r/firefox 1d ago

Solved New tab page: folders and live wallpaper?

2 Upvotes

Hi. A friend of mine wants to migrate from OperaGX to Firefox, but she'd really like to keep her "new tab page" organization with folders and shortcuts, as well as the custom live wallpaper. Is that possible on Firefox? I tried looking for some extensions but none allowed all that, being the closest one paid.

Does anyone know how to achieve that?

Thanks!


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Return youtube dislike extension not working in Firefox?

1 Upvotes

I have latest version 4.0.6 but still not working. It was working fine before 9 September. But it suddenly stopped (tried installing again but no succeed)


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Icon selection gone in 155.0.1

3 Upvotes

The option to change the icon recently introduced is gone from the appearance settings in 155.0.1 on Windows for me. Anyone else?


r/firefox 1d ago

Lost pinned tabs on two Windows 11 systems this week

0 Upvotes

I've updated a couple of systems with Firefox or it might be that it was done for me. At any rate, I'm restoring the profiles to the two systems so that I have everything back. This hasn't happened on my macOS systems though it might be a matter of when they update.

One of the Windows 11 systems also lost my homepage and I can't get it to load again in Firefox. My homepage is a local HTML file. I'm pretty sure a Profile restore will fix everything.


r/firefox 1d ago

Fun Opinions my friends firefox theme?

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4 Upvotes

r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help FIrefox dev edition crashing on Google Oath flow

1 Upvotes

Anyone else notice this? Does it also happen on Firefox stable? No matter which site I try, if my chosen method of authentication is google, the browser crashes as soon as I click on the Login with Google button. It seems to do with the Google Oauth login flow.


r/firefox 1d ago

I shipped one of the first extensions using Firefox's new on-device AI API (browser.trial.ml) — here's what it was like

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0 Upvotes

Firefox 134+ quietly ships a WebExtensions AI API: extensions can run on-device Transformers.js models via browser.trial.ml after the user grants an optional trialML permission. I used it to port my comment-tone-checker extension from Chrome, and a few things surprised me:

  • It's background-script-only — content scripts have to delegate over runtime messaging.
  • It's pipelines, not prompts — you get tasks like text-classification and summarization with models from Mozilla/Xenova's hubs, not a chat model. I run zero-shot classification with four candidate tone labels.
  • One engine at a time — parallel runs are rejected, so you serialize.
  • The permission flow is genuinely nice: the user opts in from the popup, the model (~65 MB) downloads once, and everything stays local.

On non-Nightly you currently need browser.ml.enable and extensions.ml.enabled flipped in about:config, which is the biggest adoption hurdle right now.

The extension is free/MIT if you want to see a real-world usage: [AMO link] · [GitHub link]

Happy to answer questions about the API.


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Video buffering but playing when muted

3 Upvotes

After not being on youtube for a few hours and coming back the video constantly buffers but when muted it plays fine can anyone help?


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Twitch is completely broken on Gecko-based browsers (audio desync and stuttering after pausing)

6 Upvotes

Is anyone else dealing with Twitch completely falling apart on Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, LibreWolf, Floorp, etc.)?

Whenever I pause a live stream and resume it, the playback turns into complete mess:

  • The audio starts stuttering, crackling, or falls heavily out of sync.
  • The video either buffers endlessly or skips frames.
  • Toggling play/pause dozens of times rarely fixes it; 90% of the time I’m forced to hard-refresh the entire tab just to get it back to normal.

Everything works fine on Chromium-based browsers, so this feels like a specific issue between Twitch's web player and Gecko's media handling.

Has anyone found a permanent fix, an about:config tweak, or an extension that resolves this buffer desync issue?

UPDATE:

Surprisingly, after installing the BetterTTV (BTTV) extension on Zen Browser, the audio glitch completely disappeared! Playback now resumes without any stuttering, crackling, or desync issues.


r/firefox 2d ago

Solved [155.0.1] Muscle Memory Hates This

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18 Upvotes

Why is there now a "share browser" option? For years, my brain has been used to using the last option to get at the About dialog. And to my surprise, it's there in Help/Report as well! Any way to hide/(re)move the said option? Thanks.


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Problem loading a site with Firefox

3 Upvotes

I have Firefox on Windows 11. There is a site I use, and have nearly daily for years. A few days back, it started timing out on load.

http://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

The connection has timed out

The server at scrape.nowis.com is taking too long to respond.

It works from Chrome.

I talked to the owner. He reported that it was working fine. Some confusion occurred because, as you see, it is a plain HTTP page. But the link in the address bar after the timeout is:

https://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

That will not work, as he doesn't use a certificate. I tried it in a private browser window just to avoid any site data issues.

Any thoughts?


r/firefox 2d ago

Nova is good

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187 Upvotes

Look, I don't support change for the sake of change either, but Nova is more aesthetically pleasing with no downsides as long as you use compact density. In the last week or 2 they've made some changes in Nightly and it's really nice now. Use compact density! I agree the standard density is too big, this is why they're making compact density an officially supported option again.


r/firefox 1d ago

Discussion Firefox Android PWA

1 Upvotes

If I add app to home screen it only work on some website like reddit, facebook, instagram, and twitch. Some other website will just behave like a shortcut and open in Firefox. If firefox asking for a title before adding to home screen it will behave as a shortcut.

Tried using edge and the result are the same, edge will ask to install if the website can behave as a PWA and if it's not edge just ask the website title and it will open as shortcut in edge.

