Questions tagged [firefox]
An open-source web browser developed by Mozilla. If relevant to the question, also include the tag of your operating system.
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 22.04
My friend is going to help me upgrade my operating system tomorrow, from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 (or perhaps Lubuntu, I'm not quite sure). I'm going to back up all my files tonight and put them ...
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I am using a vpn on FireFox and I keep getting this error for a username and password
I got touch vpn on Firefox and I am being asked for a username and password because "This sight says proxy" I have reinstalled Firefox probably 12 times. Please help me get rid of this.
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How to have independent app for chrome incognito like Firefox? [duplicate]
so basically when i press ctrl+shift+p in firefox it opens incognito in a new application
i want the same feature in chrome where i press ctrl+shift+N i want it to open incognito in a completely ...
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Unable to start Windows firefox from WSL2
I'm running WSL2 on a windows 10 machine. WSL2 is supposed to support calling windows executables. This works for programs like notepad. However, when trying to run firefox I run into a few issues.
If ...
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Cannot set Thunderbird as default app for "mailto"
I use Firefox and Thunderbird under Ubuntu for many years now. Since a couple of months, I cannot open a link to a mail on Firefox as, when I click on a link of a mail, it tries to open Chrome!
I have ...
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How to scroll to the bottom of a finite java webpage that only gives you pieces at a time as you scroll "bottom"
You have a long webpage like
https://www.youtube.com/@JanyaAndromedaGalactic/videos
you scroll to the "bottom" and then the javascript or whatever css idk how it's made,
loads you more. ...
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In Firefox, how to open "file, edit ..." menu while keeping menuAccessKeyFocuses set to false
The default behavior of Firefox is for the Alt key to toggle the menu bar, but I like using Alt for dragging Windows in Gnome, so I disabled that behavior by going to about:config and setting ...
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Simple way to set up Google NCR (no country redirect) search for Firefox?
Alternative question:
How to prevent Google from showing any local results and AD's?
If Google is used from a spammed internet segment (for example, during travel), English queries will often give ...
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How to prevent a website from hiding its scrollbar?
Some webpages, such as this FAQ or this blog post, do not display a vertical scrollbar even though the content overflows vertically. This makes it impossible to click-and-scroll, or to see how long ...
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Why does Firefox 102.15.1esr think it's up-to-date over a month after 115.1.0esr is released?
as the saying goes "A picture is worth a thousand words", what's going on here?
Firefox 115.1.0esr was released 1 August, so why does 102.15.1esr think it's up-to-date on 13 September?
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Shadow in Firefox in Full Screen - MacOS
There is an interesting and annoying behavior in my Firefox. I couldn't find a report in the Firefox forums and hoping to have an answer here.
When I make my Firefox full screen (desktop) in my Mac, ...
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Is there a way to force Peacock to use a browser rather than their app on an iPad? [migrated]
If I watch Peacock in Firefox on MacOS, no commercials are shown. If I watch Peacock using the iPad or Apple TV app! Peacock forces me to watch about 10 ads per show.
When I attempt to watch Peacock ...
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Open links from multiple tabs in Firefox
Please note I am not asking to simply open multiple tabs at once.
Essentially, I would like the functionality of the Link Gopher plugin, but I don't want to do it manually one tab at a time:
I have a ...
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Set default options for web application? [closed]
I use web RegEx101 quite allot, I have it bookmarked.
Every time I open it via my bookmark it and the website is loaded, a bunch of irrelevant settings are the default settings. Such as PCRE2 RegEx ...
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Why is cURL returning just two square brackets with this request?
This curl request returns empty square brackets []:
curl "https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/NodeAPI/geoDataLookup/getGeoJSON/-2.8530120849609375/51.263633525637/-2.126541137695313/51.456574106519724/11&...
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In snap Firefox on Linux, where to put the files to lock preferences?
To lock down preferences in Linux, I followed this: write the preferences down in a file called mozilla.cfg (or firefox.cfg), then point to said file in a prefs.js file.
