Questions tagged [firefox]
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How to roll back a faulty update to a Firefox addon [duplicate]
A faulty and/or undesirable update to a Firefox addon broke functionality and/or workflow.
This is essentially a repost of this question. Unlike the accepted answer for that post however, I'm looking ...
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Legacy Portable Firefox to run legacy portable Java only and ignore local install of Java
Sorry to post a question regarding legacy applications but we mutiple systems that require legacy browsers and Java.
I need Portable Firefox to run the Portable Java JRE version and not the Java JRE ...
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Open new tab besides last active non-pinned tab?
I have a productivity web app (ClickUp) as a pinned tab in Firefox. Is it possible to configure Firefox (about:config or via extension) to pretend the pinned tab does not exist when opening a link in ...
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How to disable FF feature that stores date of creation, modification and last use of a password?
Looking for a way to tell browser to stop tracking date of creation, date of modification and last use of any saved password. It currently displays it in a form of a timeline at about:logins.
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Is it possible to modify/remove devtoolsKeyset key bindings in Firefox?
I've been working on a locked-down version of Firefox and need to disable certain keyboard shortcuts. Clarification: I'm the employee locking it down for my employer for use by our customers on a ...
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OS: Parrot Security 6.0 (lorikeet) x8 Automatically end current session
When I open a file which name is " Shiva Svarodaya with Hindi Translation 1899 - Khemraj Shri Krishna Das.pdf " when open with atril document viewer SUddenly I automatically It ends the ...
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How to copy my data entered into web forms, for a personal copy [closed]
As a Firefox user, I sometimes have to complete forms on a large web page (actually about ten pages) and I wish to capture all my input for my own records.
I know I could copy & paste each input ...
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No Firefox cookies.sqlite file found. Use -c COOKIEFILE
I try to execute the code by using this command in my Kali Linux python3 ./cookies.py
then I got this message No Firefox cookies.sqlite file found. Use -c COOKIEFILE.
what does the message mean and ...
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Does anyone know how to stop Firefox from adding shortcuts for every single website I visit?
I want to try and have a kind of different Firefox shortcut layout because I think all of it being filled up is boring.
And now, every time I open any site that isn't the ones already in there, it ...
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How to set the background color of a PDF file opened in a Firefox browser?
I tried the following way to change the PDF file background color in a Firefox browser (Firefox version 124.0, following an answer from here):
Enter setting with about:config
set pdfjs....
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Firefox - Allowing about: protocol
i have custom ( new tab page ) and one of the feature i want to add to it is a button that send me to about:debugging or about:profiles tabs
when using a hyper link or create a new tab with url: "...
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Firefox behaving aways like in no-remote mode in WSLg/Ubuntu
I have a shell script that opens several tabs in default browser for 2fa process (indirectly by using aws sso login). This script runs in WSL2/Ubuntu 22.04.
Now this is interesting: The behavior is ...
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How can I get rid of unwanted email addresses?
To be more specific, I use Firefox 115.8.0esr (64-bit) on Debian 11, and I sometimes have to authenticate with my email address to use some Google services; for some reason Firefox (or is it Google?) ...
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Firefox has permission to start wpa_supplicant when calling navigator.geolocation
I've been dealing with some annoying attacks lately, and got super paranoid after discovering wpa_supplicant.service running as it definitely should not be on this particular machine. After a little ...
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How to list all detected cameras in firefox (offline without a website)?
How can I get firefox to show me a list of all the webcams that it can see?
I do not want to use a website. I want something native in firefox that I can use offline without visiting a third party ...
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Where does Firefox store push notifications?
I made a NodeJS script a while ago that can read Chromium notifications by reading the LevelDB database where they're stored. I use it to have more granularity when handling notifications, and to sync ...
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What can I do if a spam email claims I'm infected with Pegasus spyware?
I opened my Outlook app (Firefox PWA) on my Android phone.
