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Aeterna 11-16-2022 08:47 PM

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In other words, the DOH is bad for censorship
huh? I wonder where you get this opinion from. DOH is easiest to control, easiest to block.

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go look at the news on just how China has recently started cracking down in VPNs and similar again recently..
hmm just try VPN over SSL

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Sooooo nobody has a handle on how to edit FF keypress macros?
maybe this will help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...s-for-firefox/
or this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ddon/keysmith/

enorbet 11-17-2022 11:21 AM

Thank you, Aeterna, those are indeed interesting but all I presently deeply desire to do is turn OFF whatever macro makes it default that apparently one misplaced keystroke can and does delete everything one has typed in a message board response. It's literally as if you swipe the entire body of text and hit Delete. I've been using Textarea caching addon for a long time and it is a great backup for typed responses but it isn't quite fast enough or lacks some sort of blocking to thwart this obnoxious macro. I've tried several methods including searching through "about:config" but turn up nada.

elcore 11-18-2022 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by enorbet (Post 6392883)
Thank you, Aeterna, those are indeed interesting but all I presently deeply desire to do is turn OFF whatever macro makes it default that apparently one misplaced keystroke can and does delete everything one has typed in a message board response. It's literally as if you swipe the entire body of text and hit Delete. I've been using Textarea caching addon for a long time and it is a great backup for typed responses but it isn't quite fast enough or lacks some sort of blocking to thwart this obnoxious macro. I've tried several methods including searching through "about:config" but turn up nada.

IF I correctly understood your problem, it's probably this.
So, chrome feature I guess, blame chrome. According to random reddit comment with links to bug report and code snippet,, "general.autoScroll" will now clear selections where previously it did not.

enorbet 11-18-2022 02:22 PM

Thanks elcore. I really do appreciate your looking into it but it has nothing to do with the mouse. It is entirely a single key phenomenon and doesn't even require a modifier like Ctrl or Alt. I suppose it is possible that Shift could be involved since it is so abnormal to me it always takes me by devastating surprise. I really can't imagine who would want this or for what. I could have typed multiple paragraphs, hundreds of words and Bam! in apparently one keystroke all is poof!, gone.

This is especially troublesome because since my stroke my left hand sometimes spasms and tends to be quite clumsy.

elcore 11-19-2022 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by enorbet (Post 6393061)
I could have typed multiple paragraphs, hundreds of words and Bam! in apparently one keystroke all is poof!, gone.

Well, never happened to me, but I'd normally use external editor (geany) and just paste the text into browser.
I don't really use firefox anymore, only installed it for supporting 2-3 websites which wouldn't work otherwise.

However, I do know there's some accesibility features in it which could cause this.
And there is also a "private" mode which does clear the clipboard sometimes, and possibly some other stuff which clears the "form" when it's out of focus.
But, I'm no expert, you'd have better luck asking the guys at r/firefox.

marav 01-15-2023 05:32 PM

Our year in review: How Firefox works for you

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... we wanted to take a moment to reflect and look back on what we accomplished in 2022.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/...ear-in-review/

Over a decade of anti-tracking work at Mozilla
Code:

For years, the privacy engineers here at Mozilla have known that online trackers
use every identifier they can get to track and re-identify people all over the internet

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-...ones-timeline/

hazel 01-16-2023 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by elcore (Post 6393208)
Well, never happened to me, but I'd normally use external editor (geany) and just paste the text into browser.

It's happened to me a few times. I have no idea what keystroke makes it happen but I'm sure it's an FF thing, not a site thing.

When I want to make a post that is longer than usual, I use an external editor like elcore.

BratPit 01-18-2023 08:20 AM

I use this settings:

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

with some editable overrides to that:

https://codeberg.org/12bytes.org/Fir....js-supplement

Hope helps someone :)

marav 02-02-2023 01:25 PM

Hi,

KDE plasma5 / Firefox

I open download manager : ctrl + shift + y
right click / show in folder

It opens Thunar not dolphin
Code:

blackstar :: ~ » xdg-mime query default inode/directory
org.kde.dolphin.desktop

Any idea ?

For now, it only works if I uninstall Thunar

enorbet 02-03-2023 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by elcore (Post 6393208)
But, I'm no expert, you'd have better luck asking the guys at r/firefox.


I had asked at Mozilla and finally did get what is most likely a definitive answer. So for anyone who may experience this I don't yet have a solution beyond typing outside a browser in a simple text editor, but the cause is most likely the system-wide "Ctrl-A" macro which if inadvertently hit within some range of timing selects everything and has the very next keystroke replace everything, effectively deleting it all. So far I've tried changing the macro from "Ctrl-A" by adding a 3rd character, such as "Ctrl-A-1", but unfortunately "Ctrl-A" still functions.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help.

marav 05-09-2023 06:29 AM

Firefox 114 beta

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Previously, DNS over HTTPS was implemented in the Network Settings dialog and it was disabled by default.
When enabled it would allow you to choose your favorite provider from either Cloudflare or NextDNS.

In Firefox 114, DNS over HTTPS is implemented in the Privacy & Security panel under Settings and it’s enabled by default,
offering you three layers of protection: Default Protection, Increased Protection, and Max Protection.

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-114-be...nner-reduction

I’m not really a fan of this one

allend 05-31-2023 10:41 AM

Just for fun and as I have a Microsoft account, I set my Firefox general.useragent.override to 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/110.0.100.0'. After I logged in at http://bing.com/ I could use the Bing Chat AI powered search.

cwizardone 05-31-2023 12:15 PM

Lately Firefox cannot sync the sub-titles (closed caption) when streaming videos on Amazon Prime.
It works on Netflix and elsewhere and sometimes it works on Prime. One time it works, the next it doesn't.
Any tips or tricks on how to get it to sync properly?
Thanks.
:)

marav 06-16-2023 03:49 PM

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support

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Mozilla's Firefox 116 web-browser should have experimental PipeWire camera capturing
support available for Linux users.

As another step in embracing PipeWire for audio/video streams on the Linux desktop,
Firefox 116 is scheduled to have experimental PipeWire camera support included.

The full story:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefo...ipeWire-Camera

mickski56 06-17-2023 11:31 AM

@marav re Thunar, do you use thunar-volman ? is it in your autostart somewhere ? I think it loads thunar which registers a dbus interface making it the default filemanager.
I had a similar issue, though xfce4 is my DE. I eventually got so annoyed with this behaviour I commented all mention of dbus out of thunar and rebuilt it. Now I have no more thunar popping up when I click open folder in firefox.


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