Firefox

is half the internet hosted in rural america?

reddit, twitch, streamable, videos don't play anymore. it worked a few hours ago. works in chrome though and edge.

but i rather stop using internet than switch to chrome

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

#askfedi Why are the power options different when playing audio in @Vivaldi in #gnome on #debian trixie? When no audio is playing, the options for automatic suspend are available. When audio is playing, the options are completly gone. This doesn’t happen when playing audio in @firefox

@social @firefox
Did you just shown a tab group tutorial in the what's new page, yet it's apparently still in progressive rollout?

Disclaimer is only on the technical document but not on the landing page.

Since when you started this kind of marketing bullocks?

#Firefox #Mozilla

If you have just recently received an update to Firefox on Android, you may find that all of your bookmarks now have sorting enabled with no option to turn it off.

There is a way (at the time of this post) to turn off this function.

Instructions for disabling automatic sorting currently:

1. Open settings.
2. Tap on About Firefox
3. Tap on the Firefox logo 5 times to enable developer settings.
4. Back out to the main settings menu, scroll down to Secret Settings, and tap on that.
5. Find the 'Enable Compose Bookmarks' toggle and turn it off.

It looks like it's something the Firefox dev's have decided that everyone needs this without any other alternatives.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/restore-ability-to-preserve-desktop-bookmark-order-in-firefox/idi-p/83114

Not disappeared actually, but it was whittled down so much it might as well have.

This is what it looks like in Firefox:

And this is what it looks like in Librewolf:

How do I get the good version back?

Basically what the title says. As far as tech knowledge goes, I am probably a 3.5 or 4 out of 10. Hence the ELI5 request.

I am a Firefox browser user, both in my Android phone as well as Windows device - for the same reason as many others ditched Chrome and chose FF (degoogle and all).

Recently I came to know about Fission being offered in FF nightly. It is said that site isolation with fission is far from ready, and this is probably one of the areas where chromium beats it. I read somewhere that FF fission uses multiple processes to separate sites, but they are not really "isolated processes".

All these is surely not making me less confused about how exactly sandboxing/fission/FPI/TCP differ as far as Firefox is considered, so thought of asking this here.

Posting this in the ELI5 community might've been more "correct", but my question being specifically around Firefox, I thought the chances of getting a better answer is higher here.

Apologies if not, and thanks in advance.

Estive a testar os separadores verticais no @firefox e acho que isto não é para mim. Voltar ao estilo antigo

Only finding old ways and either Im too untalented or it become obsolete (as someone mentioned in an old comment there)

Summary

We have rewritten over 600 JavaScript event handlers to mitigate XSS and other injection attacks in the main Firefox user interface. This mitigation will ship in Firefox 138. However, blocking the execution of scripts in the parent process is not the end - we will expand this technique to other contexts in the near future. There is still more work to do as the UI requires JavaScript APIs with a high level of privileges. However: We still eliminated a whole class of attacks, significantly raising the bar for attackers to exploit Firefox. In fact, we hopefully just broke someone’s exploit chain.

Estou a testar os separadores verticais no @firefox e sinto-me completamente perdido. Uma simples alteração e o mundo parece ao contrário...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/

Edit: I found it it occurred somehow when remapping modifiers with my keyd configuration. I remapped it to CTRL ALT ] and it works now.

It says on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-firefox#w_keyboard-shortcuts that the hotkey to toggle PiP is CTRL Shift ]. When I play a video it shows the PiP button, but the hotkey doesn't work. The other PiP keys like seeking and volume work. I'm on Fedora 41 with KDE 6.3.3 & Wayland.

Right now when you go to settings and click on the cell for a search engine under the keyword column, it shows a text box for me to add keywords to use in the URL bar. You can't do so for bookmarks, tabs, or history which are locked to * % and ^ respectively.

Crossposted from https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1jd5nlk/convert_chrome_extension_to_firefox_addon/

There are a number of FF versions and forks that this will work with, but I used FF Beta (I've also confirmed it to work with FF Nightly & Iceraven. Conversely, it did not work for Mull and iirc, it cannot be done using FF Standard Release/Stable)

• Step 1 - have the CRX file for the Chrome extension handy. There are countless Chrome extensions and FF add-ons that will extract it for you.

• Step 2 - install the CRX Installer add-on (or get the XPI file by whatever means) →Extensions→Click CRX Installer→click "Browse"→ select the CRX file*, which should result in the creation of an XPI file.

• Step 3 - go to Settings→About Firefox Beta (or Nightly, Iceraven, etc)→Tap the logo at the top of the "About" section until you see a toast message saying "Debug Menu enabled" (I think 5 taps)

• Step 4 - navigate to "about:config" → search "xpinstall.signatures.required" →tap "Toggle" so that it displays "False" (make sure there's no whitespace; copy exactly what's between the quotation marks or the search won't return the corresponding flag)

• Step 5 - go back to the main Settings screen, and now under the Advanced section, after "Extensions" you should see "Install extension from file"→give that a tap tap taparoo (Happy Gilmore reference to lighten the mood 🤡)→select the previously created XPI file

• Step 6 = PROFIT!

💰💰💰

* I may have actually selected the .zip file converted from the extension CRX, but "conversion" in this case simply entails renaming the CRX file (i.e., change ".crx" to ".zip"). I doubt it makes a difference.

Edit - IDK why the link preview displays an add-on called WhatFont. The only hyperlink is for CRX Installer and I confirmed it redirects to its corresponding add-on store page ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit 2 - I forgot to mention that this process will work to convert most extensions into properly functioning FF add-ons, but there will be the occasional outlier that doesn't function as well (or possibly at all) as a FF add-on due to differences in API calls. There are 1-2 that aren't available to both browsers and if the Chrome extension depends on one, functionality may suffer. Also, because FF is more permissive than Chrome in this regard, performing the conversion the other way around (from add-on→extension) is more likely to fail or result in a dysfunctional extension. Fortunately, due to there being a billion extensions in the CWS, most FF add-ons are already available to install.

Edit 3 - for a more automated approach, check out this handy tool created for the same purpose by u/hypeserver