We’ve all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?

  • Hal-5700X@lemmy.world
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    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 Pocket

    identity.fxaccounts.enabled -> false
    Disable Firefox account

    media.autoplay.blocking_policy -> 2
    You have to click the play button to play videos.

    media.peerconnection.enabled -> false
    Disable WebRTC

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      The firefox account is actually neat. It syncs bookmarks, history and passwords between desktop, phone, laptop or wherever you use firefox.

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      • Mention 5 obscure about:config params to change without explaining them
      • Refuse to elaborate
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      What do browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled and media.peerconnection.enabled do?

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        media.peerconnection.enabled it disable WebRTC.

        browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled it removes the tab manager. The down facing arrow next to the minimize button at the top right.

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          media.peerconnection.enabled it disable WebRTC.

          Why would you want that? Doesn’t that block you from using basically any online call?

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                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.

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        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.

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          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!

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    For me:

    browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedOrder: False

    browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True

    dom.popup_maximum: 100

    browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False

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      browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: True

      I use this too. Great feature for tab hoarding keyboard warriors like me. Use Alt/Cmd + 9 to jump to the last tab.

      dom.popup_maximum: 100

      What does that do?

      browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel: False

      Why?

  • Indépendantiste (old)@lemmy.world
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    On laptops, I really recommend everyone sets apz.overscroll.enabled to true. 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 opinion

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        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

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    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

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    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.

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    Backspace behavior: 1 something like that. Sets backspace to go to previous page it was once default but it is not anymore

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      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.

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        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