firefox

Firefox

See firefox and KDE activities
http://linux.overshoot.tv/wiki/kde_activities

Profiles

$ firefox --help
Firefox options
  -P <profile>       Start with <profile>.
  --profile <path>   Start with profile at <path>.
  --ProfileManager   Start with ProfileManager.

TODO: What are profiles? Where are they documented?

See also

Firefox / Plasma browser integration

Introduction

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Browser_Integration

According to the upstream documentation above, a gentoo user would need to install both:
- the addon from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/
- the gentoo package: kde-plasma/plasma-browser-integration

The current addon version is: 1.8.1, last updated Oct 27, 2021.
The current gentoo plasma-browser-integration package version is: 5.27.5

The source code is here:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration

Where are Firefox addons stored?

Question

Where are Firefox addons stored?

Answer

In Firefox: Open Application menu > Help > More troubleshooting information,
or go to about:support

See the location of the Profile Directory:
/home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/john.default

The extensions are stored within zip files in the extensions/ sub-directory, like:
~/.mozilla/firefox/john.default/extensions/

With the zip.vim plugin, you can easily view the content of the extension:

Firefox history

Update this page with any information that is relevant one way or another to the browsing history within firefox.

History is stored together with bookmarks in a database file named places.sqlite.
~/.mozilla/firefox/{xxx}.default/places.sqlite
where {xxx} can be the host name or something else.

See sqlite for working with .sqlite files.

Sample query to browse the history from the command line:

$ sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/NNN.default/places.sqlite

Firefox: ALSA and Pulseaudio

http://linux.overshoot.tv/www-client/firefox
USE=-pulseaudio : audio will not play without pulseaudio installed

ALSA support removed

In Firefox release 52, Mozilla disabled ALSA support by default and made Firefox default to Pulseaudio.

www-client/firefox

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/firefox
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/firefox-bin

USE=-pulseaudio : audio will not play without pulseaudio installed
http://linux.overshoot.tv/wiki/firefox_and_pulseaudio

www-client/firefox-bin

If you use ALSA and don't have pulseaudio installed, sound will not work with firefox-bin. You have to compile firefox instead.

How to disable animated gifs in firefox?

Mon, 01/16/2017 - 06:55 - augustin

How to disable animated gifs in firefox?

How to change the default google search in firefox

Sun, 05/22/2016 - 01:33 - augustin

By default, my firefox searches with Google Taiwan (Republic of China). However, I'd like it to default to Google UK.
In about:preferences#search, I cannot see anywhere to edit the search engine URI.

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