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Extensions
Preferences
Chrome
Android
Enabling off-main-thread compositing
Fiddling
External tools
KDE integration
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 62.0.

Extensions

Extensions not available on Firefox Add-ons:

Bypass Paywalls for Firefox

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
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.sendRefererHeader	1	Only send HTTP referer header for links clicked on, not for images/media/etc. Breaks some Websites.
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
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
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx	2	Double CSS pixels, for retina displays
widget.content.gtk-theme-override	Breeze:light	When using a dark GTK theme, fix colors for widgets in Firefox
xpinstall.signatures.required	false	Enable installation of unsigned extensions (needed for addons not available on addons.mozilla.org)
security.insecure_connection_text.enabled	true	Show icon/text that non-HTTPS sites are insecure
security.insecure_connection_icon.enabled	true	Show icon/text that non-HTTPS sites are insecure
general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel	false	Disable smooth scrolling for mouse input (should use XInput2 instead)
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets	true	Enable support for userChrome.css and userContent.css

Experimental settings:

network.predictor.enable-prefetch

true

None in use.

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

Set to true:

layers.acceleration.force-enabled
gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated
layers.omtp.enabled

You can also set:

layers.acceleration.draw-fps

to display a 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.

KDE integration

Legacy stuff:

mozilla-kde.patch upstream
openSUSE/kmozillahelper: kmozillahelper for showing file dialogs, etc. Needs mozilla-kde.patch
Plasma Integration Firefox Add-on along with plasma-browser-integration (available in most Linux distributions)

In Firefox 64 and 2019-vintage Linux distributions, can also use "desktop portal" support.

xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde packages
Set environment variable GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 for firefox.desktop (or globally once crash in Thunderbird is fixed):

cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Entry" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Action new-private-window" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Action new-window" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
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-This list is current as of Firefox 21.0.
+This list is current as of Firefox 62.0.
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-=== Customization ===
+Extensions not available on Firefox Add-ons:
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- * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dotjs/|dotjs]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scriptish/|Scriptish]], what I've started using as a replacement for [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748|Greasemonkey]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108|Stylish]] and [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylishsync/|Stylish Sync]]

=== Web development ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271|ColorZilla]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843|Firebug]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10869/|JSONView]]
 * [[http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html|Google's Page Speed]]: I previously used [[http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/|Yahoo's YSlow]], but switched because [[http://code.google.com/p/page-speed/|Page Speed is open-source]]. Functionality is mostly equivalent, and I honestly don't use the extension enough to notice the differences.
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14328/|Rainbow]]
 * --([[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60|Web Developer]])--: has bugs that slows down Firefox significantly when you've a lot of tabs. Disabled, though still useful.

=== Other stuff ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/|AutoPager]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324|Session Manager]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4781|Automatic Save Folder]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1812|CoLT]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/|Copy ShortURL]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delicious-bookmarks/|Delicious Bookmarks]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domcrypt/|DOMCrypt]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dominant-color/|Dominant Color]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/|FlashVideoReplacer]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxtophone/|Fox to Phone]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9549|Long URL Please]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2780|Mobile Barcoder]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592|No Squint]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207|Open in Browser]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxy-selector/|Proxy Selector]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661|Read it Later]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/|User Agent Switcher]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flattr/|Flattr]] and [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aflattr/|aFlattr]]

=== Privacy ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/|Adblock Plus]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433|Flashblock]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackerblock/|PrivacyChoice TrackerBlock]], which should be installed from [[http://www.privacychoice.org/|PrivacyChoice]]

=== UI and Behavior ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aaapptabs/|Aaapptabs]]: Hide back & forward buttons, URL bars when using App Tabs.
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-app-tabs/|Easy App Tabs]]
 * [[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
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-menu/|Personal Menu]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remember-passwords/|Remember Passwords]]: force Firefox to remember passwords for Websites that otherwise disable it
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicator/|SPDY Indicator]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-badge/|Tab Badge]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uploadprogress/|Upload Progress]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/462|Unhide Passwords]]

=== KDE integration add-ons ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/oxygen-kde/versions/|Oxygen KDE]] for styling Firefox a little bit better w/ KDE's Oxygen
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357|KDE wallet password integration]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13078/|xclear]] adds a clear button to URL and search fields, ala Qt/KDE text fields

=== Experimental ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-background-tabs/|Suspend background tabs]] suspends timers, etc in unused background tabs.

