Questions tagged [firefox]
A free and open source web browser created by Mozilla.
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How to add a Firefox context menu option/entry for "Profile Select", "Choose User Profile" on startup with KDE, XFCE or GNOME?
How can I add a separate context menu option/entry to start Firefox ESR with the "Choose User Profile" window dialog, in Debian with KDE, GNOME or XFCE?
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How to add a Firefox context menu option/entry for a private window in Debian 12/13 with KDE or XFCE?
How can I add a separate context menu option/entry to start Firefox ESR in a private window, in Debian 12/13 with KDE or XFCE?
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Missing Firefox Context Menu ...
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Missing Firefox Context Menu Options in Debian 13 with Gnome
After installing Debian 13 with GNOME, I've noticed that the Firefox ESR launcher doesn't have the option to open a window in a private mode.
How to add that option to the launcher's context (right-...
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Browser polkitd pkla-check-authorization spam
I have a U2F yubikey device that works as expected, i.e. I can use it in Firefox and Chromium for U2F style authentication, and it even works on the command line with key-located/bound gpg and ssh sk ...
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Linux/KDE: Emojis not rendered in Firefox and Thunderbird when monospace font is used
Despite my best effort thus far, Unicode emoji characters (see, e.g., here) are not rendered in Firefox and Thunderbird on my Debian/KDE machine when monospace font is used. By that I mean that they ...
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Reuse the profile of apt Firefox in Flatpak version through a symbolic link?
The answers in the question How do I install and migrate to the official Firefox flatpak? show that when running Firefox through Flatpak, it saves profiles in the ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/....
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Hiragana won't show in Firefox but it works in other Ubuntu programs
I need some help with using the Japanese keyboard setting (Mozc) on Firefox.
It works in other programs like notepad or a Terminal, but the characters never show in Firefox.
How can I solve this issue?...
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Firefox on RISCV-64 fails to detect GPU and falls back to software rendering
I have built Firefox for RISCV-64 architecture on Wayland in Ubuntu 22.
sudo apt-get update
Dependency packages:-
sudo apt-get install -y curl libnspr4 libgtk-3-dev python3-dev llvm-14 llvm-dev ...
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Firefox freezes when using “save as” (glib issue?)
When trying to save anything in Firefox, using “save as” to do so, when the dialog box starts to show up, everything turns gray for a moment and then Firefox freezes permanently.
Running firefox on ...
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Open HTML file in Firefox from terminal
I made this script to open three HTML files in Firefox from a subdirectory:
#!/bin/bash
firefox ./web/*.html 2>/dev/null & disown;
I call the bash script from the terminal. Which seems to work ...
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How do I get rid of the "accept cookies" prompt in Stack Exchange
Each time I go to Stack Exchange I get a "Accept Cookies" choice in the lower left corner. How can I set up my browser (Firefox) to automatically either accept the cookies, or automatically ...
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How to enable H264 for Firefox?
I noticed that AlmaLinux 8.10 lacks the packages mozilla-openh264 and it's prerequisite openh264, and that both are absent from official repositories too. To my knowledge, I need these both in order ...
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Photos Upload Online in Opposite Order (Firefox & Linux Mint)
I often upload groups of photos online, like product images or artworks. Recently I noticed that Firefox uploads a group of photos from a folder in the opposite order. Its happened on every website I'...
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suckless dwm: a better file dialog?
I'm using DWM on Void Linux. The file dialog window used by GUI applications (Inkscape, Firefox, Audacity to name a few) is a bit of annoyance: missing buttons (OK, I can Enter or Esc), tiny font, no ...
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Firefox and Thunderbird have a default icon
I installed Firefox and Thunderbird in /opt
Both run perfect, but the icon of both in the bottom bar and the switch icons is:
When I install the programs with Apt, the icons are correct. Does anyone ...
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