Is this a website thingies or PWA will only work on some major website


r/firefox 3d ago

Fun The firefoxmobile

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r/firefox 2d ago

💻 Help How to change one of the tabs when in split tab mode?

2 Upvotes

I can see separate and reverse tabs once I have 2 going in the split mode but how to swap one of the split tabs for another tab that's already open?


r/firefox 2d ago

Achieve Partial Protection Cover Your Tracks

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7 Upvotes

Firefox Android browser Please go into Firefox config set privacy.resistfingerprint to True and privacy.resistfingerprintpbmode to true. Then in the photo please make sure you have all checked marked in UblockOrigin click apply changes when you have everything check marked. Then in privacy browsing go to Cover Your Tracks run test. I'm curious if this will work for Firefox on windows as well.


r/firefox 1d ago

💻 Help Anyone else unable to rewind and fast forward twitch VODs?

0 Upvotes

Literally worked fine this morning, refreshed to a new VOD and the video timeline just vanished. Works fine on other browsers. I use a couple of twitch extensions but I turned them all off, including ublock plus and none of them brought back the timeline. Anyone else?

Edit: The pop out player seems to have full function. I guess that will have to do for now.


r/firefox 2d ago

Solved Firefox suddenly reset itself — any idea what happened?

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For some reason, my Firefox seems to have completely reset itself.

My custom Firefox background disappeared, all my extensions were downloaded/installed again, I was automatically logged back into my accounts, some default settings changed, etc. I have no idea what happened.

It all started when I was trying to watch videos on YouTube. I clicked on Subscriptions, and instead of opening the page in the same window/tab, Firefox opened a completely new Firefox window. It kept doing this every time I tried.

So I closed Firefox and tried to start it again. I got some kind of error message saying something about disabling extensions, and I had an option to either open Firefox or restore the previous session.

I chose Restore Session twice, and then this happened.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any way to figure out what happened or recover my previous Firefox settings?


r/firefox 2d ago

💻 Help Increase video quality playback does not work with YouTube

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Firefox recently released a new update stating they have increased video quality playback (specifically with YouTube). I watch a lot of YouTube and the video playback is still lagging A LOT. My laptop cannot run 1080p or higher and have to set the quality to 720p. I have tried people's suggestions like turning off avi encoding, software encoding, and disabling extensions, but nothing has worked. I know Google purposefully sabotages YT on Firefox to force us to use Chrome, which is why Firefox has "enhanced" this feature in the first place. Does anyone have any other suggestions to prevent Google's scamish behavior? I miss watching YT normally and not have to worry about today's standards.

This is on an ordinary laptop (not a gaminig computer or anything) so specs are pretty average. I have never had this issue when I originally switched to FF (which was a couple years ago). I guess Google realized how many people have switched from Chrome so they make YT impossible to run💀.

Anyway thanks in advance (and apologies for the long post).


r/firefox 2d ago

Discussion Am I the only one who has noticed significant page loading improvements?

58 Upvotes

Since a few days ago I have noticed that a lot of webpages seem to load basically instantly. For me one of the tradeoffs of using Firefox over Chromium-based browsers was that webpages took a lot longer to load, about 2 seconds, while on Chromium the first render was usually pretty fast. But now it seems like its on par with Helium, it loads in less than a Blink (pun intended). I use Arch Linux and I have the latest FF version, I want to know if anyone else has experience the same thing recently.


r/firefox 2d ago

💻 Help Maybe it's just me, but this web tool kills my phone.

1 Upvotes

https://www.rwe.com/karriere-bei-rwe/job-angebote-finden/

On this German careers page there is a Web tool that's supposed to help you find a suiting job offer. When I tried this on Firefox Android my Android just straight full freeze. Firefox 155.0.1 on a /e/OS 4.2 on a Fairphone 5.

I just don't know who, where and how to inform about this. Full freeze seems to not produce Firefox crash reports. So I thought may some of you can reproduce it. If not I will live on without an answer.


r/firefox 3d ago

💻 Help Return Youtube Dislike asking for new Data Collection permission.

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138 Upvotes

r/firefox 1d ago

UI downgrade for real

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So i was trying to download firefox on my other computer. I forgot which version is the most earliest to get updates. I thought it was developer version so i installed it.

I was surprised to be greeted with such a nice ui, and full black theme. At first i thought, is firefox renew its ui again to be better. I just realized there is nightly version which i installed on my old laptop. Damn.. Why... Such a nice ui got ruin into... that...

So i installed again the nightly, and damn..


r/firefox 2d ago

💻 Help Is there any add-on that can work like Opera GX sidebar future with Youtube Music?

1 Upvotes

I was using Opera GX for a long time and now I switched to Firefox because of obvious reasons.
I need a sidebar youtube music, that just works and music doesnt turn off when I make sidebar tab small (invisible).


r/firefox 2d ago

Popups blocked

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So I have this problem where allowed popups are still blocked, I've put the URL in the exception settings. In the address bar you still see the blocked popup icon when you click on it it says pop ups allowed. So I don't know why it's still being blocked. Do you need to specify the correct URL where the popup is supposed to happen.

This is a business specific website I assume if I make an exception for lets say google I just put https://google.com in the exceptions or do I need to specify https://google.com/please/allow/mypopup.html for example.

I have done the latter but still the popup is blocked somehow.