\o/ Both my #FirefoxNightly https://gitlab.com/projects261/firefox-nightly-flatpak and #Firefox Developer flatpaks https://gitlab.com/projects261/firefox-dev-flatpak now supports the #gnome shell search provider. See the readme on how to enable.

The official version on Flathub doesn't have this feature 😅

@ablackcatstail Not good, but, fwiw, also not my experience. My #FirefoxNightly continues going gangbusters.

Might it be worth trying a clean profile?

@oliverandrich

#FirefoxNightly + #uBlockOrigin + #Sidebery + #Gesturefy + #UserJS = #Nirvana 💜

@wiredfire Why would you think that? 🤷‍♀️

#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma #FirefoxNightly

#FirefoxNightly #Profile #UserJS

I decided to create a fresh new #Nightly profile, with a cleaner dedicated `user.js` file [Why = to keep closer to native Nightly settings where possible, in hope of minimising potential bad behaviour caused by me perpetrating unwittingly-superseded options]. Ergo, i've cherrypicked a subset of still-desired functions from my almost-exactly-3-years-ago last rebuilt profile's `user.js`, for today's shiny new profile. These are the only ones i chose to retain:

user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", true);

user_pref("browser.compactmode.show", true);

user_pref("font.size.systemFontScale", 95);

user_pref("browser.menu.showViewImageInfo", true);

user_pref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true);

user_pref("toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues", ".3,.5,.6,.67,.68,.69,.7,.72,.75,.76,.77,.78,.79,.8,.81,.82,.83,.84,.85,.86,.87,.88,.89,.9,.91,.92,.93,.94,.95,.96,.97,.98,.99,1,1.01,1.02,1.03,1.04,1.05,1.06,1.07,1.08,1.09,1.10,1.11,1.12,1.13,1.14,1.15,1.16,1.17,1.18,1.19,1.20,1.25,1.30,1.35,1.40,1.45,1.5,1.7,2,2.4,3");

user_pref("widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons", true);

user_pref("network.trr.custom_uri", "https://doh.opendns.com/dns-query");

user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", true);
user_pref("browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true);
user_pref("browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks", false);

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", -1);
user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);

user_pref("media.navigator.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.peerconnection.turn.disable", true);
user_pref("media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers", false);
user_pref("media.peerconnection.video.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.peerconnection.identity.timeout", 1);
user_pref("media.peerconnection.enabled", true);

user_pref("dom.serviceWorkers.enabled", false);

user_pref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false);

user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 5);
user_pref("media.autoplay.block-event.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.blocking_policy", 2);

user_pref("browser.toolbars.bookmarks.showOtherBookmarks", true);

user_pref("browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh", true);

user_pref("browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla", false);

user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false);
user_pref("network.connectivity-service.enabled", false);

user_pref("browser.search.openintab", true);

user_pref("extensions.update.interval", 21600);

user_pref("browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir", true);

user_pref("browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.enabled", false);

user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);

user_pref("gfx.webrender.enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled", true);

user_pref("media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled", true);

So far, so good. Though it took many hours' work [& was, arguably, not actually needed], at least three unexpected benefits have already flowed on:

1. A specific site i need to use for a current research project, simply refused to work properly in my older profile. It now works a treat in my new one. Possibly my decision to stop banning #WebGL might be a factor [ie, i EXcluded this one from the old profile, in the new profile:
user_pref("webgl.disabled", true);] 🤷‍♀️

2. Needing to install all my fav #AddOns in the new profile, then import their settings exported from them in the old profile, gave me a chance to see some of my oldest most familiar AOs with "fresh eyes" -- i discovered several cool settings in some of them i'd never noticed before! 😮

3. Though i'm not tight for storage, this slight total size reduction surprised me: old = 1.1 GB, new = 0.95 GB. Actually no, that's really bugger-all difference, forget i spoke 😜

@Linux_Is_Best Reading your post, replying to your post, in my daily default browser, #FirefoxNightly. I mean, honestly, they had me just with the gorgeous icon; all the rest is simply extra cherries, cream & icing 😜

And yes, i've never quite grasped why, overall, over the long term, somehow #Nightly does for me better than vanilla #Firefox 🤷‍♀️

@fabiscafe

>wish there would be good vertical tab-list support.