This worked for me for quite a ...
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How to open a link in a new Firefox tab, copying the current tab history?
This seems to be similar to How to open a link in a new chrome tab, and include current tab's history in the new tab except I am asking about firefox in 2023:
I have a recollection that in the ...
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how can i do cross site scripting in javascript in my own browser (Firefox) [migrated]
I was watching a Video Tutorial on a website. The Videos are hosted on platform.thinkific.com. The videos were made in light theme whereas I like Dark Theme so I inverted the color of Video using the ...
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Overflow menu gone after Firefox-ESR update?
Instead of the overflow menu that drops down and lets me choose which addons I want in it, it just shows an addon icon and lists all my addons.
I have about 25 addons, most of which I don't need to ...
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Can't get past the login page with wget
I know that there are many similar questions, but they are very dated, and I have already tried pretty much everything and it still didn't work.
I'm currently trying to download a whole website using ...
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How do I make a transparent theme in Firefox Color?
I was thinking of making a transparent theme on Firefox, Are any ways to make a transparent theme in Firefox Color?
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Firefox Markdown Viewer Webext : security protection blocks navigation
For some time now, when I open a local markdown file in Firefox, the Markdown Viewer Webext add-on displays this message :
For your security, Firefox requires you to select local markdown file ...
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How to freeze the Firefox (and Thunderbird) menu-bars?
Every once in a while I get a call from a user complaining, he can no longer find a certain menu in the browser -- or in Thunderbird -- and I have to painstakingly guide him on re-enabling the menu-...
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If I have multiple tabs/windows open in Firefox, which of them can potentially be recording my keystrokes?
Let's say, in Firefox, I have two windows open (W1 and W2), and each has two tabs (e.g. W2.T1 = second window, first tab). On each window, T1 is the tab that's in focus. Currently, my computer has W1 ...
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Not Able to Copy Paste Text in Web Version of WhatsApp [duplicate]
I'm using the web desktop version of Whatsapp quite a lot in Firefox, and in the last few days, I noticed that I can no longer send people links. I can still do that through the phone if it's really ...
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How to switch off Firefox Scrolling Delay
How can I disable the delay before soft scrolling starts, when scrolling with the arrow keys? This is very annoying.
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Firefox doesn't allow to paste into WhatsApp web anymore?
Since today, with Firefox, I cannot paste text into the text input field of whatsapp.web (the PC version of WhatsApp) anymore.
the version is FF 116.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 10, previous versions of FF ...
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Is there a way to allow Chrome notifications when using any other app in fullscreen?
I recently started using Notifications in Chrome and noticed that they aren't showing when I'm using any other app in fullscreen, for example playing video with mpv or playing games. I'd like to them ...
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firefox: remove "Open Link in New Tab" from the right-click menu
How can I remove "Open Link in New Tab" from the right-click menu?
This post suggests adding the following code to userChrome.css:
#context_openANewTab,
#context_openANewTab + menuseparator {...
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How to disable CBC ciphers in Firefox
The ssllabs.com browser check shows a list of cipher suites supported by my browser. Some are labeled as WEAK, I think because they do not support perfect forward secrecy.
I can disable some of them ...
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Is there an extension or way to augment either Chrome or Firefox to assign a button to jump through wildcards such as ***?
I'm looking to work with a new EMR (electronic medical record) and was looking to add the ability to tab or f2 through what is called a wildcard in the medical field.
In essence, I will have a ...
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Having a service worker installed hides server response delays
It looks like Firefox’s DevTools, both the Network tab and profiler, don’t show the server response time when there is a Service Worker involved. Everything is shown at 0ms. Is that expected and is ...
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Stop firefox from scrolling to first search result when using CTRL-F
I use CTRL-F to find things in a page of firefox often. But its annyoing how it always scrolls my page to the first search result. I don't want it to scroll at all, just highlight the search results. ...
