Thread 105689629

Release notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/

To update, go to Menu > Help > About Firefox, or go to:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
and download the latest version for your OS.

# Highlights:

-Vertical Tabs: You can now keep more — or fewer — pinned tabs in view for quicker access to important windows. Just drag the divider to resize your pinned tabs section.
-Custom Search Engines: Firefox now supports adding even more search engines. To add a custom engine, right-click a search field of a supported website and select “Add Search Engine”, or go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.
-Firefox Extensions: Customize your toolbar with the option to remove the extensions shortcut, giving you more control over your browser. When the button is hidden, you can access the extensions panel again at any time from the Firefox menu by clicking the Extensions menu item.
-You can now unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab (or multiple selected tabs) and selecting "Unload Tab". This can speed up performance by reducing Firefox's memory and CPU usage.
-Full-Page Translations now prioritizes translating only the content near your current view, improving speed and responsiveness. Content outside your view is skipped unless you scroll to it, reducing unnecessary resource usage.
-Firefox builds in Arabic now come with a built-in Arabic dictionary for the Firefox spellchecker.
-Address autofill enabled for users in Italy, Poland, and Austria.

>>105689629 (OP)
Eh?

>>105689629 (OP)
I can't wait for Mozilla & Firefox to die.

I really want to stop using trannyfox but I’ve been stuck with it for countless years now. Too lazy to export all my data to another browser. Help me pick a new browser that isn’t ran by trans and jews(if there is one).

They also added picrel to about:addons, which is not in the release notes. Clicking the "..." allow you to remove the feature.

>>105689652
It's being rolled out, you'll have to wait a few minutes or download the installer again and install on top of what you have (it will NOT delete your current profile

unload tabs is not a new feature it's on older version

>>105689652
Not OP, but maybe Mozilla decided that you in particular aren't allowed to update.

>>105689688
Isn't Floorp a Firefox fork? Wouldn't the death of Firefox affect it or is it completely independent by now?

You can now have actions in the URL bar by typing > and a space.

This can be disabled under:
about:preferences#search

it's called Actions.

>>105689713
No it's not. Maybe it's on some Nightly, Beta, ESR whatever version, but the regular one didn't have it. Unless you mean some really old pre-Quantum version, but I don't remember that stuff.

>>105689629 (OP)
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negroids
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You can now add Custom search engines

>>105689727
it does have it on regular I haven't updated yet

>>105689692
Maybe you should get treatment for your brainrot instead.

>>105689713
same with the custom search engine shit.
they had the feature at one point, then crippled it.
then i needed an extension to do it.
now they just ruined his extension
not cool

>>105689758
I don't see it in the context menu when I right-click a tab, so I would have to say no. Maybe it needs to be enabled first, I'll look through the settings.

>>105689629 (OP)
No, thanks. I'm sticking with Vivaldi.

>>105689744
this shit is not new

>>105689629 (OP)
Didn't all the spergs go anti-Firefox not too long ago? What was that about?

>>105689769
What extension? I just used Keyword searches when there was no other option and they worked well enough after a bit of tinkering, no extensions or about:config changes needed.

the extensions button can be removed by right-clicking

>>105689779
it is new. check your current settings, it's not there. Unless it's a very old setting that's been removed along the way and now it's been readded

>>105689700
I see.

>>105689774
i forgot i use tst maybe thats it

>>105689785
Trannys at Mozilla decided they want to sell user data now.

I wonder how quick Mozilla is going to abandon the Intel Mac builds of Firefox after next year.

>>105689785
Aside from some retard spamming threads daily, there was the issue of Firefox changing its terms and conditions. Probably a nothingburger, they largely walked it back. Not saying it's a good thing and it was mostly done to facilitate their AI & LLM Chatbot bloat, but it's not the dealbreaker it was made out to be.

>>105689796
It's not new. You could always add your own search engine here.

God damnit. They're going to break my comfy sideberry+custom userscript+custom CSS again aren't they? They've been doing it every couple of months lately. It's like they're hell bent on forcing me to use their shitty side tabs when I've had comfy custom userscript+CSS to do it for years already. I'm never uninstalling sideberry you massive faggots.

I hope at least they don't break my WM again and force me to fake a DE installation just to get it to properly take up the whole screen again. Still haven't figured out how to remove the retarded 1px space at the top of it that it insists on rendering in GTK if you disable horizontal tabs.

>>105689816
Sideberry is still compatible

You WILL upload to the newest version ASAP

>>105689829
Of course it's "compatible". I'll just have to
>re-write all my custom CSS again
>play stupid "click button" to disable then "click button" to turn on side tabs then "click button" to make their bullshit go away dance. Also if you remove button from GUI everything will magically reset and break everything again.

Fuck their GUI changes. Give me back XUL and fuck off.

>>105689788
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/
this

>tfw css broke
uhh guys? what do

The Screenshots feature is now a browser component. To disable it (which also removes the context menu entry), set the following setting to false:
screenshots.browser.component.enabled

Note that the extensions.screenshots.disabled entry from about:config no longer works.


>>105689861
just turn off sidebar.revamp in the about:config page to keep using the old sidebar

>tfw haven't updated my arch in ages
>too afraid to because I'm sure it will break

>>105689807
>>105689804
I heard that apparantly the issue was they "own anything you upload to the internet via Firefox".
For example, music you make, pictures you upload etc...Is that true?

