Is there a way to set it up so it always stays in Firefox for certain links? I prefer to watch YouTube in Firefox and having to see the popup everytime is kind of annoying.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/53326596

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/53326520

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/53326518

Edit: After reading the recommendations & arguments at arkenfox, I have opted to remove CookieAutoDelete as well as PrivacyBadger and CanvasBlocker. Instead I have:

• set Enhanced Tracking Protection to "Strict";
• setup uBlock Origin to level "medium";
• tweaked some extra about:config entries as recommended here and here, except for privacy.resistFingerprinting.

I'll also consider setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 2 for having all cookies session-only (apart from whitelisted ones).

I observe a much faster loading of the pages now!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/69883263

My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.

To do this, I've used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I've discovered now that it doesn't work with Firefox's Strict Mode (the extension says "strict mode is not supported").

All in all I think my understanding of Firefox's capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I'd be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.

Experimental feature but can be enabled in firefox stable in Settings, Firefox Labs, Tab notes under Productivity.

I found it really useful for when Im researching something and have lots of papers open in separate tabs. Though Im using it more like tab tags, since notes show up when you hover over tabs. It lets me see at a glance which specific topic a tab is related to if I forget.

What do you all think? I was kinda surprised how little discussion I have seen on this, considering that no other browser have something like it. Firefoxs implementation is pretty smart too, instead of just being a sticky notes widget in the browser (like the one in Vivaldi).

Has anyone else experienced this? Guessing its a recent update because its never had this issue before… Thinking to make a bug report just wanted to see if anyone else has the issue or if its just me.

Edit: I found out that the add-on warns about high CPU usage for some of its presets (Preferences->General->Presets). Using a different preset has removed that ~10% CPU usage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/69070329

Some preliminary context: Since one or two updates ago, I've noticed that Firefox is using around 10% CPU even then all tabs are unloaded. This didn't happen before. The add-ons I use are still the same, and I have blocked the new LLM functionality. (Maybe someone else noticed the same?) Anyway, in order to investigate, I'm switching off the add-ons one by one, as usually done, checking if the situation improves.

While doing so I was wondering whether I still need Canvas Blocker. I see its most recent reviews are 4 years old now. Does anyone know whether it's still needed for privacy, or if Firefox now provides some of the same functionality built-in? I do use AdBlock Origin as well.

Thank you for info and opinions!

This is driving me up the wall. I have a bunch of tab groups but for some reason the feature keeps disappearing for me then reappearing later on.

Seems Firefox decided to return to Twitter.

I had an extension FastStream installed on all my FF and forks on my various devices (this install is on Windows 10 if it matters). But the extension got de-listed because it no longer passes whatever requirements Mozilla has for getting signed. The dev is working on getting it through, but offers it through their github via zip file. I normally use Zen, so I didn't have issues loading it and just turned off the auto update stuff that would remove it.

The old previously listed version was on my desktop that has the stable release of FF. So I removed it so I could update, but was blocked. No big deal, I went into about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to "false" per instructions. Restarted FF and now still blocked because it isn't signed.

Some searching says that stable is a no go, while other results still say to just flip that signatures.required to false. The AI assistant on DDG says that the "xpinstall.signatures.required" option isn't available on stable (even though it is and able to be flipped between "true" and "false" (I saw some people say that they see the option, but is grayed out and not able to be changed at all).

Kind of annoying that FF has been so much easier to load extensions not on the add-ons site. I have had issues trying to side-load on Chromium browsers I use, and FF never gave me this problem. I imagine it will eventually be an issue for the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension (not sure if extensions not listed on the site can get signed).

Is there any simple way to force it on stable? If not, can I simply "upgrade" my stable to beta or dev, keep my profile, and remove stable without losing anything? Would like to avoid ESR since I do like to know when features/UI changes happen so I can help people (I work on consumer PCs) that use stable on their devices.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

I have been using Firefox on my laptop and vivaldi on mobile, but would like to use firefox on mobile too. The "problem" I have encountered while trying to switch to it on mobile is that the scrolling is laggy, not so "smooth" as it is while using vivaldi. Could it be that certain setting (that I have not noticed, or do not know about) is causing the not so smooth scroll behavior? My device is a Samsung phone and android.

This is the third avenue of FIFA World Cup advertising I've had to block in Firefox for Android (two different home page ads and now this notification), and my patience is starting to run thin.

Are there good mobile browser alternatives that support the same extension Firefox does (in my case, uBlock, SponsorBlock and Video Background Play Fix)?

Also, and I imagine the answer to this is "no", do those alternatives support the sync features of Firefox? I actually use and quite like those.

I use Strict Tracking Protection, Facebook Container and Multi-Account Container and I am beginning to think it's overkill. Doesn't Strict mode block third-party cookies anyway? I also clear cookies on exit. Containers allow us to login to the same site with different identities, so I am assuming it containerises first-party cookies too, but I wouldn't need that. Also, doesn't Multi-Account Container replace Facebook Container if you create a separate container for Facebook?

The option is greyed out, YET checked. I cannot change it at all.

How do I force Firefox to uncheck it? I feel like a boomer asking this, but...

I tried using the about:config to put the boolean of

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.trendingSearch.enabled

to false, but nada.

Chrome was mandated by work but I have moved s I am back.

I love a lot of it, primarily ad blockers and jave blockers. Chrome was heavy and a data nightmare but it did a good job of having what you wanted up front. My biggest gripe now is probably the favourites.

Chrome lists them and firefox lists them and I never thought it could be bad, its just a list. FF will list 8 of the same domain, so my favourites were all different variations of the same site or two. It only pinned when I edited them as bookmarks. Trying to add a favourite doesnt seem to be possible because the host of selections under the one or two domains blocks others rising to a position I can edit and then pin.

I much prefer FF, in fact I only use chrome where I have forgotten passwords or want a site to load outside of how I configured FF. But these bits do hurt UX.

As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!

Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn't universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left to efforts like NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver to layer VA-API atop NVIDIA NVDEC interfaces to enjoy GPU-accelerated video playback in Firefox. Smaller Arm/embedded graphics drivers also have been largely left out of the game in the VA-API space. But with Vulkan Video we are beginning to see more adoption and in a cross-platform manner.

The Firefox 153 release due out in July will have Vulkan Video decoding support available. The Vulkan Video activity in Firefox Git culminated this week with the work of NVIDIA engineer Tymur Boiko and Red Hat's Martin Stransky.

i essentially dont save cookies except for a few sites to not log in constantly, so knowing if that gets saved would save me a lot of time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47414081

I just added a link to to my blog's RSS feed in the blog index page, and Librewolf now has a Reader View button for that page, which seems to let people read RSS entries instead of the normal HTML pages. The reader view also includes read time estimates. The index is about one minute, and an entry i clicked says 2-3. Where does this estimate come from?

I switched from Zen back to Firefox because of bugs and forced features like window sync which many users including myself don't want. I really miss having the entire UI on the side, I really don't care about Zen's other features.

WTF? Do you see this as well?

As shown in the video. I only experience this on google translate but not sure what the exact steps to reproduce it are. I also noticed that sometimes google translate's tab memory usage grows so big, over 1 giga for the single tab, with continued prolonged usage (hours). Not sure if this is related though.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52390229

Do you use any forks instead of default Firefox? If yes, which ones and why?