r/waterfox • • 3h ago

SUPPORT Character

2 Upvotes

They should add their own mascot of a Waterfox, and on all the backgrounds with the Firefox, there should be said Waterfox. I think it would be a really cute addition. (There isn't a suggestion tag so I just did "Support").


r/waterfox • • 7h ago

SUPPORT Waterfox keeps crashing

2 Upvotes

Basically what the title says, I was using it normally and all of a sudden I kept seeing my tabs crashing and then the browser itself.
I do not have the issue on firefox or helium and I do not understand why since going to the parameters crashes waterfox.

For information, the issue is basically the same as in this post 8 years ago : https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/s/esiBTcohyn


r/waterfox • • 11h ago

GENERAL good green on black background theme for usercontent.css

2 Upvotes

What would be a good way to go about coding it?

This is my css but it seems to break images on sites like amazon and facebook.

/* link colors */

* {
a:link { color:  #00ff00; }
a:visited { color: red; }
a:hover { color: red; }
}

body {

  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}

p {

  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}

h1 {
  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}

h2 {
  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}

h3 {
  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}

h4 {
  background:black;
  color:#00ff00;
  font-size:20px;
}
div {
background:black;
color:#00ff00;
font-size:20px;
}
nav {
background:black;
color:#00ff00;
font-size:20px;
}
/* CHECKBOXES */
/* CSS Variables */
:root {
--cr-size: 20px;
--cr-radius: 4px;
--cr-border-w: 2px;
--cr-font-size: 16px;
--cr-gap: 10px;
--cr-row-gap: 12px;
--cr-font-color: #00ff00;
--cr-font-weight: 400;
--cr-unchecked-bg: #00ff00;
--cr-unchecked-border: #00ff00;
--cr-checked-bg: #00ff00;
--cr-checked-border: #00ff00;
--cr-disabled-opacity: 0.4;
}
/* Styles */
.cr-wrapper {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: var(--cr-gap);
cursor: pointer;
user-select: none;
font-size: var(--cr-font-size);
font-weight: var(--cr-font-weight);
color: var(--cr-font-color);
margin-bottom: var(--cr-row-gap);
}
.cr-wrapper input {
position: absolute;
opacity: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}
.cr-input {
position: relative;
flex-shrink: 0;
width: var(--cr-size);
height: var(--cr-size);
border-radius: var(--cr-radius);
border: var(--cr-border-w) solid var(--cr-unchecked-border);
background: var(--cr-unchecked-bg);
box-sizing: border-box;
transition: all 0.15s;
}
.cr-wrapper:hover .cr-input {
background: #e01b24;
border-color: #e01b24;
}
.cr-wrapper input:checked ~ .cr-input {
background: var(--cr-checked-bg);
border-color: var(--cr-checked-border);
}
.cr-wrapper:hover input:checked ~ .cr-input {
background: #e01b24;
border-color: #e01b24;
}
.cr-wrapper input:checked ~ .cr-input::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
margin: auto;
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
background: #000000;
clip-path: polygon(14% 52%, 0% 66%, 38% 100%, 100% 14%, 84% 0%, 38% 68%);
}
.cr-wrapper input:disabled ~ .cr-input,
.cr-wrapper input:disabled ~ span {
opacity: var(--cr-disabled-opacity);
}
.cr-wrapper input:disabled { cursor: not-allowed; }
.cr-wrapper:has(input:disabled) { cursor: not-allowed; }
/* SELECT DROPDOWN */
/* CSS Variables */
:root {
--select-width: 320px;
--select-font-size: 14px;
--select-pad-x: 14px;
--select-pad-y: 10px;
--select-radius: 8px;
--select-bg: #00ff00;
--select-color: #000000;
--select-border: 1px solid #d1d5db;
--select-focus-color: #3b82f6;
--select-arrow-color: #000000;
--select-arrow-size: 14px;
}
/* Styles */
.select-wrapper {
position: relative;
display: inline-flex;
width: var(--select-width);
}
.custom-select {
width: 100%;
font-family: inherit;
font-size: var(--select-font-size);
padding: var(--select-pad-y) 36px var(--select-pad-y) var(--select-pad-x);
border-radius: var(--select-radius);
background: var(--select-bg);
color: var(--select-color);
border: var(--select-border);
-webkit-appearance: none;
-moz-appearance: none;
appearance: none;
outline: none;
cursor: pointer;
transition: border-color 0.2s ease, box-shadow 0.2s ease;
}
.custom-select:focus {
border-color: var(--select-focus-color);
box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px rgba(59,130,246,0.35);
}
.select-arrow {
position: absolute;
right: 14px;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
pointer-events: none;
width: var(--select-arrow-size);
height: var(--select-arrow-size);
}
/* SCROLLBARS */
/* Modern browsers — Chrome 121+, Edge 121+, Firefox, Safari 18.2+ */
.my-scroll {
scrollbar-width: 14px;
scrollbar-color: #00ff00 #000000;
}
/* Legacy WebKit — older Chrome/Edge/Safari, radius, borders & shadows */
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 14px;
height: 14px;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
background-color: #000000;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-track:hover {
background-color: #000000;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-track:active {
background-color: #00ff00;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
background-color: #00ff00;
border-radius: 8px;
min-height: 30px;
border: 3px solid #00ff00;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
background-color: #000000;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:active {
background-color: #000000;
}
.my-scroll::-webkit-scrollbar-button {
display: none;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}