>>105689774
Never mind, I'm retarded and didn't check properly. Firefox refused to complete the update the first time, it needed a couple restarts to get going. Probably due to my excessive tinkering. Yes, the unload feature and everything else is present. You have to make sure that the tab you're right-clicking is loaded otherwise the option won't show up (like when restoring a previous session, the tabs stay unloaded until you actually click them).

>>105689888
>just turn off sidebar.revamp in the about:config page to keep using the old sidebar
>he thinks this actually works
LMAO. I guess you know more than me. It isn't like I've had to fix it 5 times in as many months or anything.

>>105689892
Give it a rest. I don't know how much obsessional hatred people, mainly of the autism persuasion, can harbor against something.

>>105689717
I use floorp to shitpost on /g/, and for nothing else. When Mozilla dies, floorp dies, and then /g/ is dead to me. ;3

>>105689910
Not a lot have changed from the sidebar other than you can now resize the pinned tabs section.
You can always reinstall the older version if something breaks, or test your settings in a new profile, etc. But again, it's not a major update so I doubt something broke. Good luck

>>105689911
???
I use firefox my nigga. Why are you so upset?

>>105689798
Yeah, that's likely it. Firefox didn't have it by default before the most recent update. At least not enabled anyway, maybe there was some about:config setting hidden somewhere that Tree Style Tabs enabled, if it didn't add it on its own.

>>105689911
ywnbaw

>>105689941
Because there's a severely ill, very unwell, autistic retard constantly baiting and spamming about it. And it sounds like the kind of thing he/you'd ask. Just saying.

>>105689955
I wouldn't know.
So is his accusation true or not? I read this elsewhere, not on /g/.

>>105689955
And there he is, right on queue:
>>105689948
And you'll never be a respectable rational human being that anyone will ever love, at least I don't want to be a woman.

>>105689961
>So is his accusation true or not? I read this elsewhere, not on /g/.
No. It is not. Entirely untrue, exaggerated and made up. Happy?

>>105689834
Call me an updooter if you must, but I kind of like the new additions. They were long overdue.

>>105689976
I'd like some proof one way or the other, thanks.

>>105690002
You're a few months too late to that conversation, check the archive.

Firefox now show only the search term on the address bar when you search from there.
To disable this feature (and show the full address instead), disable "Show search terms in the address bar on results pages" from the Search Settings.

>>105690011
So you don't have any proof of your claim?
Why not? If it's an old toic of discussion, it should be easy to post proof.

I'll just assume you didn't have any evidence to support your claims for now.

>>105690027
Youre arguing with a man that believes he’s a woman. You lost from the beginning brother.

>>105690027
>>105690066
Stop it friends, your lives are unhealthy. Surely you're not happy being this toxic.

>not using brave
really?

>>105690074
>>105690066
>>105690027
>>105690026
reminder to use the superior choice. lion eats fox alive saar. be brave!

Thanks, but I'll stick with Zen.

>>105690093
It's been shilled so much that I unironically switched to Vivaldi for my Chromium backup.

>>105690066
I'm not arguing with anyone. He doesn't have an argument yet. Which means he's wrong by default.

>>105690109
garbage choice. anything with no adblocker and antifingerprinting by default is for cucks.

>>105690118
True it isn't perfect, I'm waiting for Orion to come to Linux (ZERO network connections on startup by default, built-in adblocker, and anti fingerprint on by default as well)

>All snaps up to date.
>:-(

>>105689796
>the extensions button can be removed by right-clicking
i already removed it but i honestly don't remember how.
i want to say it was a userchrome hack but i don't see anything in there.
good riddance tho, why it was forced on i'll never know

>>105690176
Automatic refresh schedule
Snapd checks for updates roughly 4 times per day, so there’s typically up to a 6-hour delay before Snaps pick up the new version and begin downloading it

>>105689888
huh, i forgot about the screenshot feature.
pretty nice to screenshot the whole page instead of just the visible viewport, if needed

>>105690176
can't believe I have to share this board with people who use snap

>>105690026
>Firefox now show only the search term on the address bar when you search from there
no?

>>105690214
you can double right-click on video windows to take a snapshot of the video frame

>100s of wintrannies browsing /g/
SAD

>>105690225
montre-nous tes muscles

>>105690232
Strange. Do you have "Show search terms in the address bar on results pages" enabled?

>>105690238
oh, you mean on youtube and such.
only needs 1 right click on, say, 4chan webms
but that's nice to know.

>>105690261
i do, but apparently it's because i added a custom search engine to query google without all the tracking shit. kinda forgot i did that, my bad.

>>105690282
you can do the same on chrome/brave. much nicer there as it generates a new filename and saves in png.

>>105690238
>you can double right-click on video windows to take a snapshot of the video frame
Isn't that just the same as pressing shift + right-click? It feels more convenient to me than double right-clicking since it works for other things as well (like pages blocking the right-click menu).

>>105690302
yes if you have a keyboard nearby

>>105689692
there are no good browsers. Brave is good and all but its dependent on Google and Chrome. This alone, even if the team behind Brave works 24/7 to fix Google's shit, makes the browser shit.

>>105690296
oh yeah, i remember chrome being able to do it by running some command through the browser console, of all places

>>105690333
Waiting on ladybird.

>>105690338
Firefox has this as well since version 59 (r. 2018).
You can type something like :screenshot :screenshot --fullpage --delay 3 filename.png
note the ":" at the start of the command

>>105690338
Firefox has this as well since version 59 (r. 2018).
You can type something like
:screenshot --fullpage --delay 3 filename.png
note the ":" at the start of the command

>>105690296
>>105690338
Maybe this isn't the most convenient workaround, but I use the Search by Image extension's "Open Image" option if I want png snapshots of videos. Shift + Right-Click (or double Right-Click) on video > Search by Image > Open Image. I mostly used it for reverse image searching, but since that's awful across the board these days, I kept it for its other screenshotting functions that are a bit better than the defaults.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/

>>105690362
Here, have a better fictional browser. Come home schizo man.

