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Firefox pwa extenstion gets stuck in pwa rpm installation in fedora. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/

I've tried waiting for 30 sec and restarting firefox, Nothing works. Previously i used floorp browser and it had ablaze pwa and it worked OOTB What would go wrong now?any hint?

I know this is Lemmy and plenty of users here are anti-Reddit, but I'm sharing this in case other users have trouble with this as well.

Edit: u/Capta1nT0ad commented a working regex rule, Idk why my attempts didn't. Anyway I modified the rule so it works only on Reddit u/ and r/ links, so it doesn't have a chance of touching links that aren't compatible. I made a pastebin for anyone that wants to just import the file.

{ "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3", "createdAt": "2024-05-02T08:36:19.092Z", "redirects": [ { "description": "Redirect to New Reddit, or old Reddit by replacing new.reddit.com in the redirect URL to old.reddit.com", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit", "exampleResult": "https://new.reddit.com/r/reddit", "error": null, "includePattern": ".+?:\/\/www.reddit.com\/(((r|u|user)\/.*)|$)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://new.reddit.com$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] } ] }

A redirector addon is necessary to redirect Reddit pages from the new 2023-24 redesign to either the 2018 redesign or old Reddit\*. Some pages can't be redirected, like https://www.reddit.com/prefs/feeds/ and https://www.reddit.com/mod/firefox/queue (the new mod queue, firefox being the subreddit name).

When I go those links, the following addons don't work for them: Reddit UI Redirector, Old Reddit Redirector, and Old New Reddit Redirector. New Reddit Redirect doesn't even work at all for me, though it hasn't been updated since 2019 and there doesn't seem to be a repo online, so its probably close sourced. I left reviews for all of them. The only addon I found working both links is UI Changer for Reddit.

\* I tried making a regex rule with the Redirector addon but it didn't work.

When I click on a post in a twitter feed it opens it in the same tab when I want to open it in a new tab, and continue scrolling the feed.

The GitHub repo for Firefox History Merger was archived back in 2022, while it still works it might be a good idea for a newer alternative in case Firefox makes breaking changes in the future.

When I duplicate a tab, a new tab is created with the same URL and I have to wait for it to download again. Why wouldn't Firefox just duplicate all the data of the tab into a new tab?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-make-them-easy-to-find?redirectslug=Bookmark+Tags&redirectlocale=en-US https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/gallery/images/2021-04-29-13-27-24-b5af60.png

It used to be there. When it was deleted?, Why? and How I restore it?

SOLVED: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1445487

Edit: I want to automatically export my themes because I've lost themes in the past on Firefox when addon data would unexpectedly get wiped.

I did some searches but it appears that addons like Stylus only support syncing with cloud storage.

Addons have to implement their own ways to backup and import data, it can be very tedious to do so when using multiple or switching profiles. It wouldn't be possible to just copy and paste profile folders, like from Firefox Nightly to regular Firefox (since the Firefox version is too new), from Firefox to Floorp, or vice versa for both.

What if Firefox had a built-in UI for exporting addon data, either for individual addons or multiple bundled into one file. It would be a convenient and reliable way to keep addon data outside of the browser, as well as just exporting one file with all addon data from one Firefox instance to another, or for individual addons if u wanted to. But would that be possible? I mean Firefox has to store addon data somehow and it could bundle all the data into individual files.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/29609996

> Android: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/125.0/releasenotes/ > > iOS: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ios/125.0/releasenotes/

I saw this was posted yesterday but when I emptied the extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains preference in about:config and restarted FF, I still couldn't get Vimium to work on addons.mozilla.org. I want all addons to work on all domains, is there a solution for that?

I should not be a few keystrokes away from accidentally deleting all of today's entries with no confirmation if I'm sure, and no way to recover them, even if I close the browser in the same second. I don't even know which ones I hit.

For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.

Yesterday I asked you guys what your favorite addons are. Here is a compiled list plus some of my own recommendations:

Essential:

uBlock Origin (ad + malicious content blocker)

Consent-o-matic (auto-decline cookies + tracking) recommended by @slazer2au@lemmy.world

Privacy:

Multi-Account-Containers (isolate tabs and websites) recommended by @Iceblade02@lemmy.world

Temporary Containers (like Multi-Account-Containers, deletes cache & cookies automatically)

uMatrix (advanced content blocker)

ClearURLs recommended by @padge@lemmy.zip

LocalCDN (use local frameworks) recommended by @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de

CookieAutoDelete recommended by @ooli@lemmy.world

YouTube:

SponsorBlock recommended by @Kelly@lemmy.world

DeArrow (replace obnoxious thumbnails) recommended by @shrugal@lemm.ee

Customization:

DarkReader recommended by @noroute@lemmy.world

Midnight Lizard (like DarkReader with more customization)

nightTab (customizable startpage)

Sidebery (Tab list in sidebar) recommended by @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world

Misc

Bypass Paywalls Clean recommended by @lorkano@lemmy.world

I would love to find extensions that make me think "How did I live without this?"

Since switching to Mac / Apple Sillicon last year, I've had trouble with HDR videos on YouTube with Firefox.