There is... just not where you are. 🤭

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery
https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

#FirefoxNightly #Sidebery #VerticalTabs

@geneticsmademedoit I much prefer browser-based RSS feed-readers not dedicated apps, hence:

- #Feedbro in #FirefoxNightly
- Its own native Feeds module in #VivaldiBrowser.

#firefoxnightly on my #OnePlus9Pro is considerably slower at loading/opening webpages than #chrome. I have a nostalgia/love for #firefox & will probably always refuse to use chrome.

#firefox #mozilla #chrome #android #oneplus

My #FirefoxNightly is crashing. Well #FirefoxforAndroid nightly to be exact. I hope I'm not the only one having #Firefox problems today.

@captainb @MsDropbear42 Tis YOUR fault for using #Vivaldi... typing language is all fine here in #FirefoxNightly ofc.

😜 😇

I've pretty much decided now, after being on #Masto since last year, that whilst it's a nice place to read & chat about stuff like #politics [including #auspol] & #ClimateCrisis, also #MontyPython & #HHGTTG, my cumulative experience so far is that it's utterly useless, & a waste of time even bothering to post, for any tech troubleshooting chat / assistance wrt #firefox [including #FirefoxNightly], #Thunderbird etc. Usually, there's not even any replies at all, let alone actual help. 🤷‍♀️

So, the following is just me talking to myself again, with new info just to close the loop. 👌

I realised that the specific sub-directory comprising the largest single contribution to the large size of my 976 MB #FirefoxNightly , was:

`/home/MsDropbear/.mozilla/firefox/Nightly/storage/default/moz-extension+++a121e9d2-2d1b-4093-978f-399d7c9f4fcf/cache/morgue/`

Those last two sub-directories' names elicited curiosity & suspicion. They connotated a sense of "unimportance" IMO. I began to wonder; "oh, maybe they're not even necessary?". So i backed up the entire parent directory, deleted all the content inside `.../cache/morgue/`, then nervously launched the browser.

It seems... perfectly fine! Everything still works, all my AddOns & their data, all my History & Bookmarks, passwords... basically everything that i can think of to check, remains present & functional. 😮

I shan't delete the backup copy yet, lest i soon enough finally do discover some terrible problem that removing all those files has created. In the meanwhile, taking this action has made a welcome reduction of my browser overall size from 976 MB to 406 MB. 🎉

Though they're both much smaller than the original total size of my #FirefoxNightly, that same "sub-path" also comprises a major part of the total size for each of my #FirefoxBeta & #Firefox too, so, if #Nightly remains happy for another day or three, then i suppose i can apply the same file purge to both other Foxes to reclaim even more storage space.

We now resume your normal 🦗 🦗 🦗

Does anyone recognise this #FirefoxNightly #extension pls?

/home/MsDropbear/.mozilla/firefox/Nightly/storage/default/moz-extension+++a121e9d2-2d1b-4093-978f-399d7c9f4fcf 🤷‍♀️

Atm i cannot identify it via searX, nor in either my `about:support` nor `about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox` internal pages. It seems kinda sorta important to understand it, coz atm it's using 570 MB!

It's also present in my #FirefoxBeta & ordinary #Firefox browsers, but in each tis MUCH smaller [otoh, my daily default IS #FirefoxNightly].

#MozExtension

@captainb Thx heaps for replying!

1. Ditto. I used the native translate tool in both #Vivaldi & #FirefoxNightly. Being different tools, they gave slightly different output, but the overall tone & message of the article seemed consistent between them... which is why i posted, to solicit others' opinions.

2. Ditto ditto ditto ditto 👍 I perceived a tone of blatant mockery & trivialisation of the matter, which behaviour always offends me. IMO peeps who think, speak & behave this way have still not evolved beyond their narrow traditional binary view of the world, in effective denial of the more complex reality. What's more, they seem to simply not even care that their attitude is hurtful if not in some circumstances even existentially dangerous to those of different life experience to them.

