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How can I make Firefox or Chrome ignore the system time on Mac OS?
I'm a software engineer trying to test some things. Would appreciate if anyone knows how to do this on Mac OS.
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How to save as a PDF using the Firefox “mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF” extension with the filename properly having the “.pdf” extension?
MacOS Ventura 13.6.3
Firefox 123 and 124b (developper edition)
I am testing the mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF Firefox extension, which allows to add an icon to trigger the "Save as PDF" ...
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How to change find bar "Whole Words" shortcut in Firefox
On macOS, Firefox uses the control key for each of the keyboard shortcuts in the "Find in Page…" bar. For example, Highlight All is currently toggled by Control-I, Match Case is Control-C, ...
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Shadow in Firefox in Full Screen - MacOS
There is an interesting and annoying behavior in my Firefox. I couldn't find a report in the Firefox forums and hoping to have an answer here.
When I make my Firefox full screen (desktop) in my Mac, ...
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Temporary download folder Firefox macOS (10.13)
I use Firefox(ver 115) on macOS (10.13). I recently changed the setting to save downloaded files to tmp dir by default browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir.
Then I found Firefox download folder ...
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Where does Firefox save images, by default?
Firefox has the prominent configurable option where to save files when I select the "Save Link As" action. However, this does not seem to apply to images I want to download by right-clicking ...
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Convince macOS and FireFox that I speak English
On macOS and FireFox I have always installed everything in an English locale and set everything I can find to English, yet the browser and OS both frequently seem to change languages at random times ...
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How to remap Control and Cmd in Firefox for MacOS?
MacOS allows to assign a hotkey for copy/paste actions via System settings. However Firefox does not respect remapped application short-cuts in MacOS. I tried several external application to remap ...
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Discontinuous selection in Firefox?
According to this site https://testkeis.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/discontinuous-selection-in-firefox-3/ you could do discontinuous selections in old versions of Firefox. I have tried different keyboard ...
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Missing Emoji in Emacs and Firefox
I've had this issue on Mojave, and it remains now that I upgraded to Big Sur with a clean install. Can't find anything about it on Google.
All emoji are working just fine everywhere on my system, ...
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Firefox doesn't open popups on all sites even after manually clicking on the button
I am using standard Firefox (currently version 108.0.1 64-bit) on Macbook Air M1. After a while of having the window open, popups stop showing up. This includes attachment popups or download popups, ...
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MacOS Text substitutions not working on Firefox
I use the text substitutions on MacOs a lot, to type a shorcut and then the system completes a full word or sentences. For instance, if i type 'hel', MacOs will substitue to 'Hello, how can i help you ...
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Recent favorites folders in Firefox shows only the last one in dropdown menu
The Favorites dropdown menu in Firefox only shows the last Folder/Location I used.
This is going on since Firefox crashed and I replaced the 'Profile' folder in the Firefox directory with an older ...
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How to completely remove Firefox and all related data from MacOS 12?
I removed:
Applications/Firefox.app
~/Library/Application\ Support/Mozilla
~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox
~/Library/Caches/Mozilla
And then reinstalled Firefox, but it still has data from ...
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Firefox - Replace text in search bar with shortcut
Is it possible to somehow replace text in Firefox search bar with shortcut?
E.g. instead of having to type https://superuser.com/questions I'd rather type only e.g. 'sq'.
Running on macOS.
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completely quit firefox when last tab is closed on mac
I have the opposite problem of Is it possible to leave Firefox open when closing its only tab?
Basically I am using firefox 100 on mac os, coming from windows and linux.
I also make use of the ...
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How to stop MacOS from automatically sharing tabs to other devices I'm logged in to?
I have two laptops connected to the same Wi-Fi network. I've been using the first device for a few years, and have logged in to my Firefox account in the browser. The second device is brand new, and I'...
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MacOS Monterey - not desktop icon, but icon for different RUNNING firefox profiles
Rather new to MacOS (monterey here) though I'm a linux guru for 2 decades, and a UNIX Guru from 3 decades ago. So my question might be trite.
