Questions tagged [firefox]
Questions about the Firefox web browser on elementary OS.
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Firefox right click issue
is anybody else having this annoying issue with Firefox?
when I right-click the little window that pops-up clashes with the mouse, making it difficult to choose what to select.
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Is it possible to get rid of the title bar for Firefox?
It can be done in Fedora with the Gnome 3 theme: http://fedoramagazine.org/make-firefox-look-native-fedora/
It should be like this:
but it looks like this:
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How can I theme Firefox to suit elementary?
I undertand Midori is the default browser but have installed Firefox and would like to make it look nice.
The theme most people seem to use is unavailable for Firefox 41. Any ideas on other good ...
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mouse right click double clicks?
I have an annoying issue with Firefox and epiphany when I right click on a link to open it in a new tab, it does not give me the chance to click it, it clicks by it self I have to hold the right click ...
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Why does Firefox keep creating a ~/Desktop folder?
This is more of a puzzle than a problem:
Every time I start Firefox, a "Desktop" folder is created in my home folder (home/me/Desktop). I delete it, use Firefox, it comes back.
Am I sure it's ...
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Firefox doesn't remember the last download location in Loki [closed]
I am aware this doesn't look like elementary-specific but more like a Firefox specific thing, but in fact I only see this with Firefox in elementary OS Loki. It didn't happened in Freya, it doesn't ...
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Why is Software Updater making me install all these FIrefox language packs, even if I don't have Firefox installed?
I'm using a clean install of Freya (made about a month ago), and suddenly Software Updater started including all these language packs.
I had the same issue with a previous install of Freya; it just ...
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Firefox Context Menus are weird and don't work correctly
I'm having an issue where I right click and as soon as I release the button, it selects the option where the mouse is like I left-clicked. Also, context menus are appearing in the middle of where my ...
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Firefox GTK3 build(s) not usable/working [closed]
I'm using firefox from this ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next
Just today I got Firefox 42 beta, which is the first version linked to GTK3 instead of GTK2. The ...
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How do I move the X (close) button on Firefox to the left?
As you can see above, the close button is on the right Windows-style. But I want to make it fit with the elementary look. I think this requires messing around with Firefox's userChrome.css but I have ...
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Firefox Dropdowns in wrong location
I recently started using elementary OS and installed Firefox as my browser. I'm currently having a problem with the dropdowns, like the context menu or the input suggestion as they appear in wrong ...
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Firefox and Libreoffice UI is broken
I had some troubles with my UI(like windows classic), can someone help me?
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Firefox title bar and tabs merge
Since firefox update to 57 none of hide titlebar addons work.
Is there a way to merge title bar with tabs, so that lines in picture provided belove becomes one?
I tried merging with firefox settings,...
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How to add Firefox to Dock?
I installed Firefox by doing this:
1. wget
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/42.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-42.0.tar.bz2
2. tar -xjvf firefox-42.0.tar.bz2
3. sudo rm -...
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Why Epiphany over Firefox?
Dear ElementaryOS users,
a questions popped up in my mind: why should anyone use Epiphany over Firefox?
Mine is NOT a blind criticism on the elementary team, rather a pure curiosity.
In Elementary ...
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Did I install Firefox right and safely?
I didn't realize firefox could be downloaded inside of OS so I went online and found this code to type in the terminal.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox
Is there any ...
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Freya crashes when exiting full-screen from youtube
As I exit out of full-screen from youtube, the picture on the computer is frozen. I can still hear the audio and the cursor can move but I cannot interact with the OS and the screen seems to be frozen....
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Slow Startup Of Firefox
Whenever I want to open Firefox it takes a second or two before I even see the window. Chromium-based browsers like Chrome or Brave launch instantly. I don't have issues with any other app except for ...
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Making torrential my default torrent client
Good morning,
I have installed a Torrential however I am no table to use it.
When I try to download a torrent, Elementary offers the list of torrent clients, but Torrential is not amongst them.
Also, ...
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Can't control Firefox media through the sound indicator or keyboard shortcuts
When playing media in Firefox, for example on Youtube.com it would be great if we could control this using our build in audio indicator or the audio keyboard shortcuts. But it looks like Firefox isn't ...
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Video freezes when watching videos
When i watch videos on youtube using firefox or Epiphany the video freezes when i do nothing for a few minutes and i have to move the mouse so that the video continues it's a very annoying problem if ...
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Firefox right button on selected text start Inspect Tool not right button menu
I test Elementary OS 5.0 (Juno). When I use Firefox and select some text press right button I get strange behavior. I do not see the menu but I see the Inspect tool from Firefox.
My question is this ...
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Certain web content being blocked
For a few months now I've been having this issue where sometimes content from websites are blocked. A few examples are scripts being blocked so I'm unable to log in to certain websites, on Android ...
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Running two browsers with separate network interfaces
I need to connect to the internet via wifi connection with firefox while maintaining ethernet connection to another router via second separate firefox setup installed with snap. How do i do such a ...
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Full uninstall firefox nightly
I tried a lot of commands to remove firefox, but when I install again, profiles continue on computer, but the problem aren't the profiles, the problem is some rendering problems, I can't see the link ...
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window shadow on firefox
i have Dell G7 with geforce 2060 and latest drivers with latest Elementary
i have black shadow on letf and top when web aplication opens new firefox window.
on java mouse is not sinhronized with java-...
