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Getting Firefox 112 to show "Recent files" in the upload file selector

I updated my Ubuntu to 22.04 and the Firefox that come with it (FF 112) is no longer showing a "Recent files" entry in the upload file selection dialog (the dialog which is often elicited ...
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How do I set (firefox) gtk theme at runtime under wayland?

With firefox under wayland (Hyprland), if I set gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme={0,1} in ~/.config/gtk3.0/settings.ini and then launch firefox it correctly determines the system theme. How do I set ...
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File picker dialogs do not remember settings when Firefox is running in firejail

When Firefox is running in Firejail with the provided default config, the Gtk file picker dialogs do not remember sort order even when Firefox was not restarted between opening two dialogs. I tried ...
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Firefox doesn't display thumbnail in file chooser dialog (gtkfilechooser + libegg)

Original problem: Firefox 70.0-1 amd64 doesn't display JPEG image thumbnails in the file upload dialog (a default system dialog) for images with filesize > ~1.7 MB. For small images everything works ...
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Firefox scrollbar appearance

I have several Linux servers that I use to check changes in appearance of our web app. I capture automatically screenshots. I use CentOS 7, Firefox. All servers are theorically equal, but in one of ...
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How to force old search behavior in GTK3 file dialog

This question pertains very specifically to: THE GTK3 file dialog THAT is used by Firefox on linux WHEN Gnome is installed (but not necessarily used) AND ui.allow_platform_file_picker is set to true ...
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How to disable GtkFileChooserDialog search?

If I want to open or save a file in an gtk3 app (eg firefox) I get an unwanted search function after tiping a character. Old and productive behaviour: typing d gives me the first file beginning with ...
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Change gtk+ file open dialog

I’d like to change it for another that can resize picture on the preview, i.e. not only show a thumbnail of fixed size. I know that this may require change of the toolkit in use, so which packages do ...
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Ubuntu 10.10: 2nd instance of Firefox does not obey GTK2 customizations

On Ubuntu 10.10 I started a 2nd instance of Firefox using the command: $ firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote & Created a new profile and everything works smoothly except for the fact that this ...
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