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If you don't have xdg-desktop-portal, and file dialogs don't show up for firefox, edit this on about:config

Posted 01-17-2024 at 02:57 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

on about:config there are four or five "xdg" related options. As the wonderful Arch-linux wiki explains:

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Each setting can have the following values:

0 – Never
1 – Always
2 – Auto (typically depends on whether Firefox is run from within Flatpak or whether the GDK_DEBUG=portals environment is set)

The settings are:

widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker – Whether to use XDG portal for the file picker
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Bookmarking a search, then editing it on the bookmark manager, is the easiest way to add custom search engines in firefox

Posted 01-17-2024 at 02:08 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Chrome provides a somewhat more straightforward way to add custom searches with custom parameters. Some people suggest rather cumbersome ways to do it in firefox, like editing some text file with some xml formatting, then allowing some developer option in about:config, then dragging and dropping the file somewhere.

But unless that has some hidden advantage that I haven't imagined yet, a much handier way is to first go on some web search, do some generic/token/fake search with the...
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Newer Firefox on Debian/RPIOS/Ubuntu

Posted 10-24-2021 at 12:51 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-02-2024 at 11:01 AM by craigevil (urls)

OK take a deep breath, now let it out.
Note: Raspberry Pi OS now has the current release version in the Bookworm repos.
Mozilla now has an official Debian repo.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...-distributions


There are several ways to get a newer version of Firefox.

First, there is Ubuntuzilla, which works for i386/amd64 but not arm32/arm64. Since I am on RPIOS I am just posting...
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LibreWolf the Secure Firefox Fork

Posted 03-28-2021 at 11:14 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 01-16-2022 at 08:06 PM by craigevil (88.0.1)

LibreWolf: Browse With Freedom. This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.

Main site https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

Documentation https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/docs

Releases: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-communi...nux/-/releases
For those of you on amd64 you can grab the .deb from here:
https://software.opensuse.org//downl...kage=librewolf...
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Difficulty resetting the default browser in Debian/Xfce

Posted 03-21-2020 at 02:48 PM by flshope

This blog entry refers to Debian 10.3 and Xfce 4.12 on a desktop machine.

On a whim, I decided to reset my default browser from Chromium (Version 80.0.3987.132) to Firefox (version 68.6.0esr). Shortly thereafter, I decided to go back to Chromium and reset the default at Xfce menu item

Code:
Applications/Settings/Settings Manager/Preferred Applications/Web Browser
Then I clicked on a link in a daily email in Thunderbird for my local newspaper. The link opened...
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