Say I have a window of mostly music that I want to open with shortcut a, and a window of work stuff that I want to open with shortcut b. Is there anything I can do to get firefox shortcuts to remember the windows separately? I don't want to use chrome or a different browser as the second window, but that would work for specifically what I want to do.

Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.

Yesterday, my 20ish open tabs acted as normal.

The X to close a tab was only present on the active open tab, with the rest not displaying it.

Today, after I updated Firefox Nightly to Version 119.0a1 (2023-08-30) (64-bit), it reopened and now there is no X to close even the active open tab.

I can't find any setting that controls this, no idea how it happened, but right clicking to close a tab is very cumbersome. Anyone know how to restore the X to close tabs like normal?

If you open a new windows in Nyxt browser, you'll notice that it will have the exact same tabs as the old window.

Same can be done with Emacs when in server mode: frames (windows) do share the same set of buffers.

I think this is a comfy feature, since windows' purpose is - IME - not to logically group tabs but rather only to give multi pane visualization when browsing.

So the question is: Is it possible to achieve this in Firefox?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4064988

I found three, Betterfox, arkenfox, & Narsil.

I been using Betterfox for the last week. I been liking it because Betterfox doesn't break sites. Back in the day, I tried arkenfox. But it break some sites I go to. Narsil is a fork of arkenfox.

I’m trying to switch to Floorp right now from Firefox, where I have both the regular horizontal tabs, and a flat vertical list with the Tree Style Tab extension. I use the later a lot, and while I could keep this setup in Floorp, I like that the vertical tabs can be native instead of using TST. However, it just feels weird to not have horizontal tabs. I think I might miss seeing a bunch of my tab titles at a glance with it, but I have to use it more and see how I feel.

So I'm using the same account with as close as possible same settings as in desktop and have synced my history, but on mobile the address bar suggestions are just all over the place. Suggesting me random urls i've visited maybe once over all the stuff I frequent and just completely missing most stuff. I firstly need suggestions based on browsing history secondly bookmarks, no open tabs or anything else.

Using both stable and nigthly I have the same problem. Is it the Android app not able to pull suggestion data from my account history or does it just handle them in a different way, preferring recency over the amount of visit times on a site maybe?

https://fedia.io/m/FirefoxCSS

It would be nice to have consistent coloring on the phone.

I know I could use an addon like RunWith to download files to the Downloads folder without it asking where to save them, but I want files downloaded through Firefox the official way. I have “Always ask where to save files” unchecked in settings, but that doesn’t do anything.

Hello,

TLDR: How to open all facebook videos in 1 PIP window, or/and auto-close PIP if video ends, or/and disable autoplay, or/and disable mute or just remember mute state.

I'm watching multiple short videos on facebook (without account) and I have few problems:

Videos are too small, but I can't switch to fullscreen, because I lose position, so I'd have to scroll too much every time, so the only way to have larger size is PIP, but I have the problems.

Another problem while playing videos, they start playing automatically, mute enabled, so I have to disable mute and rewind every time.

When I open 1st PIP window for 1st video, it's opened in large PIP window, but when I open 2nd video, it's opened in 2nd PIP window, next to previous, so I have to manually close the 1st PIP and move 2nd PIP, every time.

Perfect solution would be:

• disable autoplay for facebook videos
• always disable mute for videos, or remember mute state per session
• auto-close PIP window if video ends or open another video always in the same window

I already tried:

• google
• bing AI
• about:config option media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.allow-multiple set to false and true, restart firefox
• other about:config options for pip

Is there any way to open all videos in the same PIP window and not in multiple PIP windows, using any option or even extension, please?
Workaround could be to auto-close PIP window if video ends.

EDIT: Now I have another problem, PIP button is not shown for each facebook video, even the same length, with the same settings, I tried to switch some about:config settings, change them all to default values, but PIP button is shown just for some videos, it looks random.

Firefox 116.0.2 (64-bit), tested with the Nightly 118.0a1 (2023-08-12) (64-bit), default settings without extensions, Windows 10 22H2 64-bit.

