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Cannot open new tab from command line anymore with Firefox 61

Recently switched to Firefox 61, any attempt to open a new tab from the command line with firefox http://pretty.much/anything hangs.. then fails with the "Firefox is already running but is not ...
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Windows 10, High contrast theme & Firefox - does not show some images

When using high contrast theme on Windows 10, Firefox can use this setting and I find it very useful feature as I can set the background color globally. But there are some issues with images in ...
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How to configure FireFox to see WIndows certificate in cert store?

How to configure FireFox to see WIndows certificate in cert store? In Edge/Chrome, when I go to a website, it promopts me a list of certificate to use from my certificate in cert store? I have tried ...
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How do I tell Firefox to stop asking me whether to open or save files [duplicate]

When I click a link to a file that Firefox cannot natively display, it gives me this dialog box: I always want to save files, not open them. I want that to happen every time and for every file type, ...
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How to make Firefox urlbar prioritize most visited url's, including sub domains?

I frequently visit a site on a sub domain. When typing the first letter of the site's url, all other browsers auto fills the rest, but Firefox needs the entire subdomain and a dot before recognizing ...
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Browser says "Connecting" - pages not loading

Lately I've been seeing the status message "Connecting" in Chrome's status bar while (several) websites were taking minutes to load, often resulting in a timeout error. With enough patience, the site ...
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How to disable "middle click on URL bar paste last websites URL" Firefox?

When I open a site without highlighting the URL and then open a new empty tab Firefox copy's the previous site's URL to the Xorg selection register such that middle click pastes the your last tabs URL ...
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Syncing Firefox passwords between 2 computers - FF >= 57

I am using Firefox Quantum (v60). I have some passwords stored in my current profile (#1). I am also using FF in another computer (#2), with other passwords. I mean to merge the two password lists ...
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blank images in firefox

I have Firefox Quantum 60.0.1 (64 bit) in Linux Mint 17 - 64bit Symptom is that some images doesn't load. For example, when I try to access whatsapp web I get this instead of the QR code. and ...
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Touch issues in Firefox Quantum

In Firefox 56.0.2 and before, it is really easy to copy texts and drag pictures (and save them) simply by moving across your finger on the screen; a simple double touch on a word on the box of google ...
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Firefox and Thunderbird crashing when opening File Explorer windows

Ever since I installed a Windows 10 update two days ago, both Firefox and Thunderbird have been crashing every single time I perform certain actions, such as opening any File Explorer window, opening ...
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Modern Firefox Extension Which Allows Text Editing With Vim Keybinds? [duplicate]

I would like to be able to edit text fields in Firefox with the vim keybinds. I searched for addons in previous answers but all the provided solutions did not work with the most recent version of ...
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Running BeEF on Parrot VM I'm having issues loading the UI

Yestarday I was working on getting beef to work but I was getting constant errors I worked on it from around noon to damn near 3 am I now have 0 errors when running it in the terminal as "beef-xss" ...
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How do I make text contain actual pressings of the TAB-key?

I'm working on entering data to a website and one block where I'd have to enter data contains a bunch of boxes and I'd have to enter a newline-separated block of text to subsequent boxes. If I simply ...
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How to disable WebGL API to Firefox Quatum on Linux?

With the assistance of HTML5 player, the frequency of GPU usage in browser is almost zero. However in order to defense evil scripts, for example cryptography currency mining script, I prefer to ...
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Faulty Google Chrome color management with multiple mixed gamut monitors

I have on my laptop a mixed-gamut three-monitor setup, one HP LP2475W wide-gamut monitor and two HP Z24i 99% sRGB monitors. When I watch videos that have red areas in them using Google Chrome and a ...
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How to undo revokation of add-on permissions in Firefox?

I just revoked the permission to store data locally os Greasemonkey 4.3 in Firefox 59.0.2 on Ubuntu 17.10 assuming that the Firefox developers were providing an intuitive way to undoing this change. ...
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How to disable the blue lines in Firefox, when developer tools are ON

When we turn on dev tools in Firefox, especially the 'inspector', and we select some element, Firefox marks the element in the main view. This also happens, when we console.log(someHtmlElement) and ...
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Hide mouse position from websites

Some websites have functions that trigger given the position of my cursor. The one I perceive most typically, and which I find very annoying, is that a site would bring a "Suscribe to our newsletter!" ...
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Firefox - open pinned tab from terminal

I use Firefox nightly on Ubuntu 16.04. I have a bunch of websites I keep open throughout the day as pinned tabs. In an effort to automate things I have a bash alias which opens them up for. However, I ...
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Is there an easy way to achieve a multirow bookmark toolbar in Firefox?

How can I get a multi-row bookmark toolbar in Firefox without writing code? All I can find are outdated extensions and CSS tricks.
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Audio intermittently starts crackling and stuttering via bluetooth headsets

I Noticed this issue while using almost all Bluetooth headsets I used with Windows 10. Specifically when watching online videos on Mozilla Firefox. Normally the sound would be working fine and the ...
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How can I fix the massive keyboard lag I get in some scenarios

I get major delays in some scenarios using my keyboard and sometimes also mouse. Using (browser-like?) apps e.g. Windows start menu, Firefox, Chrome in Windows 10, it can take seconds or minutes for ...
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Application always starts in background process after Windows 10 update

I did last Tuesday Update on my Windows 10, after that my Firefox, which is not changed, starts ok but always in background process, so I can't access its GUI. I have last stable version of Firefox ...
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In Firefox, how to find the bookmark count in a selected folder, including subfolders?