Icons for items on the desktop is working for 2 firefox ...
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Firefox is not displaying GitHub pages properly
Firefox is not displaying github pages properly. Tried clearing cache and it didn't help. Version is 99.0.1 (64-bit). How can I fix it? Rest all sites are working fine, only the github pages are ...
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How can I disable moving / animated pictures in documentation?
I would like to learn Visual Studio Code, but I cannot get past its "modern" and "engaging" documentation. The very first screen you get when I browse to this URL has a moving ...
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Can I hide native tabs at the top of Firefox 91.51 esr (64 bit)?
I've been using Tree Style Tab on Firefox. Not sure how I ever worked without. There was a similar post (found here) that allowed the top tabs to be hidden, but it seems like that is no longer working....
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Prevent Firefox internet connectivity or script execution while Mac is Locked
I have already done a ton of googling about this, and all I'm getting is irrelevant results.
I'm trying to prevent any internet connections OR script executions by my browsers (or at least Firefox), ...
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Firefox not pasting with Ctrl-v inside textarea
I'm using Firefox (95.0.2) on a MacOS (Big Sur 11.6.2) and changed the Ui.key.generalAccessKey (to 17 for Ctrl) to use Ctrl instead of Command to support copy/paste a la windows (i.e. ctrl-c to copy, ...
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Different text-search results between Chromium and Firefox
I'm searching for the string global rule on this page: https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch4/ref-rule-properties
Chromium finds the text; Firefox does not.
Firefox
Abbreviated HTML (as rendered by the ...
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Prevent/Block slacks default redirect to native app
Whenever I open slack links in my browser, by default, slack redirects the link to open in the native app. I DO NOT WANT THIS.
My use case is:
Slack link shared in a thread, or manually copied by ...
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Firefox on macOS: weird layout (like missing styles) on all websites since upgrade to Firefox v91?
Since I upgraded my Firefox from 90.x to 91.0, all websites I visit seem to suffer from messed up styling.
Three example screenshots, but it's not restricted to any particular site, it happens ...
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How to download pdf only viewable in pdf.js?
I use Firefox Version 90 on macOS 11.5 and would like to download a pdf I can view via pdf.js. The link is https://www.laprensa.com.ni/wp-content/plugins/mix-eviewer/pdfjs/web/viewer.php?file=https://...
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How to share a web page in Firefox 89 (June 2021)?
The previous version of Firefox had three dots button (Page Actions)
There was an extremely useful option to share a page via AirDrop, iMessage and so on.
Smart guys from Mozilla removed this button ...
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Firefox (nightly) is sometimes wrongly detected as default browser when I have Firefox (standard) set as default
When I click a link e.g. in my mail client, it opens the default browser. On my computer (macOS 10.13, High Sierra) I have Firefox (standard) as default browser.
However, I also have Firefox nightly ...
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How to turn on screen magnifier support on Google Doc under Firefox (Mac)?
In Google Doc under Chrome browser (on Mac), I am able to turn on the screen magnifier support under Tools->Accessibility settings.
However, I am not able to find such feature under Firefox. How ...
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How do I delete an entry from Firefox address bar autocomplete?
Because the site won't let me comment on an existing post, I am required to duplicate it.
Delete does not work, shift+delete does not work. It's frustrating to
have old misspelled addresses ...
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Bash script to open URLs in Firefox doesn't work
I wrote the following bash script to read in a text file of URLs and open them as new tabs in Firefox. However, the script only opens the first URL from the list. I have to quit Firefox before the ...
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DNS resolution delay for entries in /etc/hosts
For the purposes of doing web development, I have several domain names specified in my /etc/hosts. These represent several different websites that are being run locally.
127.0.0.1 site1.local
127.0....
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Starting Firefox with a specified profile, crashes when browser tried to access microphone or camera
Sorry this is probably a very niche bug.
