Firefox

Hey everyone. I'm just migrating to floorp (first time maining firefox in 15 years) and I'm wondering if there's any good workspaces extensions. I think I've tried them all, but i've found nothing that let's me handle workspaces across multiple windows the way vivaldi does.

Basically what I want is workspaces the way vivaldi handles them. You can create a workspace and add tabs to it. you can select to open a workspace in a new window so when you close the window that workspace is saved and you can reopen it whenever you want.

What I've found with the workspace extensions I've tried so far is that when you open a new window, none of your workspaces are saved, so it's like a blank workspace. Floorp has workspaces but it only works for one window at a time.

Does anyone have suggestions how I could replicate vivaldi's workspaces functionaltiy without going back to that browser?

Hey there, I'm a long time firefox user and have never ever had any problems with firefox. But after the latest update, the browser will now just randomly freeze and it happens very often. It will freeze for over a minute at the time, making it impossible to use the browser. I've refreshed firefox as suggested on their websites, I've reinstalled but still all the same. Anyone got any suggestions to what I can try? Or anyone else experienced the same thing?

Edit: Using Garuda Linux

Solved: It's not firefox, it's Garuda issues. Thanks for the tips and tricks everyone gave 🙌

Let me explain: When trying to create homescreen shortcuts to URLs, some sites only give you the option to "install" as a progressive web app and remove the normal (and sane) option to merely "Add to home screen." This has annoyed me for so long because, on top of this, there's no way to rename app shortcuts in Android, so for a long time I haven't created a shortcut to my skiff email inbox because it would automatically name itself "react-client," which is aggravatingly obscure.

Just now, it suddenly occurred to me that if I totally disconnect from internet and enter the URL, then Firefox won't know that it's a site that can be used as a progressive web app. taps forehead

Sure enough, I now have a tidy little link called (smartly) "Skiff Mail."

Thought this information might be helpful to someone. Hope you all have a Mozillarific day!

Release Notes

C'est fou quand même le manque de compatibilité des navigateurs avec la pseudo classe css :dir()
https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/CSS/:dir

Elle permet d'appliquer une règle de css différente en fonction du sens de lecture du texte et elle est prise en compte depuis 2016 par @firefox

cc @ButterflyOfFire @w3c

Is there an extension that warns you when you are wasting time reading ai-generated crap?

Case in point, I was reading an article that claimed to compare kubernetes distros and wasted some good minutes before realizing it was full of crap.

I want to export my chats in Markdown and I don't like how bloated Superpower GPT is, I just need to download chats. I wonder if this has to do with the relatively new addon domain restrictions feature. I followed the instructions on that page to set extensions.webextensions.addons-restricted-domains@mozilla.com.disabled to true in about:config. The addon still doesn't work after restarting Firefox.

EDIT I love the dead "Learn more" link.

This is actually in the release notes for Firefox 118 here (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/), but it also works on Firefox 115+ (as is mentioned in the bugzilla page).

Things that are still missing for me:

• being able to send 1080p video. I have a 1080p 30fps webcam that can only send 1080p video when using Google Meet in chrome. On Firefox, only 720p is available.
• support for call control devices. I have fancy headphones that can e.g. unmute you in Meet when you lower the microphone, but registering such a device with Meet is only available in chrome. See https://support.google.com/meet/answer/12562325?hl=en

We will support HEVC playback via Media Foundation transform (MFT).

HEVC playback will be supported via the Media Foundation Transform (MFT) and WMF decoder module will check if there is any avaliable MFT which can be used for HEVC then reports the support information.

HEVC playback can only be support on (1) users have purchased paid HEVC extension on their computer (SW decoding) (2) HEVC hardware decoding is available on users' computer

For now, I'd like to only enable HEVC for the media engine playback, but keep the HEVC default off on the MFT. Because the media engine is an experimental feature, which is off by default, it's fine to enable HEVC for that.

HEVC playback needs hardware decoding, and it currently only support on Windows. HEVC playback check would be run when the task is in the mda-gpu, which has the ability for hardware decoding. On other platforms, HEVC should not be supported.

Between uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, and Privacy Possum, I'm having a hard time deciding which ones I actually need and which ones I don't. Do they actually do different things, or are they largely the same?

I have about 25 extensions (almost all needed) and firefox lags like crazy, it's like I'm watching the videos at 10 fps. I download chrome to test it out and sure enough it runs as smooth as butter. Any help?

EDIT: It somehow fixed itself after I started using LibreWolf (with the same addons)

I wanna add some extra stuff without having to type the whole link.

[SOLVED] replaced router (for another reason) and new model works fine somehow

Hey guys, my Firefox on Android cant open selfhosted services using DNS host names on home wifi.

I moved to a new place, got new router, configured server with new local IP. On PC everything works fine, but on Android Firefox I get "Address Not Found" when I try to open local hostname. Using IP:port works, but its been working fine before we moved. Chrome on Android works fine, desktop PC works fine.

Im running pihole and nginx proxy manager on server (I reconfigured pihole, but settings should be the same as before). I have set server IP in router DNS settings. I have set static IP for wifi network on phone and DNS address of server (I think I didnt need this before, but now it doesnt work in chrome without it). I have 2nd pihole on rpi4 as secondary DNS server on both router and phone settings, but its not in use yet. When I reconnect to wifi firefox can open the page for like first 20 sec and then it stopps working.

What am I doing wrong? Ive been using firefox on android exclusively before we moved

Due to resist-fingerprinting needed to be disabled to use the website appearance setting in @firefox I was searching for an alternative and found Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader). I remember using it a few years ago and since then it has gotten pretty darn good. If you want to use websites without your eyeballs melting from the bright light, I'd recommend you to try Dark Reader out.

I had an idea what if we were to just like get a bunch of donations together pay for a bunch of shirts and full face masks with Firefox branding on it and Firefox colors Etc and also hand out pamphlets that would include the Mozilla ideas and then also like pay five bucks if you would do this at a Google event and interrupt presentations with witty comebacks on how Firefox is better and Google bad

@firefox
Jeez Firefox, take hint and quit pestering to be updated ALL DAY LONG.

The side of the cart reads:

“Safari is a great browser,
for downloading Firefox.”

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I had a hard time setting up the new sync server for Firefox which is written in Rust because the documentation is very bad.

After a lot of try and error and reading comments of people in the issue tracker I finally was able to set it up and run it successfully.

Mostly for my future self, but perhaps it also helps other people I documented it with help of a README and a docker-compose.yaml which makes it easy for me to upgrade if necessary and also to store all the other config files with examples.

My Google search isn't working correctly. I can use a widget but then I have two search bars.

Any ideas