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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!

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 ❤️

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)
5 months later

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

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Didn't notice much change with those Firefox tweaks on Windows.
On Linux it is better (at least on my ssd).

(think it's going to take more than shifting from Chrome to Firefox to save us from Google).

    danielson (think it's going to take more than shifting from Chrome to Firefox to save us from Google).

    Every step count... and you know nobody needs to be perfect. People who want to get rid of the GAFAM usually fail, while people who try to gradually lower their dependency to them are more successful.

        kyrios People who want to get rid of the GAFAM usually fail, while people who try to gradually lower their dependency to them are more successful.

        Well said, indeed !

          10 days later

          Tab favicon turns into tab close button on hover
          userChrome.css

          /* Make tab close buttons appear on tab hover, replacing the tab icon */
.tabbrowser-tab .tab-close-button {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
  margin: 2px 6px 0px 0px !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab .tab-close-button {
  display: none !important;
}

.tabbrowser-tab:not([pinned="true"]):hover .tab-icon-image,
.tabbrowser-tab:not([pinned="true"]):hover .tab-throbber {
  display: none;
}

.tabbrowser-tab:not([pinned="true"]):hover .tab-close-button {
  display: -moz-box !important;
}

          source:reddit

          Clearurls addon
          This add-on will remove the tracking fields form all URLs which are visited by the browser
          https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

          Site Bleacher addon
          Remove automatically cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs and service workers.
          https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/site-bleacher/

          17 days later

          I've been looking for a better touchpad scrolling experience on Firefox for a while now and recently found a really nice fix! By default Firefox reads the touchpad like a scroll wheel using xinput, then the gecko rendering engine also has some baked in smooth scrolling features to give a partial momentum scrolling feel. Personally I've always found this scrolling method to have a decent amount of lag and make Firefox feel a bit chunkier than chromium based browsers.

          Recently I found that if you set MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 as an environment variable, Firefox can read xinput2 touchpad scroll events which allows Firefox to use the same momentum scrolling system that the Gnome apps use! There are a few different ways to set this environment variable but I did it by creating a /etc/profile.d/ script.

          Here's a quick guide if you'd like to try it out.
          sudo mkdir /etc/profile.d/ (If you don't already have it.)
          echo export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/use-xinput2.sh
          And finally logout/back in! Hope this helps anyone looking for a more Gnome like scrolling feel in Firefox.

          25 days later

          Recently I have noticed a tearing on Firefox Beta (installed from Mozilla site) and layers.acceleration.force-enabled setting doesn't work anymore =(
          Any ideas? I am using nvidia gpu.
          Firefox stable works fine

          JoshStrobl Best way to survive Firefox:

          Firefox is giving me issues on the multimedia Solus machine. I thought Vivaldi might help, but when I try to stream YouRube TV, I'm told it doesn't support the video format.

          I did check the setting for "enable Flash" and thought that might help, but no joy. Should I abandon Vivaldi for that machine, or is there another setting that's necessary? I've never used Vivaldi before, but I've figured out so far that it's another Chrome-based browser. I'm not very familiar with what it can and cannot do.

              WetGeek
              Nevermind ... I figured out how to get WideVine installed, and it's working now. That's on my Solus VM. I'm assuming it will also work on the multimedia machine. This could be marked "Solved," and if anyone else has the same problem (Firefox not changing to full-screen reliably), I'd be happy to elaborate.

                It may be helpful to include the fix for someone in the future.