Firefox

Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of...

Let's take advantage of the fact that we are so small! Say hi and tell us how you started using Firefox!

I’m new to Firefox and I’m just wondering what everyone thinks about the other services like Monitor, Mozilla VPN, Pocket, Relay etc....

So, with google being who they are wanting to create a more and more hostile environment using chrome is increasingly becoming more meh....

Specifically, when you open a reasonable number of tabs in any browser, the tabs look like this. However, as my friend has just imported all of his tabs and bookmarks over from Chrome to Firefox, he has an immense number of tabs open right now; in Chrome, he can see all the tabs at once with its UI. On Firefox, however, it keeps...

Thought I’d never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer....

Is Firefox ESR more stable? Uses less memory? Have you tried it?

Say I have a window of mostly music that I want to open with shortcut a, and a window of work stuff that I want to open with shortcut b. Is there anything I can do to get firefox shortcuts to remember the windows separately? I don't want to use chrome or a different browser as the second window, but that would work for...

In Brave I can see a preview of the page by hovering over the tab. Is something like this possible in firefox? Add-on or from settings?

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...

It appears to add fewer than other browsers, but I'm not quite sure why it adds "?channel=fenc&client=firefox-b-1-d" to searches when only the q/query parameter is needed for them to work.

In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, but it’s safe to expect a roll-out before the year’s end.

Using Firefox on Windows 11 and it is taking 10GB of RAM. it's slow and hangs so I cant use it....

Is there an optimized version of Firefox that removed Pocket and other unneeded features? Does it use less memory?

I’ve accidentally tapped the F and D keys together when using Alt+D to reach the address bar a few times. There is no matching shortcut or close-window command in the File menu, yet it instantly closes the window. Can someone tell me why?...

I know there are addons, but would be nice to have something native built in instead of having to trust an addon. Current method without addons that I know of is creating a container then deleting it, but that's not as convenient and pretty cumbersome....

Re-buffering happens if you replay a video after it buffers completely till the end and if you click on the timeline far enough back during buffering....

In the latest Firefox version(116.0.2 (64-bit)) the button "List all tabs" won't show any tabs unless I close like half of them, then it works again if I open new random tabs. Currently 246 open tabs....

Opera's new 'Tab Islands' feature is very cool and I've wished for such a feature in FF....

I'm a web developer working on an app running in Docker on my MacBook. Chrome, Edge and Safari trust the self-signed certificate that has been imported into the Mac's root certificate store and have no security issues, but when I try and access the web app, I'm hit with "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" and the error code...