Firefox Articles
- @font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11 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! 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Using Bookmarklets on Android You can't use menus for bookmarklets, but you *can* use auto-complete.
- Workaround for Gmail being blocked by “Temporary Error” in Firefox on Fedora In this case it was a Fedora-specific issue, but it could be worked around by holding down shift and hitting reload.