I use Gnome DE with wayland enabled.

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Font Sizing per Site for Firefox for Android (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by Gort@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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One feature I'd love to see on Firefox for Android is the ability to resize the fonts per site. There's a general font resizing option that affects all sites, but it'd be great if there was an ability to have different setting per site. Sometimes making font sizes larger on one site will end up making other sites too large, and when lessening the size on some sites, makes them too small to read on others.

I use Firefox for Android Beta, which means I can install a wider set of addons than Stable. I've tried Zoom Page WE on Firefox for Android, but it doesn't work, which is a pity.

I suppose I should be putting this as a feature request at Mozilla, but thought I'd just air my thoughts here. Anyone know of any plans to introduce this sort of thing in future versions?

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Can't Start Firefox after updating my OpenSuse (crash-stats.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago by TPWitchcraft@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Crashes instantly after startup :/. Safe-Mode doesn't help.

I suspect it could have something to do with MESA; my gfx card is a bit oldish and had some trouble with newer applications. But SuperTuxKart and most games still do run, so this assumption is a bit shallow to go out and start to kick around my gfx-drivers.

Do you guys have any idea how to fix it? Using Chromium feels bad ;/. Setting up SeaMonkey right now, it works - at least for now.

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Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 2 years ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Data savings for android (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by larktreblig@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Are there datasaving options available like extentions for android?

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Firefox vs Chrome in 2023? Which one is better? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by ctrl@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Firefox vs Chrome in 2023? Which one is better?

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Does your FF also change default search to google after some updates? (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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It's annoying as shit

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What do you use for Dark Mode? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Imitate5334@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Dark Reader ~~Pro~~ seems to be the best but I feel it slows down page load time. Is there a better alternative?

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A bunch of improvements landing for Firefox on Linux smartphones (floss.social)
submitted 2 years ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1272476

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1272081

In the past couple of days both Pipewire (and with it libcamera) support and hardware video decoding with V4L2-M2M landed for Firefox to work better on Linux smartphones, which development for has started to grow exponentially in the last months. Great news overall for the future of the mobile platform!

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A bunch of improvements landing for Firefox on Linux smartphones (floss.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by joojmachine@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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In the past couple of days both Pipewire (and with it libcamera) support and hardware video decoding with V4L2-M2M landed for Firefox to work better on Linux smartphones, which development for has started to grow exponentially in the last months. Great news overall for the future of the mobile platform!

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Why does Firefox mobile still have so few add-ons? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[SOLVED] Why are firefox notifications so ugly? (lemmy.one)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tubbadu@lemmy.one to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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the last time I remember I received a firefox notification it was using the native notification (i'm using KDE, I also have the KDE integration addon) yesterday I received a notification from lemmy, and this is how they appear, in the center of the screen and... very ugly. what changed? is there a way to get back the native notification?

(you can check how your notification works here)

EDIT: in about:config page, alerts.useSystemBackend is set to true, but still it does not use the native notification

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Firefox Nightly crashing (Android)? (lemmy.one)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.one to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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I wasn't sure where else to post this, since well, reddit is down and also in the middle of a blackout that I'm participating in. I did a quick google search "firefox nightly down" but nothing useful popped up. crazy how inefficient information searching becomes when you can't use reddit lol

I'm getting these crashes on 2 devices - my OnePlus 8T (Nameless13) and my Surface Duo 1 (Android 12). I was using both fine earlier this morning, went for a walk, and I can't open either.

Sometimes it immediately closes when I try to open, and sometimes I get the actual "Firefox Nightly keeps stopping" crash

Anyone experiencing the same thing or have any idea what's going on? I have no idea where else to look. I checked the app store reviews & sorted by most recent, but didn't see any bad review about it not working except for 1 yesterday

Edit: I just installed normal Firefox app and it launches fine. Also same issue whether on wifi or data

Edit 2: Still happening, and got an error trying to copy the crash url

Edit 3, a week later: All fixed, a few days after I reported this it fixed on its own :) sorry for those I didn't see your comment on

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Version 114.0 released (www.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Dasnap@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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