Questions tagged [firefox]
A free and open source web browser created by Mozilla.
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Make Firefox restore minimized windows as minimized
When I use Firefox on latest Ubuntu for the last couple of years (currently 25.10) I quit the browser with many minimized windows, but always when I start it again all my windows are restored ...
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Why is a drag-and-drop screen shown persistently after copying some items?
I'm using Firefox on KDE on Wayland. When I copy or drag-and-drop some texts or files from anywhere, suddenly various websites like Google Drive, Facebook or Claude display a full-screen drag-and-drop ...
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How to add a Firefox context menu option/entry for a private window in Debian 12/13 with KDE or XFCE?
How can I add a separate context menu option/entry to start Firefox ESR in a private window, in Debian 12/13 with KDE or XFCE? This is a follow-up question/answer to: Missing Firefox Context Menu ...
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Browser polkitd pkla-check-authorization spam
I have a U2F yubikey device that works as expected, i.e. I can use it in Firefox and Chromium for U2F style authentication, and it even works on the command line with key-located/bound gpg and ssh sk ...
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Reuse the profile of apt Firefox in Flatpak version through a symbolic link?
The answers in the question How do I install and migrate to the official Firefox flatpak? show that when running Firefox through Flatpak, it saves profiles in the ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/....
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Firefox on RISCV-64 fails to detect GPU and falls back to software rendering
I have built Firefox for RISCV-64 architecture on Wayland in Ubuntu 22. sudo apt-get update Dependency packages:- sudo apt-get install -y curl libnspr4 libgtk-3-dev python3-dev llvm-14 llvm-dev ...
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Open HTML file in Firefox from terminal
I made this script to open three HTML files in Firefox from a subdirectory: #!/bin/bash firefox ./web/*.html 2>/dev/null & disown; I call the bash script from the terminal. Which seems to work ...
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How to enable H264 for Firefox?
I noticed that AlmaLinux 8.10 lacks the packages mozilla-openh264 and it's prerequisite openh264, and that both are absent from official repositories too. To my knowledge, I need these both in order ...
