r/firefoxextensions

Hello there, Firefox commuity!

I desperately need your help guys.

I use macOS Monterey 12.7.6 (21H1320) and Firefox 153.0.4 (64-bit) version.

I’m very satisfied with this browser, but there’s one problem I’m struggling with: I can’t get a truly full-screen mode like I had in Google Chrome or Orion.

I mean a mode where you see nothing but the webpage — no URL bar, no tabs, no clock, nothing. Just the webpage taking up the entire screen.

I’ve gotten so used to this feature in old browser that I honestly can’t live without it anymore. 😅

Is there any way to achieve this in Firefox?

I tried Control + Command + F, but it didn’t work for me. I also tried several extensions, but none of them worked correctly.

Some of them kind of worked, but the top bar kept jumping around or getting stuck. It just wasn’t smooth like in Chrome but rather annoying.

I would really appreciate any advice on how to get a truly full-screen in Firefox.
The only one thing if you recomend extension, please recomend the one you actually used yourself.

Because there a lot of them but not many actually work correctly.

Thank you!

I build Konode, a browser sync extension with an unusual premise: there is no Konode account and no Konode server. It syncs your bookmarks, open tabs, history and installed-extension list straight to storage you already own, your Google Drive, a GitHub repo, or any WebDAV server. Optional end-to-end encryption on top, so your storage provider cannot read it either.

Works on Firefox, Waterfox and other Firefox and Chromium based browsers.

🎉 1.2.0 is out, and most of it are fixes 🎉

History between devices actually works here now. It barely did before. Konode sent each page along with its original visit date, and Chromium rejects the whole request when that date is present rather than just ignoring the date. So nearly every page from another device was turned away, and the reason was being discarded before anyone could see it. If you tried history sync and got a lot of nothing, that was this, and it is gone.

Bookmarks are no longer silently dropped. When the receiving device had fewer bookmarks in a folder than the device sending them, the browser rejected the position Konode asked for and the bookmark disappeared without a word, on every sync, indefinitely. Konode now asks for a position the browser will accept.

Renaming a bookmark or a folder reaches your other devices. It used to reach none of them. The rename carried no timestamp, so no device could tell whose title was newer and the safe thing was to change nothing. Renames now carry one and the newest wins. Folders are renamed in place, instead of a second folder appearing under the new name.

Deleted bookmarks stay deleted. Deleting several at once fired several events that overwrote each other's record of the deletion, so only one was remembered and the rest came back from your other devices on the next sync. Each deletion is recorded separately now.

Switching storage provider uploads your data again. Konode skips an upload when nothing has changed, but it used to compare only the data, not where that data was going. After switching provider the new location sat empty while the popup reported a clean sync. It checks the destination too.

Also in this release:

• a device list, so you can see every machine writing to your
• sync folder by name, and remove one you have retired.
• settings has been rebuilt, follows your browser's font-size setting, and fits a narrow window.
• the activity log keeps warnings instead of turning over every 17 minutes and losing them

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/konode/

Source: https://github.com/konabe-studio/konode

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/konabe-studio/konode/issues

The next update adds translations

The next release makes the interface translatable, and it ships with English, Hungarian and German. If you want your language in it, this is the part where help actually makes a difference. No coding and no GitHub account needed, it is edited in the browser:

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/konode/

Someone already started Estonian (thank you!). If your language is not listed yet, you can ask for it there and it will appear. Anything left untranslated falls back to English, so translating only part of it is still useful.

Happy to answer anything. The history bug above was found by hand-testing on a second machine, not by my test suite, so reports genuinely land.

Hello everyone!

I'm currently working on my master's thesis (in Human Computer Interaction) and I'm looking for participants to test out a Firefox-Extension based tool that aims to promote mindful social media use.

So, if you (or anyone you know) are:

📱 an Android user

AND

🌀 has an unhealthy Instagram scrolling habit

Please fill out this short form to join the research study.

👉 https://forms.gle/LNhzMTjpNBRjyeaL7

Feel free to also share it with your peers/friends/ family groups.

I'd be super grateful for all the feedback ❤️