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Firefox not pasting with Ctrl-v inside textarea
Open Firefox and load about:config
ui.key.accelKey changed to 17 for CONTROL\
ui.key.textcontrol.prefer_native_key_bindings_over_builtin_shortcut_key_definitions changed = false (simply double click ...
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How to prevent firefox from switching to a tab thats already open when I want to open the same webpage on a different browser/tab
If you want a permanent behaviour, you can disable the setting "Open tabs" in Preferences/Search:
This will prevent you to suggesting the "switch to tab" button.
With setting &...
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How do I list absolutely all of the extensions, addons, plugins, etc currently installed in Firefox?
The special page about:support shows these details (and many, many more). You can reach this page by typing (or copying) "about:support" (without quotes) into the address bar.
The table in ...
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When Firefox will not ask the local DNS client to make DNS query?
Bookmarks, in themselves, are only the URL, not the resolved IP address. E.G., for this query, https://superuser.com/questions/1864136/when-firefox-will-not-ask-the-local-dns-client-to-make-dns-query ...
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When Firefox will not ask the local DNS client to make DNS query?
Firefox has an internal DNS cache, but it doesn't cache DNS query results beyond the TTL they indicated. Since usual A/AAAA record TTLs are in terms of hours or minutes, not months, the cache is only ...
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How to get back profiles deleted by Firefox Profile Manager...Firefox deleted all profiles instead of the one I asked
Check your recycle bin/trash. If it's not there to restore,
the folder was deleted, so you will need to recover the files from backups or through file recovery utilities.
Depending on your OS you may ...
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How to know what (geo)location Firefox sends to websites
To achieve geo coordinates you have to:
Go to page asking for location (we suppose that permission to access location already granted to the resource)
Open console (Ctrl + Shift + i)
Insert and run
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How to know what (geo)location Firefox sends to websites
Have a website tell you – there exist "test this-or-that API" websites for geolocation as well as other browser APIs. One example I found is https://browserleaks.com/geo; another is the ...
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How to continue using the currently running Firefox after updating it on Linux Mint?
The solution is to manually add firefox to the /etc/mintupdate.blacklist, as described in the mintupdate issue.
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How can I set different taskbar icons for Firefox profiles in Windows 7?
The solution is very easy.
go to about:config in firefox
change or create the boolean setting taskbar.grouping.useprofile to true
then change or create the boolean setting browser.startup.blankWindow ...
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How can I set different taskbar icons for Firefox profiles in Windows 7?
I struggled with this for a long time, but finally found solutions.
According to users, this Reddit post solved it for many users, but that's not what I used.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/...
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Why does entering a second-level domain in Firefox (macOS Sequoia 15.1.1) URL bar not auto-complete to URLs with non-www subdomains?
I've tried in both Firefox and Chrome, and can't reproduce what you're describing.
For me, whatever I start typing gets handled in one of two ways.
Both Firefox and Chrome autocomplete the rest of ...
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Disable `ctrl+shift+w` shortcut in Firefox Linux
You can simply disable Ctrl+Shift+W in you DE.
For example in KDE I can do the following:
Go to Settings - Keyboard/Shortcuts
Add new script via Add New / Command or Script...
Use true executable as ...
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Firefox - how to refresh an open tab automatically every x minutes?
I tried several add-ons, but only this one worked for me:
Easy Auto Refresh
Note that I used v5.6, later versions may not work.
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How do I force Firefox to download an .xml file instead of opening it?
Right click -> This Frame -> Save Frame As...
should do the trick.
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Get Firefox to ignore HTML 5 autocomplete tag setting?
As detailed in this chart, just as it is the case with most modern browsers, the Firefox team has long ago chosen to ignore the autocomplete=off tag for login forms. You can find the relative thread ...
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