For whatever reason, any HDR video will look super bright on Firefox. This problem only exists on Firefox. I've never had it with Safari or chromium-based browsers.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of how a test video looks. Sorry for the photo but the screenshot utility wouldn't capture the problem.

https://imgur.com/a/OSHGPjz

I've been searching the webs for a while but so far I could not find a bug report or anything related to this specific problem. Maybe someone else has had similar experiences and can help me with fixing it. I really don't want to have to switch to another browser whenever I come across an HDR video.

Hardware info Computer: Mac Mini M2 Pro Display: LG UltraGear 27GP850-B

For example if I were to go to Facebook, you will ask for my location data, and I will say no and never ask again.

Then I go back and it just keeps asking.

Basically every website I visit this happens to.

Is there not a way to just have firefox absolutely stop Facebook from asking again?

Thanks so much for your help

Hi all,

Just updated FF to 124.0.1 and now the whatsapp web view is broken. The text input field is somewhere in the upper third of the screen and in the background, overlayed by text boxes so that I can't actually select it. It's automatically selected when switching from one chat to another so I can type there, but only blind in most cases since any comment boxes overlap it.

Tried restarting, clearing cookies, re-authenticating, disabling all plugins, nothing worked.

Does anyone experience something similar and/or know a workaround?

Thanks!

Edit: Fixed by logging out of whatsapp web, clearing cookies, restarting the browser, and then logging back in. Neither of the steps had worked on its own previously, but the combination did the trick.

Basically title.

Is there an alternative to Multi-Account Container for Firefox Android ? It seems that add on has not yet been released in AMO for android, and I use that Add-on in my firefox installed in another device (Windows), so was wondering if there is an option for Android. Thanks !

Hiya, what's your favourite Firefox theme? Personally looking for a new one, as I like tooting around with new themes from time to time. Thought I'd chip in here and ask what theme you have as your main, maybe add a screenshot + link, so that it's easy for folk to see it 🦊

Hey, everyone!

Whether you have heard about it or not, there is a Firefox derivative that is called Floorp. It is made by a community of Japanese devs.

I started looking for these kind of Firefox projects, because of the many kinds of Chromium types. I’ve been using it for awhile, and have enjoyed the features (after a bit of customization to my preferences) that it offers.

I also use a CSS theme that is compatible with Floorp that is called Shina-Fox. I’ll post the links below for you to try if you think it’s interesting!

https://github.com/Floorp-Projects

https://github.com/Shina-SG/Shina-Fox

(PS. You can change the icon that is included with Shina-Fox by renaming an icon that you prefer, make a copy, and rename them dark and light. PPS. You might also need to move your taskbar icons around, but that was probably just a me error because I was aggressive on how my original taskbar looked)

Let me know what you think!

I'm using Firefox mobile and pulling up any webpage is very slow. One of the big things is searching using the address bar, has a load time of at least 10 seconds (using ddg as default). Switching default search engines does not help.

One thing of note is that in a private tab, everything works normally. I tested multiple times using the same method as above.

Hopefully this can be remedied with a simple settings tweak.

I recently used Firefox Nightly on my Android device, in a private tab, to login to gmail. After I closed the browser, both via the "quit" menu icon and via swiping the Firefox away in the Overview, I had expected the session information to be deleted and the next time I came back to gmail via a private tab, to be required to login again. However, this was not the case. Despite closing out the browser, something seems to have survived and the I was immediately logged back into the gmail session.

Is this some sort of expected behavior? Shouldn't closing out the browser delete all session information from a private tab? Is there something I missed that maybe I'm not actually "closing" the browser?

My Firefox theme is set to "Follow device theme" but everytime it changes from light/dark it bugs out with illegible dark-on-dark or light-on-light text in the Firefox UI. I have to restart the app everytime to get it to work properly. I'm on Firefox 123 (Android 14, Galaxy S22) and been having this issue for ages, anyone else? Is this a known bug they're actually working on?

I have to use a specific booking system for work, in chrome it allows me to type in the date or time, and the site registers me doing it. In Firefox I have sliders for time or have to click on the calendar popup to get the date. I have spoken to the support from the booking system and their solution is use chrome. I am clueless about this stuff, is there anything I can do to improve this on my end in Firefox desktop? (It works fine on mobile) Thanks in advance!

EDIT: It's something to do with my VPN and/or EasyTether, but it only happens in Firefox, so I didn't think that could be it. I commented about my findings below: https://lemmy.world/comment/7585497

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I start a video and it either doesn't load at all of stalls within 5 seconds, never to recover.

I've tried everything:

• Deleting every Mozilla folder in AppData to completely refresh Firefox. (after backing up my profile)
• Flushing DNS cache
• Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. (Which made me remember I had a policies.json file in the program folder to permanently lockdown the settings I want. So that wasn't the problem either.)

Even when using no extensions like an ad blockers it still won't play videos. Besides, I'm a Premium subscriber. Once in a while a video will work, but it's so, so rare. And often it'll even stop after a minute.

Meanwhile, it'll work in the DuckDuckGo Browser all the time, which is Chromium based.

What do you think the deal is? It broke rather suddenly a few weeks ago. Do you think it's Mozilla's fault, or Google's?