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I found these servers, but they all appear to be broken ?

https://github.com/balu-/FSyncMS/ https://github.com/posativ/weave-minimal https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

Is there one that works ? And since they all seem to break eventually, how do I set firefox to not autoupdate past the last compatible version of my sync server, if I get one to work ?

thanks

4 years ago was the last update of this extension which was then abandoned by its (now unknown) author and eventually removed from AMO. I used it ever since when recently it started glitching a bit, so I decided to revive it with a small improvement upon the original: you can close it the same way it opens - with a click on its icon in the toolbar. The extension has finally been approved by AMO's team and it's accessible to be downloaded and installed. Screenshots and a video demo were added in the description on AMO.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downloads-sidebar-reborn/

I understand that you foxy folks love your extensions and scripts, and I'm wondering if I could be happy amongst you.

In Vivaldi (and previously in Opera), I have used vertical tabs for I think twenty years. As you can see in the screenshot, Vivaldi lets me list the tabs vertically, shows previews for them, lets me group the tabs into "stacks", and lets me tile any number of tabs on the window at once. I don't think I could use a browser without these features.

I also use mouse gestures very heavily, to open tabs, windows, switch between tabs and windows, reload pages, etc. Vivaldi and Opera have really robust mouse gesture support built in.

How close can I get to these features natively or with extensions?

TIA!

I'm using Firefox as my main browser and see a lot of websites which support passkeys but only with Safari and Chrome, but not Firefox.

Why is that? Is this because of the market share or the implementation?

Looks like Firefox has some different implementation ways than the other two, according to AuthGear https://www.authgear.com/post/passkeys-compatibility

I have already tried the official notes by Firefox (which is not maintained)

Also notes sidebar by Stefan (doesn't work well, bug-gy)

I don't want a PLAY MUTE PAUSE not even a CLOSE button. Especially NOT when they have their own internal state for then they choose to appear and disappear.

I don't want to pay attention to them, I don't want to have to look for them, I don't want them getting in my way any more.

If I want to close a tab, I middle click it ! I already have global mute controls, I don't need an extra volume control, I don't have "tabs making unwanted sounds" problem because I have "Go To Sound Tab" addon installed, so I can easily find any tabs that makes sound and mute it correctly, without a extra, unneeded layer of muting (tab muting, versus app muting versus player muting, that is too many muting options, I don't want to use tab muting personnally so I want these buttons out of here !)

I don't want to have to rely on running violentmonkey script engine on top of my already sluggish browser when I barely have 6615 open tabs.

I want to disable the feature at the root, inside firefox, not patch up webpages like dark reader does.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh h!!!!!!

How much freedom does firefox have again? How long until they ban UBlock Origin?

IMHO it's definetly a hard break with the past design.
But it looks more mature and not as 'shy'.

People ragging on the only viable browser solution we have... Firefox is rock solid, fast, tweakable, and keeps me as safe as any browser and my configs/habits can. I don't care if management eats babies.

I use it on debian with celenity phoenix and a few about:config tweaks, also tweak'd the theme a bit. Extensions: ublock origin, sponsorblock, localcdn, consent-o-matic, containers, keepassxc-browser, and sometimes jshelter.

web browsing: solved

Vertical tabs, current tab not clearly highlighted/indicated enough, dark mode.

My "theme" is I think the 'default' on Manjaro gnome, dark mode.

Last update force the logo on newtabpage (If I need to use CSS for basic change, where are we going?)

Everything I want is some customization on Top Toolbar ( zoom, AddOn, favorite link) ... so no Brave, no Zen.

And 20+ shortcuts easily added and removed and visible in 1 normal screen on newtabapage (no Edge ).

No chrome (because fuck google)

Is waterfox still a thing? LibreFox?

Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this but I couldn't find a Fennec-specific community and I don't know what I'd have to look up to find something related to troubleshooting browsers.

My issue is this: I use Fennec exclusively in private browsing mode and ever since the new update I have to select the private tab manually every time I open the browser. I don't know if this was something I had enabled in the settings ages ago, if the browser was previously able to remember my selection but now isn't able to anymore for some reason OR if I accidentally changed my settings today while I was trying out a couple things.

Any response (even just telling me I'm stupid and that I obviously need to select XYZ in the settings) from other Fennec users would be appreciated :)

I'm doing my best to continue using Firefox, but it's becoming incredibly annoying, and I'm seriously at my wit's end and just about to give up on it permanently.