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How do I install Firefox Developer Edition on ElementaryOS?
The download link on the Firefox Developer Edition page just downloads a .tar.bz2 file.
Have tried the following methods:
Umake
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get ...
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How Do I Get RuTube.ru To Play Videos?
How can I play RuTube videos?
Here is the link to the site, its a Russian version of YouTube.
RuTube
The videos on this site won't play using Chromium or Firefox browsers. They play on my phone ...
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Firefox version not the newest
Why doesn't the AppCenter download the latest version of Firefox 49.0.1? Is there a way to install it?
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Firefox "Reader View" introduces static to my sound
When I open the Reader View in Firefox, it adds some disturbing static, whenever sound is played (e.g. youtube, music player, system sounds from the wingpanel...).
Neither exiting the Reader View nor ...
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Access Flash Player global settings (Firefox)
I am trying to access the Flash player global setting however when I right click it instantly closes the options and opens a new tab then goes to the Flash Player help site.
On Ubuntu this issue can ...
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Kernel 3.13.0-63-lowlatency - All up-to-date - Error at open firefox 40: Failed to load module "pantheon-filechooser-module"
After update my system and reboot, at open Firefox I receive this error return:
[33] 05:57:27 sergio@freya ~
$ firefox
(process:8010): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size =...
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Failed to open shm/Too many open files error with Firefox [closed]
I just recently swapped to Elementary OS and I planned to stay, however I am getting a terrible browsing experience.
Every time I use Firefox it will at some point crash and die, with weird graphical ...
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How can I roll back Firefox back to previous version?
After doing a dist-upgrade Firefox got updated to the latest version, how can I go back to the previous version?
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Firefox snap instead of default deb or flatpak
Decided to install the freshly minted eOS 7 today, super impressed by it all till I tried to install firefox as the Gnome Web simply does not cut it as a daily driver for my browser needs.
I was quite ...
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Used AppCenter to download Mozilla Firefox, but Files shows no .tar or download
I've been using Epiphany for a couple of days, but have encountered a problem with Google Voice that I think Firefox would "solve." Instead of downloading on my own, I dutifully used the ...
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Does Firefox or Chrome work on this O/S
I installed Elementary O/S on my 2007 macbook, found it is very slow and the Built in browser does not work. Is there a version of Firefox or Chrome that work on this O/S ? I want to try this O/S on ...
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Firefox Cannot Open Profile Directory
I just installed eOS 6. I was running Pop OS and backed up two Firefox profiles. I am trying to restore them.
I installed Firefox from flathub and pressing profile directory does not open a new window....
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Starting firefox installed via flatpak creates two icons in task bar
i'm trying out flatpak.
The only app I have trouble with is firefox.
After starting it, it creates 2 icons in dock. They both show the firefox logo but one is more blurry than the other.
The blurry ...
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Firefox unresponsive after upgrade to version 65
Recently I installed the latest release of Firefox stable, version 65. Since the upgrade, Firefox is unusable. When attempting to load a web page, both through bookmarks and typed in addresses, it ...
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In pantheon-files, right click -> open with -> other applications displays a small window with a list of applications. How do I add a new entry to it?
So I installed firefox in /opt/ and I'm using it normally but I want it to also be the default pdf viewer.
I did
gvfs-mime --set application/pdf firefox.desktop
and now firefox is the default ...
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How to show the debug window of Netflix in Firefox (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + D)
I finally had Netflix play at higher resolutions with a native elementary OS browser (specifically Firefox). I am using an updated version of the Netflix 1080p add-on in Firefox and it works ...
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Amazon prime video not working
I've recently installed the elementary OS 5.1 Hera, Amazon Prime Videos will not work, they just
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Webgl not working on firefox
I'm using firefox installed with snap. My current version is 72.0.1, I have webgl.force-enable: true and webgl.disabled: false.
Going to https://codesandbox.io/ is not working and I get this error in ...
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Firefox autofil hint cover input blocks
I am hoping someone can help me with this. On my desktop I use Juno and firefox as my main browser. When I access page that will require some form of autofilled input (Like a saved username and ...
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Multimedia-Content
I can not display multimedia content in some browsers (Epiphany + Vivaldi). Firefox + Chromium works fine. I manually copied the Chromium codec into the Vivaldi directory. Unfortunately, did not help. ...
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Firefox Dev Edition as Default Browser
I manually installed Firefox Developer Edition, added it to the dock, and set it as my default browser. All was good, but now it displays a secondary gear icon in the dock when I open it by clicking a ...
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Title bars on Chrome and Firefox changed after update 1/20/17
Did anyone notice after the update today (Jan 20) that the title bars in Chrome and Firefox have changed? There is a clear division between the tab bar area and the top window border. This did not ...
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Open url from terminal in chrome
When I click on the link just echoed, it is opened in firefox.
Earlier such links from terminal were opened in chrome.
But then I made firefox as my default browser. Then on wards these links are ...
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Firefox 49.0 doesn't show words in italics on Wikipedia
I have encountered a weird problem with the recent version of Mozilla Firefox (49.0) on Loki. There seems to be a bug when displaying Wikipedia pages - words in italics are simply left out. See e.g. ...
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