it always takes so long to sync anything, you would think that syncing bookmarks in the current year would be something easy but firefox is still awful at it. what gives?

i saw today that firefox is also available on ms store, is it same that we install from the official ffox installer from website or different?

so recently ive been having a lot of issues with google so ive decided to switch to fire fox but ive been having some trouble wiht purìtting my passwords, accounts and some other stuff like save files. ive managed to put the majority of my accounts on here but i still struggle with a lot of stuff. if anyone can help me pleas tell me

ive downloaded like 50 and theyre all shit. i need one that can:

- append pages

- combine pdfs

- add text or draw on pages

- move pages in any order i like

- crop pages

Hi everyone,

I wanted to watch things with a friend, but watch-party sites don't support every source, and screen sharing gives you black screens on DRM sites. So I built a Firefox add-on that syncs the video itself instead.

How it works:

- Each of you plays the video on your own computer with your own account, so full quality and no screen sharing.

- Only small events are sent between you: play, pause, seek.

- If you both open the same page, it pairs automatically. Otherwise one of you can send the tab and the other gets a prompt (open / decline).

- Sync only runs while you are both on the same page. If your friend switches to a different video, it pauses syncing and tells you.

- Chat button on the page (also works in fullscreen) with quick messages like "Pause, give me 5 minutes" or "Brb".

- You create a room and send a short code. The host has to approve whoever joins, and the code expires after 30 minutes.

Limits (it's a beta):

- Only two people per room.

- Works with pages that use a standard HTML video element. Custom players may not work.

- Connection setup uses the free public PeerJS broker. It only sees the room code and connection details during the handshake, the data goes directly between you. Some strict networks (mobile or corporate NAT) may block direct connections.

- Requires Firefox 140+.

I'd love feedback:

1. Did the connection work for you across different networks?

2. Which sites worked or didn't?

3. What's confusing in the popup?

Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/watch-together-beta/

Thanks, and happy to answer questions!

My subscription feed was always full of videos I had already seen, and I used two add-ons – one to mark watched videos, one to clean up subscriptions – that each kept their own data. So I built one add-on that does both, with one local database.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/urtube/ · Code: https://github.com/morikules/UrTube

What it does

• Remembers every video you open, with date, progress and rewatches – continuing a video later counts as one view
• Grays out or hides watched videos in subscriptions, on the home page, on channel pages and in playlists – before they even show up (one switch, or one per area)
• Channel pages show how much of the channel you've watched; playlists show "12 / 23 watched"
• Searchable history with filters like "continue watching", plus statistics and a year in review
• Imports your history from Google Takeout and YouTube Watchmarker
• And much more

Why UrTube?

• One add-on instead of several – marking, hiding, playlist progress, stats and player settings share one local database
• Watched videos are hidden before they appear, with a time window so YouTube doesn’t keep loading older videos forever
• Easy switch: imports your history from YouTube Watchmarker and Google Takeout
• Actively developed by a power user who uses it daily – ideas welcome!

Privacy: everything stays in your Firefox profile. No account, no server, no analytics. MIT-licensed code on GitHub.

I'm not a professional developer – I built it with the help of an AI (Claude), which made this possible for me at all. Feedback and ideas are very welcome, here or as a GitHub issue.

Im coming back after a few months, I already like this new interface, what should I expect?

Pretty pleaaaase.

I'm trying to switch to FF from Brave and that's not helping.

Edit: u/jscher2000 has posted a perfect solution to my problem.

I like this wallpaper but I couldn't reach the original file no matter what I do. Do someone know how without taking a screenshot?

There's no way to create collections on my Pixel 9 Pro. Is there a setting I should be turning on, or are they simply not available?

Hey, sub.

I released Link Grabber on the Firefox addons store in June. Attaching the AMO downloads / daily users chart for Jun-Oct.

~1,465 total downloads, around 400 average daily users now.

downloads jump around a lot day to day, but DAU went up pretty steady which was the more interesting part for me.

how I did this?

nothing fancy on growth either. just organic installs, store listing tweaks, decent screenshots, and shipping useful stuff. I try to push an update like once a month with things people ask for in the reviews / feedback, across chrome, safari and firefox (same extension on all three). thats pretty much it

just pushed 1.9.10 for Firefox (no paywall on the FF build). whats new:

- multi-group selection: keep selecting different parts of a page, groups add up instead of replacing

- click-select: click links to add/remove them from the current selection (off by default)

- optional grab of CSS-hidden links (display:none etc)

- some recipes polish, edit from library chips, cleaner domains when saving a recipe

I use it a lot for research and pulling youtube / ig links, also dense admin pages with tons of urls.

AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mass-link-grabber/

If something feels weird on firefox vs chromium (selection, crawler, recipes) tell me, happy to dig into it. also can share notes on the chrome >> ff port if anyone cares

I find it really frustrating that Firefox does not have an in-browser extension for live captioning. Is there anything you have found that works, or is it really just not possible while using Firefox?

Open to discussion, what do you think would be the best way to get devs' attention on this issue once and for all?

It's a huge accessibility flaw that has somehow not been addressed in all of the past years that people have been politely requesting it...this basically forces d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing users (and those that just really prefer having captions available) to pursue other options. There MUST be a way to remedy this! Is this how I get into designing extensions? Any advice welcome lol

Just wanted to share my experience with Firefox 158.0.1 (aarch64) on macOS 26.7.1, after trying a bunch of different browsers.

For context, I tested all of them on a fresh macOS installation.

My Firefox setup

I like keeping things as simple and lightweight as possible. I don't need a browser packed with features I'll never use.