>>105690412
Cool, cool, cool. Yeah.
extensions are meant to be used. If you're making use of it, there's no harm in keeping it.

>>105690395
Thanks!

This reminds me, I've been meaning to look up other cool console commands for Firefox. A while back, another anon posted a script that pressed "Not interested" on every video on the YouTube front page, which was kind of fun (but buggy).

>>105690471
I have the front page content hidden with uBlock origin, also other stuff (picrel).
But yeah running scripts from the console is useful, you can do a lot of stuff with it.

>>105689769
>his

>>105689629 (OP)
Buy an ad, troon.

>>105690527
It's not meant to be an ad. It's meant to be a discussion thread.

>>105689744
But how do I add an icon?

>>105690026
fuck that's retarded

Anyone noticing that Firefox's version number is now 3 ahead of Chrome. You'd think all the browser devs would sync their number so web dev companies just say that you need a "version x" browser to access the site. The fact that the version of Firefox for Windows 7 baby ducks is now 25 versions out of date is also causing compatibility headaches as well, even Twitch had to downgrade their site because of ducktards. Windows 10 will be even worse, as LTSC ducks will cause 7 years of whining.

>>105690527
>sage in name field
Sure is Summer in here!

>>105690561
I've noticed that too, for now they all use the default search icon.
We'll have to wait for an update, so the icons can appear.

>>105689779
They removed that years ago, because of the google search engine sheckels.
You also can't remove the default search engines, just "hide" them.

>>105689629 (OP)
this is also the new ESR version release

>>105690613
Aka the baby duck version.

>>105690395
the "take a screenshot" button does this pretty much. i'm on about being able to take frames from videos without all the other shit around it and at its native resolution.

>>105690564
>>105690527
Instead of making your threads look like the product of Bangladeshi spam farms, you could have actual conversations about your favorite commands, flags, extensions, tips & tricks etc. which is what draws anons to these Firefox threads to begin with (apart from the trolls of course).

I have 4 tabs open. Youtube and three 4chan tabs this shit uses 1,5GB of RAM.

>>105690628
Try what I mentioned in >>105690412, it takes the screenshot without the video controls and other gui elements.
I'm not sure how well it preserves the resolution/quality, but the file extension is png.

>>105689744
That's not new. You've been able to do that for like five years, at least.

>>105690635
about:memory

click on minimize memory usage

>>105690643
i'll give it a go but it might be bye-bye to brave if it works the way i want it to

>>105690629
Brave users don't need to tinkertranny the browser literally just works.

>>105690577
yeah I don't like it either. You can disable it from the settings ui or from about:config with:
browser.urlbar.showSearchTerms.enabled

>>105690584
I noticed it. Firefox updates every 4 weeks, while Chrome is every 6 weeks. Chrome needs to change their schedule.

>>105690635
The RAM usage is managed automatically and is useful for performance. If other applications need it, Firefox will free the memory. You don't have to worry about it.
if you wanna make sure, check on about:config for:
browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory

>>105690645
I think they made it more convenient, it was done in a convoluted way before. I'll need to see how it interacts with stuff that only worked using Keyword searches in the past.

>>105690679
While I’m not an estrogenfox user personally, fuck brave and fuck all chromium browsers. Thank you saar.

>>105690679
It's not a need, Firefox works just fine using the defaults. It's about making it even better.

>>105689629 (OP)
Shilling the trannyfox eh?

>>105689629 (OP)
Looks like the <3% market share got you, heh?
Mozilla trannies are so desperate now that they're shilling this trash here. Kek.

>>105690679
i get pains dragging tabs about in brave whereas i can just right click and send to start/end in firefox.

>>105690711
>>105690717
Fuck off Rajesh.

>>105690717
The top 3% yeah.
I've been posting the release notes in here ever since 2016. Welcome to 4chan.

>>105690721
Are you using an intel atom or something?

Did they fix font rendering

>>105690189
You can manually update a snap with a command such as `sudo snap refresh firefox`

The problem is that the snap store does not currently have Firefox 140 in the stable channel, so I guess Mozilla just hasn't updated it yet

>>105690176
>>105690225
I use the Firefox snap on my Raspberry Pi because it seems to be the quickest way to get browser updates

Mozilla has an official deb for Debian-based distros BUT it's only available for x64, not for Arm64, so it doesn't work on the Pi

>>105690684
kek be brave
>>105690746
it's mozilla retard they spent it all on lgbtq

>>105690746
What problem are you having? and what OS do you use?

On Windows, just turning on ClearType or picrel setting should be enough.

>>105690754
>it's already on flathub

though there have been times where it landed on the next day. could be build issues, who knows.

>>105690773
picrel

>>105689629 (OP)
>best browser just became even better
Based.

where are vertical tabs?

>>105691303
Go to about:preferences (Settings) > General > scroll down to Browser Layout and enable Vertical Tabs.

>>105691303
i think you need to enable them in settings under browser layout.

>check bugzilla
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847453
>stalled
Yep this is never getting fixed.

>>105689629 (OP)
Cool.

>>105691407
We meed a specialist in GPUs to solve that. I'm hoping someone from NVIDIA, AMD or someone with a Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering w/ focus on graphics programming, parallel computing, systems software, or compilers.

