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Contents

Extensions
Adblock Plus
Preferences
Chrome
Android
Enabling off-main-thread compositing
Fiddling
External tools
Interesting reading

One of the reasons I use Mozilla Firefox is its huge universe of extensions, scripts, styles, and other add-ons which can make it behave the way you want it to. I've customized my Firefox installation pretty extensively.

This list is current as of Firefox 21.0.

Extensions

Customization

dotjs
Scriptish, what I've started using as a replacement for Greasemonkey
Stylish and Stylish Sync

Web development

ColorZilla
Firebug
JSONView
Google's Page Speed: I previously used Yahoo's YSlow, but switched because Page Speed is open-source. Functionality is mostly equivalent, and I honestly don't use the extension enough to notice the differences.
Rainbow
Web Developer: has bugs that slows down Firefox significantly when you've a lot of tabs. Disabled, though still useful.

Other stuff

Privacy

Adblock Plus
Flashblock
PrivacyChoice TrackerBlock, which should be installed from PrivacyChoice

UI and Behavior

Aaapptabs: Hide back & forward buttons, URL bars when using App Tabs.
Easy App Tabs
HTML Desktop Notifications
Open In Chrome: adds menu item for opening current page in Google Chrome
Personal Menu
Remember Passwords: force Firefox to remember passwords for Websites that otherwise disable it
SPDY Indicator
Tab Badge
Upload Progress
Unhide Passwords

KDE integration add-ons

Oxygen KDE for styling Firefox a little bit better w/ KDE's Oxygen
KDE wallet password integration
xclear adds a clear button to URL and search fields, ala Qt/KDE text fields

Experimental

Suspend background tabs suspends timers, etc in unused background tabs.

Mozilla/Mozilla Labs

Older stuff

Extensions that I don't use anymore.

Autopagerize
BetterPrivacy removes Flash LSOs and other tracking cookies
Grab and Drag: for my tablet PC pipe dream.
Link Widgets
Operator: slow (difficult for an extension to parse DOM for microformats).
Collusion
Facebook Blocker
GrabMyBooks

Adblock Plus

My exceptions:

@@||duckduckgo.com^$document

and:

EasyList
Antisocial
Adversity

Preferences

user.js settings I use:

Setting	Value	Rationale
browser.backspace_action	1	Bind backspace to scroll up a page
browser.display.normal_lineheight_calc_control	1	Not exactly sure what this does, but fixes some line-height/font rendering problems
browser.fullscreen.autohide	false	Prevent tab/URL bar from auto-hiding in full-screen mode
browser.safebrowsing.enabled	false	Disable Safe Browsing and malware checking (don't care for either on Linux)
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled	false
browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand	true	Restore tabs on demand (Firefox 8 and later)
browser.ssl_override_behavior	2	Turn off annoying SSL certificate behavior
browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert	true	Turn off annoying SSL certificate behavior
image.animation_mode	once	Animated GIFs only animate once
intl.charset.default	UTF-8	Default character set
layout.css.dpi	0	Use system-reported DPI, always (normal behavior may sometimes use 96 DPI)
layout.spellcheckDefault	2	Enable spell checking for both INPUT and TEXTAREA fields
network.http.pipelining	true	Increase network performance
network.http.pipelining.ssl	true
network.http.proxy.pipelining	true
network.http.sendRefererHeader	1	Only send HTTP referer header for links clicked on, not for images/media/etc
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto	true
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns	true	Send DNS requests through proxies
privacy.trackingprotection.enabled	true	Enable Firefox's Tracking Protection
security.dialog_enable_delay	0	No wait when prompted to install unsigned extensions
services.sync.addons.ignoreUserEnabledChanges	true	Do not sync the enabled/disabled state of Add-ons
services.sync.prefs.sync.extensions.nosquint.exceptions	true	Sync NoSquint exceptions w/ Firefox Sync
ui.caretBlinkTime	0	Disable cursor blinking
ui.allow_platform_file_picker	false	Don't use the horrid GTK file picker
browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled	false	Don't just highlight just the domain in the URL bar
browser.urlbar.trimURLs	false	Don't strip http:// from URLs
extensions.nosquint.exceptions	.sourceforge.net .mozilla.org google.com/contacts google.com/reader .google.[] /~ google.com/finance .amazon.com .samat.org *.animevivo.com	Annoying tendency to get overridden…
extensions.scriptish.enableScriptRefreshing	false	Disable checking if scripts on disk have been modified. Disable when developing scripts
extensions.scriptish.cache.enabled	true	Cache user scripts and dependencies in memory
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx	2	Double CSS pixels, for retina displays
xpinstall.signatures.required	false	Enable installation of unsigned extensions (needed for addons not available on addons.mozilla.org)