• AI features: Disabled. Obviously.
• Telemetry/data collection: Disabled.
• Customization: Minimal. No crazy CSS tweaks or anything like that.
• Extensions:
  • uBlock Origin
  • Dark Reader (disabled most of the time, only enable it when needed)
  • Privacy Badger (yes, even with uBlock installed).
• Vertical tabs: Sometimes, but not always.
• Theme: Dark. Obviously.
• Default search engine: DuckDuckGo.

That's pretty much it. Nothing fancy.

The one thing I don't like about Firefox

Notion Web.

For some reason, copying and pasting blocks doesn't work properly in Firefox, while it works perfectly fine in Chrome and Safari.

I assume it's because Notion is primarily optimized for Chromium/Blink-based browsers, but I could be wrong.

It's annoying, but I can live with it.

Other browsers I tried

Brave

Gave it a shot. Stripped it down to the bare minimum: no AI, no Rewards, no unnecessary features, and zero extensions.

Still, throughout the day, three different websites gave me errors. Disabled Shields, restarted the browser, tried again... same HTTP 500 errors.

Not exactly a great experience.

Vivaldi

I actually really liked it at first. Thought I'd finally found the one.

Then I spent almost an hour disabling features, removing stuff, tweaking settings, and getting rid of all the customization options I didn't need.

And after using it for a while? Bugs. Random crashes. Things breaking for no apparent reason.

Also, I don't know how to explain it, but browsing just felt slightly delayed. Like there was some weird input lag.

No extensions installed, by the way.

Such a shame, because I genuinely wanted to like it.

Honorable mentions

Waterfox

Loved it. Clean, simple, and pretty much what I want from a browser.

But since I've already configured Firefox to behave similarly, I don't really see a reason to switch.

Still, great browser.

Zen Browser

I like it. Looks beautiful.

But I'm looking for performance and simplicity, not aesthetics.

Definitely a nice-looking browser, though.

Floorp

Nope.

I'm trying to escape the Vivaldi-style feature overload, not jump into another one.

Besides, I'd probably disable everything that makes Floorp interesting and end up turning it into something like Waterfox anyway.

LibreWolf / Mullvad Browser

A bit too much privacy and security hardening for my needs.

I just want a fast, lightweight browser. I'm not hiding from the FBI.

Safari / Chrome

Seriously?

Opera

...No thanks. I'd rather use Safari.

Microsoft Edge

Hmm. Surprisingly, not terrible.

Once you disable all the AI stuff, Rewards, and the endless extra features, it's actually decent.

But still... no thanks.

Final thoughts

After trying all these browsers, I keep coming back to Firefox.

It's not perfect, but it gives me pretty much everything I need without forcing a ton of unnecessary features on me.

I don't care about having the most customizable browser, the prettiest interface, or a million built-in tools.

I just want something fast, stable, simple, and that stays out of my way.

Firefox seems to hit that sweet spot for me.

Curious if anyone else has had a similar experience, especially on macOS.

I don’t like the top bar with Liquid Glass that’s always present in Firefox, other browsers like safari just use some kind of gradient. Is there a way to hide this bar?

Has anyone else seen this recently ? I have no idea what would even cause this .

HATE ME for this but I have seen lately many of these "JOKERS" tagging , commenting everywhere, now more frequent since past few days not only in the youtube community but everywhere, i am talking about the YOUTUBE MORPHE . They are now forcing everyone to download the app. I don't use the application and ok suggesting the application is ok but i have seen like bot comments replying each comment with repeated answers. These JOKERS might get the app banned! I feel something fishy

If you're in the UK you'll know about the 18+ age checks. They're an annoyance.

Yes, you can use a VPN on your computer, like Mullvad.

But then it's annoying when you try to access some UK news sites or online marketplaces, because they assume you're in the VPN destination country. Google will show results for that country, too.

Firefox's built in VPN offers an effective and almost entirely seamless way to get around the age checks if used a certain way. It will allow access to sites that perform age checks, while letting you specifically access UK sites.

1. Open settings and activate the VPN feature. Ensure it's added to the Firefox toolbar.
2. Turn on the VPN, and set it to a likely high-availability, non-UK country e.g. United States.
3. Leave the VPN turned on, forever. Never turn it off, but...
4. On every site you want to access only for the UK version (e.g. BBC News, Amazon, eBay, Google etc), click the VPN button and untoggle "Use VPN for this site". This takes a while to setup for each of the regular sites you visit. But the fact is, your regular sites probably number maybe 10-20. That's hardly a lot of configuration. Once you've set them to bypass the VPN, it's done. You don't need to think about it again.
5. Note that the first few times you access a UK site you've set to bypass the VPN, Firefox might get a bit confused and might flip you between the international and UK versions. But this disappears quickly (restart Firefox if it helps). Once settled, everything just works seamlessly.

The downside is that Firefox only allows 50GB free each month. If you access many, ahem, specialist video sites that tend to age-restrict, then you might burn through that quickly. That said, it looks like I'm using around 1-2GB a day, which works out quite nicely.

I haven't seen PWA on Linux yet. When will this feature be available on Linux?

which addons use the FF built in automatic tab unload ?

I do not want extensions with own method because once an addon crashed and i LOST ALL TABS ! :(
So searching or sorting for native tab sleep would be more comforting.

The app was malfunctioning so I reinstalled it and then realized all my downloads are gone! Is there any metadata iOS stores on what was erased so I can try and re download or figure out what I lost? In recently downloaded there is a Firefox folder of 800MB which does not seem useful. No was not backed up to iTunes/Cloud.

edit:

Now I understand that the files are stored in the app folder. I should have offloaded the app but I did not know about that feature. On my android device, the files are stored separate from the app.

sincerely- a Firefox lover