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How to immediately autodelete cookies in modern versions of Firefox?

My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.

To do this, I've used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I've discovered now that it doesn't work with Firefox's Strict Mode (the extension says "strict mode is not supported").

All in all I think my understanding of Firefox's capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I'd be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.

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firefox·Firefoxbyرضا

does firefox do video smoothing?

I use invidious for youtube watching. and I set the resolution to 480p (because of my internet) I have noticed for sometime that the video looks more smooth and less pixel-y than before. but when I used video snapshot (which take a frame) and I saw that the frame that firefox saved to my drive is pixel-y and less smooth and not like the video it shows to me.

I even checked with screenshot (which take picture of screen and not a direct video frame extract) and I can see that it is smoothed.

what is happening?

could it be AMD ? could it be my desktop KDE doing something?

it is a bit hard to show it but I can clearly see that the video frame I extract is less smooth that the video shown.

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firefox·Firefoxbyzippy

Tab Notes in Firefox

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/70243886

Experimental feature but can be enabled in firefox stable in Settings, Firefox Labs, Tab notes under Productivity.

I found it really useful for when Im researching something and have lots of papers open in separate tabs. Though Im using it more like tab tags, since notes show up when you hover over tabs. It lets me see at a glance which specific topic a tab is related to if I forget.

What do you all think? I was kinda surprised how little discussion I have seen on this, considering that no other browser have something like it. Firefoxs implementation is pretty smart too, instead of just being a sticky notes widget in the browser (like the one in Vivaldi).

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Anyone using *Canvas Blocker* add-on?

Edit: I found out that the add-on warns about high CPU usage for some of its presets (Preferences->General->Presets). Using a different preset has removed that ~10% CPU usage.

Some preliminary context: Since one or two updates ago, I've noticed that Firefox is using around 10% CPU even then all tabs are unloaded. This didn't happen before. The add-ons I use are still the same, and I have blocked the new LLM functionality. (Maybe someone else noticed the same?) Anyway, in order to investigate, I'm switching off the add-ons one by one, as usually done, checking if the situation improves.

While doing so I was wondering whether I still need Canvas Blocker. I see its most recent reviews are 4 years old now. Does anyone know whether it's still needed for privacy, or if Firefox now provides some of the same functionality built-in? I do use AdBlock Origin as well.

Thank you for info and opinions!

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firefox·FirefoxbySteve

Anyone notice that Firefox has become hella unstable recently?

I switched from chrome when ublock stopped working.

All was well for a while but in the past few weeks I’ve had increasing problems with Firefox not loading pages, and if I try the same url in chrome it loads no problem. This happens even with the VPN turned off.

Firefox also has like 3x as many processes as I have tabs open, and task manager fails to kill all of them.

Windows 11.

I could be blaming the wrong programs, who knows. Its getting painful.

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@launchdaemon/116959995025937888

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@launchdaemon/116959995025937888

@firefox Not sure that leaving the fediverse - where all of the IT people and developers live - to go back to the nazi site was the best idea.

But clearly, telling you that your browser was done 10 years ago and that we dont want your AI garbge had an impact. (buffs nails on shirt)

Have fun with the nazis.

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firefox·FirefoxbyPrathas

Best dark-mode add-on? Dark Reader changes your typing color in Google Sheets

Dark Reader is great with nearly everything except Google Sheets for some reason, which is why I seek an alternative:

  1. Install and enable Dark Reader
  2. Open Google Sheets and type some text in cells
  3. It's also dark and illegible, but the font color is normal if Dark Reader is turned off for Google Sheets

This is unfortunately important because a massive amount of my work depends on Google Sheets. Other than this one issue, it works well with everything else.

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firefox·Firefoxbyyaw

[solved] firefox on Linux change 'alt+1' to 'ctrl+1'

Hi I use firefox on Linux and want to change to the first, second, third, ..., last tab with ctrl+1/2/3/.../9 instead of alt+1/2/3/.../9 because alt is already mapped to changing desktops. any idea how I could accompilish this?

edit1: I use mac and windows at work and there the shortcuts are ctrl+<number>. It would be so nice to have consistent shortcuts 🐧

[SOLUTION] install ctrl+number extension recommended by @[email protected]

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