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ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
It has everything to do the browser feature known as "custom search engines", which is a URL replacement capability that was never limited to actual search engines.

As I said before, Mozilla is going to merge your bookmark keywords with custom search engines: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650874

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
That's by design:

>This feature is separate from the about:profiles experience, and we currently have no plans to change how about:profiles works. You may continue to use about:profiles if that is better for your workflow.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-p...

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
These so-called "hardening scripts" cause a lot of issues and volunteers have to waste their time helping clueless users who copied them without understanding what they do.
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Disabling anonymous telemetry just harms the project. It doesn't give you any "privacy" benefit.
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Browsers discard tabs by default, but only when your system is running out of memory. You can use Auto Tab Discard to discard all or most tabs automatically after a certain time.
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Use this extension created by a Mozilla employee: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/chrome-mask
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Chrome has always had the capability of adding custom search engines. They are just not entangled with your bookmarks.

Firefox is actually going to remove this feature from bookmarks, and you'll have to create new engines from this page: about:preferences#search

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
If you want them to fix it:

1) Generate a profile performance with https://profiler.firefox.com/

2) Submit the link with your results to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Updates aren't supposed to reset any setting. Submit a bug report for them to fix whatever is doing that for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
File an issue on Bugzilla with your latest crash ID to help the developers fix it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
Power users interested in this niche feature can use a script: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1m594nv/multi_tab_...
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
> both to isolate stuff to break cookie tracking

You don't need containers for this: https://total-cookie-protection-test.netlify.app/

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
You're either not using uBlock Origin Lite or do not know what the "per-site switches" are: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Per-site-switches
ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

ReadCarlBarks··on How to Firefox
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

ReadCarlBarks··on Where's Firefox going next?
Thank you for loving Firefox - https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/m/m-p/16863/highl...
ReadCarlBarks··on uBlock Origin – filter lists and advanced features
I agree. I posted a link to Old Reddit accidentally.

Anyway, I've decided to delete that post. I'm going to repost it somewhere else with better formatting.

ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox 137 starts rolling out tab groups
Discussion with the developers: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/help-shape-the-fu....
ReadCarlBarks··on Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript
Add this to your uBlock Origin filters:

    reddit.com$removeparam=tl
ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
NoScript is a relic of the past and redundant with uBlock Origin - https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
ReadCarlBarks··on ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers
That'd be pointless, since Firefox already isolates third-party cookies and site data by default now.
ReadCarlBarks··on Plastic – A Modern NES Emulator That Works with EGUI and TUI
puNES also deserves more attention. It is highly accurate and supports obscure mappers and Famicom Disk System games (being the only emulator that plays the QD format): https://github.com/punesemu/puNES
ReadCarlBarks··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
When a site doesn't work properly, please use this form to notify Mozilla: https://webcompat.com/issues/new
ReadCarlBarks··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
He's not asking about the User-Agent string sent to websites.

He's asking about how the browser identifies itself to the Windows operating system. According to him, other forks say simply "Firefox," which makes it impossible to run them alongside the official Firefox release.

ReadCarlBarks··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
You can vote for features on Mozilla Connect: https://connect.mozilla.org/
ReadCarlBarks··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Vote here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/split-screen-tab-in-tab...
ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
The meta bug was created 3 months ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894060
ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
You can open different profiles by typing about:profiles into the address bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove...

ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
Firefox equivalents:

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/auto-close-tabs/

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/limit-active-tabs/

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