r/firefox

Why does Firefox puts a .exe on the desktop instead of a .lnk to the executable file like every other programs?
▲ 217 r/firefox

Why does Firefox puts a .exe on the desktop instead of a .lnk to the executable file like every other programs?

Just noticed this while installing Firefox on a computer today and I remember it has been doing that since a good while now

u/MCBuilder30140 — 6 days ago
▲ 0 r/firefox+1 crossposts

Alternatives to firefox that youtube has not destroyed yet?

Im looking for a browser that still has capable ad blocking, extension support and stuff that doesn't crash constantly.

My problem with firefox is that it happens a lot now, that youtube just completely crashes the entire browser. The whole UI becomes frozen and completely unresponsive and doesn't react to anything, the only thing that works is the X button to close the browser. Forcing me to lose all my open tabs.

Firefox is done it seems.Yes I know it's probably because of my ad blocking extensions... But I will NOT TURN THEM OFF! The only reason I came to firefox is in the first place is because google ruined chrome and ublock origin and others do not work there. If you want me to use a browser without ad blocking and zero privacy, I might as well go back to using goddamn Chrome.

Is there any browser that still works with adblocking on youtube without crashing?

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u/PhilosopherNervous63 — 5 days ago
▲ 134 r/firefox

please remove this vpn reminder in Firefox (android)

there is no need to have it there and push it

u/mbytur — 6 days ago
▲ 44 r/firefox

Appreciation letter for Firefox on Android

I wanted to share my deep appreciation of what the team of Firefox has achieved with Firefox Mobile on Android. It was always an ok experience and from a UI/UX standpoint it always lagged behind chrome. But after the drastic redesign about a year a go the push to UI/UX excellence has been simply lovely. A complete transformation which has lead to it becoming in my experience the best looking and most useful mobile browser!

Thank you <3

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u/Keybraker — 6 days ago
▲ 26 r/firefox

My FF become purple on dark mode after last update, I can't get rid of it.

Hello, I'm new here so my FF become purple on dark mode after last update, I can't get rid of it. I hate the color I've tried to change theme but the ugly purple still persist.

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u/redfoottttt — 6 days ago
▲ 10 r/firefox

So many updates recently, but they still can't fix the graphics

I had noticed that Firefox was getting very slow compared to chrome browsers even just scrolling up and down a page, but then remembered I had set gfx.webrender to use software mode a couple of years ago. After resetting the gfx. config options websites started working properly again.

Until my PC resumes from sleep, and the graphics are screwed up until restarting Firefox.

This has been a bug since 2020 and it is still broken

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535721

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u/Thoh1Shooshi8a — 6 days ago
▲ 13 r/firefox

Bookmark OS: a new tab add-on that turns your bookmarks into a desktop. No account, no permissions.

I built this because I didn't want to depend on a sync account to get my bookmarks on another computer. It replaces the new tab (and homepage, so new windows open it too) with a desktop of your sites, a dock, and a searchable bookmarks window.

Privacy details, since I know people here care:

- Requests no add-on permissions. It can't read your history, tabs, or Firefox bookmarks.

- Your layout is stored locally. Export/import is a plain file.

- To be upfront: site icons are looked up through Google's favicon service, so it sees the URLs of the links on your desktop. The menu bar also calls ipwho.is for your city and flag. Everything is listed in the privacy policy. If people would rather have an option to turn those off, I'm happy to add one.

AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-os/

Source (CC0): https://github.com/chengmarc/chengmarc.github.io

u/everwith — 6 days ago

I don't see Built In VPN (Android)

Version: 157.0.1

Location: Turkey

I look all browser settings and account settings but i didn't find it.

But I saw this message in update explanation:

- VPN availability: Free VPN is now available in more than 200 regions.

u/BilimseverTCVatandas — 6 days ago
▲ 30 r/firefox

I made a simple Firefox theme that puts tabs and bookmarks next to the address bar to save vertical space

I made a Firefox theme that keeps the address bar, tabs, and bookmarks on a single row.

Tabs sit to the right of the address bar, so the toolbar uses one line of vertical space. Bookmarks stay on that row and appear only when you hover them. Corners are square, and tabs show a favicon instead of a title.

