Firefox survival guide

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sangheeta there's Ublock Origin, though

sangheeta

[deleted] Ah, but I'm an uBO junkie. 😄

danielson

Is there a way to keep new tab in dark mode after installing themes?

sangheeta

danielson You could try this post on r/FirefoxCSS

kyrios

Enable upcoming (experimental) WebRender to improve performances set gfx.webrender.all to true in about:config

sangheeta

kyrios It's not good to cheat @kyrios, because I don't have this option with FF 65.0.1. ⚠🚸🤓

kyrios

sangheeta Mmmhh perhaps it hasn't left the nightly channel yet...

Another tip: go in Add-ons -> languages and disable all the language packs you don't need. This will speed up opening/closing Firefox (same applies to Thunderbird)

TheSlider2

kyrios Alternatively you can also do a sudo rm /usr/lib64/firefox/extensions/lang* and restart Firefox which is less time consuming. : )
I need a couple of dictionaries but having them all pre-installed was a pain to use. Make sure to uninstall and re-install any needed dictionary from the addons site in case they got deleted with the command here.

The same goes for Thunderbird, simply replace firefox in the path.

sangheeta

Custom search in the address bar:
Keyword+space+parameter

Parameter can allow us to refine our searches and limit them to our history, bookmarks, open tabs and page titles or addresses.

List of search parameters:
^ to search in the navigation history.
* to search in bookmarks.
% to search in the open tabs.
# to search in page titles.
@ to search in the URL addresses of the pages.

Ex: To search a word only in history, type keyword ^

Select all text when clicking on the URL bar:
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll to true in about:config

Nice new addon, perfect cosmetic filter to use with uMatrix for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/element-blocker/

sangheeta

Damn, I just discovered that with Alt held down and the mouse wheel, we can go back and forth in the history of an active tab:
scroll down= previous page(s) to first page
scroll up= next page(s) to last page

But the menu bar appears, it's ugly 😂 so I press another key (super_L for ex) before release Alt

Boggle247

JoshStrobl privacy related tweaks here https://www.privacytools.io

sangheeta

mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y in about:config, is the distance covered on a web page at each step of the mouse wheel.

Default is 100
50 is like line by line.
800 is like all the height displayed that we travel, a bit like the pages of a book.

200 is my setting (with mousewheel.acceleration.factor = 19 & mousewheel.acceleration.start = 1) , I find that 100 is too small and 400 not very practical.

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sangheeta I find mousewheel.acceleration.factor to 10 and mousewheel.acceleration.start to 1 the most comfortable setting

danielson

TabMixPlus was a very decent extension for Firefox...
Anyone know how to add "close tabs to left" on right-click menu?

danielson

danielson - FoxyTab is about the best i could find: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxytab/

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i didnt like the acceleration thing so i changed mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount from 5 to 75 in about:config - works for me!

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The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing you how it works.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

JoshStrobl

Container Tabs, the Containers Plus add-on, etc. is the reason I switched from Vivaldi Snapshot to Firefox. When you deal with a bunch of GSuite Business accounts, or want to separate your work from Personal or Solus stuff it gets really handy.

Plus the ability to say "always open up this URL in this container" is great. Means I can always open up some internal work infra in the right container ❤️

Nycticorax

Not sure why there is so much off topic Firefox bashing here (isn't that the purpose of reddit?), not super useful to the 61% of users that picked FF as their favorite browser on these very forums.
I usually use:

layers.acceleration.force-enabled:true (fixes screen tearing in some Linux distro + hardware comboes, such as Solus Budgie with Intel GPUs)
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll:true (allows to select entire text in url bar with a single click)

sangheeta

Want all your bookmarks in tab?
Go to:
chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul
and bookmark it.

Bruce-McL

There are some instructions for speeding up Firefox in this guide for speeding up Mint.

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/speed-mint.html#ID7

I found moving Firefox cache into RAM to be helpful.

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