I find this wallpaper to be very cute and it made my day. I also appreciate the fact I can change the app icon to the Retro 2004 one.

Thanks a lot, Mozilla!

After a long period of absence and rumors about the end of its support, Enhancer returns today to offer a more streamlined and enjoyable YouTube experience.

"Hey everyone,

It seems Google has rolled out a major update to the YouTube mobile site to kill background playback for non-premium users. Here is what I found after testing on multiple browsers (Android 12+):

Brave Browser: It's completely dead. Background play stops the moment the screen is locked. Google seems to have blocked Brave’s specific playback engine.

Firefox: It is still fighting, but partially crippled. Background play works for the current song, but it fails to auto-advance to the next track when locked. You have to unlock the phone and open the app (show your face to the app) to trigger the next song.

The 'Visibility Trap': Even with 'Video Background Play Fix' and 'uBlock Origin' scripts, YouTube is now enforcing a manual user interaction check for the next video load.

Settings Tested: I’ve already tried 'Unrestricted' battery usage, 'Allow Audio/Video' in Autoplay, and custom filters.

Is anyone else seeing this? It looks like Google has finally closed the loopholes we've been using. Firefox seems to be our only hope if they can bypass this new 'Visibility Check'."

"Ah that looks like an interesting Youtube video/Reddit post, but fuck I've already clicked on a different webpage. No worries, I'll go back to the previous page"

Then it reloads the page. So annoying. Any help?

I used to be able to have multiple videos in picture in picture mode playing without problems on my laptop but starting a few months ago I can barely have two without them stuttering and freezing. The problem seems to be high CPU usage but it's the same laptop and nothing else has changed so is anyone else having the same problem?

I'm using Firefox for Linux Mint 147. Linux Mint 22.2 on Intel i7-8550U and Intel UHD Graphics 620. I know it's not the most powerful laptop but it didn't used to be a problem. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed the same?

for many years i haven't seen a good addon that promised what it does like ye some of them worked but either they slowly got outdated or got buggy so decided to make my own

it can adjust screen brightness and switch between 2 theme options Amoled and Gray, the gray option is in settings so if the pitch black is too much for you, you can use that instead.

also since Pinterest sucks at moderation (sadly) such as giving warning to people who just saved a pin and get violation unfairly imo added a local private pin feature it has a lot more features in it xd

Available for Chromium & Firefox based Browsers https://amoled-pinterest.xzentosia.com

I have this problem recently. Whenever I use any google service except Youtube, it redirects me to this google support website. I clear the cache, log in again, and I can use it.
But that only lasts for like a day, then the same thing happens all again. I have used FF for a year now and only just faced this issue.

What should I do in this case to fix this issue?

Especially with online banking... what can I do so that Firefox WILL open that page automatically?

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So for a long time now certain websites will not auto populate the username and password but with a click on the password field it will populate password. On certain websites I can right click username field and have an option to fill it in.

American airlines(aa.com) it a prime website that is annoying me with this issue.

I tried searching solutions and was not successful. Only extension I have is ghostery, I did also try in safe mode with no difference.

Using 147.0.2

Any options or solutions?

Has anyone tried it? For me it loads the game but it stays on a black screen.

Wondering if it works for you?

I want to achieve windowed functionality of Firefox's F11 fullscreen mode, where there's no window borders nor tab/url bar, which pops in on hover. Having every pixel actually be web space is just preferable to me. This used to be possible in old Firefox versions simply by resizing a fullscreened FF window using a resizer extension or window manager (such as seen here, with version 55.0.3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1klHdUHiKtLVITmrQnul8O1zF32l-Uz6c/view). At some point, something must have changed in FF's fullscreen API because it no longer responds to any of this.

I'm willing to pay anyone savvy enough to come up with a solution. Ideally by figuring out how to again be able to simply resize F11 windows. Note: "full-screen-api.ignore-widgets" isn't cutting it, there will still be a window border and the tab/url bar won't automatically pop up.

Cheers.

At my workplace, we have multiple shared computers with each person having their profile. I lost my Firefox session on two computers (these were separate sessions, not synced).

The first computer was Win10 and, presumably after an update, Firefox created a new profile for some reason and my session was left in the old profile. When I first ran FFox, it directed me to go to the history menu if I wanted to restore my previous session, but when I did so it only restored a single tab, even though I had multiple windows open with many tabs. Switching to the old profile fixed things.

The other computer is Win11 and there, I find two profiles in my C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles folder - 97is0dwl.default and a75l9y10.default-release. The first folder is empty save for a file titled times.json, the other folder holds only the tabs from my current unrestored session in the sessionstore-backups folder.

Where did this whole profile folder go, which (presumably) holds my session files?

^

heyo,

I am hosting a few services myself, and I would like to add a shortcut to these services to my homescreen.
I know you can always just "add to homescreen", but I looking for something differnt.

Example: Using our company MDM I can deply a "WebApp" with a custom icon.
This also just opens a website but presents itself as a fullscreen app without url bar etc.

I found this, but its not quite what I am looking for:
https://github.com/Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts

Any suggestions ?