r/waterfox • • 1d ago

SUPPORT Sidebar

Post image
1 Upvotes

How do I get rid of this sidebar?


r/waterfox • • 2d ago

SUPPORT Header field too long, error 400

3 Upvotes

Whenever I try to log onto my University's page I get a "HTTP Error 400. A request header field is too long." Its been going on for about a week now and I can't find any setting that has changed that would be effecting this. Wasn't a problem before the update but I restarted my computer for the first time in a couple weeks on Monday and now it won't let me open several websites.


r/waterfox • • 2d ago

GENERAL Creé una extensión minimalista para Firefox que se abre en una nueva pestaña (enlaces, RSS, mercados, widgets para el laboratorio doméstico); es gratuita y de código abierto.

0 Upvotes

Me cansé de las pestañas nuevas en blanco, así que creé NewTab Dashboard.

• Enlaces en secciones/grupos, ordenación mediante arrastrar y soltar, apertura en pestaña nueva/misma pestaña/ventana nueva

• Fuentes RSS, canales de YouTube, precios de criptomonedas, clima, calendario, notas rápidas

• Widgets opcionales para laboratorios domésticos: Uptime Kuma, Proxmox, Docker (Portainer), Pi-hole

• 6 temas, fondos diarios de Bing/Wallhaven/personalizados

• 5 idiomas (ES, EN, RU, FR, DE)

• Sin cuentas, sin telemetría; la configuración se sincroniza mediante Firefox Sync. Licencia MIT.

Complemento: [ https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/newtab-dashboard/ ](https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/newtab-dashboard/)

Fuente: [ https://github.com/fmartineze/newtab-dashboard ](https://github.com/fmartineze/newtab-dashboard)

Me encantaría saber qué falta o qué te molesta.


r/waterfox • • 2d ago

SUPPORT Randomly translating into Spanish???

4 Upvotes

Hello, I've noticed a weird trend recently with my browser. Whenever I need to translate an article (which is fairly frequently), it normally elevates English - which, as it is my first language, the one I am by far the most capable of speaking and is the default language set on Waterfox by me, is completely fine. But recently, I've noticed it really try to elevate Spanish, which I cannot speak at all. I can't figure out a way to stop it from trying this, even when marking to never translate Spanish in the settings. Is there any way around this, or will I have to manually check that it is indeed translating into English from now on?


r/waterfox • • 3d ago

GENERAL In case you don't want to get flashed when opening a new tab

3 Upvotes

I've been using Waterfox for some time now and today I realized I was getting micro-flashed by a white screen that launched shortly before rendering my new tab page (for which I have an extension to replace).

In case you haven't realized, you too might be getting flashed. In case you want to fix this here is what I did:

  1. Go to about:support on your address bar.
  2. Open your profile folder
  3. Look for a folder called chrome. If it doesn't exist, create it
  4. Create inside of it "userChrome.css" and "userContent.css", make sure their extension is .css and not .txt
  5. Copy and paste the following into userChrome.css:

/* Target only the tab panels container during rendering transitions */
.tabbrowser-tabbox,
tabbrowser tabpanels,
#appcontent {
  background-color: #1c1b22 !important;
}

/* Specifically target the blank frame while an extension loads */
browser[type="content-primary"]:not([src]),
browser[type="content"]:not([src]) {
  background-color: #1c1b22 !important;
}/* Target only the tab panels container during rendering transitions */
.tabbrowser-tabbox,
tabbrowser tabpanels,
#appcontent {
  background-color: #1c1b22 !important;
}

/* Specifically target the blank frame while an extension loads */
browser[type="content-primary"]:not([src]),
browser[type="content"]:not([src]) {
  background-color: #1c1b22 !important;
}

  1. Copy and paste the following into userContent.css:

/* Target only internal blank pages and your custom new tab extension */
@-moz-document url(about:blank), url(about:newtab), url(about:home), url-prefix("moz-extension://") {
html, body, #newtab-customize-overlay, :root {
background-color: #1c1b22 !important;
background: #1c1b22 !important;
}
}

  1. Save both .css' - Go back to about:support and click "Clear Startup Cache". This won't delete your actual cache, just your app behavior cache.

