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Shouldn't browsers protect what users write from being seen by the website (like customer support chats) before hitting send? Would it be difficult to implement? (kbin.fedi.cr) en

I’m sure its common knowledge by now that whatever you write in text boxes on customer support chats can be seen by whoever is on the other side, without or before hitting send. Don’t you think that’s a breach of privacy?! I imagine it isn’t too difficult to implement a fix for it: The browser (like Firefox) could choose...

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This would break inputs all over the web. Check out yahoo.com - type into the search box. That auto-suggest feature wouldn't work based on your proposal.

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Use the arrow keys?

Firefox Translation Engine (kbin.fedi.cr)

I used to work in the field of machine translation and would like to know more about how they are doing this translation. 10 years ago, we saw the explosion of statistical and training based translations. However, these are better suited for the cloud, so does anyone know where I can find info on how Firefox does their...

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Firefox translations are local and open source.

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/translations may be a good place to start to learn. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/index.html may also be helpful.

Can browser choice screens be effective? (research.mozilla.org) en

Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from 2024. But lawmakers and regulators in many other jurisdictions have also been looking at choice screens alongside other interventions to address deep-seated competition issues in browsers and browser engines...

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So... report bugs?

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Yeah, there is no automoderator here, so things are going to be a little cumbersome to start.

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Please post your about:support details to a pastebin.

  1. Go to about:support in your address bar
  2. Click Copy text to clipboard
  3. Go to https://bin.snopyta.org
  4. Paste into the big text box
  5. Click Send
  6. Post the page you are on here.
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It does seem unnecessary. A former r/firefox moderator built this one ages ago which works for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggle-pin-tab/

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We don't recommend pre-built user.js files contributed by the community.

You can always look at my guide if you like, I suppose.

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There are issues on Fedia, unfortunately: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/91925/Can-t-access-some-magazines

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Who says you do?

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Seems to be an open enhancement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808766

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With desktop Linux trailing both Windows and macOS in popularity, there’s nothing unexpected or inherently malicious about this, and the point of the previous few paragraphs is not to complain about the state of Firefox for Linux or to suggest Mozilla transfers precious resources from the Windows and macOS versions to the Linux version. While I obviously wouldn’t complain if they did so, it wouldn’t make much sense. The real reason I’m highlighting these issues is that if Firefox for Linux is already treated as a third wheel today, with Mozilla’s current financial means and resources, what would happen if Mozilla saw a drastic reduction in its financial means and resources?

Clearly, Google would cut the macOS and Windows versions of Chrome and begin to deploy Chromebooks and Chrome for Linux exclusively.

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What update have you seen?

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It has to do with Kbin.

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I think you can work that out for yourself. Good luck!

I'm looking for an Add-on Manager. I have way too many addons. I enable many of them for development, disable them afterwards. I can't search Installed Addons. What do? (media.kbin.social) en

I am in a bit of a pickle. I'm a developer, and I also use some crypto social media, and I also like downloading media sometimes, I do a lot of stuff. I modify CSS, I script & hack the web, yadda yadda. Basically what this means is I ended up with like 50 addons I juggle-enable-disable all the time. This is extremely frustrating...

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Yeah, this is pretty much how family members have set up their "shopping" profiles with the coupon extensions, etc.

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Can you clarify what you want us to try?

I'm trying to change the private window shortcut from the default to ctrl + shift + n using autoconfig.js, but I wasn't sure how (fedia.io) en

As the title said I'm trying to customize my keyboard shortcuts with autoconfig.js, but I don't have much experience coding with javascript so I'm a little lost. The autoconfig.js solution was suggested in this thread (https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1381773#answer-1517102), but the example they used was for a different...

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Why would you want to do that? Control-Shift-N continues to make the most sense for that function. I could understand the objection to Control-Shift-P, but I also don't know what would be a better shortcut for a new private window.

Sorry, I know this doesn't help you do the hack you want to do.

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Question: Most of resources I've found online lead me to believe that all I need is to modify browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb. But it's nowhere to be found. about:config on MacOS is just returning an empty value and offers me to set it. Dare I? Would it actually work?

You can always remove the edit if it breaks things catastrophically. Why not try it and see?

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/base/AvailableMemoryWatcherMac.cpp leads me to believe that this functionality should work if you can trigger it.

I currently have a puny 380 tabs open that consume 42GB RAM on my MBP '21 Max whatever (with 64GB total, shared with the GPU).

This seems like the bigger problem.

If Firefox is using an unexpected amount of RAM, report a bug by following the steps below:

  1. Open about:memory in a new tab.
  2. Click Measure and save...
  3. Attach the memory report to a new bug
  4. Paste your about:support info (Click Copy text to clipboard) to your bug.

If you are experiencing a bug, the best way to ensure that something can be done about your bug is to report it in Bugzilla. This might seem a little bit intimidating for somebody who is new to bug reporting, but Mozillians are really nice!

If you prefer not to open a bug, you can instead reduce the number of content processes used by Firefox to a lower amount by going to about:config and changing dom.ipc.processCount.webIsolated to a lower number.

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Added a comment on the fedia magazine: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/94499/The-fedia-struggle-continues#entry-comment-979192

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@rantolo what news?

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Is there a missing screenshot here?

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You can watch https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11969 for updates to this request.

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Update to the bug I filed that was introduced in Firefox 116 - apparently, it isn't a bug:

I don't think this is a bug, its a side effect of the behavior for the ctrl|cmd + shift + T shortcut changing in 116 to reopen the last closed tab or window, in the order closed.

Technically, you closed a window when you dragged the tab out to a window, and then back to the original window. The exact same behavior happens if you use repeat those steps and use the ctrl|cmd + shift + N shortcut to reopen the last closed window.

There's an open needinfo for the author of the regressor, so I don't have much of a comment, but... it is very clearly a bug and very clearly a regression - Chrome doesn't do this (and actually has the newly claimed Firefox behavior) -- and neither did Firefox before it regressed.

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Shocking that an interface explicitly not designed to be stable changes release to release. 🤔

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No, I was responding to a comment about userChrome hacks, which are not supported.

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Well, there are bugs, for one.

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