I was confused because I was logged out (I have "remember me" activated, so I have to login once every few months...).
Then, I ...
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Viewing previously viewed pages of same tab in Firefox
In Firefox, the user can click and hold on the back arrow button to see the history of the current tab.
Is there a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing, i.e. opens this panel of previously ...
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Save as PDF using the Firefox mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF extension
MacOS Ventura 13.6.3
Firefox 123 and 124b (developper edition)
I am testing the mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF Firefox extension, which allows to add an icon to trigger the "Save as PDF" ...
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Firefox warn on exit [duplicate]
Seems like this has been impossible in Firefox for quite some time. Anyone knows if there is an update that enables a workaround or if Firefox is planning to fix this?
To be clear: what I need is a ...
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How do I stop a website from overriding my keyboard shortcuts?
The DeepL website has recently overridden my keyboard shortcuts so I can no longer copy paste sentences in and out of the text input boxes.
This still works if the keyboard is set to the US default. ...
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Is CPUQuota per core or per machine?
In order to prevent buggy sites from freezing my system I imposed a CPU Quota limit of 95%, a Memory High of 2G and a Memory Max of 3G on my Firefox flatpak as described by the flatpak documentation.
$...
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What is the difference between a request response time and duration in Firefox devtools?
I'm investigating why my website is so slow to load while devs work on it locally, but opens within milliseconds when ran in production.
I use Firefox and can't help but notice that the "duration&...
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Firefox - How to connect to a remote HTTP URL (and not force HTTPS)?
I want to browse to an http-based URL but Ubuntu Firefox will not let me, it always seems to force-switch to https. This is clear in the Web Developer Tools -> Network Tab, Firefox never even tries ...
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How to have a certain position and size of window in FireFox on Windows for a specific website?
I use FireFox on Windows 10 for different purposes and it would be convenient for some websites to use predefined FireFox screen positions and sizes.
For example:
Show superuser.com in small window ...
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Simple way to automatically replace string in webpage body with Firefox? [migrated]
Without using a heavy browser extension, I would like to perform a find and replace on every webpage I load, to find a string such as www.yahoo.com/Query.php?= and change to www.startpage.com/Q.php?=
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Drag to open link in container tab, in Firefox
What I want: Drag a link to a direction (left for example) then it was opened in a container tab (I have only one container currently)
What I have:
Firefox beta 124
Violentmonkey
Glitterdrag that can ...
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“This site can't be reached - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” via Google Chrome (49.0.0263.75) on Windows XP. Works with Firefox
I cannot get into many sites on my laptop with Google Chrome on Windows XP. I am using Google Chrome (49.0.0263.75) and FirefoxESR (52.9.0) and I am getting this error in Chrome:
“This site can't be ...
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How to set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false except for specific websites?
How would I change the setting on a per-website basis? I really don't like when websites block me from copy-pasting my email or password into certain boxes (okay, I use autofill for the password ...
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Prevent collapse in Firefox Devtools' Storage tab
Suppose I'm using the Firefox Devtools, the "Storage" tab is active, the "Cookies" tab is expanded, and and localhost is selected. Then I can see all the cookies.
When a page ...
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Firefox started to forget usernames
I have Firefox 115.7.0esr (64-bit) on Linux. In some recent update (approx a few months ago) something changed.
Old behavior: User names were saved and I always opted to not save passwords. When I ...
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Passkeys with Firefox - Touch your security key to continue
I am trying to log in to Github with Firefox. When I try to log in, the web page gives me an option to try with a passkey. When I do that, Firefox displays a dialog box saying "Touch your ...
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How do I solve the "PuTTY X11 proxy: No authorisation provided" error?
I am trying to run firefox on a remote server over ssh and use X11 forwarding to open the window on my laptop, but when I try to it throws the "PuTTY X11 proxy: No authorisation provided" ...
