#firefox tips

[oddp1ant]

I just fumbled my way into making &udm=14 my default search engine on mobile (Android) Firefox and am very excited about this development!

Last I'd seen from the &udm=14 team was the browser extension available on desktop Firefox, but not on mobile yet. I'm definitely not the first to do this but I hadn't heard about it before stumbling on it myself, so I thought it couldn't hurt to spread the word.

If you don't know, &udm=14 removes the AI bullshit from google search*, and you can normally access it through the website https://udm14.com/.

How I made it my mobile search engine was to go to settings -> search -> default search engine, then choose "add search engine". Then it looks like this:

The search string URL I put in is https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s which I got by doing a search through the &udm=14 website, copying the URL of the result page, then replacing my search query (the bit after the last =) with %s as instructed. Then clicked save, set it as my default, tested it, and it works babey!

*It is still google, with some of the issues that entails and possibly the same privacy concerns - I haven't found any mention that &udm=14 changes that, so I'm going to assume it doesn't. Maybe you can guard yourself with other anti-tracking measures, or use an explicitly privacy-focused search engine if that's your priority.

[agapi-kalyptei]

Fellow tab hoarders: Switch to Random Tab Firefox extension

As I'm sitting at 1980 tabs open just on my desktop PC, I think I'll have to use this to close some old stuff slowly day by day.

[kagenoneko]

Top 5 Firefox features for tab maximalists | The Mozilla Blog

I am a tab maximalist. On any given day, you can find me with 50+ tabs open across multiple windows on Firefox. Having this many tabs open c

I need this information because I am always keeping open way too many tabs.

[techmespot]

How to Change HomePage in Firefox browser from Yahoo com to Google com

[treeacademy-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh7kos8tFbM)

[pepoluan]

Not the version I am using it does not have that config option i tried to use it when i lost Xkit.

You may have to create that option yourself.

about:config, then search for xpinstall. If the option does not exist, right-click on the empty space in the config page, choose New > Boolean, name it “xpinstall.signatures.required” (without quotes, of course), and set the value to False.

Since it’s a “user set” config, it will survive Firefox updates.

PS: You might have to uninstall then reinstall XKit, though. I don’t know about this, because I pre-emptively set the above value before upgrading. So, XKit never ceased operating.

[pepoluan]

Warning Firefox's latest update takes away unverified extensions like Xkit.

Hi Anon!

Thanks for the heads-up!

One of the greatest thing with Firefox is that it’s eminently configurable, even this behavior.

It seems that this blocking behavior can be sidestepped by changing the value of xpinstall.signatures.required from “True” to “False”.

More information – also the source of the above – can be found here:

http://superuser.com/a/956152/70507

PS: If Xkit is still working right now (that is, you haven’t upgraded Firefox yet), you can try to ‘pre-empt’ this behavior by going to about:config and search for the above value. If not found, right-click on an empty space on the page, and choose New > Boolean. The name must be exactly the same as the above, and set the value to False. Usually upgrades won’t touch user-set values. I’ll try this out in a moment.

PPS: Yup, it seems to work. XKit still works properly on my just-updated Firefox.

[pepoluan]

Oh. My. GOODNESS!!

Finally I can fix what has been irking me to no end with Firefox!!!

YEASSSSSS!!!!