#racism, #homophobia & #transphobia

@demi7en Your post is amazing, coz i came back to my OP [https://kolektiva.social/@MsDropbear/110366145712788079] just now to mention that all day today [having worked correctly yesterday], my Masto-in-browser [#FirefoxNightly] #AdvancedWebInterface #SlowModeOff has completely forgotten how to auto-refresh. All day i've had to manually reload the tab whenever i wanna see new content. So i've just now re-enabled #SlowMode, but based on your post, it seems that's unlikely to help me either.

I don't understand what has changed, to cause this new problem. 🤷‍♀️

#SlowMode

Just heard today for first time of newish alpha fork of #Firefox, called #PulseBrowser https://pulsebrowser.app, into one of my #Archie #VMs via #AUR , then played around with it.

Tis pretty interesting, albeit certainly not ready for my daily use yet, but otoh worthy of keeping a watch on with future developments. Already the Devs [afaik, two Strayan blokes doing this as a part-time hobby; stone the flamin' crows, they must be flat out like a lizard drinking, but onya!] have bettered native FF by building in native #VerticalTabs, in an optionally-collapsible sidebar [furthermore, very neatly, toggling vertical ON automatically hides native horizontal tabs, without needing the user to resort to css tricks like the various AOs do].

However, at this early development stage, these vertical tabs are not stackable, nestable or groupable, so i would need still to install the wonderful #Sidebery AO anyway, thus atm giving no advantage over my very nicely set up #FirefoxNightly.

Nonetheless, this fork is very worthy if the two blokes are able to keep up advancing its development. I wish all power to their arms!

https://github.com/pulse-browser/browser
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pulse-browser-bin

@unattributed Just like with your last poll too, i see only your pre-poll descriptive / explanatory posts, then your post-poll commentary posts. I do not see your *actual* polls themselves. Huh?

Do you not use hashtags for the browsers in your polls? If not, then peeps like me who only follow tags NOT peeps, will never see your polls.

#VivaldiBrowser
#Vivaldi
#VivaldiStable
#VivaldiSnapshot
#FirefoxBeta
#FirefoxNightly
#Firefox

etc

I wanted to install Firefox for my friend, and I happened to come across Firefox Nightly for Developers. I said to myself, "I am a developer too!" So I installed it in my phone. Now I just want to say, it's awesome! Thank you for creating this #mozilla.

#firefox #firefoxnightly

#Mastodon #AdvancedWebInterface #LocalTimeline #FollowedHashtags #css

In my early months of Masto, last year, in my original #Instance, i personalised my Masto browser view to have five permanently visible columns, then used some #Stylus #css to adjust column widths, font sizes etc for comfy viewing in my browsers. The fifth column was the local timeline, which i used for casual reading during the times my Home column remained fairly "under-nourished".

One day, sometime last year, i learned from someone's helpful post that we could follow hashtags, something nowadays just blindingly obvious, but to me back then was utterly unknown. So i began doing so, adding more over time as needs & wants be.

A month or two ago, 'ish, i suddenly realised that nowadays i was spending ZERO time in that local timeline, given my Home column is always full as a goog, full up to dolly's wax, full to pussy's bow, et al 😜 Hence it was time to again edit my css, & my Masto interface, to revert to the four-column view.

TL;DR: following hashtags is fabulously handy!

Fwiw...

#Misanthropy

#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#RenewableEnergy
#overshoot
#WeAreTotallyFscked
#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards

#Whimsy
#DrHelenMagnus
#HHGTTG
#MostlyHarmless
#MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
#MontyPython
#TheSpanishInquisition
#RippingYarns

#AusPol
#Greens
#MichaelWestMedia

#Misdirection
#Semantics
#Logic
#Grammar

#GenderDysphoria
#Transition
#transitioned
#Transwoman
#Transwomen
#Trans
#Lesbian
#Lesbians

#FOSS
#Arch
#ArchLinux
#ArchInstall
#Fedora
#Kinoite
#KDEPlasma
#Plasma
#KDE
#Qt
#WindowRules
#Xfce
#Tumbleweed
#openSUSE
#MicroOS
#LibreOffice
#KMyMoney

#FirefoxNightly
#FirefoxBeta
#UserJS
#AboutConfig
#Sidebery
#TreeStyleTab
#Vivaldi
#VivaldiBrowser

Finally reverted back to #firefox from #FirefoxNightly on #Android now that #PullToRefresh is available.