Needs research:

widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158076#c137

Experimental settings:

browser.cache.use_new_backend	1	New (2014) cache backend
dom.cycle_collector.incremental	true	Incremental JavaScript GC (garbage collection)

Chrome

Contents of my userChrome.css:

   1 /* Font preferences for AwesomeBar dropdown
   2  * 
   3  * Adjusts font size, underlines URLs, and corrects colors
   4  */
   5 .ac-comment
   6 {
   7   font-size: 100% !important;
   8 }
   9 
  10 .ac-url-text
  11 {
  12   color: #306090 !important;
  13   text-decoration: underline !important;
  14 }
  15 
  16 .ac-url-text[selected="true"]
  17 {
  18   color: white !important;
  19 }
  20 
  21 /* Use monospaced font for AwesomeBar */
  22 #urlbar
  23 {
  24   font-family: monospace !important;
  25   font-size: 14px !important;
  26 }
  27 
  28 /* Combines Stop/Reload buttons, such that only one is shown at a time
  29  *
  30  * Note: May require button reordering (e.g reverse order of stop/reload
  31  * buttons) if the below does not work
  32  *
  33  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/10
  34  * Also, see bug 343396: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&id=343396
  35  */
  36 #stop-button[disabled="true"] { display:none; } 
  37 #stop-button:not([disabled]) + #reload-button { display:none; }
  38 
  39 /* Italicize unread tabs
  40  *
  41  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/8247
  42  */
  43 #content tab:not([selected]) { font-style: italic !important; }
  44 
  45 /* Display keyword field in Bookmark dialog
  46  *
  47  * Derived from user style: http://userstyles.org/styles/8250
  48  */
  49 #editBMPanel_keywordRow { visibility: visible; }
  50 
  51 /* Hide search and go buttons */
  52 .search-go-button,
  53 .search-go-button-stack,
  54 #go-button
  55 {
  56   display: none !important;
  57 }

Android

Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans

Go to about:config
Set to "Roboto", "Nokia Pure Text", or "Alte Haas Grotesk"
- font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode
- font.name.sans-serif.x-user-def
- font.name.sans-serif.x-western

Font size adjustments

Go to about:config
Set font.minimum-size.x-unicode and font.minimum-size.x-western to 14
Set font.size.inflation.minTwips to "140"

Cache location

On devices w/ 8–16 GB memory, store Firefox's cache on the external SD card:

Go to about:config
Set browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to one of:
- /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.fennec/files/cache/
- /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox_beta/files/cache/
- /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/cache/

Enabling off-main-thread compositing

How to help testing off-main-thread compositing from the Mozilla Gfx Team Blog describes everything that needs to be done. In short:

Set to true:

layers.acceleration.force-enabled
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-opacity
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-transform
layers.async-video.enabled

and into ~/.bash_profile (warning: this will cause all Firefox, including stable versions, to use OMTC):

export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1

You can also set:

layers.acceleration.draw-fps

to display a pink FPS counter in the top left corner. If you see the counter, than OMTC and layer acceleration are working.

722012 – [Meta] Implement OMTC on Linux tracks whether OMTC has been enabled on Linux.

Fiddling

To tinker w/ browser styles/events/etc, navigate to chrome://browser/content/browser.xul and launch the built-in developer tools.

External tools

https://gist.github.com/f1u77y/715f0dd03fc18039a6549de557370b97: Exports styles from Stylish extension (stored in stylish.sqlite) into a JSON file that can be loaded into Stylus.