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Firefox not updating last save location for one specific site
Firefox has this amazing feature where it remembers a last save location per website (unless you specifically turn that off so it only remembers one last save location for all websites). However, ...
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How do I save a webpage without triggering a reload or re-executing JS?
I need to save what's already in the DOM, without triggering a reload or re-executing JavaScript. Is this possible? I don't care if a specific browser is required.
The problem is that I have to record ...
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Firefox Sync could not bring my history and bookmarks back
I reinstalled the OS in SSD, and after logging into Firefox, I could not get my passwords, history, and bookmarks. It has been "Syncing..." for some days. Please give me a solution! I still ...
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Temporary download folder Firefox macOS (10.13)
I use Firefox(ver 115) on macOS (10.13). I recently changed the setting to save downloaded files to tmp dir by default browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir.
Then I found Firefox download folder ...
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Can you automate download of the audio file of Google Captchas?
As a follow-up to this question Can you make Google's reCAPTCHAs default to the sound version? - can you automate the download of the audio version of Google's captchas? The purpose is to play ...
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uBlock Origin: How to exclude/whitelist certain websites only for certain filter lists?
In addition to various filter lists for blocking ads, I also use a filter list for blocking cookie messages. Some websites do not work properly because of this cookie blocking filter list. Now I want ...
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How do I show more tabs when Ctrl Tabbing on Firefox?
Using Ctrl + Tab to quickly change to another tab in Firefox only shows 7 tabs.
Is it possible to change some config or preference so that there is a bigger number of tabs shown? Perhaps instead of ...
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Docker/Traefik behind a proxy
In my docker-compose file (on Ubuntu 18.04) I have the following configuration;
The Apache part
PROJECT_BASE_URL is defined drupal.docker.localhost_
labels:
- "traefik.http.routers.${...
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Firefox stuck on .htaccess redirect?
For the testing purposes I have put a .htaccess file in my local webserver to force the following redirect:
http://localhost/a-s/ → https://www.test-website.com/
After tests I have purged everything ...
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How to save the Firefox dmg BEFORE updating Mac
I am on a Macbook Pro Retina using High Sierra. When I update Firefox, I would like to save the .dmg BEFORE installing it, just in case the newer version disables some of my tweaks and addons.
I don't ...
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Firefox: How to remove easxg.cfg
This I am getting popups, in the lower right corner of the screen, for adds from Firefox. For example "Best Free anti-virus". At the bottom of the popup is "via easxg.cfg".
How ...
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Tricks to emulating a Firefox fast-startup without using third parties?
(Windows 11) Firefox starts up significantly slow (when there aren't any windows already open) compared to Chrome and Edge, which seem almost instant. (I've tried without any add-ons/extensions, so ...
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Bitwarden automatically opening new tab in Geckodriver Firefox window
I'm trying to write automated tests that work on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox using Selenium and the relevant drivers. However, when I run the tests on Firefox, the new browser window opens up the ...
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Zoom meeting link in firefox launches Zoom but does not connect to meeting
If I open a Zoom meeting link in Google Chrome, the Zoom app launches and the meeting is opened. If I do the same in Firefox, the Zoom app opens, but the meeting is not connected. How do get Firefox ...
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Can you make Google's reCAPTCHAs default to the sound version?
Can you make Google's reCAPTCHAs default to the sound version? I am using Chrome and Firefox and I'm tired of having to manually select sound every time.
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Not sure how to add "POST" query parameters to "Add custom search engine" extension in Firefox
I'm currently trying to add AZLyrics to my list of available search engines in Firefox, using the Add custom search engine extension by Tom Schuster.
Searching for "test" in AZLyrics yields ...
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Firefox Intermediate CA does not update, need to debug by exporting all certificates and import on another instance
We are troubleshooting a certificate issue on a Firefox browser.
The SSL certificate bundle on the web server contains a new intermediate certificate valid till 2032, however, on a work computer, the ...
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