Since a few days I have this weird bug. it's also happening on my laptop. Edge doesn't have this problem.

Edit: This bug seems to be linked to my google account and not Firefox. It also happens in Edge when logged in. It only happens to one specific google account. When logged in to a different account it does not happen. F12 Consoles look identical on both accounts.

Started this morning. All of my personal tools like nextcloud and RSS reader were blocked, and I had to go manually override that screen for each one. Unacceptable.

Had it saved on my hard drive for years and recently re-discovered it. Seems to be from 2011 (!!)

Google is getting worse by the year, but it seems even back then some people were already seeing where things were going.

(Credits to the original author whoever it might be)

Hi, So, I wipe all cookies on every restart of firefox by default.

However, there are a very very few cookies I would like to restore. And only to certain multi-account containers

They are the session cookie to the few websites I login to. Because I'm annoyed to have to login again on every reboot.

But I still want to wipe every other cookies they store.

I tried to make a bookmarklet that can save the session cookie

Example this

javascript:(function() {     function getCookie(name) {         var value = "; " + document.cookie;         var parts = value.split("; " + name + "=");         if (parts.length == 2) return parts.pop().split(";").shift();     }     var cookieValue = getCookie('session_id');     if (cookieValue) {         var data = new Blob([`session_id=${cookieValue}`], {type: 'text/plain'});         var a = document.createElement('a');         a.style.display = 'none';         document.body.appendChild(a);         var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);         a.href = url;         a.download = 'session_id.txt';         a.click();         window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);     } else {         alert('Cookie "session_id" does not exist.');     } })();

Unfortunately, unlike regular cookies, this doesn't work and it returns the cookie doesn't exist.

I would have made another bookmarklet which create a cookie from the file.

What I really need is an addon that lets me specify which cookies to save and restory, in which multi-account container

After using Chrome for a decade and switching back to Firefox, one feature I missed was the ability to right-click and Go to [url] directly, for any selected text that vaguely resembles a URL.

I made Goto foo to approximately replicate Chrome's behavior in Firefox, but it would be nice if no extension were necessary.

In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated metrics, we lack the ability to pinpoint data from any particular website. But perhaps even more challenging is analyzing the data once collected and drawing actionable conclusions. In the future we’ll talk more about these challenges and how we’re addressing them, but in this post we’d like to share how some of the metrics that are fundamental to how our users experience the browser have improved throughout the year.

Happened to play with @firefox's screenshotting tool for the first time, and it's pretty amazing, for one reason, and one reason only - **HTML element awareness**

#OpenSource

I end up manually clicking to turn it on anyway every time. Would love to automate it.

"Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got a lot easier. We’ve set up a new APT repository for you to install Firefox Nightly as a .deb package."

Previously it could only be enabled in nightly, but today in Librewolf 119.0-5 (based on firefox 119 stable) I found that you could also go to about:config and set image.jxl.enabled to true and enable support for jpeg-xl. Is it only a librewolf thing? I am asking here cause I don't have time to personally test.

Chrome does not do it either but are we supposed to be the ones that start a new trend or the ones that follow the trend?

I made a post into their feature request section about how important it is for privacy and security. It is perfectly possible to do but they are not interested in doing.

What I asked was that they provide a feature that allows users to opt in to encrypt all browsing data including history, passwords, cookies, etc. With this feature I can only access my browser information after I open up Firefox and provide my encryption password.

How would this help? Well, there could be viruses that can read Firefox browsing history and cookies and send that to the server. With this feature enabled, one can be even more safer.

There is an option to encrypt Passwords. Thats not enough, every other piece of browsing data should also be encrypted.

All the incognito browser windows share the same "session" in Firefox. So say you open an Incognito window to browse Facebook or something, then you open another Incognito window, this new incognito window is linked to the previous incognito window, meaning you are logged into Facebook at that new Incognito window as well. This is because, as I explained before, all the incognito windows share the same "session"

The only way to clear incognito window is to close ALL of them and then create a new incognito window. You dont have to close the main non incognito Firefox window though, just close all the incognito windows. Then open a new one, now your previous session is destroyed and you are new again.