Some stuff require a lot of magical skills to solve.

>>105690113
its worse telemetry wise.

be brave

>>105689629 (OP)
thanks firefoxister
it’s pride month after all
https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/proud-at-mozilla/
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/pride-browser-themes-for-firefox/

>>105690746
No

>>105689889
longer you wait the worst it'll be

>>105691710
why did you post a photo of yourself?

>>105691710
whitest brave shill

The latest update changed my bookmark sidebar colors and now I can't see shit. I've tried messing with the contrast and built-in dark theme settings and nothing worked. I'll try changing custom themes, maybe mine is outdated.

>>105691800
Yep, it was a custom theme issue. Guess we're going purple this time!

>>105689889
yeah i always uninstall the distro version for this reason. 140 esr is also out if you don't like updating your browser often

>>105689805
There will certainly be third party recompiles like TenFourFox is for PowerPC.

no videos play on firefox at all for me now what a useless piece of shit hahahaha

>>105689629 (OP)
>>105689652
Ehhhh???

>>105691908
Works for me. Make sure it's not an extension issue, I remember screeching angrily at Firefox after an update, only to discover that it was an outdated extension that was causing it.

>>105691913
the last best ff version

>>105691942
this is why i delete my profile folder and start again with each update. sometimes i do in between updates just for fun.

>>105691322
>>105691326
I mean how do they look
why is no one posting about the biggest thing in the update?

>>105691942
I have no extensions. NO videos play on this piece of raisin browser for me. it used to stop until I restarted it but now it's broken no matter what.

>>105691564
>Bear Gay Pride theme
lulwut

>>105691973
Does it do that for every website (not just YouTube for example)? Maybe it's a codec issue or something.

>>105691969
well i enabled them some time ago already.

they're handier than horizontal tabs, you can hide them with a button/shortcut or minimize them in a bar with just icons. the fact that you can scroll and have a scrollbar is life changing ngl.

>>105691973
what OS are you using? also check about:support page in the video codecs section, what codecs are installed on your OS?

>>105692135
yes, no webms any videos at all play
>>105692189
wangblows 10

>>105692330
delete your firefox profile and other mozilla cache/config folders and start again.

>>105692330
go to about:support, scroll down to Media > codecs and check if most of the video codecs are supported.

>sandbox is still shit
>site isolation is non-existent on android
Still using Vanadium, but I hope Andreas KING releases Ladybird.

>Firefox Extensions: Customize your toolbar with the option to remove the extensions shortcut, giving you more control over your browser. When the button is hidden, you can access the extensions panel again at any time from the Firefox menu by clicking the Extensions menu item.
Love it when companies give you back functionality you used to have and call it a new feature.
Do PNGs still flash instead of alpha before loading?

>>105689688
pinned tabs don't work on vertical mode.. haven been fixed in like 6 month.

vanilla firefox now has vertical sidebar autohide. Cool but not enough to make me change mind. IO'll wait until mozilla dies and firefox gets sold. and so a proper version starts. that or i use ladybird instead,

>>105692431
he will just remember next year is for alpha. if all goes well. so there's a lot of time to wait.

I've been using Librewolf for a while, but switched to Brave for the last few days and felt disgusted. My main problem with Librewolf is the fact I keep having the "YouTube takes an hour to load" problems. I tried fixing it a few times back when it first started happening, but quickly gave up and kept YT running on an alternative browser.

Is there a fix for the YT issue at least? I can deal with the streaming service DRM shit and use a second browser, but YT is really annoying.

>>105692607
is is the throttling on videos or just an overall loading issue on the entire sitr?

I've never had the issue of of videos never loading. mobile version works pretty well. faster and better.
you can even right--click and change speed of the videos or pip.

the only issue is not being able to disable AUTO dub in the videos
when is youtube going to fix that shit?

>>105692403
thanks microsoft support

>>105689629 (OP)
How much they screwed the UI since 128.9? I'm using ESR.

>>105692643
Everything. Slow to load the website/pages, and slow to load the videos. Instantly loads if I'm on Chromium. Sometimes they would just *never* load, but usually would be 3-5 seconds. This was never an issue until the Adblock wars started.

>>105692439
The search engine thing is also an old feature they got rid of years ago for no reason.

>>105692779
hm, this is strange. There's probably some corrupted files.
Can you try creating a new profile and testing to see if it the problem is recokved there?
You can run firefox with by typing Windows + R and typing firefox -p. This will open a window where you can create a new, clean profile.

>>105692849
resolved*

>>105692779
And on the new profile, use only the bare minimum extensions, like your adblocker.
If it loads fast, add the other extensions you have (one by one), to see if it's any extension causing the issue.

>>105689629 (OP)
i fucking HATE how they're hiding https from the URL now unless you click on it 2 times

browser.urlbar.trimURLs in about:config btw

>>105692958
What's the point of Firefox existing if they just copy literally everything Chrome does?

oh how the mighty have fallen

>>105692958
Thanks. I hadn't noticed the change.

>>105690584
>Windows 7 Kings got an update today too.
Cope and seethe.

>>105692958
came here to see if someone had a fix. thanks.

>>105689700
those are only enabled if FF is in english?

>>105693847
They show up if you have use the AI features for Tab Grouping and have AI enabled for naming and auto-grouoing them (I'm not sure if they are enabled by default).
When you use these features, Firefox creates a Machine Learning cache (tyese on the picrel), which you can delete if you want.

