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Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
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Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#52Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
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> caveat emptor: when firefox upgrades it usually wont change these settings for you It's not so bad. You can sort prefs by user-defined, they're in bold, and each one has a reset-to-default option. Also you can do a whole browser reset which preserves only passwords/bookmarks. Instructions: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... And firefox profiles might be handy for this too (from the comm…
Yes it is. Everything you've described of my two brothers can't do.
Well considering they don't browse HN or GitHub it's hard to see what the problem is.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#54Nice. That's a useful guide for writing an add-on to manage all those settings, some of which are documented only in very obscure places. Whether or not you turn them on or off is your business, but they need a user interface.
TBH I don't care if there's a user interface; what I want is to be able to store my browser's config in git along with the rest of my config. Every other program I use regularly is configured through sane dotfiles; if I check them out on a fresh OS install it's all like I want, except Firefox. I have to go through this insane song and dance of hunting down all my extensions and remembering obscure about:config settings every time.
In fact, it's a bit cringeworthy that this whole list is presented as a thing you're supposed to manually enter while using the about:config search.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
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The only time I ever see the fullscreen message is when the screen has essentially already fullscreened itself in a case where I want it to. =/
The warning is a bit annoying, but without it attacks like this would be harder to spot: http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/ (it's just a proof-of-concept, no malicious payload)
That seems like an entirely inadequate warning for an average user to spot phishing anyway.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#56Step 1: Install Pale Moon.
Step 2: Enjoy.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#57Nice. That's a useful guide for writing an add-on to manage all those settings, some of which are documented only in very obscure places. Whether or not you turn them on or off is your business, but they need a user interface.
TBH I don't care if there's a user interface; what I want is to be able to store my browser's config in git along with the rest of my config. Every other program I use regularly is configured through sane dotfiles; if I check them out on a fresh OS install it's all like I want, except Firefox. I have to go through this insane song and dance of hunting down all my extensions and remembering obscure about:config settin…
a thing you're supposed to manually enter
Doesn't everybody know about user.js? Keep that updated and store that in git. If that file is present in the .../Profiles/.default then Firefox automatically uses it. And Firefox doesn't rewrite it, as opposed to prefs.js.
It's still a hassle, but it's far easier than manually entering things into about:config. Here are a few of the things currently in my user.js:
user_pref("accessibility.blockautorefresh", true);
user_pref("browser.preferences.inContent", false);
user_pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch", true);
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.disabled", true);
user_pref("plugins.hide_infobar_for_blocked_plugin", true);
user_pref("plugins.notifyMissingFlash", false);
user_pref("social.enabled", false);
user_pref("social.remote-install.enabled", false);
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
TBH I don't care if there's a user interface; what I want is to be able to store my browser's config in git along with the rest of my config. Every other program I use regularly is configured through sane dotfiles; if I check them out on a fresh OS install it's all like I want, except Firefox. I have to go through this insane song and dance of hunting down all my extensions and remembering obscure about:config settin…
a thing you're supposed to manually enter Doesn't everybody know about user.js? Keep that updated and store that in git. If that file is present in the .../Profiles/ .default then Firefox automatically uses it. And Firefox doesn't rewrite it, as opposed to prefs.js. It's still a hassle, but it's far easier than manually entering things into about:config. Here are a few of the things currently in my user.js: user_pref…
When you have to do something like that to disable unwanted intrusive and commercial features in Firefox, you know that the Mozilla Foundation is not your friend.
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Don't know if it is still true. DNS lookup didn't work correctly when ipv6 was enabled.
W..what? I don't think this has been true for any Firefox version, ever. Certainly I'm using v6 right now. (Not on hn of course, it's v4 only)
It used to be issue - in your local network, you had IPv6 automatically with Vista and newer (the same for Linux distributions). So your browser resolved AAAA records, trued o open connection to the the host, after few seconds found out that it is going nowhere, resolved the A records, the site worked.
So it became popular to manually disable IPv6 to speed up the browsing.
Re: Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
TBH I don't care if there's a user interface; what I want is to be able to store my browser's config in git along with the rest of my config. Every other program I use regularly is configured through sane dotfiles; if I check them out on a fresh OS install it's all like I want, except Firefox. I have to go through this insane song and dance of hunting down all my extensions and remembering obscure about:config settin…
a thing you're supposed to manually enter Doesn't everybody know about user.js? Keep that updated and store that in git. If that file is present in the .../Profiles/ .default then Firefox automatically uses it. And Firefox doesn't rewrite it, as opposed to prefs.js. It's still a hassle, but it's far easier than manually entering things into about:config. Here are a few of the things currently in my user.js: user_pref…
Sure, but you can't check the profile directory into git, and you can't know the path of the profile directory ahead of time to make a symlink either. The way they randomize the path makes it seem like they're going out of their way to make it automation-resistant.