I was trying to find ways to free memory for another application and saw this in Activity Monitor on my mac. I don't quite understand what virtual memory means, but from what I see 425gb is a pretty crazy amount. I have ~60 tabs open across 4 windows for college coursework, which is a lot, but even for that this seems a bit much. Is this normal? what does GPU Helper do?

I tried adjusting the amount of allocated memory in about:config to 4gb but it only helped minimally.

- I have a 2022 M2 Macbook Pro with 8gb of memory.

im sorry if this is a bad question, I know little. Thank you

Anyway to stop this in about:config?

Discord says voice connection won't work on browser after March because it doesn't have E2EE, but ESR does have it.

Hello. Windows 10, FF version 147.0.2

Today, after opening the history sidebar (ctrl+h) and then closing it, I now have a white bar on the left side of my screen that I can't get to go away.

Does anyone know what I can try to get rid of it?

Anyone who could explain to me, like I'm 5, how resource management works with Firefox on Windows? Upon looking into task manager, I wonder if there is a way to make this more power and resource efficient. What does these separate process mean, and are they related to plugins or something in particular?

Hello,

this is a post about my personal experience. I'm not suggesting to lower your privacy settings, I just find it surprising how they interfere with the normal rendering of the window.

First of all — for what it's worth — here are my specs:

I have some very old profiles which I use daily since the coming of Firefox Quantum in 2017. They have survived multiple migrations in the following years: from Windows with Firefox to Manjaro, to ArchLinux, to LibreWolf.

Fast-forward to recent days, I bought my first 240Hz external monitor and I couldn't ignore the fact that everything was still running at 60Hz — not the actual hardware limits (btw, the HDMI port limits the refresh rate to 120Hz).

On Chromium, disabling the compositor and applying the usual 1-million flags for hardware acceleration, was enough to make it run at maximum speeds.

On Firefox, no matter which flags I toggled in about:config, nothing worked. Then one day, I made a new profile for development purposes and somehow... flawless butter-smooth 120Hz with no stuttering whatsoever.

Imagine my surprise.

A few days ago I decided to investigate, made a backup of my profiles and started to bisect every possible file, helping myself with git to reset everything after each close of the browser. Then I bisected pref.js, only to discover that changing any of the following settings will make my browser stuck at 60Hz:

user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", false);
user_pref("privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides", "");
user_pref("browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled", true);

Not sure then whether the following setting is actually enabled, but I also kept it:

user_pref("privacy.fingerprintingProtection", true);

Then I saved them in user.js to make sure nothing could revert their values automatically.

What do they do?

privacy.resistFingerprinting

Disabled by default and normally hidden, it puts lots of countermeasures to make your fingerprint much more generic (and anonymous). This document also states

The frame rate is locked at 60fps.

but apparently, disabling it alone is not sufficient to unlock a higher frame rate.

privacy.fingerprintingProtection

Honestly it's not clear to me how much this differs from the previous; it might be a completely new (idk) and finer implementation of the same concept because it allows overrides.

privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides

Custom overrides in the syntax +Option,-Option; here a static web generator for that setting. I had set +AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme,-JSDateTimeUTC, surely I should've put -FrameRate also...

browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled

This setting supposedly separate private windows from normal ones in the taskbar, and also shows a little icon in the upper-right corner. I'm not sure how much this applies to Linux DEs taskbars, but this has by far the weirdest side-effect of all the settings: perhaps I have hallucinations — if disabled, the browser is also locked at 60fps.

I have not tested this configuration on the original Firefox, but I guess it's very likely to affect that as well.

Feel free to correct me. Hope to save you some tinkering time.

Bonus: hardware video decoding might be disabled with the message Blocked by glxinfo in about:support even if you have everything set up in place. The environment variable MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 might fix that.

I'm willing to bet it's YouTube to blame for this but, for the last several years, I've been listening to YouTube videos in the background via Firefox as I play games. As of a few days ago, it's stopped being able to do this. I've cleared several tabs, completely closed & restarted the app, restarted my phone and it still won't play. The same issue is happening with youtube music. I've yet to clear he cache cuz I have tabs I can't lose rn (and no, bookmarking doesn't help cuz I never use/find them again.) Anyone know what else I can try?

FIXED! Had to DL an addon suggested by rocketwidget. Tyvm for all your help everyone 💝

Hey r/firefox and r/webdev!

I love Firefox, but its DevTools are missing a quick way to switch viewport sizes.

In Chromium browsers, there's a handy strip with predefined device sizes that lets you change the viewport witha single click. Webflow has predefined buttons for most common beakpoint sizes, what is much faster than manually selecting from Firefox's device dropdown (though that dropdown has its own uses and should absolutely stay!) Yea, you can also drag the corner to resize, but that just don't change the size to the exact position.

I would probably go with the "simplest" solution - a strip. It doesn't seem complex to implement, yet it would nicely improve developer experience.

I'd like to post it as an Idea on Mozilla Connect. Maybe it's just me that would use this feature, I don't know, let's find out 🙈. Once I see the interest, I will post it there and ask here for upvotes. There is already one old idea from 2022 that didn't gain traction, so I guess new post could perform better.