Firefox

im willing to use OSM

edit: it shows Gulf of Mexico (gulf of america) for me

Next time you don't want to update your operating system to do the same things on the Internet you did 5 years ago, #Firefox is your friend.

@firefox

#ilovefs Thankyou for making my data secure, my life easier, my days colourful, my rabbit holes deeper,

@nextcloud @thunderbird
#paperlessngx
#homeassistant
#mupibox
@jellyfin
@moodeaudio
@ff3
@firefox
@Kodi
@dietpi
@signalapp
#scratch #python #opnsense #tailscale #hibiscus #solaranzeige

Supposedly that is the path to my Firefox profile directory. But when I click "Open Directory", nothing happens.

When I access that file path, the directory (k45qdkms.default-release) does not exist.

#Firefox we need to talk,
or #DevsOfMastodon what are your issues with Firefox?
I really like Firefox(#GUX, #GUI, workflows etc), and I've always agreed that we need an independent #browser alternative to #Chromium, but I didnt think it was this bad: https://youtu.be/mmjUlFIaNLE?t=136
Sure take that video with a grain of salt, but I think he has a point.
@firefox@lemmy.world @firefox@lemmy.ml I really hope @firefoxnightly can finally start catching up!

#Development #FediDevs #OpenSource #Gecko #LibreWolf #Vivaldi

I used to run benchmarks and Firefox for Android would always be slower. This matched my feeling of it, but after reinstalling this week I was surprised to see that Firefox is benching higher in both Speedometer and WebXPRT. Both of these benchmarks considerably heavier than things like Kraken that I used to test with.

-Would it be useful to update this from time to time (let's say every trimester)? If I did update it, I'd try to use it as project to learn some basic data visualization and it would hopefully improve with time. -Does this hold up on your device?

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#GlobalSwitchDay

✅ EASY STEPS

Browser → @firefox @torproject
(10 minutes for FF, then learn about Tor)

Google → @duckduckgo @StartpageSearch
(1 minute and you're free)

WhatsApp → @signalapp
(Start with family, then scale)

Gmail → @protonprivacy @Tutanota @posteo_en
(Start with the free plan, a full switch could take months, planning and a paid account, but it's worth)

Maps → @openstreetmap
(Maps work, but you have hundreds of less metadata for itineraries and shops-bars)

X → @Mastodon
(I supposed you already know that)

Don't procrastinate, reown your data and privacy.

I use Fennec F-Droid (This does apply to normal ff mobile). When I hold the space key of the onscreen keyboard to control the cursor in a website's input field it doesn't move character by character but word by word. Is there a flag in about:config that changes it to go character by character instead? Their implementation is buggy and painful for me and the sole reason for why I feel forced to use Brave 😭 pls help

We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension.

I know this is old news by now, but I was not sure how to activate vertical tabs on all of my browsers. It certainly is not obvious, so I wanted to include the instructions here in case anyone else wants to try it out.

Type about:config into the address bar of Firefox. You'll be greeted with a warning that you are accessing advanced settings - click "Accept the Risk and Continue." Search for the boolean preference sidebar.verticalTabs and set to true. That's it! Enjoy your vertical Tabs!

Edit: You may also need to set sidebar.revamp to true if it is not already/automatically set.

Chrome and Edge make it simple to 'install' pages, so they're easy to pin to the task bar. PWAs for Firefox gives that capability to Firefox, but it's a bit brittle, and breaks easily if Firefox updates. It's broken again for me tonight and the usual 'reinstall this reinstall that' hasn't fixed it.

In my opinion Firefox took a significant backwards step when they killed that feature years ago.

I appreciate I might not be the target audience for Lemmy since I'm half Windows half Unix, and a Gmail / Keep / Calendar / Facebook / Messenger user.

When you have the choice of multiple addons/extensions that can perform a certain task, is there a way to monitor their system resource use? To select the one which is the leanest.

I am sometimes using firefox on low-end devices. I feel that certain extensions are using more/less resources. But what's the truth?

In linux system/task monitors, you can see processes "WebExtensions" running beneath firefox. Is this reporting extensions as name suggests? If so, is there a way to correlate them to specific add-ons?

Would also like to be able to know about what extensions are doing "in the background" vs when you are actively using them.

This is about desktop versions of firefox, not mobile.

Crossposted from a community manager's post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hwd6u7/join_mozilla_to_test_the_new_firefox_address_bar/

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Is there a way either through an add on or through settings to force a website shortcut to open as a web app? I have issues with a lot of sites that are designed as web apps. I've even worked with developers who said that the website is designed and meets all the criteria of a web app. Firefox Mobile seems to not recognize or disregard this information sometimes.

The sites are perfectly functional, but there are benefits to running them outside in their own window. It affects things like the persistence and memory being able to switch quickly between tasks, etc. I could obviously do this through a different browser that is purpose built like Hermit, but I would like to do it in Firefox if possible. I don't want to have to install a bunch of different apps on my phone just to run other apps.

I'm not a developer, but it really seems somewhat arbitrary, which apps, Firefox decides are valid web apps, and I would rather be able to make that indication myself.