TLDR: They only show up if you've used AI for naming/suggesting tabs for your your Tab Groups.

>>105693905
where are those options tho? wasnt them on the "Firefox Labs"?
can't find them anymore
I only got pic related on the AI stuff of about:addons, because of the preview links

love the vertical tabs that auto collapse + tab groups. makes it easier to guilt free tab hoarding because i can just throw them all in a garbage group and collapse it and never look at it again.

>>105689629 (OP)
I only use LTS.
Does Firefox support ALSA again yet or do I still have to add syscall numbers to about:config to have sound work?

>>105693977
It's these options in about:config:
browser.tabs.groups.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled


Now when you create tab groups, Firefox will suggest names for them and suggest which tabs to put in the group based on the group name.
Then the data used will show up in about:addons page after using it for the first time.

>>105692965
>if they just copy literally everything Chrome does?
Copying the iPhone 4 and Chrome is all Firefox has done since like version 3. It's decent despite all of this, but frankly the only thing that brought me back from Google's grasp was that they broke ublock.

>>105694031
It is nice. And for people who use pinned tabs a lot, Mozilla is working in a feature to drag and drop normal tabs in the pinned tabs to group them:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZyLigp6Yg

>>105689988
im running watchtower to update all my docker containers in a production environment daily at 2am and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

>>105694118
Unfortunately, Firefox officially dropped direct ALSA support starting with version 52 and defaults to PulseAudio for sound on Linux. This was a deliberate decision by Mozilla due to ongoing maintenance issues and to streamline their audio backend.

You still have a few options to get sound working with ALSA-only systems:

Use apulse: This is a common workaround. apulse is a lightweight PulseAudio emulation library that allows applications designed for PulseAudio to use ALSA directly. You typically launch Firefox with apulse firefox (or modify your Firefox desktop entry to include apulse). This is often the most straightforward solution for users who prefer not to install PulseAudio.

Compile Firefox with ALSA enabled: Some Linux distributions (like Gentoo or certain Debian derivatives) might offer Firefox packages compiled with --enable-alsa and --disable-pulseaudio. If you're comfortable with compiling software, you could also build Firefox from source with these flags. However, this means you'd be maintaining a custom build and wouldn't get direct updates from Mozilla.

Ensure your ALSA configuration is correct: Even with apulse or a custom build, a properly configured ALSA ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf file is crucial for sound to work correctly, especially if you have multiple sound cards or specific device preferences.

>>105694204
>Compile Firefox with ALSA enabled
Thank you ChatGPT-kun, I know this. Debian compiles with --enable-alsa and has since like 2020.
It works great, literally the same fucking code as they fucked with in like 2017, the fuckers.
The only thing is that I have to set the sandbox off and syscall.whitelist (when will that become syscall.allowlist?) on a new profile. That's because opening a mixer device in Linux is an ioctl.
Which is stupid and perfectly fixable, and could also be handled by a config option at compile time.

why do people still use this other than philosophical stick it to the man stubborness despite better products being out there like mullvad browser/brave/ungoogled-chromium?

>>105689629 (OP)
I'm still on Librewolf 134.0.2 and not updooting because it just fucking works.

>>105694379
they are all the same and sucks more

>>105694379
I like Mozilla, I can use firefox on android, windows, linux and sync my bookmarks abd passwords.
I can also use uBlock Origin on Android and play Youtube audio in the background.
Also Firefox is fully customizable, you can make your own GUI with userChrome.css. It's modern, open source and doesn't depend on Chromium.
The only downside/complaint I have isbthat the JS engine is not as fast as V8. But that can change in the future as we approach the the apex of bytecode performance.

>>105694379
It's good to have an alternative to Chromium and Firefox does do some things differently and even better than Chromium (while also having some weaknesses, mostly coming from the fact that most of the Internet is made for Chrome). And Mullvad is a Firefox fork from what I understand, one that can probably be made manually by hardening Firefox itself.

>>105694471
Firefox also lets you manually update extensions. Last I checked, Chromium just updates them whenever it can, unless you manually mess around with sideloading. Plus, the shift + right-click thing is nice.

>>105694204
>>105694246
I've been using the official self-updating ESR binary and it just works with apulse, it's been years since I set it up tough

/usr/bin/apulse /opt/firefox/firefox %u

>>105691564
Good to know that Mozilla is very open to people with mental illnesses. Very inclusive.

>>105694379
because adblock, noscript and sponsorblock are superior to anything chrome or brave can offer and its highly customizable and open source
I dont care that its .005 seconds slower opening a page

>>105689629 (OP)
they added in spyware

>>105689629 (OP)
>service workers now work in private browsing

damnit, I was using that to detect private mode.

>>105694894
no they didn't

>>105694911
What are the consequences of this?

>>105695008
I'm going to have to waste another half hour of my life, finding a way to detect incognito mode for Firefox.

>>105695057
Why does it matter if someone is in incognito? You only have access to cookies for your domain and if their session is good then their other browsing profile is irrelevant.

>>105695087
>Why does it matter if someone is in incognito?
Ask team 4chan: https://s.4cdn.org/js/core.js:2304
function checkIncognito() { ...

>>105692849
>>105692880
I reinstalled Firefox (native), and it seems to be working totally fine now. I will be switching to hardened Firefox over LibreWolf.
Thanks anons

>>105694569
i have open source and highly customizable adblocking on brave, not to mention sponsorblock. i dont use noscript but brave has ublock origin with advanced mode to enable dynamic filtering where you can stop scripts individually

>>105690594
>for now they all use the default search icon.
Negative. I just added google with the udm=14 parameter to get rid of the AI-bloated shit, and it took the same icon as the regular google search engine registration.

>>105694471
>Firefox on android
Why would anyone rather use this shit. I would rather re-add all my bookmarks rather than using that pile of shit

>>105689911
>against something
That is an undersell for trannies and all the degeneracy they cause. It is perfectly normal and human to hate trannies.

>>105695798
What's so bad about it? I'm using it right now and it's not out of some brand loyalty, I actually like it over the competition.

>>105695820
Nah, it's often taken to pathological extremes. Normal people don't have trannies on the brain all day, only Chuds do.

>>105695798
extensions

>>105690109
Isn't it Firefox at the end?

>>105695971
Too bad they killed 90% of their extensions with their update 1-2 years ago. And it was a lot of hassle to install "non verified" extensions (maybe they fixed it now, not using for last 6 months or so). They had one thing that was going well for them and they had to fuck it up

I tried out Firefox recently, why the FUCK can I not click a webm or mp4 on this site to close it? WHY do I have to click the dedicated "contract" button or THAT RETARDED BROKEN SWIPE LEFT WITH THE MOUSE GESTURE HOLY SHIT

>>105696164
Because clicking normally resumes a video? Apparently you can right-click>hide controls and then click to close webms, but it's never worked on my end. Probably because I completely nuked autoplay in about:config.

Firefox mobile used to be my porn browser on mobile until they broke ability to watch videos on porn sites using your default application. I would just stream video to VLC and watch it there using an UX that doesn't suck. It used to work very well until the dreaded "update"

>>105689629 (OP)
>140.0
Probably belongs in /sqt/ but what's the highest real/official version number on an application you know of /g/? Is there a generally numerical accepted limit?

>>105696058
Yes but I like it more out of the box

>>105696264
MAME is up to 277 but there it's not 277.0 but 0.277. They are using it as the release counter, not as a version number.

>>105696320
Neat.

How's Mercury? (used to be Thorium)
Searching for it in the archive is kinda impossible

>>105695057
>>105695223
well, looks like 4chan's team made it easy for you

https://github.com/Joe12387/detectIncognito

>>105696264
is it cheating if the number uses the release date for the formatting?
virus definitions are updated multiple times per day, so it makes sense

>>105696064
yup, they fixed it many months ago. you can even enable dev mode and install /any/ extension from file.

>>105689692
Librewolf

>>105697474
nope, looks like they use the same method.
function firefoxPrivateTest(): void {
__callback(navigator.serviceWorker === undefined)
}

>>105689629 (OP)
Great but did they fix it raping your SSD already?

>>105697474
From what I see, the Chrome detection is based on storage quota < physical memory from here, but this condition is not exclusive to incognito mode. It's also in:

Guest mode
Privacy and security settings
Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows
Sites that clear cookies when you close them
Anytime storage quota < jsHeapSizeLimit. Example: 3.99GB quota and 4GB jsHeapSizeLimit would get detected as incognito

Firefox can also produce false positives if the user disables Service Workers and Push API

dom.serviceWorkers.enabled
dom.push.enabled


Neat.

When the fuck are they fixing the memory leak?

>>105697574
what even are the trigger conditions for it?
i basically use a browser all day and i've never noticed a problem.
then again i close it now and again.
is it one of those things that you can only really notice with several days straight of not closing it?

>>105697607
It only happens when tactile feedback for your IoT buttplug interface is disabled. It was supposed to prevent the buttplug from buzzing when you receive a notification but apparently it was leaking memory in that part of the code. Apparentl no one at Mozilla tested it or worked with that setting turned off so it was missed.

>>105697660
well then just leave it on and stop wearing the buttplug

Have they made it easier to swap profiles yet?

>>105689726
This is easily the best part of the update wtf

>>105690093
>the privacy focused browser that's the most fingerprintable, tracks your browsing, tricks people into watching their maliciously injected ads by offering them fractions of a penny, and has a built-in "free VPN"
I'm never touching that garbage and anybody who does is more retarded than Opera GX users.

>>105697957
I am not a drug trafficker or a pedo so I have nothing to hide

>fullscreen still doenst get of the sidebar with your tabs
fucking retards

>>105698054
Should probably try to hide your retardation at least

>>105693977
Enable this:
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and create a tab group by dragging a tab on top of each other, you'll see the option "Suggest more of my tabs" (which uses AI), just click it.

>>105694031
>just throw them all in a garbage group and collapse it and never look at it again.
That's a good idea. I'll start doing this.

>>105695731
I'm glad it worked.

>>105695785
This is how it looks for me, I'll try to do a clean installation and see if it's fixed.

>>105697548
Can you give an example? I'm not aware of that

>>105697574
There's no major memory leak, but Mozilla's team is already fixing bugs and improving the browser performance. If you're talking about high RAM usage on some conditions, it's normal and expected behavior, as RAM is used to speed up browsing.

>>105697882
it's being implemented, but not enabled by default yet. You can enable it in about:config:
browser.profiles.enabled to True
And access it through the hamburger menu button or the menu bar.

>>105697922
It's cool yeah

>>105698076
I don't understand what you meant.
What is it about fullscreen, sidebar, and tabs??

>>105698541
when you turn on fullscreen (press F11) the sidebar (and vertical tabs) are not hidden. as they should be, because you want the website to take up the full screen.

>>105689813
You couldn't customize it yourself anymore through regular UI means.
If they have re-added that, it's the first welcome development in fucking years.