I created two different applications to launch Firefox with different profiles and have them use different icons for easy app switching.
I followed the steps ...
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XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location: chrome://browser/content/places/bookmarksSidebar.xhtml Line Number 1, Column 1:
I opened Firefox this morning on the most up to date version and got this instead of a bookmark tab.
My bookmarks tab is empty and it just has that error instead.
I tried restarting my browser and my ...
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Is there a way to make Firefox use macOS native picture-in-picture?
I always make my apps fullscreen and Firefox's picture-in-picture does not carry across workspaces. Is it possible to make Firefox use the native macOS picture-in-picture API, like Safari?
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Export and restore a private browsing session in Firefox
I mostly use my browser (FF 80, macOS) in private mode. I'm happy with not having history but every time my browser has to shut down (eg browser or OS updates) I lose all my open tabs. I end up ...
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Prevent Firefox from stealing FirefoxESR events?
tl;dr: How to run both Firefox(79 as of now), and FirefoxESR(68) at the same time, and have FirefoxESR to be the default OS browser, where all external URL cliks get open at?
For a long time, at my ...
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Internet doesn't work when I use a specific website on a particular browser
Whenever I log in to brain.fm from Firefox, my internet slows down. It goes from 50MB/s down to 1-5 MB/s.
I have the most up to date Firefox and I tried it with a fresh install without any add-ons.
I ...
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Safari renders font correctly when Chrome and Firefox do not on macOS
I've had an annoyance for a while when visiting websites in Chrome that use the Palatino font: lowercase y and z don't show at all, and lowercase x shows as a double quote ("). I just tried installing ...
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How can I determine the add-on that's causing this sketchy pop-up I'm seeing in Firefox on MacOS?
How can I determine the extension that's causing this sketchy pop-up I'm seeing in Firefox? I've determined:
The pop-up appears reliably immediately after Firefox starts with this profile.
It still ...
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How to prevent Firefox from asking if we really want to quit?
When I close my MacMini. A popup is displayed by Firefox "You are about to close 15 tabs, are you sure?..."
How to avoid having this and shutting down the computer without any confirmation? Thanks.
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How to disable "command + / " in YouTube as a shortcut in macOS?
I'm using a Mac. Regardless of the browser I use, when I am in YouTube and press command + / then the website will pop a helper modal.
In my system I have set command + / as a shortcut for other ...
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How to close just one of multiple windows of an application with tabs on mac with a shortcut?
Many applications can have multiple tabs open on it, and Command+W closes a tab, not a window, a great and common example would be Chrome or any browser.
An example would be that I have two browser ...
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Why do some fonts not seem to work as a default/global font in Firefox?
I've been trying to make Firefox use Wingdings as the default font for all text on macOS (please do not ask why). Following this guide, I went to the Fonts & Colors section and changed all the ...
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Can I change the command bindings back to control bindings on Firefox?
I have been a Linux user for years and just got a Mac. One thing that has been bugging me for the past couple of days is how every program seems to use command for shortcuts instead of Ctrl. ...
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Is a left-side tab close button in Firefox possible?
The tab close button in Firefox is on the right side. But that feels weird in macOS, where all close buttons are on the left side. Is it possible to move it to the left side, possibly with an ...
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Firefox spell checker stopped working, even though enabled
Again my spell checker in Firefox (on Mac) stopped working.
I already checked under: Tools > Options, Section Language
"Check your spelling as you type" is ON
When I click on [Choose] I see a ...
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Just upgraded to macOS Catalina, how do I fix my Firefox Nightly appearance (red background, blurry text)?
I just upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Catalina, and everything seems to be working fine except for my Firefox Nightly, Version: 71.0a1 (2019-10-08) (64-bit). It now looks like this:
How do I fix ...
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Why don't Firefox and Chrome respect my local DNS resolver?
I have a local DNS set up in OSX (192.168.1.100) which is configured to return the IP address of servers on my local network for specific domain names (they're all hosted on a NAS, which also hosts ...
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