Features

  • Address bar, tabs, and bookmarks share one row on wide windows
  • Icon-only tabs, so more of them fit beside the address bar
  • Bookmarks toolbar fades in on hover
  • Square tabs and a black toolbar
  • Hide close/maximize/minimize buttons to save horizontal space
  • If the window is smaller that 1000px tabs move above a full-width address bar
  • Remove rounded dialogs from the last Firefox update

You can check the setup instructions in the official repo:
https://github.com/dortamiguel/tabs-right

My plan is to keep updating this theme whenever Firefox updates, since I use it everyday. If there is any feature that you will like to add or change, feel free to post an issue in the github repo.

Support

If you find tabs-right useful and enjoy puzzle games, I'm making Satelital, a game where you explore a small solar system and figure out the rules behind alien symbols. I've spent several years building it from scratch, including the game engine, art, music and puzzles.

If that sounds interesting, you can wishlist and play the demo on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5017320/Satelital_Demo/

u/fleaspoon — 6 days ago

My Firefox is moving weird

After a long time my Firefox just starts to „lag“ in someway. When I try moving my window it moves but it’s just behind and slower and prisons my mouse. I had this problem for a while and the classics like disable hardware escalation didn’t help, so please Reddit help.

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u/Extension-Candy7588 — 6 days ago
▲ 4 r/firefox+1 crossposts

Alienwarearena/reCAPTCHA problem

Hello, I’m having problems with Firefox and the alienwarearena.com website.

When I try to redeem something, a reCAPTCHA appears and, even though I enter the correct answer, I get specific errors:

in the giveaways, the error ‘reCAPTCHA validation failure. Please try again in a few minutes’ appears.

in the quests, ‘Security check failed’ appears.

I’ve tried using Firefox in safe mode and cleared the cache and cookies for the website in question, but the problem hasn’t been resolved.

Other sites that use reCAPTCHA work perfectly fine.

I contacted Alienwarearena and they told me to clear the cache…

The problem doesn’t occur if I use a new Firefox profile.

What could be causing this?

u/KasperskyITA — 7 days ago
▲ 172 r/firefox

Nova is so good. Colours are back!!

I missed colours so much. Everything had been soulless, sterile and corporate. I hope other things become colourful again :3

u/olivedifficult246 — 14 days ago
▲ 43 r/firefox

I Love The New Browser Designs

I don't have a problem with the tabs having rounded edges, but it would be nice if they gave us 3-4 options. I love that the active tab is highlighted with multiple colors, makes it clearer than ever which is the active tab. It is nice that they added the options to make the tab size balanced, large, or compact. For now, I have chosen compact. Finally, it is pretty cool that they gave options to use the old retro Firefox icons, and even added a "Pride" icon.

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u/IWasAGoodDadISwear — 14 days ago
▲ 26 r/firefox

YouTube running horridly while everything else runs perfectly smooth

Hi, as the title says my Firefox browser works perfectly in any site but YouTube has terrible performance, super slow buffering and playback is even worse. This weirds me out a lot because up until yesterday everything was fine.

I tried YouTube on Edge and it runs perfectly so I know it's an issue on Firefox only.

Any help or similar experiences please? Thanks!

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u/Every_Fly_1516 — 14 days ago
▲ 19 r/firefox

Is there a way to remove the "clock" icon or whatever it is? Appeared with the latest update

u/KattenJansson91 — 14 days ago
▲ 2 r/firefox+1 crossposts

Found a way to get the Nova compact mode on pre-Nova UI

(Marked as Discussion since I didn't find any better flair)

I found a way to get the compact mode from nova to the old UI.

Requirements: A version of Firefox with Nova (157+) (Librewolf is also supported!)

What to do:

  1. Enable Nova, if not done already (browser.nova.enabled in about:config set to true, For Librewolf: Settings > Appearance > Enable the Nova Redesign)
  2. Go to Settings > Appearance and set "Window Density" to "Compact"
  3. Disable Nova in about:config (Librewolf users can use the settings option mentioned above)

You now got compact mode in the old UI!

(Firefox devs, please don't 'fix' this, thank you!)

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u/Tomhero200 — 11 days ago