We’ve all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?
pocket.enabledto falseFirst thing I do every clean install
I looked up “pocket.enabled” in about:config, but there wasn’t an entry by that exact name. There was “extensions.pocket.enabled” though. Is that the same?
Thanks, I need to remember to do this tomorrow.
Just had to entirely do a fresh install like 6 hours ago.
Hey buddy did u remember
Just did it now, thanks for reminding me! 😊
What does it do?
Disables the builtin Pocket extension.
Thanks! Just did this.
Oh wow, that’s a lot!
Good to have something to read during commute.
browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled-> false
It removes the tab manager. The down facing arrow next to the minimize button at the top right.extensions.pocket.enabled-> false
Disable Pocketidentity.fxaccounts.enabled-> false
Disable Firefox accountmedia.autoplay.blocking_policy-> 2
You have to click the play button to play videos.media.peerconnection.enabled-> false
Disable WebRTCThe firefox account is actually neat. It syncs bookmarks, history and passwords between desktop, phone, laptop or wherever you use firefox.
- Mention 5 obscure about:config params to change without explaining them
- Refuse to elaborate
What do
browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabledandmedia.peerconnection.enableddo?media.peerconnection.enabledit disable WebRTC.browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabledit removes the tab manager. The down facing arrow next to the minimize button at the top right.media.peerconnection.enabledit disable WebRTC.Why would you want that? Doesn’t that block you from using basically any online call?
I don’t do online calls. Yes, it does block you from making online calls.
And why would you want that disabled besides not requiring it?
WebRTC leaks your IP allowing third-party websites to exploit the WebRTC in your browser to detect your real IP address and use it to identify you.
You still can use desktop apps to do that.
Why not set to 5 for media.autoplay.blocking_policy ?
You have to click the play button to play the video. If you set it to 2.
EDIT Here’s a Mozilla wiki article about it.
EDIT 2 You’re talking about
media.autoplay.default. That controls if autoplay is on or off and what is blocked, Audio only or Video & Audio.
Not obscure but
general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled=true is a must have IMO.Sounds fancy. What does that do?
You have to actually toggle to see it but IMO it massively improves how scrolling feels.
There are a few more scrolling-related options out there on the net if there’s a particular “feel” you want to go for. https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/Smoothfox.js provides a couple you can try out, and most of these custom scrolling options use msdPhysics as a baseline.
I just switched from Chrome today and I was wondering how to improve the scrolling (it felt heavy and slow). This setting seems to have worked wonders! Thanks!
browser.self_destruct_shortcut->disabledgets me everytime
For me:
browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedOrder: False
browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True
dom.popup_maximum: 100
browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False
browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True
I use this too. Great feature for tab hoarding keyboard warriors like me. Use Alt/Cmd +
9to jump to the last tab.dom.popup_maximum: 100
What does that do?
browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False
Why?
On laptops, I really recommend everyone sets
apz.overscroll.enabledtotrue. It adds the MacOS/iOS overscroll effect when you fling a page fast and you reach the bottom. It does not add any functionnality but it just makes everything so much smoother in my opinionI didn’t change this but it’s already True?
I think it could maybe be enabled by default in Windows now? Not sure as I haven’t used windows in quite some time and when I did I had it enabled manually so maybe it’s default now
Why is this not the default behaviour?
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets ⇾ True
to load CSS themes that make Firefox, your Firefox
Here a theme’s collection https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled- block sites from preventing you using copy+paste e.g. in email and password fields.I’ve only recently started using this one, so ask me again in a couple of months if it solves the issue :] or if it has unwanted side-effects - I know at least it doesn’t prevent websites interacting with the clipboard entirely e.g. with a button to click to copy text to the clipboard
I always like to start over with a clean slate. The one that’s been with me for about 15 years now is browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab set to false.
Backspace behavior: 1 something like that. Sets backspace to go to previous page it was once default but it is not anymore
Browsers changed this because people kept accidentally hitting it. I’m glad it’s gone. My mouse has back/forward buttons on the side and I remapped those to go back and forward in browser history.
Yeah i think someone might hit it accidentally i think it is a good decition to have it disabled by default but i still like it a lot and it is great to have a way to set it how i like it
Have used this for a long time, one stop solution
I think you forgot to link something lol
Or maybe they meant to reply to the arkenfox/user.js comment, but yeah.
I’ve found this particular trick to be very neat:
