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Say, for example, I want the download path to be "MyDownloadDirectory/%yyyy/%yyyy.%mm" which means "Change the download path every month to a folder named after the current year and the current month inside a folder named after the current year".

Many non-browser applications allow me to do this, but for some reason browsers generally don't have that option. I was thinking that there was a way to do this in Firefox.

What is a way to do this? If it's not possible in vanilla Firefox, is there an extension available for this?

Hey Support Community! It's Usman here.

I have a question. Whenever I open my Portable Firefox (to manage my Website website, it doesn't open and ask me to close other FireFox tabs.

I know I can only use one Portable firefox at a time, but what about normal Firefox?

How can I use a portable Firefox, alongside a Normal firefox?

Kindly help me out here.

Hi there,

I'm trying to see if there is a way to modify how the Firefox "Location" prompts ("Do you want to give this site access to your location? Allow/Block") are displayed on the screen. Although, microphone and camera access prompts are also relevant to me.

My use case is mobile Linux and similar to some of the problems solved by https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox

If anybody is knowledgeable on the subject and could point me to relevant source or terminology used by Firefox to help narrow my search, I'd appreciate it. Is it possible to modify these prompts with any of the built-in CSS modifiers like userChrome.css or anything else?

Thanks!

There's a site I use frequently that downloads .htm files to my computer every time I open it in a new window. The site does not have a settings page to turn this feature off. It also functions exactly the same once the file is deleted, and it only recently started doing this. I trust that the files are not malicious, but I also find it annoying to manually delete them every single time.

Is there a way within Firefox to block specific sites from downloading content?

Up until now, when I've downloaded a file, the download button displays a dropdown of the downloaded file list, and other features. After updating to v104.0.2, the download button ONLY highlights to signal that files have been downloaded to my download directory, but clicking this button does nothing. Instead, the only way I can access my downloads is by Ctrl-J or clicking on the 3-horiz-lines and select Downloads, which opens a separate dialog box. Why this change? How can I restore the old/standard feature which worked quickly and intuitively?

By default, search results from the "new tab" page don't open a new tab, because that page is meant to be opened prior to initiating a search. However, I prefer to have the new tab page pinned so that non pinned tabs can all be closed and have something to fall back to other than my pinned tabs.

Therefor, it would be nice to disable search results opening a new tab from this "new tab" page due to how I use it (which is a preference that is required for having pinned tabs since the home page does not open unless all tabs are closed).

I have turned on Hide pointer while typing in Mouse Properties, see pic. It works in Notepad, but not in Firefox.

Mouse Properties can be accessed from Windows Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Mouse. Here click on Additional mouse settings.

Hi,

is there a way to stop a website to automatically forcefully boot me to their main page after like 1sec?

In my case its this Link: https://multiversus.bugs.wbgames.com/bug/MVS-1-3162 It straight up throws me back to the original website after being able to see it for probably less than a second.

Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to make Firefox open with a fixed size? It currently opens with the last size. I frequently resize a window for a specific site, but don't need subsequent windows to open to that size.

• browser.download.animateNotifications to false
• security.dialog_enable_delay to 0
• network.prefetch-next to false
• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry to false
• browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry to false
• browser.ping-centre.telemetry to false
• toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun to false
• toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled to false
• toolkit.telemetry.unified to false
• toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled to false
• browser.download.animateNotifications to false
• security.dialog_enable_delay to 0
• accessibility.force_disabled to 1
• network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS to false
• network.predictor.enable-prefetch to true
• network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to 10
• network.http.max-connections to 256
• browser.tab.animate to false.
• browser.panorama.animate_zoom to false
• network.dns.disablePrefetch to true
• network.prefetch-next to false
• network.http.speculative-parallel-limit to 0
• network.http.pipelining to true
• network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 10
• network.http.pipelining.aggressive to true
• gfx.webrender.all to true
• reader.parse-on-load.enabled to false
• network.http.max-connections to 96
• network.http.max-connections-per-server to 32
• nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0
• network.dns.disableIPv6 to false
• plugin.expose_full_path to true
• toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled to false
• extensions.checkCompatibility to false
• config.trim_on_minimize to true
• browser.cache.disk.capacity to 50000

On occasion, I come across a web page that offers to send an email if you click on the link eg, I was researching regulations for personal care homes in GA and there was an option to send an email to the administrators to ask them for more information.

So, I click on the link and rather than getting the email address, firefox goes to open the "mail" application on my mac.

Well, I never use that application because it is too slow and bulky. I can't use basic text options like bolding or italics and such. Not to mention, it takes forever to load.

I use GMX for mail and it is accessed through Firefox. It is not an application that "lives" on my computer.

How can I get Firefox to respond to these email buttons on websites by going to GMX?

Thanks, Charles

I am really struggling with Firefox after many years of MS Edge & its forerunners. When there is not an envelope icon on a web page, how do I share to email?