Questions tagged [firefox]
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Firefox not obeying system wide preferences
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I have the /etc/firefox/syspref.js file below but my Firefox is not using the custom proxy settings and just defaulting to "Use system proxy configuration".
pref(&...
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How to open a link on a new tab in firefox
In Firefox when I click on a link I want to open the link in a new tab.
Followed the steps mentioned in the official doc but that doesn't work:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1260343
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Without System Restore, after clicking 'Deleted Files', how can I recover a deleted profile?
I followed this moderator's post on Support Mozilla.
My hard drive lacks space for System Restore, which I forgot to turn on. After I mistakably clicked 'Delete files' 2 hours ago, Recuva recovered ...
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How to get a list of all URLs in history starting by some prefix in Firefox?
When I type the start of an URL in Firefox, I get an auto-completion of maybe 10 choices.
But on some websites like professional web apps, you may have 30 or 50 links of interest to you and if it ...
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Add header for requests to particular domains for browser in Windows kiosk mode to supply auth token
Is there any built-in way to provide headers to add to requests for a particular domain in Edge? Or Chrome - or any browser that can be used with Windows Kiosk mode?
I need to authenticate the machine ...
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Clear Firefox cache and cookies automatically [closed]
To clear the Firefox's cache one must do: Menu - Settings - Privacy & Security - Cookies and Site Data - Clear Data - Cookies and Site Data/Cached Web Content - Clear now. But one must do this ...
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PDFs generated in Chrome do not display well in Firefox
When I generate a PDF from a chromium-based browser and I dispay it in Firefox, all the shadows break.
Nevetheless either if I watch that PDF in chrome itself, or either if the PDF is generated in ...
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Firefox won't launch with imported profile
I've had this problem before, not sure what fixed it last time, but I'm having it again. I have a root profile folder from my Firefox Nightly backed up. So on a new machine I install Nightly, create ...
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is there a list of all possible capability.policy for security in firefox
in the about:config or user.js you can set some rules to change firefox advanced settings
I'm interested capability.policy I'm trying to see if there is one specific rule i can change to all some ...
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How to make Firefox use HTTPS by default but not block plain HTTP traffic if there is no other choice?
Is there a way to get Firefox to automatically visit the HTTPS site instead of the HTTP site, whenever possible? For instance, if I type web.archive.org into the address bar, with no search history, ...
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Why won't Google Chrome really or Firefox capture the network developer request of a form autopost
So imagine this code running on localhost:9080, the page does not render content but instead does a HTML auto post. But I like to use the network tab to see the HTML content rendered under the ...
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Websites with file-upload scripts (and other capabilities) in Firefox - can they get Thunderbird email identities? (Fedora linux)
I'd like to set up an instance of Thunderbird on a Fedora VM (with a VPN). I want it to use ONLY an alias I have set up with the email providers. I think I can do that with TB settings.
But I will ...
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Firefox's stopped playing only whatsapp voice msgs. All other audio-video msgs play ok
When I play any voice msg in Firefox's whatsapp-web tab, it doesn't give any sound, even when the sound of all videos in the same Whatsapp tab plays ok. The same voice msg plays ok in mobile or chrome'...
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How Hide tool bar & bookmarks bar in pop-up windows, Firefox 124 mac OS
I Use Mac OS Firefox as my primary client for Gmail, and I always compose emails in a pop-out window. Ever since Firefox 124, these pop-out windows include the tool bar and bookmarks bar, eating up a ...
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Legacy Portable Firefox to run legacy portable Java only and ignore local install of Java
I have multiple systems that require legacy browsers and Java. I need Portable Firefox to run the Portable Java JRE version and not the Java JRE installed on the OS.
One of these legacy systems is the ...
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