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Microsoft edge does not save the webpage like firefox does which for a brief moment of opening with firefox until after it reverts to this [closed]
Is there anyway to make it open up the way it would if it was saved on firefox browser and opened on firefox browser instead of just opened on firefox browser
so it will look like this?
I dont really ...
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Firefox: access a button that belongs to an extension using keyboard shortcut?
I have an extension that, when I click its icon in the Firefox toolbar, opens a pop-up menu with some buttons. I would like to assign a keyboard shortcut to one of these buttons. Is that possible?
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Firefox can't detect Flash player plugin when running in a docker container
I'd like to run Firefox 84.0 (the last version support flash player) supporting flash player in a docker container. But Firefox can't detect the flash player plugin which is in the path "~/....
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Remove initial pause when scrolling with arrow-keys - Firefox
Windows gives an initial-pause when pressing a key that can be altered, but I would prefer to not do this since it will affect more than scrolling.
An extension for Chrome does this; called "...
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Delete selected sites cookies on Firefox automatically
I set the cookie preferences on each site via Super Agent or manually, however I want to always remove the ones that now force us to accept some pages if we don't pay. So what I want is to delete the ...
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Possible to centrally deploy website credentials in Firefox?
We would like to deploy the credentials (user, password) of a couple of websites to all Firefox installations in our network. Is there a way to populate the password manager via script, autoconfig, ...
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How to make Microsoft Teams launch my default browser instead of Edge?
I use FireFox as my daily browser. But when I use Microsoft Teams, when I click on a link in Chat, it always bring up Microsoft Edge. My default browser is set to Firefox. But Teams ignores it. Is ...
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Force browser to use cached pages [duplicate]
The move to https effectively killed any meaning for the browser cache. It literary does nothing but waste life on SSD drives now, since every developer thinks all pages in the universe must expire in ...
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How to disable (or at least close) "You are sharing another application window" floating bar?
In Firefox, when I'm on Google Chat or Jitsi and share my screen, Firefox shows me this annoying floating bar containing:
You are sharing another application window
I can minimize but not close it. ...
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Reset Firefox sync password without losing everything
I have lost the password to my Firefox/Mozilla account. I'm currently logged in with it on several devices.
When I go to "reset password", Mozilla says:
When you reset your password, you ...
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YouTube becomes unusable (playback is slow & non responsive) after listening to music for a while in Firefox. How to fix it without a browser restart?
High-performance Dell Latitude laptop (Core i7, 32GB RAM) with Windows 10.
After simply listening to YouTube Music in Firefox tab for a few hours, YouTube performance decreases very bad.
Music ...
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Firefox loses pinned tabs
I am using Firefox (on Windows), and have some pinned tabs. If I open a second browser window, it does not have those pins, but I can live with that.
What I don't like is that when I close the first ...
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Disable auto-focus on text field (Chrome/Firefox)
On some webpages, I need to scroll (read) and write in a text field at the same time. Unfortunately, every time I start typing (on any page), the page automatically jumps to the text field I'm typing ...
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Firefox gives wrong title in address bar suggestion
Something went wrong somewhere, I tried clearing my entire browser data (except profile, since that would loose my bookmarks and extensions) and it's still wrong. Typing "youtube.com" in the ...
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In Firefox, is there a way to enqueue downloads to happen one at a time (sequentially)?
Using Firefox on a computer with a single hard-disk drive, sometimes I need to download several many large files from a remote server that is also serving from a single hard-disk drive.
It does not ...
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All Firefox Traffic routing through SOCKS-Proxy?
I would like to route all my Firefox-browsers traffic through a proxy server. I already setup a Dante-Proxy (SOCKS) and configured the paramters in about:config to use it:
"network.proxy.type&...
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Firefox: quick and simple way to close current window and open new window?
In the Firefox webbrowser:
Is there a quick & simple way to close the current window and open a new window instead?
(Sidenote: For the purpose of this question, there is only 1 currently open ...