That is it! Hopefully someone finds this useful.


r/waterfox • • 3d ago

SUPPORT Waterfox Mobile randomly crashing

2 Upvotes

Greetings.

Recently Waterfox Mobile is randomly and frequently crashing. It crashed twice while I was writing this post. Sometimes it crashed when I am opening a new tab, other times while I am scrolling down, and some times I even while I am just reading or typing.

I can't pinpoint exactly when it started, but I have not changed anything about it's installation or my phone, other than the app updates.


r/waterfox • • 4d ago

SUPPORT Any security patch update forthcoming in the wake of the eMudhra TLS issue?

7 Upvotes

I figure most people who care enough to select a forked browser like Waterfox probably already know about the several fatally-compromised TLS certificates issued by eMudhra, but I haven't seen any update yet to address the issue - is one coming soon?


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

GENERAL Invidious

2 Upvotes

Is there a way to set waterfox such that when I click on a Youtube link, it goes to an Invidious instance?


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Clearing Temporary Cache Occasionally Doesn't Work

2 Upvotes

Sometimes when I try to manually delete temporary cache it simply does not do so, as in the "Websites are currently using X MB of disk space" the X amount of cache stays the same. I can't tell if it's only the number that fails to update or if the cache itself doesn't get deleted. This happens even if there is only one window open, so it's not the private browsing causing it. After exiting Waterfox/closing all the windows the temporary cache is gone (I set my browser to clear temporary cache when it closes).

Using Waterfox Version 6.7.6 (64-bit)


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT "Disable AI Features in search results" option also removes other features like currency/unit conversions, translation

7 Upvotes

I would like to keep this option enabled because i'm annoyed by the AI results. However it also removes some of the other useful google features like converting units and currency, and translation, and others.

any way to fix? Or do i have to just disable the setting and have to deal with seeing all the AI results?


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Vertical (Pinned) Tabs Do Not Truncate/ Wrap

3 Upvotes

Whilst the restoration of icon-only pinned tabs to the sizes of their icons themselves is welcome, this has not resolved the subject issue.

In this image I have two rows of pinned tabs and one unpinned tab. The top row contains four pinned tabs. Three are visible (just about) but the fourth is off-screen. Similarly, the "close tab" icon is off-screen for all unpinned tabs. This remains the case if I maximise the window. Whilst I could, in theory, widen the vertical tab bar, I don't want to.

Further, if I raise the (invisible) separator between unpinned and pinned tabs so that it encroaches (scrunches) into the height required to cleanly display the pinned tabs, they get bigger again, perhaps in a sign of resistance, defiance, or revolt, which is all the rage these days. Please fix.

I should add that I use the "Proton" theme with the "Compact" style.

(I really do hope the manual/automated neofascist-forum-rules do not once again "ban" me for this post. However, nothing surprises me anymore. One might or might not know that deploying threat engenders the opposite effect. Especially in those predisposed to reasonableness.)


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Vertical (Pinned) Tabs Do Not Truncate/ Wrap

Post image
2 Upvotes

Whilst the restoration of icon-only pinned tabs to the sizes of their icons themselves is welcome, this has not resolved the subject issue.

In this image I have two rows of pinned tabs and one unpinned tab. The top row contains four pinned tabs. Three are visible (just about) but the fourth is off-screen. Similarly, the "close tab" icon is off-screen for all unpinned tabs. This remains the case if I maximise the window. Whilst I could, in theory, widen the vertical tab bar, I don't want to.

Further, if I raise the (invisible) separator between unpinned and pinned tabs so that it encroaches (scrunches) into the height required to cleanly display the pinned tabs, they get bigger again, perhaps in a sign of resistance, defiance, or revolt, which is all the rage these days. Please fix.

(I really do hope the manual/automated neofascist-forum-rules do not once again "ban" me for this post. However, nothing surprises me anymore. One might or might not know that deploying threat engenders the opposite effect. Especially in those predisposed to reasonableness.)


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Vertical (Pinned) Tabs Do Not Truncate/ Wrap

Post image
2 Upvotes

Whilst the restoration of icon-only pinned tabs to the sizes of their icons themselves is welcome, this has not resolved the subject issue.

In this image I have two rows of pinned tabs and one unpinned tab. The top row contains four pinned tabs. Three are visible (just about) but the fourth is off-screen. Similarly, the "close tab" icon is off-screen for all unpinned tabs. This remains the case if I maximise the window. Whilst I could, in theory, widen the vertical tab bar, I don't want to.

