how-i-use-firefox

How I use Firefox

• Create a profile using the profile manager

  firefox -no-remote -profileManager

  I have different profiles for different usages of Firefox, to keep them separate. Hopefully that increases my privacy a bit. For example I have separate profiles for general browsing, Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Calendar and my bank website.

• Launch Firefox with a profile with

  firefox -no-remote -P "name_of_the_profile"

• Set prefers colour scheme to dark

  You can update the style used by Firefox by going to about:config and adding a new property ui.systemUsesDarkTheme of integer type with value 1.

From StackOverflow

• Make everything dark with https://github.com/SrKomodo/shadowfox-updater

• Reduce Firefox’s memory consumption

  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources?redirectslug=firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram&redirectlocale=en-US

  Performance

  uncheck Use recommended performance settingsLearn more

  Content process limit -> 1

• Disable “Ctrl-Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order”

• browser.search.context.loadInBackground = true

Config

• Set full-screen-api.ignore-widgets to false (which is probably the default) otherwise xmonad fullscreen doesn’t cover xmobar.

• Disable JIT compilation

  javascript.options.baselinejit
  javascript.options.wasm_baselinejit
  javascript.options.wasm_optimizingjit
  javascript.options.ion

Disable sponsored sites

about.config:

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites false
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.system.showSponsored false

Don’t show sidebar when using tree-style tabs

about.config:

sidebar.revamp false

Issues

There is a very annoying bug whereby the volume of a video, set with pulseaudio, resets on interactions such as forward, rewind, and various others. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422637.