=== Mozilla/Mozilla Labs ===

 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/|Add-on Compatibility Reporter]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543/|Nightly Tester Tools]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13661/|Test Pilot]]

=== Older stuff ===

Extensions that I don't use anymore.

 * [[http://autopagerize.net/|Autopagerize]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/|BetterPrivacy]] removes Flash LSOs and other tracking cookies
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1250|Grab and Drag]]: for my tablet PC pipe dream.
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2933|Link Widgets]]
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106/|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
+ * [[https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox|Bypass Paywalls for Firefox]]
-Line 118:
+Line 23:
-|| browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand || true || Restore tabs on demand (Firefox 8 and later) ||
|| browser.ssl_override_behavior || 2 ||<|2>Turn off annoying SSL certificate behavior ||
|| browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert || true ||
-Line 125:
+Line 27:
-|| network.http.pipelining || true ||<|3> 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.http.sendRefererHeader || 1 || Only send HTTP referer header for links clicked on, not for images/media/etc. Breaks some Websites. ||
-Line 134:
+Line 33:
-|| services.sync.prefs.sync.extensions.nosquint.exceptions || true || Sync NoSquint exceptions w/ Firefox Sync ||
-Line 139:
+Line 37:
-|| 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 ||
-Line 143:
+Line 38:
+|| widget.content.gtk-theme-override || Breeze:light || When using a dark GTK theme, fix colors for widgets in Firefox ||
-Line 144:
+Line 40:
+|| security.insecure_connection_text.enabled || true ||<|2> Show icon/text that non-HTTPS sites are insecure ||
|| security.insecure_connection_icon.enabled || true ||
|| general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel || false || Disable smooth scrolling for mouse input (should use XInput2 instead) ||
|| toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets || true || Enable support for userChrome.css and userContent.css ||
-Line 147:
+Line 47:
-|| browser.cache.use_new_backend || 1 || New (2014) cache backend ||
|| dom.cycle_collector.incremental || true || Incremental JavaScript GC (garbage collection) ||
+|| network.predictor.enable-prefetch || true || ||

None in use.
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+Line 132:
+=== 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/
-Line 232:
+Line 143:
-[[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:
-Line 238:
+Line 147:
- * 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
}}}
+ * gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated
 * layers.omtp.enabled
-Line 253:
+Line 154:
-to display a pink FPS counter in the top left corner. If you see the counter, than OMTC and layer acceleration are working.
+to display a FPS counter in the top left corner. If you see the counter, than OMTC and layer acceleration are working.
-Line 260:
+Line 161:
+== 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.

== KDE integration ==

Legacy stuff:

 * [[http://www.rosenauer.org/hg/mozilla/summary|mozilla-kde.patch upstream]]
 * [[https://github.com/openSUSE/kmozillahelper/|openSUSE/kmozillahelper]]: kmozillahelper for showing file dialogs, etc. Needs mozilla-kde.patch
 * [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/|Plasma Integration Firefox Add-on]] along with `plasma-browser-integration` (available in most Linux distributions)

In Firefox 64 and 2019-vintage Linux distributions, can also use "desktop portal" support.

 * `xdg-desktop-portal` and `xdg-desktop-portal-kde` packages
 * Set environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` for firefox.desktop (or globally once crash in Thunderbird is fixed):

{{{#!highlight sh numbers=off
cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Entry" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Action new-private-window" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
kwriteconfig5 --file=$HOME/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop --group="Desktop Action new-window" "Exec" "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u"
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== 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/
 * https://github.com/overdodactyl/ShadowFox

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Extensions

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Using Roboto or another font instead of Open Sans

Font size adjustments

Cache location

Enabling off-main-thread compositing

Fiddling

External tools

KDE integration

Interesting reading

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Extensions

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

KDE integration

Interesting reading

About SamatsWiki

User

Page Actions

Quicklinks

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