Will you make Firefox lite avail for linux?
I am an old Firefox user that went to Explorer than Chromium on Lubuntu. Now that Chrome/Chromium are becoming bloatware, I am now with Brave but I would like to come ba… (funda kabanzi)
I am an old Firefox user that went to Explorer than Chromium on Lubuntu. Now that Chrome/Chromium are becoming bloatware, I am now with Brave but I would like to come back to Firefox.
I was excited to find Firefox Lite only to find out that it is not avail for desktop. I do not want to use add-on, web developer tool or any other fancy bloatware for my casual browsing.
When I need to debug, I switch to Firefox Developer Edition. Why does regular browser have a dev-tool embedded into it? What is next, an embedded Flight Simulator "A la" Microsoft Excel?
What I would suggest is Firefox Lite (or even Micro), Firefox (with show source only) and Firefox Developer Edition
edited to remove the leading line indents which cause a horz scrollbar to appear with this forum software
I-Firefox
Latest version on Ubuntu has issues with keyboard shortcuts executing without holding modifier keys.
Now every time I type i.e. "r" the page reloads! There are other keyboard shortcuts too - every key that isn't bound by a shortcut types normal. This means that whatever … (funda kabanzi)
Now every time I type i.e. "r" the page reloads! There are other keyboard shortcuts too - every key that isn't bound by a shortcut types normal.
This means that whatever I type wherever when using Firefox I can't type the letters that are bound by a shortcut (which is executed without holding down a modifier key!).
This does not happen in any other application I use, including the Google Chrome browser.
Memory usage of Firefox extensions is drammatically high
When I start Firefox its extensions (WebExtension process) use ~80 Mb of RAM. After an hour of usage it become ~500 Mb [screenshot 1]. I use only 4 extensions and they us… (funda kabanzi)
When I start Firefox its extensions (WebExtension process) use ~80 Mb of RAM. After an hour of usage it become ~500 Mb [screenshot 1]. I use only 4 extensions and they use ~30 Mb (as about:performance) says [screenshot 2]. If I manually run garbage collector from about:memory, memory usage decreases to normal ~80 Mb [screenshot 3].
Why GC does not clean memory automatically for me?
Memory reports before and after running GC:
https://transfer.sh/z1h3b/memory-report.json.gz https://transfer.sh/fh3FP/memory-report-after.json.gz
HOWTO: disable master password auto prompt dynamically
Hi, this is not question but an answer :) While I was trying to figure out how I could get rid of the master password prompt that pops up on every page that I once saved … (funda kabanzi)
Hi, this is not question but an answer :) While I was trying to figure out how I could get rid of the master password prompt that pops up on every page that I once saved the password for (because I often don't want to login on these pages, just take a look), I found many people asking this. The solution was the MasterPasswordPlus addon for Firefox which stopped working with Quantum.
So here's how to do it with webextensions. Please note that I did that just for myself and will not publish it because I'm to lazy to add all the error handling, do updates etc. I just provide this as is, and whoever wants to use it locally or maybe make an addon from it: please go ahead and use the code any way you want! I also post it here so that it can be found in Google for other people looking for this.
With these two files (get your own icons please) you will have a webextension that shows a little icon in the URL bar. When you click it, the "Remember logins and passwords for websites" options in the preferences will toggle on and off. When it's off, you won't be asked for the master password on sites that you stored before. When it's on, you get the popup asking for it. When it was off and you want your password filled in on a page, you have to switch it on and reload the page.
Very basic functionality, but maybe someone has fun extending it.
cu, Frank
manifest.json:
{
"description": "Dis-/enable the master password popup",
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "NewMasterPasswordPlus",
"version": "1.0",
"icons": { },
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "YourEmail@gmail.com"
}
},
"permissions": [
"activeTab",
"tabs",
"privacy"
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]
},
"page_action": {
"default_icon": "icons/true.png",
"browser_style": true
}
}
background.js:
function setIcon(tab, state){
if (state===true) {
browser.pageAction.setIcon({tabId: tab.id, path: "icons/true.png"});
} else {
browser.pageAction.setIcon({tabId: tab.id, path: "icons/false.png"});
}
browser.pageAction.show(tab.id);
}
function updateIcon(tab) {
var state=getState();
state.then((got) => {
setIcon(tab,got.value);
});
}
function getState() {
var getting = browser.privacy.services.passwordSavingEnabled.get({});
return getting;
}
function toggleState(tab) {
var getting = browser.privacy.services.passwordSavingEnabled.get({});
getting.then((got) => {
console.log('got:'+got.value);
if ((got.levelOfControl === "controlled_by_this_extension") ||
(got.levelOfControl === "controllable_by_this_extension")) {
var setting = browser.privacy.services.passwordSavingEnabled.set({
value: !got.value
});
setting.then(() => { updateTabs();});
} else {
console.log("Not able to set passwordSavingEnabled");
}
});
}
/* Update icon on all tabs */
function updateTabs(){
var gettingAllTabs = browser.tabs.query({});
gettingAllTabs.then((tabs) => {
var state=getState();
state.then((got) => {
for (let tab of tabs) {
setIcon(tab,got.value);
}
});
});
}
/* Each time a tab is updated, reset the page action for that tab. */
browser.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((id, changeInfo, tab) => {
updateIcon(tab);
});
/* Toggle when the page action is clicked. */
browser.pageAction.onClicked.addListener(toggleState);
/* When first loaded, initialize the page action for all tabs. */
updateTabs();nytimes detecting Private Mode
I updated to Firefox 66 on Linux yesterday. I don't know if it's the browser version, but I noticed that nytimes.com started picking up that I'm browsing the site in priv… (funda kabanzi)
I updated to Firefox 66 on Linux yesterday. I don't know if it's the browser version, but I noticed that nytimes.com started picking up that I'm browsing the site in private mode.