You may know it but its not that common knowledge as it should have been

Why use .js extension if it does not even support what Javascript is supposed to support. Here is my user.js file that does not work in Firefox: https://pastebin.com/QZXL0YJp

However the following works: https://pastebin.com/xEjh7g9U

I wonder why not implement a full Javascript engine to read in those configuration files, it kind of sucks to keep on typing user_pref( in every line when one could put all the configs in a list and loop over it and use user_pref() to apply them.

Those are the MD5 hashes of a lot of adult sites. They list them, so they can filter them from "often visited". In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159884 they reason, that this is so that virus scanners don't detect FF as malicious (due to containing references to those sites). Let's get the list!

You can also access this list locally by typing in resource://activity-stream/lib/FilterAdult.sys.jsm into your URL bar.

[Note that this post is technically not NSFW as they are only MD5 hashes.]

I recently moved from chromium to Firefox and I noticed an inconsistency I'm not sure how to fix.

On chromium, if I want to open a link on a new tab, I use ctrl + click to open it in the background and ctrl + shift + click to open it and focus.

On Firefox, with normal links it works the same way, but with bookmarks it's switched: ctrl + click opens and focuses, and ctrl + shift + click opens in the background.

I've searched settings about this with no luck.

Am I missing something?

Is it possible to merge tabs the way Chromium-based browsers can on Android? Sometimes it is very useful 🙃

Hi Firefox Team, what you would say to make an UI adjustments regarding the https://arc.net/ which becomes very popular :) it could be a great opportunity to get some Windows and Linux users back, since they released Mac only so far. Also it's based on Chromium and it seems it is not an open-source yet. cc @mozilla @firefox @FirefoxNightly

Hallo! 🐸

I have UK Eng set as my main language on #Firefox, but it still sees my UK Eng as spelling errors, as based on a US Eng dictionary.

I checked my Firefox browser settings, and UK (GB) is set as the mai, but can't remove US Eng. Is there something that I'm missing?

@firefox@lemmy.ml @firefox@lemmy.world @mozilla

I found that TCP Fast Open was removed in Firefox, while Chrome continues to have it. Does anyone have more info on why the devs decided to axe it ?

The ticket that removed the feature didn't have any explanation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689604

I have set a primary password on my browser. Due to which, whenever I open my browser, the first thing it does is ask for primary password. I wish this to happen only when I am accessing the passwords or when a site is autofilling it[ thus, necessitating the unlocking of the vault].

Is there a way to disable it at the browser start? I went through an old StackOverflow thread but no solution there. There used to be an extension called MasterPassword that solved this but the link seems to be broken now.

I've tried several forks of mobile Firefox over the months and they all (Mull, Fennec, Iceraven) suffered from the same issue of running at 60 Hz while the regular app runs at the native 120. This makes it feel very sluggish especially in comparison to every other app and has kept me on the official app.

I've wondered if other people had the same issue or if it's related to my phone (Nothing Phone 1), and if there's a potential fix.

I generally truly love using @firefox This new feature of intrusively suggesting to translate shit is beyond me though. Just shove off with that crap and ask me to opt IN rather than make me search how to opt out.
That popup is intrusive and I hate firefox for it.

What this is

Recently I've developed an action so that one can easily self distribute Firefox addon updates. Normally when installing addons outside of the Mozilla addons website (aka sideloading), updates need to be checked and installed manually. This becomes even worse when you sideload an addon on multiple devices.

However, addons can point to an URL with a special JSON file that keeps track of versions and their download links. This way, updates are installed automatically by the browser. But updating this file manually is annoying and may contain human errors. This action automatically generates one based on the releases from the GitHub repository.

Why do I need this?

This action can be useful for e.g. distributing beta versions of an add-on, or keeping a pet project like a custom startpage up-to-date across devices. With this action, publishing an update can be as easy as pushing a new git tag. An example can be found at https://github.com/2zqa/startpagina-private. I thought some of you might find this useful.

If appreciated I can also make a separate post about making custom startpages without needing to host a local webserver (and with auto-updates across all your devices of course, using this action). Let me know! :)

Pitfalls

This action is fully dependent on GitHub and cannot be used on other git providers like GitLab or Gitea. Not only is it a GitHub action, it uses the GitHub API for retrieving releases and thus the download links to updates. Maybe this addon can be ported to other providers, although I am personally not interested in doing that.

It is also barebones: it is only useful when combined with actions that host the file, not to mention sign the addon and create a new release. One might say that is a plus though, as it keeps the action nice and concise.