firefox

I was curious as to what OS I appear as on different servers and check out a website called https://whatsmyos.com/ Both Chromium and Firefox show that I am running Linux. Luakit shows that I am running FreeBSD 64bit. I wonder how many metrics are measuring web traffic and counting FreeBSD as...

Firefox 131 has finally fixed mpris to show the playhead position and duration this had been broken for several years mpris works with tools like playerctl i use playerctl with emacs and if you look in the emacs modeline you will notice the current video position and duration Eddie Howe...

Firefox 131 has vertical tabs but you have to enable them with about:config or a user.js file in your Firefox profile directory i have all the user.js settings in this repository along with css to remove the search your tabs button that appears above the url bar...

look e.g. at beastie on https://marcus.rohrmoser.name/ rendered correctly - and right-click "open in new tab". Bang. Not terrible but a bit spooky. I'll just wait for the next release.

Firefox 130 Desktop notifications now appear in a browser pop up window instead of in your notification center on your desktop i use the emacs desktop notification center for my desktop notifications so i would get desktop notifications from youtube when i got a comment on a video in an emacs...

Running Firefox in a Freebsd classic jail https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/jailfox Firefox in a Freebsd jail using Wayland

Hi there, I have set up a FreeBSD desktop (14.1) on fairly old hardware (AMD FX-8370, GeForce GTX960). Everything works alright, except one thing: I'm experiencing sporadic freezes. These freezes are permanent. Input does not work, images are still. Only hard reset helps. This happens when I...

Firefox 130 has a new feature for Picture in Picture mode Enable Picture-in-Picture on active videos when switching tabs. which you have to enable in the settings / Firefox labs https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/firefox-nightly-makes-picture-in-picture-mode-much-easier-to-use the way it...

Youtube now takes about 10 seconds to load the main page If you have the ublock origin plugin installed for Firefox to blocks ads https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ if you disable ublock origin the page loads a lot faster i always use mpv to play youtube videos by...

Firefox 128 has a new feature called Privacy-Preserving Attribution or ppa for short enabled by default without an option in the settings to turn it off however it can be disabled using about:config or a user.js file in your Firefox profile...

Hi Guys, are you experiencing the same? Anytime I try to run google maps or bing maps, Firefox crashes miserably... ?

I just got Firefox to play a DRM encrypted video Video of Firefox playing a widevine drm encrypted mpd note i didnt record the audio ( audio works ) because i would have had to start virtual oss to capture the audio and i wasnt sure if i would be get the drm video playing again...

I have installed Firefox as deb in a Ubuntu Mantic jail and enabled dbus to communicate with the host by passing in the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS from the host in a script this allows desktop notifications from the jailed browser to show up on the host and mpris to control videos playing in the...

Firefox-123.0.1,2 wont open for me at all starting firefox from the terminal didnt show any error messages or anything at all that might narrow down the issue I renamed the ~/.mozilla directory just to make sure it wasnt the profile made no difference Firefox didnt even create a new...

Does anyone else have this issue, in recent days? Examples: when I select text then use the editing toolbar to apply CMD markup, the markup no longer appears alongside the selection (instead, it's above and below) when I select text then paste plain text that does not begin with a line break...

Firefox allows you to drag a URL from the URL bar to a bookmark folder. A while ago (6 months, a year?) this stopped working reliably. This happens under all recent firefox versions, which I compile from ports. The effect I observe is that when dragging the URL, at some point the movement of...

I'm a non-technical person running FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE on an ASUS Vivobook laptop. Up until recently I was able to watch YouTube videos, etc... with sound in Firefox. Today it has become apparent that sound no longer works from Firefox, and I tested it in Chomium too and it doesn't work there...

Sound would turn on and off, and at times, only play in one Firefox window and not others. One time, sound from Firefox randomly came on. This is on FreeBSD 14.0 with firefox-120.0,2. Sometimes, restarting the PC wouldn't fix it, and killing dbus also killed the firefox process. For those...

Summary When listening to music on deezer.com in, the system allocates more and more memory. If I do not close and reopen the tab after some hours, the memory runs full and the system gets slow and the unresponsive (Before edit, I wrote "system crashed" which was imprecise). This happens in...

FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC amd64 Firefox 111.0.1_2,2 installed via pkg from the Quarterly Repo. Brand new install. Tried removing ~/.mozilla and reinstalling firefox with no luck. To be honest, I had this problem half a year ago when I tried FreeBSD - had the same...