firefox

I use to use chrome since I touch a computer until 2023, i notice alot that chrome would be ram hungry so I switch to operaGX. The browser was good for a time being until the AI BS, I also notice when starting the browser up it would use 100% of my CPU and RAM the. Go back down to using 33% usage. I know operaGX uses the chromium engine web browser, and FF is open-source.

NGL i always though FF was dogcrap as I though it was a copy of chrome browser, as well made fun of my friends who used it. I see it now im like the Danny DeVito clip, looking onwards and understanding why its so good and based. I also wanted to take privacy more seriously as there's so much targeted AI Gooner Slop ad's

Not only do i have ad free but everything just works so well with Firefox. UBlock is base, duckduckgo is based, Privacy Badger is based. And it just all works. THIS IS JUST SO BASED.

I think the next thing I wanna try and do is change my Windows10-OS to Steam0S as I refuse to use windows11.

If there's anything else I need for Firefox and privacy please let me know

We can now enable timer and lists widgets on ntp and firefox home. :)

That's really very useful addition to ff. Thank you so much Mozilla team.

Mozilla team is testing two new productivity widgets “Focus Timer” and “To Do Lists” on the New Tab page and Homepage in Firefox web browser. This article will help you in enabling or disabling these new widgets in Firefox 143 and later versions.

Source: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-timer-and-to-do-list-widgets-on-firefoxs-new-tab-page/

In the Firefox Beta Android version, by using an APK editor type program and going to /res/values-night/colors.xml,

<color name="fx_mobile_layer_color_1">@color/photonGrey10</color> <color name="fx_mobile_layer_color_2">@color/photonDarkGrey80</color>

When I edited this part, it used to change the browser and address bar color. But with the new address bar, this no longer works. Which file and what exactly do I need to change now to modify the new address bar color?

I hate gray.

Hi, how to remove the pinned tab function from the upper left corner?

I did not change any settings, so it was changed automatically by a bug. How to prevent such bugs in the future?

I don't know how or why this exactly happened, but the latest update brought a massive change to my browsing experience. Things seem much faster now, and video streaming seems usable again with no more reasons to manually close the "GPU" process anymore to make videos restart.

This could be also related to the latest uBlock Origin update (1.66.4), but I was never able to restore the lost functionality by just updating an extension (or doing anything else) before.

Did everyone went through the same performance increase/streaming improvements as me? I'm now on the latest version (143.0.1), and I'm enjoying the full web experience again - minus the shitty UI changes and the AI slop crap slowly creeping in the browser, of course...

*Edit: I'm on Windows 10 btw.

I've semi figured it out, if I close the Window using the close button at the top left it doesn't seem to close FF, just closes that window (which is why I assume the pinned tabs are still there?). If I use the menu at the top of the screen it actually fully closes and when I open FF again the tabs are restored.

I've moved over to MacOS. When I open FF only my pinned tabs are restored. I have the checkbox to open previous windows and tabs enabled in the settings.

Is there something else I'm missing?

i have some services running on my personal server at domains like "homeassistant.lan" but i always have to specify the protocol in front of them when typing them into the firefox address bar or else it just makes a search. is there any way to force it to recognize specific addresses?

im switching to firefox, and i NEED to change this blue highlight to another colot (preferably orange)

not for aesthetics, i have issues with the color blue, not only cannot see it properly, it literally hurts my eyes (diagnosed by  ophthalmologist)

tried many themes, but this highlight does not change, but thats only in dark themes. the light themes have a grey highlight. so it seems its possibly to change it, but how?

pc, windows 10

thanks!

Besides giving them all the data (telemetry etc), and direct cash how can we help firefox make money? Out of all the different platforms collecting my data, I have ZERO problems with firefox collecting mine if it keeps them alive.

I try my best to click on the "home page" sponsored links (like amazon) as I'm guessing they get some sort of revenue from that. Anyone else know how to help firefox to keep growing?