If I use bookmark search, it searches all the bookmarks in every single folder and not just the selected one, so it is useless. When I choose a folder and select everything in it with Ctrl+A, it will ...
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Firefox font size too small for some websites

I have some problems related to the font size displayed in Firefox for websites. It is too small and I can't figure out how to change it. So far I have tried : Unity Tweak Tool, but I have found ...
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Why does a session cookie appear to be HTTP-Only in Chrome but not IE

I have a site that stores a random session ID in a session cookie. In Chrome dev tools it looks like this... Notice it says the cookie is http only. But in IE I see it is not set to http-only... ...
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Why firefox forgets my web notifications for Twitter

Why Firefox forgets my web notifications for Twitter, every-time I restart my system. And I have failed to understand this weird behavior not less than 10 times. Just curious to know if this is a ...
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Firefox VERY unresponsive when browsing to repl.it

I'm using Firefox 58.0.2 (64-bit) and it's always pretty fast, but whenever I go to repl.it my browser becomes very unresponsive and everything. I tried using MS Edge and it worked just fine, the ...
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How to make Firefox Quantum use Windows notifications

I use the Pushbullet addon for Firefox, which displays my phone's notifications on my computer using the Firefox native notifications API. (I don't really know what it is officially called) I would ...
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How to see HTTP errors like Chrome in Firefox

I'm getting only blank pages when an error like HTTP 500 occurs, in Firefox. However, in Chrome, I get the following: Esta página no funciona La página inetserv.visa.com.ar no puede procesar esta ...
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Lock firefox settings

I need to lock the settings "remember my browsing and download history", "remember search and from history" and "remember logins for sites" needs to be locked off. I also need accept cookies from ...
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How can I set firefox to use google.com/ncr when searching in the address or search bar? [duplicate]

I remember firefox used to store search engines in a XML file. Google is annoying because it automatically uses my home language and it often messes with my search results, since I most often search ...
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1 Click Screenshot and Save

In my job, I need to take and preserve various screenshots every day. All of these shots are in Firefox only. Now, I know the traditional way of taking screenshots, but it's too inconvenient, if one ...
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Firefox 57.0.4 and NoScript: How do I get the right-click menu back?

Just updated Firefox to 57.0.4 to patch the recent Meltdown and Spectre exploits. The NoScript UI now has a button on the toolbar instead of the traditional right-click context menu. How do I get the ...
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How to know firefox extension proxy

I'm using "Hoxx VPN" by Firefox extension. It's only work on Firefox but I want to use it on my telegram. when i turn it on there's no proxy info in Internet Options. How i can use of Hoxx proxy ...
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Browsers don't respond to external link

When I click hyperlinks in some softs (Adobe Reader, unity3d, FileZilla, shadowsocksR, eve launcher, etc), the browsers don't respond at all. The browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE) work normally by ...
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Strange browser time behavior in Chrome on a MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra

Since time and time zones can be a little confusing, to begin with, I have stumbled onto something truly bizarre in regards to JavaScript and macOS High Sierra time. While trying to figure out ...
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After having set up a Mozilla sync server, what are the next steps?

I'd like to synchronize bookmarks (and eventually passwords) between multiple Firefox installations on a local network (4 PCs). I have followed this tutorial and think that I have the server up and ...
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Let firefox 57 load tabs in the background

How do I get firefox 57 to load tabs immediately, even if the tab opens in the background? (I don't want to switch to the tab, but it should still load). I normally open links in the background by ...
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What is FF Info Guarded 4.6.5?

On a Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS that I administrate from time to time I found the Firefox extension "FF Info Guarded 4.6.5". Firefox version is 57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 On about:support is it listed ...
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Is there a way to have the name of the webpage as the default file name when using Print to File in Firefox?

I frequently save webpages as PDF files to read later on Sony Digital Paper. However, when printing the webpage in Firefox, the default behavior is different on Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu. Only on ...
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Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and moving to new hard drive

Background I recently built an almost completely new computer. The only things I'm reusing are my old hard drives. On one of those hard drives I have Windows 7 installed, but it doesn't work for the ...
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Trouble in automatic download files in python selenium

I have below code which works fine to navigate through 3 pages and hit link to download .csv file in firefox. But using profile preference, am unable to get it download automatically. Any help please. ...
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How to add new tabs to my browser’s homepage when using Firefox version 57?

Before Firefox 57, I used to use an add-on called My Homepage. If my homepage was Bing.com, this add-on would open all new tabs and go to Bing and the cursor would be set at the Bing search so I could ...
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Is there a way to disable/change keyboard shortcuts in FireFox 57?

Windows 10 FireFox When I'm in a text field and press CTRL B, firefox opens the bookmark sidebar instead of passing the request to the site (SalesForce) to make my text bold. Is there a way to have ...
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Firefox ESR became very slow with a network profile

We are using Firefox (on Windows) in our company with network based profiles on a local server. It worked fine until Firefox ESR 52.3. But then we switched to ESR 52.4 and later 52.5. Now the access ...
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Libinput but timer offset negativ on Arch linux with wayland

Sometimes firefox is freezing my laptop. When i open webpages like this one or this one here. The number of pages which are capable of freezing firefox increases. The log reveals a buch of messages ...
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Shortcut Key to set focus on the new tab's search textbox

In the new Firefox Quantum in the new tab there's a search box. Is there a way to set the focus there so I can do Ctrl-T, Ctrl-(what goes here?) and start typing?
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Multiple Firefox windows: only one gets keyboard input

This might be related to Firefox randomly disables keyboard input, Keyboard input is not working in Firefox ALONE and keyboard input only works in the most recently created window. When Opening ...
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