It looks like Chrome is going to add post-quantum key exchange X25519Kyber768 to secure TLS connections, see https://chromestatus.com/feature/5257822742249472

As much as I hate Chrome, I'd like to see such a feature in Firefox too. Any idea if there's a technical discussion/proposal somewhere?

Opera's new 'Tab Islands' feature is very cool and I've wished for such a feature in FF.

Briefly, "When opening new tabs from a webpage, those tabs are automatically grouped together into an island."

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2023/06/opera-tab-islands/

I happen to be one of those bozo users with hundreds of tabs open all the time and I'm always interested in any feature, addon, plugin, whatever that would make it easier to keep my tabs organized.

Anyone know of such a feature in FF?

Is there a way to see how much memory each Firefox Add-On uses? I've tried to look into "about:processes", and "about:memory". The first one tells you the total amount of memory used by the Add-Ons, and the latter gives you a 30,000 page long report that I don't know how to make heads or tails of. I KNOW my Add-Ons are eating up a lot of memory. I want to know WHICH ones are eating up the most so I can know which ones I should maybe shut down. Ideally, I wouldn't shut any down because they are all geared toward productivity. But maybe I can prioritize some over others.

Is there an easy way to view this information? Something akin to the Chrome web browser?

#firefox

In the latest Firefox version(116.0.2 (64-bit)) the button "List all tabs" won't show any tabs unless I close like half of them, then it works again if I open new random tabs. Currently 246 open tabs.

Any other way to fix this? I don't really wanna close those tabs.

The way I know this is that I tested in a sandbox with the same profile to try to find the problem.

EDIT 14/Aug/2023: So I just found out the issue was some tabs that had a " --" at the end of the title probably caused by some addon made this issue happen. It probably isn't really a - but I don't know what character is that.

All you have to do is just copy the url, open a new tab, paste the url and go. Close the previous tab with " --" at the end.
Just make sure you are not opening a new tab with CTRL+(clicking the + icon) from the "broken" tab with the " --".

Example.

Hope this helps someone else.

In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, but it’s safe to expect a roll-out before the year’s end.

A threadiverse app for Android

I currently have a puny 380 tabs open that consume 42GB RAM on my MBP '21 Max whatever (with 64GB total, shared with the GPU).

I have gone through most troubleshooting and it's clear that the unload mechanism isn't achieving it's goal (I mean, aside from an absolutely psycho amount of tabs I am hell-bent on having to "come back to later"). The reason that these tabs are open and have been loaded is that I've been transferring my other browser tabs over and setting up my Containers & Sidebar Panels, so each tab would have to be open within the last week.

Question: Most of resources I've found online lead me to believe that all I need is to modify browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb. But it's nowhere to be found. about:config on MacOS is just returning an empty value and offers me to set it. Dare I? Would it actually work?

And yes, the browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory is set to true and browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload is a default 600000 (which is in ms IIRC, so it's 10 minutes)

My main issue is that even manually triggering the Unload from about:unloads doesn't help the situation, and it can't be that all of the tabs are using WebRTC or are somehow considered to be active? Can it be a side-effect of Sidebery extension? Surely not? Many of the tabs list "Last Accessed" datetime between 3-9 days ago and still have the Base Weight of 0, so that part probably works, but Firefix decides not to unload them?

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Random thought: It would really help if people wouldn't need to chase this. I assume that the way that MacOS handles RAM with it's swap and whole "memory pressure" is probably isn't the most simple thing to work around but unless I can fix this it'll be very difficult to consistently use, and I can imagine people less inclined to figure things out be easily turned off. And yes, I didn't use to have this problem with the other browser with just as mental number of tabs.

Day 9 of (finally) moving away from Chrome after Web Integrity API proposal is going swimmingly, as you can see.

Edits: formatting, added more details of troubleshooting

It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I'm not quite sure why it adds "?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d" to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.

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