>>105690214
>the screenshot feature
How do normal people even use that?
I always go through Inspect... > Screenshot Node.

>>105698868
just right click, it's in the context menu

>>105698880
I must have disabled that then.

Does it work similarly to uBO's "Block element..." function?

Why does 140.0 ignore Windows' animation settings? Even forcing ui.prefersReducedMotion doesn't work anymore.

>>105698807
Ah I see. I think that can only be done with a userChrome.css customization, like this one:
#sidebar-box {
visibility: visible !important;
}

#main-window[inFullscreen] #sidebar-box {
visibility: collapse !important;
}


This will automatically hide the sidebar when you're in fullscreen (F11), and restore it when you exit fullscreen.

just create a chrome folder in your firefox profile folder, create a userChrome.css file there, set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true and restart Firefox.

>>105698925
was it normal in version 139? If yes, then something broke and will likely be fixed in a hotfix update.

>>105698958
>was it normal in version 139?
Yes.

>>105698807
>>105698952
Same guy here, I just tested it, and this solution works. Let me know what you think.

>>105689629 (OP)
niggers literally changed how minimize and close buttons look

who the fuck asked for this

>>105699087
UX designers in corpo world always try to stay relevant and look busy so they constantly come up with such pointless changes.

>>105689629 (OP)
>Vertical Tabs
How to enable this?
Also how to fix the right click menu?

>>105689889
I updated a 5 years old install, nothing happened.

>>105699188
Go to about:preferences (Settings), scroll down to Browser Layout, and enable Vertical Tabs.
You can then customize it with the gear icon on bottom left.

Alternatively, right click anywhere in that tabs toolbar and select "Turn on vertical tabs"

What fix do you want from the right click menu? do you want to remove some items like Picrel, or something else?

>>105698952
neat, thanks. it's not perfect, i'd like the sidebar to show up when I touch the screen edge with the mouse. but hiding it completely is preferable to it always showing up.
there is a bug report here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1927457 so eventually mozilla might fix it themselves. if they can be arsed to do it.

>>105699207
>>105699188
/g/entoomen in action

>>105698908
it has options, covers pretty much everything

>>105699207
>What fix do you want from the right click menu? do you want to remove some items like Picrel, or something else?
Thanks man.
The right click menu lost it's old icons and the text is aligned to the left. compared to before.
Or is it just in my head?

>>105699217
You're welcome. Adding mouse interaction is a bit more complex, but it's possible with userChrome.js. Since the bug was opened this year, they can still work on it depending on their priorities and how hard is it to fix.

>>105699265
Firefox removed icons from context menus starting in Firefox 89 (2021), as part of the UI redesign.
But it works fine, you just need to get used to it.

>>105699291
>But it works fine, you just need to get used to it.
Thanks, what about re-arranging the order of things? mainly the add-ons
For example "play with mpv" add on change it's location each time I restart firefox.

>>105689629 (OP)
>Firefox
ywnbaw

>>105699328
You're right, Firefox does not guarantee a fixed order for extension-added context menu items. The order can change based on load order or they might not explicitly define a fixed position, leading to them appearing in a dynamic order.

What you can do is check the extension settings to see if there's options to control its position, find an alternative extension, or live with it if it's just a minor annoyance.

>>105699404
Why I feel this is AI posting?

>>105699418
It's not AI, I got the info from here: https://superuser.com/questions/1741879/edit-firefoxs-context-menus

Is there a way to restore the old way of showing the side bar?
And not this new version?

>>105700227
in about:config set sidebar.revamp to false

>>105700303
Thanks.
So the old sidebar can't work with the vertical tabs?
Shame really.
How to get rid of all the extra icons in the idebar?
And did they add AI chatbox?

>>105700392
You can click the gear button on bottom left and select the icons and behavior you like

>>105700392
And yes there's AI integration, but you have to choose the provider. Just open the sidebar with Ctrl + B, click the dropdown menu at the top (Bookmarks) and select Ai Chatbot.
There you can select a provider, such as Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.

It also adds a selection menu to summarize/explain/proofread the text you select on sites, and an entry to the context menu (right click).

This feature can be disabled completely in about:config with browser.ml.chat.enabled

>>105700392
>>105700485
The shortcut for AI in the sidebar is CTRL + ALT + X

>>105697552
It's obviously a cat and mouse chase, vendors fix one method, and a new one is found.

the github comments already have a new way to detect private browsing for firefox.

>>105700508
it really isn't. vendors don't fix it to make private browsing go undetected. they happen to fix it during unrelated development. because detection relies on random hacks.

I've got a reallllllllllllllllly old firefox profile.
Like from the old days when xpi was a thing.
I just checked and it's like 5 GB in size.
How can I clean it? without starting a new profile.

>>105701057
1) Backup your profile going to about:profiles , click "Open folder" on the Root Directory (the one on \AppData\Roaming\). the folder you should backup is similar to: "4cmxdafa.default-release"
2) Delete the browser cache with Ctrl + Shift + Delete. From the window select "Temporary cached files and pages" and optionally "Cookies and site data".
3) Go to about:addons and delete unsupported/unwanted extensions and themes
4) Optimize the dabases going to about:support , scroll all the way down to the section "Places Database", then click the Verify Integrity button.
5) Restart Firefox and check your profile size.

>>105689629 (OP)
>You can now unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab (or multiple selected tabs) and selecting "Unload Tab". This can speed up performance by reducing Firefox's memory and CPU usage.
This makes the "Auto Tab Discard" extension obsolete.

