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Firefox survival guide
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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If you want to save humanity from Google, stop using Chrome 
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.
10 days later
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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;
}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
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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
I like this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
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.
Anyone figure out how to get Disney+ to work yet?
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v3l0ct It may be helpful to include the fix for someone in the future.
Here goes (assuming you've installed Vivaldi already, and rebooted Solus):
- In Vivaldi, enter the address, "vivaldi:about" in order to find out (or verify) where the browser is installed.
- If it hasn't changed in the future, it should be
/usr/share/vivaldi-stable. - In a terminal, with su or sudo credentials, change to that location.
- You'll find two installers there which both need to be run:
update-ffmpgandupdate-widevine - Execute both of those, and restart Vivaldi. It will now play streaming, such as tv.youtube.com.
I can verify that it works for Netflix and Britbox (here in the USA) as well. The change between widow-size and full-screen runs through a few intermediate states more slowly than on Chrome, so give it a few seconds. But at least it works consistently. I've changed to full-screen and back about 50 times so far, and with Firefox it would have stopped working after the second or third attempt.