Skip to main content
The 2024 Developer Survey results are live! See the results

Questions tagged [firefox-quantum]

For questions specific to Firefox Quantum. Use [firefox] instead for questions involving Firefox in general.

17 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
5 votes
3 answers
2k views

Custom DuckDuckGo search engine in Firefox >= 57 Quantum

I use DuckDuckGo search engine. I have customized it and saved my settings to the cloud. Now I would like to use the customized version as my default Firefox 57 search engine. Is it possible to edit ...
Frank's user avatar
  • 283
2 votes
0 answers
220 views

How many CPU cores can Firefox Quantum utilize?

I have a webapp that is very CPU intensive (multiple nested loops running over large dataset). I could run it in one Firefox tab or distribute the load across multiple tabs (if that's better). I was ...
JasonH's user avatar
  • 121
1 vote
0 answers
161 views

Is there an extension to quickly clear / flush / invalidate the Firefox DNS cache (Quantum)

There used to be several DNS flushing add-ons prior to Firefox Quantum. Are any currently available? Is this no longer something that's accessible through the addon API? Yes, I realize that I can do ...
pbarney's user avatar
  • 763
1 vote
0 answers
293 views

Change the font of Reader, Firefox 57

This look like a duplicate of How to change font of Reader View firefox? but none of the answers there work since Firefox Quantum All points to userContent.css but none worked. use @-moz-document ...
Tankman六四's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
149 views

FIrefox is not rendering correctly webpages and messes with their styling

I have the default theme on Firefox 66.0.2 for Linux Mint. I have noticed that most pages don't show up as they should or as, for example, they show in Chromium. Is this something widespread, and ...
user1031771's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
107 views

Firefox: Remove all files from cache except images

When the Firefox browser closes, I have configured it to clear everything except cache so that images load quickly on the next run. However when I checked C:\Users\jacobgu\AppData\Local\Mozilla\...
CuriousDev's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
228 views

Workaround for changing hotkeys in Firefox Quantum

Currently there is no "supported way" to change the keyboard shortcuts for FF 57+ (see this reddit.com post for further information). I was wondering if anyone found/knows a good workaround to assign ...
Albin's user avatar
  • 10.9k
1 vote
0 answers
40 views

Touch issues in Firefox Quantum

In Firefox 56.0.2 and before, it is really easy to copy texts and drag pictures (and save them) simply by moving across your finger on the screen; a simple double touch on a word on the box of google ...
Erfan's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
0 answers
169 views

Firefox menu bar is not visible when hovering in full screen mode

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and then I installed Firefox 59 on it. Now the problem I'm having is , Firefox does not show the menu bar when I hover the title of the webpage. For other applications (...
newbie's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
2 answers
162 views

Firefox Quantum unable to follow link

I'm unable to follow a specific link in Google search results. The browser simply gets stuck and does nothing. I have Firefox Quantum 57.0.2 (64 bits) running in safe mode (extensions disabled) on ...
derloopkat's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
125 views

Shortcut Key to set focus on the new tab's search textbox

In the new Firefox Quantum in the new tab there's a search box. Is there a way to set the focus there so I can do Ctrl-T, Ctrl-(what goes here?) and start typing?
ispiro's user avatar
  • 1,591
0 votes
1 answer
191 views

How to Set A secondary Debugging software in Windows 10 TaskManager Debug

I would like to know if there is a way to add a secondary debugging software, to the right click context menu of the TaskManager, Prefferably SublimeText Editor 3, or any other similar software, ...
Ryan Stone's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
38 views

how to use ctrl + 1 to switch to previous tab in firefox?

I'm using firefox 71 in mac os, i'd like to use ctrl+1 to switch to previous tab rather than command+shift+tab, how to achieve this? i tried an add-on called custom key but not working, i also tried ...
user956609's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
642 views

Firefox opens a filetype (textfiles, txt) incorrectly

My Firefox (Quantum on Windows 7) keeps opening text files (with .txt suffix) in the browser, despite having set it to always ask for text documents in Settings -> General -> Applications. The ...
Albin's user avatar
  • 10.9k
0 votes
0 answers
138 views

Firefox Quantum Shortcut on taskbar

With older version of Firefox Quantum, you could right click the icon on the window taskbar and open either regular window or private broswer depending on your needs. For some reason or another, that ...
Vyndicu's user avatar
  • 137

15 30 50 per page