>>105701057
Where is all that data coming from? 5GB is crazy. If you can use WinDirStat or manually identify which folder is the biggest, would give me some insights.

>>105701218
I'm on linux
I have two, one in .mozilla and the other in .cache
And why did it open it in vscodium?
Still about 7 GB
>>105701314
I don't know.
The biggest two files is flashgot.log and it's backup, each about 400 MB
The rest is in folder called
~/.mozilla/firefox/1234qwer.default/storage/default/
That's have multiple folders that totals to 6.3 GB

>>105701346
I've been poking around and whatsapp has 3 GB on it.

>>105701346
On Linux it's either a hidden folder:
~/.mozilla/firefox/
or
~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/

1) You should open it in your file manager, not on a text editor!
2) Flashgot.log is a log file created by the Flashgot extension. You can safely delete it
3) The storage/default folder is just cookies, offline data and local storage file. It's safe to delete most of it: the ones that start with HTTP or HTTPS.
Don't delete the ones starting with "moz-extensions", as these are extensions data.

>>105701346
>>105701455

>>105699207
mine has a lot of spacing removed now for some reason

>>105695057
>>105697474
>>105697537
>>105697552
firefox silently disables LocalStorage in incognito, just write/read something back and check to see if it actually works.

Use Zen Browser. Like Firefox, but without all the bullshit.

>>105698280
>it's being implemented, but not enabled by default yet. You can enable it in about:config:
>browser.profiles.enabled
>to True
>And access it through the hamburger menu button or the menu bar.
Just a word of warning, it doesn't recognize past profiles made with about:profiles. You can still use those, just not switch between them with the new view. It also adds a Profiles button to the Menu bar. I think I'd recommend leaving it off for now, even if you disable the about:config option afterward, the button still seems to stay there.

>>105689629 (OP)
can they stop being autistic now?

Firefox 141 doesn't need to exist.
Just make it Firefox 140.039-140.999 until something BIG changes to justify it being 141.

>>105702340
The version number increases whenever the html gets rendered differently, somefeng happeng

>>105702363
I quit using it after like FF 3

>>105701992
That's after a page reload isn't it? If so, it is of little use.

>>105702340
They can't, it would make them fall behind the chrome versioning.

>>105702452
You're missing out

>>105700485
>need to edit about:config to not share your choice of hentai with glowniggers
Thanks mozilla

>>105702459
I don't think so, but if you're paranoid, just close the db and re-open it

>>105702363
It happens because larger number = better. Google started it and Mozilla will follow it's master

>>105702628
>>105701992
Doesn't seem to work.

>>105689889
It will indeed break. Check out arch news

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/

here's one for you
>browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride
make that false

>>105702768
Thanks. Why did they even change it to begin with? All it seems to do is make searching less convenient.

>>105702848
mozilla inc love fucking around with the deck chairs while the chromium wankers eat their dinner
that's why

>>105701745
What OS do you use? Did it changed after you updated to version 140, or after you changed some setting?

>>105702619
This is to completely disable the feature. Even if you have it enabled, you still need to select the AI provider and accept the terms before getting any functionality from it. It's fine.

>>105703026
only after updating to 140, ubuntu 22 on openbox

>>105703031
I'm installing Ubuntu 22 LTS here and I'll take a look.

>>105689629 (OP)
Well that's it, I went back to the Fox. Let's hope mozilla keeps making it better. I'm tired of chromium forks.

>>105694379
>stick it to the man stubborness
It's not even that considering Google literally pays to keep Firefox afloat. They literally do fucking nothing.

>>105703373
>100 million dollars is nothing

>>105703348
Welcome home

>>105703348
>I'm tired of chromium forks.
skill issue
by a titanium spork and you'll never need another untensil again

>>105703031
Ok I installed Ubuntu and did some testings, and indeed it is more compact.
Firefox had a dedicated space for extension icons at the left + the text space. Now the icon and text occupy the same space.

The change was already present on Windows, now they modified it on Linux.

I'll check if there's a way to revert back, but it should be fine. Picrel is the comparison on Firefox 139 and Firefox 140 on Ubuntu 22.

>>105701057
>How can I clean it?
It's probably mostly cache and cookies.
1. Make a backup of the profile.
2. Ctrl+Shift+Del > Everything (tick ALL boxes) > Clear
You will need to log-in again to every site and also redo settings on some of them.

>>105702653
google is not their master, it's new stuff in the html standard and both browser catch up equally fast. an increased version number means a new tag or a new css option. which in the end result means: the browser renders differently, if you're going to open a website.html file which uses such new features, you will see the difference in the rendered result

googlel and poozilla are such nolifers, they f5 the w3c html standard spec all day long and then immediately jump on the first stuff they spot

>>105703348
Mozilla has made some dumb decisions in the past but Firefox has improved a lot recently and they've been implementing features people actually want. They're one of the few groups opposing Googles bullshit like stamping down on adblockers.

firefox is too slow
take the vivaldi snapshot pill

>>105705431
>says firefox is slow
>simps vivaldi, the slowest POS browser that takes an eternity to start up
fuck off

>>105705458
its faster than brave

So what's up with firefox? Didn't they blatantly admit to selling your data and everyone's still using it?

>>105689726
Meh, all of these have keyboard shortcuts, more clutter/bloat, more things to disable

>>105705431
lol

>>105689629 (OP)
FIX YOUR SHIT

>>105701745
u must be using compact toolbar density

>>105689629 (OP)
wtf are the keys for the new search? cant use arrow keys anymore