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-This list is current as of Firefox 14.0.
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+ * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/|FlashVideoReplacer]]
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+ * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-notifications/|HTML Desktop Notifications]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-chrome/|Open In Chrome]]: adds menu item for opening current page in Google Chrome
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+ * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remember-passwords/|Remember Passwords]]: force Firefox to remember passwords for Websites that otherwise disable it
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+ * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oxygen-kde/versions/|Oxygen KDE]] for styling Firefox a little bit better w/ KDE's Oxygen
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+=== Experimental ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-background-tabs/|Suspend background tabs]] suspends timers, etc in unused background tabs.
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+|| browser.safebrowsing.enabled || false ||<|2> Disable Safe Browsing and malware checking (don't care for either on Linux) ||
|| browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled || false ||
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+Line 122:
-|| keyword.url || https://encrypted.google.com/search?q= || Use Google Encrypted Search for keyword queries from Awesome Bar ||
+|| intl.charset.default || UTF-8 || Default character set ||
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+Line 125:
-|| network.dnsCacheEntries || 128 || Increase internal DNS cache ||
|| network.http.pipelining || true ||<|4> Increase network performance ||
+|| network.http.pipelining || true ||<|3> Increase network performance ||
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+Line 131:
+|| privacy.trackingprotection.enabled || true || Enable Firefox's Tracking Protection ||
-Line 120:
+Line 133:
+|| services.sync.addons.ignoreUserEnabledChanges || true || Do not sync the enabled/disabled state of Add-ons ||
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+Line 139:
-|| extensions.nosquint.exceptions || *.sourceforge.net *.mozilla.org google.com/contacts google.com/reader *.google.[*] */~* google.com/finance || Annoying tendency to get overridden… ||
+|| extensions.nosquint.exceptions || *.sourceforge.net *.mozilla.org google.com/contacts google.com/reader *.google.[*] */~* google.com/finance *.amazon.com *.samat.org *.animevivo.com || Annoying tendency to get overridden… ||
|| extensions.scriptish.enableScriptRefreshing || false || Disable checking if scripts on disk have been modified. Disable when developing scripts ||
|| extensions.scriptish.cache.enabled || true || Cache user scripts and dependencies in memory ||
|| layout.css.devPixelsPerPx || 2 || Double CSS pixels, for retina displays ||
|| xpinstall.signatures.required || false || Enable installation of unsigned extensions (needed for addons not available on addons.mozilla.org) ||

Needs research:

 * widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158076#c137

Experimental settings:

|| browser.cache.use_new_backend || 1 || New (2014) cache backend ||
|| dom.cycle_collector.incremental || true || Incremental JavaScript GC (garbage collection) ||
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+== Android ==

=== Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans ===

 1. Go to about:config
 2. Set to "Roboto", "Nokia Pure Text", or "Alte Haas Grotesk"
  * font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode
  * font.name.sans-serif.x-user-def
  * font.name.sans-serif.x-western

=== Font size adjustments ===

 1. Go to about:config
 2. Set font.minimum-size.x-unicode and font.minimum-size.x-western to 14
 3. Set font.size.inflation.minTwips to "140"

=== Cache location ===

On devices w/ 8–16 GB memory, store Firefox's cache on the external SD card:

 1. Go to about:config
 2. Set browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to one of:
  * /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.fennec/files/cache/
  * /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox_beta/files/cache/
  * /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/cache/

== Enabling off-main-thread compositing ==

[[http://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/how-to-help-testing-off-main-thread-compositing/|How to help testing off-main-thread compositing from the Mozilla Gfx Team Blog]] describes everything that needs to be done. In short:

Set to true:

 * layers.acceleration.force-enabled
 * layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled
 * layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-opacity
 * layers.offmainthreadcomposition.animate-transform
 * layers.async-video.enabled

and into ~/.bash_profile (warning: this will cause all Firefox, including stable versions, to use OMTC):

{{{#!highlight sh numbers=off
export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1
}}}

You can also set:

 * layers.acceleration.draw-fps

to display a pink FPS counter in the top left corner. If you see the counter, than OMTC and layer acceleration are working.

[[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722012|722012 – [Meta] Implement OMTC on Linux]] tracks whether OMTC has been enabled on Linux.

== Fiddling ==

To tinker w/ browser styles/events/etc, navigate to chrome://browser/content/browser.xul and launch the built-in developer tools.

== External tools ==

https://gist.github.com/f1u77y/715f0dd03fc18039a6549de557370b97: Exports styles from Stylish extension (stored in stylish.sqlite) into a JSON file that can be loaded into Stylus.

== Interesting reading ==

 * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5qlpai/how_to_remove_zoom_level_indicator_from_url_bar/|How to remove zoom level indicator from URL bar? : firefox]]
 * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5qius3/is_there_any_way_to_turn_off_the_zoom_indicator/|Is there any way to "turn off" the zoom indicator in 51? : firefox]]
 * [[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1069513#answer-787122|How can I add the CSS styles used by Firefox reader mode?]]
 * https://www.userchrome.org/

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Extensions

Customization

Web development

Other stuff

Privacy

UI and Behavior

KDE integration add-ons

Experimental

Mozilla/Mozilla Labs

Older stuff

Adblock Plus

Preferences

Chrome

Android

Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans

Font size adjustments

Cache location

Enabling off-main-thread compositing

Fiddling

External tools

Interesting reading

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Quicklinks

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Extensions

Customization

Web development

Other stuff

Privacy

UI and Behavior

KDE integration add-ons

Experimental

Mozilla/Mozilla Labs

Older stuff

Adblock Plus

Preferences

Chrome

Android

Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans

Font size adjustments

Cache location

Enabling off-main-thread compositing

Fiddling

External tools

Interesting reading

About SamatsWiki

User

Page Actions

Quicklinks

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