Firefox Articles
- @font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11 (Obsolete) Until Fedora updated one of its libraries, Firefox on Fedora 11 would crash on any website that uses an embedded font.
- Can’t Log into Feedly or Pinterest on Firefox 40? Check Ghostery! (Obsolete) After upgrading to Firefox 40, logging into Feedly with Google or Pinterest with a Facebook account failed. It turned out to be Ghostery.
- Cloning a GitHub Repo via Mobile Firefox Even on a tablet with a big enough screen that GitHub looks like it's showing the desktop version, you might have to insist on it to get all the buttons to appear.
- Don’t Hide Version Numbers It breaks user expectations with no real benefit, and makes it hard to tell if you've *actually* gotten the latest security fix.
- Firefox Thinks It’s Running an Older Version Than Last Time (But Isn’t!) Look for the compatibility.ini file in your Firefox profile, and delete the LastVersion line.
- Keep Your System Updated! Most drive-by computer infections use old vulnerabilities for which patches are already available.
- KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- KeePassXC Browser Extension vs. Flatpak (Not Working Yet) Web browsers running through Flatpak have trouble interacting with KeePassXC.
- On Broken HTML From time to time the idea is put forth that less common browsers need to start dealing with bad code. There are two problems with that view.
- Pure CSS Buttons As part of a minor site optimizing kick, I replaced the validation labels with something smaller, less obtrusive, and directly on the page. I tried to duplicate the look of the classic antipixel-style buttons in CSS.
- Reverse the Colors when Viewing a Web Page Not as good as a real dark mode, but you can easily reverse the colors on any website you're viewing, turning light pages dark and dark pages light.
- Simple Browser Categorization (Obsolete) Sometimes you want to know exactly what software people (or bots) are using to view your website. Sometimes all you want to know is which rendering engine's quirks you need to cater to.
- Tell Firefox to open Gemini links with your favorite client You'll need to click on a Gemini link to get the config options, and then you can choose what to open it in.
- Toolbars That Phone Home (Obsolete) I installed the Firefox versions of four toolbars and used netstat to see when they connected.
- Useful Bookmarklets A collection of bookmarklets that I've found useful.
- Using Bookmarklets on Android You can't use menus for bookmarklets, but you *can* use auto-complete.
- Web Design is Like Pizza A lot of pages aren't as specific as the authors think they are. When you write code and test it on only one browser, you're not testing that the code is correct, you're testing that *that browser* makes the same assumptions you do.
- Webslices and Microsummaries (Obsolete) Both features have since been removed, but they offered and interesting way to let visitors know when a site had been updated.
- Workaround for Gmail being blocked by “Temporary Error” in Firefox on Fedora (Obsolete) In this case it was a Fedora-specific issue, but it could be worked around by holding down shift and hitting reload.