I've noticed during video calls it causes my computer to completely freeze up and require a reboot sometimes.

And on my phone, sometimes when I'm reading, it will just make my screen completely stop responding to me and I have to force reboot my phone in order to fix it.

I know that Gecko is the only other web engine option to fight Chromium's Blink, but I'm seriously just about fed up enough with Firefox to say fuck it.

Servo or ladybird may be the only real hope left.

Second try, shorter and less confusing than before:

• DNSoverHttps interfering with my DNS block
• shown to be enabled in about:policies
• set to disabled in policies.json as well as in about:settings.

The picture shows a console window witch the respective policies.json key being set to false (disabled), while the about:policies firefox page in the background shows DoT to be enabled.

Version is 140.1.0esr on Artix (Arch). Anyone can confirm?

Edit: It's not a broken profile; same happens in a fresh one.

I am on Librewolf 141.0-1 and after a recent Librewolf update, every-time I hit the forward/backward (right/left) arrow keys on keyboard, the video controls on picture-in-picture, pop up and stays there for like 5 seconds. Earlier it never did that on going forward/backward using arrow keys.

I have checked about:config but there is no option for turning this feature off. At-least it would be nice to specify the time-out for the controls to disappear.

Please if anybody knows how to disable the video control popping up or specifying a time-out for the controls to disappear, let me know.

The picture-in-picture was perfect and it never needed more features IMO.

I GENUINELY want to use Firefox, or at least give it another shot, but as a Microsoft Edge user as of 4 years ago when they really started refining features like vertical tabs and the overall experience, I jumped ship. Don’t get me wrong, I like Firefox and will use it…but until it gets these features, it’ll remain as a secondary platform. I just can’t make the switch as of now with the drop in usability it would bring. This is NOT a complaint against Mozilla or anything of the sort, more or less a “please notify me when Firefox gets these” or something like that.

1. Address bar tab switching on iOS: Safari did it best, but Chrome, Brave, and MS Edge have this, and supposedly Firefox on Android does as well. For whatever reason though, even after update 141 with the major visual overhaul, Firefox on iOS still lacks the ability to switch tabs by swiping on the address bar. This is an ESSENTIAL for multitasking, especially considering how (visually nice, but) slow the animations are for viewing tabs.

2. Actual, NATIVE PWA support on desktop: No, the addon doesn’t count, I’ve had limited success using it across different operating systems. Supposedly at least an alpha version of this feature exists under the name “browser tabs” or something of the sort, likely in the Firefox Nightly builds or something, but I would greatly prefer a native version to the likes of Chromium-based browsers.

3. Native split-screen: Okay, this one I’m okay with in the current state with the addon, but having it natively built into Firefox would be nice with all the potential refinements and all it could bring.

4. FULLY collapsible vertical tabs sidebar (and maybe separate from the actual BROWSER sidebar): Okay, not ESSENTIAL, and I know Firefox just recently got vertical tabs (I was one of the first to try it out with Nightly, just as I will be when Chromium does like how they quietly added split screen via a flag), but currently the address bar can auto-hide in full screen. The vertical tabs sidebar? You either have to deal with it permanently visible or entirely GONE unless you click the button for it. It’d be nice to have the option for the sidebar to autohide with the address bar, and even more if the vertical tabs bar was separate from the browser’s sidebar so both could theoretically be active.

That’s all. Again, massive respect to the Firefox developers, I’m just afraid I can’t quite switch to it as my daily driver… yet. Once these features are added though, please, by all means, let me know!

I'm working on a suite of scripts that will enable me to hop Linux distros and get back to business as usual w/ minimal fuss. When I hop distros, I tend to back up my important stuff and blow everything else away so I can start with a clean slate. I have some scripts for updating my backups before the wipe and updating the system after the base install:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Followed by other commands to install my favorite apps and configure my favorite desktop settings.

One thing that I haven't nailed down yet is restoring my Firefox add-ons through the command line. Searching the web, I'm not even sure this is feasible. I found this post from 2011 in the AskUbuntu forum, but I figure the answer might have changed since then.

I just want to remove as much friction as possible from the distro hopping process. I know I can store /home on a separate partition, but I prefer nice, clean installs followed by scripting in my config changes.

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.