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I'm using this add-on to add a "Close Tabs to the Right" option. But after installing another add-on, the "Close Tabs to the Right" option isn't at the bottom anymore and I want to move it all the way to the bottom.

I searched and came across this guide to edit right click context menu items. However, I cannot get it to work.

This is what my userChrome.css looks like right now (scroll to the very bottom) https://pastebin.com/MWeTN19G

Here's the code I'm using to rearrange the tab context menu item

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important;
}

( I even tried setting -moz-box-ordinal-group to 2, 20, 200 but no luck)

This is the menu item id for the add-on's option I want at the bottom: _588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right

This is the menu item id for the add-on that is currently at the bottom: _c2c003ee-bd69-42a2-b0e9-6f34222cb046_-menuitem-5

And also, I'm using Lepton to change the look of right click context menus, tabs, menu panels etc.

Here's a screenshot of the menu item ids

Edit:

#_588c6fa6-14f9-4826-b769-71a305c80bbb_-menuitem-_close_right {
order: 2 !important;
}

It works now.

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I don't like notifications being shown in Windows Action Center, so I disabled it by changing alerts.useSystemBackend to false. The problem is Firefox built-in notification system just decides to mute notification sound and only shows the notifications. It's kinda annoying especially since I'm using this timer add-on. Please help me to enable notification sound. Thank you.

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I don't know when the option was removed since I hadn't updated Firefox on that machine in some time. Normally it's in the customize menu at the bottom left. I can confirm that the option still exists in 104.0.2 since I also haven't updated Firefox on my main machine (a different Ubuntu-based OS). And unless there's some way in 115.0.1 to remove the title bar then I am extremely reluctant to update. Anyone know how to remove title bars on this update?

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I opened this page that is in German: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/mozilla-ventures-investiert-in-blue-fever/

Previously on this website, Nightly would show a translate icon in the URL bar, allowing me to translate the articles to English. I don’t see that icon anymore. Why is that?

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TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!

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Is there an optimized version of Firefox that removed Pocket and other unneeded features? Does it use less memory?

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I tried giving NextDNS a shot. So far it looks great. My only problem it has 300k query limit for free in a month. I tried investigating the source of problem by looking a bit into about:networking and found out many queries has time to live of 300 seconds. I tried turning nextdns cache boost off and on but it made no difference. In order to reduce number of queries i send i set network.dns.get-ttl false (i don't know if it relevant since i am using DNS-over-https), network.dnsCacheEntries 1000, network.dnsCacheExpiration/network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod= 43200. While this setting sometimes apply to one or two queries occasionally it was pretty much ignored most of the time. I am on windows 10 and using arkenfox user.js. Does anyone have any idea how i can force a higher ttl on dns cache?

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7 reasons why you should really give Mozilla Firefox (web browser) a try.
Music: 'Invisible world' by Frankum & Frankumjay (CC-BY 3.0).

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Thought I'd never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.

There's also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/

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Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering.

I've looked through many threads but didn't find any fix/workaround for this. I saw some users saying changing values for media.cache_readahead_limit and media.cache_resume_threshold to 99999 fixed it but that didn't help and actually caused Firefox to stop buffering midway through videos.

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someone in the mood to confirm a bug with me? I think this is new. Seeing this with F115 (on linux) on a clean, new profile. The code didn't change.

I used to be able to listen to a big audio file in a streaming manner when loaded from goldfire/howler.js library.

The new behaviour is: firefox will download the whole file before starting to play.

Example: (25MB bytes down will occur) https://jsfiddle.net/ugnt03jo/1/ -> click Run in upper left to render html

  • if you have traffic stats on your system you'll see bytes trickling in the moment you render the html - not when you click the Play button. This is acknowledged in the devtools network-tab after it is fetched in full
  • until fetched in full, the Play button will not stream the audio file

#firefox

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Is there a Keyboard Shortcut to put the focus on Firefox's Sidebar?

I use the Add-On "Bookmark search plus 2" which is really awesome. When I activate it's Keyboard Shortcut (Ctrl + Q), the Sidebar opens, but I have to use my mouse to click on the Sidebar to grant it focus. I looked around online and haven't found anything. If anyone knows of a way, a Keyboard Shortcut, a tool or another Add-On perhaps, please let me know! Cheers!

#firefox

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ono@lemmy.ca to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

I've accidentally tapped the F and D keys together when using Alt+D to reach the address bar a few times. There is no matching shortcut or close-window command in the File menu, yet it instantly closes the window. Can someone tell me why?

Edit: Clarified first sentence and added screen shot for the doubters:

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1175662

Good news, Kingsoft Antivirus users.

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Specifically, when you open a reasonable number of tabs in any browser, the tabs look like this. However, as my friend has just imported all of his tabs and bookmarks over from Chrome to Firefox, he has an immense number of tabs open right now; in Chrome, he can see all the tabs at once with its UI. On Firefox, however, it keeps things actually legible by not squashing the tabs so obscenely.

"Okay, so I need some help. I've noticed Firefox doesn't show all tabs like Chrome does. Instead it shows a few, and makes me press a button to see more. Please, tell me there's a way to fix that."

I pointed out that this was an accessibility thing (being able to actually see and read the tabs is a useful feature) and they said it was "not good enough". Further explanation of basic things such as using their scroll wheel to scroll through their tabs, or double/triple clicking on the left/right arrows to jump by page or start/end, or using the Ctrl+# shortcuts, are all tools at their arsenal, but that also was not good enough. Personally I'm a 1,000-2,000 tabs kinda person and manage just fine with those instead of having each tab be literally a pixel wide, so I've never looked for an addon to crush all the tabs together like Chrome does, and my attempts at searching the extensions and themes has come up with nothing.

Is there something like this in the about:config page perhaps, or a convenient theme/extension/addon/plugin/etc that my friend can install to feel comfy using Firefox again?

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Preferable wouldn't require rooting the phone, but curious to hear if there is a way that requires rooting also.

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Starting July 11, 2023, Pocket users will be prompted to transition to a Firefox account in order to log in and access their Pocket account. Aside from changing how you log in to Pocket, this does not affect your saved items. While optional at first, the transition to a Firefox account in order to log in will be required by August 15, 2023.

For Pocket Premium subscribers, converting your account will not impact your subscription.

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A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

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This might be a little late for this year, but we can definitely start playing with some ideas for next year (or maybe we can run the logo next month).

Wouldn't it be cool to rebrand the magazine logo here in a Firefox+Pride themed way? Your logo should be square-ish so that it fits in the Kbin sidebar.

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On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵

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Let's take advantage of the fact that we are so small! Say hi and tell us how you started using Firefox!

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