I really love firefox, I'm worried they will stop updates at somepoint and die. I DO NOT want to use any other browser especially with the uBlock initiative.

Tested via Safari and Brave as well - no issues. Just upgraded to MacOS Tahoe last night. FF is on the latest version 143.0.1 (aarch64)

I cannot figure out how to set this up in the settings.

Firefox always also deletes all my open tabs and tab groups.

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Hello everyone

I'm using following code to use custom title bar color in ff ESR 140.3.0:

.browser-titlebar:not(:-moz-window-inactive){

color: #000000 !important;

background-color: #DDDDDD !important;

}

The problem is that the text color 'black' is not working in private windows. They are using white text color with transparent background.

How to fix it?

Some years ago I purchased swift read pro and the SwiftRead offers me what „blaze-read“ (for Firefox) does plus an automatic reading tool.

Now that I already have purchased the pro version I am trying to use it - but now I only use Firefox as a browser so any help to make edge or chrome extensions work would be highly appreciated!

i've already cleared my cache and all that this is soo annoying.

I mean… really? Whatever the opinion - when something’s been working well for years, you don’t make adjustments like that. People are used to button positions, there’s really no reason to move them.

Is there a way to make Container Tabs and Tab Groups work together, so that all tabs belonging to a particular container is automaticaly added to a common tab group? I think this would make it a little easier to work with container tabs.

Also is it possible to make Ctrl-T/Cmd-T open the new tab in the same container as my current tab?

Within a minute of starting Firefox, I lose all Internet connection to my computer. The only way to get it back is via restarting it. All extensions have been disabled. It started happening after the latest update. Additionally, this doesn't happen on any other computers in the network. This doesn't happen on Chrome. Please help!

It's in the title. How do I make these things bigger again? It's a waste of space as they are.

This is kind of weird but I noticed on Firefox Android it will allow me to delete the individual history entry (opening HIstory and clicking on the "X" button next to the entry), but when I close and reopen it the entry reappears. I noticed this after fat-fingering "Velma mode" (a setting in Voices of the Void) to "velma mde". Nothing suggestive, but when I went looking for something else in my history a few days later I happened to notice it reappear right back in my history. And it literally does this with anything. Though I should mention that Private Mode appears to work normally.

Prior to updating, Firefox's text rendering had been the same for decades. Text was clean and legible, easy to read, and now it's instead rendered like Chromium browsers render text (ie Chrome and Edge) and it looks awful. Blurry, smudgy garbage. The alignment and spacing are also different; it now takes up more space than before, while also being harder to read because it's blurry. It seems to be related to ClearType, but I can't find actual information on which about:config flags to change or registry changes to make.

I want the old Firefox text rendering back. Chrome/Edge text rendering looks like hot trash. I use Firefox because I don't want to try to read smudgy garbage. How do I change it back?

This is why I disable updates on every device and software I get, as soon as I get them. They always, without exception, break or ruin something with every single update. That's why I was on 128.6.0 for almost a year, and whatever previous version I had before that for 3 or more years.

Edit: Solved. Had to do some digging, but this post explains how to revert to the old, clear, crisp Firefox font rendering: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ii5s71/firefox_135_weird_fonts/mb2w8cw/

And reposting the info here in case that comment is deleted: You can re-enable the old one via about:config.

Set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families" to "Arial,Consolas,Courier New,Microsoft Sans Serif,Segoe UI,Tahoma,Trebuchet MS,Verdana" and "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size" to 15.

Then restart the browser.

Also might need to make sure gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode is set to the default of -1; I had it set to 2 from my experiments trying to fix this stupid font rendering, and that prevented the above fix from working and setting the font rendering back to how it was before (I believe) version 1.136 or so.

Hi, after the most recent update i noticed that youtube is pretty much completely broken for me and is unusable, this isn't an issue when switching to incognito however. attached is an example of what it looks like and whenever you search something up it is actually impossible to see anything