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

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.

    12 days later

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

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

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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