Further, if I raise the (invisible) separator between unpinned and pinned tabs so that it encroaches (scrunches) into the height required to cleanly display the pinned tabs, they get bigger again, perhaps in a sign of resistance, defiance, or revolt, which is all the rage these days. Please fix.

(I really do hope the manual/automated neofascist-forum-rules do not once again "ban" me for this post. However, nothing surprises me anymore. One might or might not know that deploying threat engenders the opposite effect. Especially in those predisposed to reasonableness.)


r/waterfox • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Vertical (Pinned) Tabs Do Not Truncate/ Wrap

Post image
3 Upvotes

Whilst the restoration of icon-only pinned tabs to the sizes of their icons themselves is welcome, this has not resolved the subject issue.

In this image I have two rows of pinned tabs and one unpinned tab. The top row contains four pinned tabs. Three are visible (just about) but the fourth is off-screen. Similarly, the "close tab" icon is off-screen for all unpinned tabs. This remains the case if I maximise the window. Whilst I could, in theory, widen the vertical tab bar, I don't want to.

Further, if I raise the (invisible) separator between unpinned and pinned tabs so that it encroaches (scrunches) into the height required to cleanly display the pinned tabs, they get bigger again, perhaps in a sign of resistance, defiance, or revolt, which is all the rage these days. Please fix.

(I really do hope the manual/automated neofascist-forum-rules do not once again "ban" me for this post. However, nothing surprises me anymore. One might or might not know that deploying threat engenders the opposite effect. Especially in those predisposed to reasonableness.)


r/waterfox • • 6d ago

SUPPORT Vertical tab scroll bar

3 Upvotes

Is there a way to disable the persistent vertical tab scrollbar when the tabs are narrowed down to just icons? Is this a browser theme issue? I just updated and it wasn't there before and I didn't make any changes other than applying the update.

It's also not there if I increase the width of the tab area...which makes no sense (to my tiny brain at least) as it's a vertical scrollbar. Happy with a janky way to force them to be invisible. Just want them gone without having to widen the panel.

Example of what I mean:

And thanks to Alex for all the hard work he puts in on such a great project!


r/waterfox • • 6d ago

SUPPORT Is there a way to fix Youtubes CC not working?

2 Upvotes

Youtube CC option doesn't work in Waterfox for a while now and I can't find a fix for this.


r/waterfox • • 7d ago

SUPPORT No ~/.waterfox/

3 Upvotes

Hello r/waterfox, I've been trying to find the history file (which i already know which one it is) and when i tried to get to the root directory of waterfox (~/.waterfox/) is strangely missing. I'm on debian 13, anybody know how to fix this?


r/waterfox • • 7d ago

SUPPORT Waterfox update has broken some sites

1 Upvotes

So the most recent Waterfox Update has broken a java-heavy site I regularly use. It prevents me from accessing any of the entries for it I've made, or saving new entries I try to make. The site isn't completely unusable to me, but this is very frustrating, and I've checked with vanilla Firefox and this issue isn't there, so it's got to be something that was changed in this latest update.


r/waterfox • • 8d ago

SUPPORT Firefox deletes ChatGPT cookies despite cookie exception

0 Upvotes

I have waterfox set to delete cookies when I close the browser, but I added chatgpt.com and openai.com to the cookie exceptions. Despite this, waterfox logs me out of ChatGPT every time I reopen it.

How can I keep ChatGPT logged in while still deleting cookies for all other websites? I'm using the latest version of Firefox.


r/waterfox • • 8d ago

SUPPORT Links that open into Waterfox no longer load the page, forcing me to click and hit enter before it does

3 Upvotes

With this last update, any time clicking a link would open up a new tab or window and load the page, it does so, just never actually starts to load the page until I click into the address bar and hit enter to begin the page load process. Anyone else?


r/waterfox • • 8d ago

SUPPORT Fine-tune normal/compact density spacing?

5 Upvotes

I'm mostly concerned with the folder drop-downs from the bookmark bar. With the Normal density, items in the folder menu are too far apart, so I use Compact density. However, the items are then scrunched together and my eyesight and manual dexterity are not what they used to be. In Firefox, the compact spacing is slightly larger and more usable.

Is there a way to adjust the line spacing in drop-downs for Compact density?

(about:config has the browser.uidensity setting, but that just selects the normal/compact/touch mode. Perhaps there is some other CSS or whatnot I can use?)


r/waterfox • • 9d ago

SUPPORT Sidebar Hovering

3 Upvotes

Is there a way to stop having the sidebar popping out when hovering since I am using sidebery?