Interestingly, this is something that used to happen on my Chrome book when I used private mode, but this on Firefox, this is a first for me. It may well be that nytimes changed their code to do this, but I wonder upgrade to FF 66 contributed to this.
In any case, I wonder how a site can pick up if the user is browsing in private mode.
Open links in current firefox session instead of opening new one
Sometimes I'm not able to open new links from other applications in current firefox session and I'm presented with dialog to select another FF profile (I'm using multiple… (funda kabanzi)
Sometimes I'm not able to open new links from other applications in current firefox session and I'm presented with dialog to select another FF profile (I'm using multiple profiles). I'm not sure what triggers this behavior and of course the easiest fix is to close current firefox session and restart it however I would like to know what may be causing this and if there is a way to fix it. Is there some documentation available or hints for how the Firefox checks or tries to connect to current session?
I see the firefox pids, I see the lock file in my profile dir and I have ruled out the possibility that the app(s) itself is not able to invoke FF properly so basically I ended up with firefox binary ( /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox - I'm on Fedora 28) assuming I would need to get into source code now?
Thanks
New page no longer opens full page, leaves space at bottom
Started about a week ago - some pages do not open at "full page" size as they used to, but leave a gap at the bottom of about 3/8", where part of the background page show… (funda kabanzi)
Started about a week ago - some pages do not open at "full page" size as they used to, but leave a gap at the bottom of about 3/8", where part of the background page shows through. This is where the Task Bar pops up from the bottom, but I keep it hidden. I can get an instant fix for ONE PAGE at a time by clicking "Restore Window" on the top bar, but this is NOT a permanent fix.
Ubuntu 16.04, 64 bit
This is not all pages, or even most pages, just enough to be annoying.
I rely on full page displays (WITH the page headings, etc.), so this is important to me.
I have a second identical machine in another location that DOES NOT have this problem.
How do I fix this?
Firefox on Linux won't remember actions with downloaded files
When I go to download a file, Firefox keeps asking me what I want to do with the file instead of just downloading it as I've told it. It USED to give me the "remember my … (funda kabanzi)
When I go to download a file, Firefox keeps asking me what I want to do with the file instead of just downloading it as I've told it. It USED to give me the "remember my choice" option but that's greyed out right now.
First things first, I KNOW it's in my prefs somewhere because when I moved the .mozilla directory and started firefox, this worked, so I'm wondering where other than prefs.js and mimetypes.rdf that this action is dealt with. Those are the only 2 files I can find that are mentioned that have anything to do with this, and neither one of them are the culprit.
I can't erase the whole profile because re-entering passwords, etc. isn't really feasible, though if there's a good way to select what data you want to save while migrating to another profile, I'm all ears.
Removing text in address bar when opening a new tab.
Hi I have a custom home page that is hosted on my local machine, I did this by adding some code into userChrome.js however I cannot seem to find a way to remove the text … (funda kabanzi)
Hi I have a custom home page that is hosted on my local machine, I did this by adding some code into userChrome.js however I cannot seem to find a way to remove the text from the address bar when i start up firefox for the first time or open a new tab. This is very annoying because I would prefer to immediatly start typing to search for things instead of having to ctrl-a the text and delete it. Is there anything I can add to userChrome.js or something similar to get this function to work properly?
I tried using extensions to do this but it seems they are unable to modify this data.
Formating Firefox Pages
Firefox Browser shows pages a) without separating border lines b) without highlighting selected fields and registers c) without highlighting selected text in the address… (funda kabanzi)
Firefox Browser shows pages a) without separating border lines b) without highlighting selected fields and registers c) without highlighting selected text in the address field and in the page d) Scroll Bars (vertical and horizontal) are transparent (colourless background) How can I fix this?
Same problems also with Thunderbird!!
Change search bar on-click behavior
How do I change the behavior of the searchbar (the one next to the url-bar) so that one click selects all the text. Similar to what is described here for the url-bar: ht… (funda kabanzi)
How do I change the behavior of the searchbar (the one next to the url-bar) so that one click selects all the text.
Similar to what is described here for the url-bar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1128139
I cannot set an application to handle nxm links.
I am trying to configure Firefox for Linux to handle nxm links from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/ to be handled by Vortex, but keep getting "The address… (funda kabanzi)
I am trying to configure Firefox for Linux to handle nxm links from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/ to be handled by Vortex, but keep getting "The address wasn’t understood".
Things I have tried:
1) Going to the Applications setting of Preferences and changing the application associated with nxm. nxm does not appear in this area.
2) Creating a boolean named network.protocol-handler.expose.nxm in about:config and setting it to false, then trying to open an nxm link and hope I receive a prompt asking me what application I would like to use.
3) Number 2 but with network-protocol-handler.expose-all
4) Executing the following commands after creating a file ~/.local/share/applications/vortex.desktop and making it executable:
$ xdg-mime default vortex.desktop x-scheme-handler/nxm
$ xdg-mime default vortex.desktop x-scheme-handler/nxm-protocol
$ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/nxm/command '~/.local/share/applications/vortex.desktop %s' --type String
$ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/nxm/enabled --type Boolean true
5) Restarting my computer.
I have tried to open nxm links in both Firefox 65.0.1 and 67.0b2 Developer Edition (installed ten minutes ago with no add-ons) with the same result. Please help me.