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How to set window size and location of an application on screen via command line?
Here is a community version of the answer by Yokai that incorporates examples offered by Rudolf Olah.
You can use the tool called xdotool to control window size and location. Not only that, any ...
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Why is Firefox so slow over SSH?
One of the biggest issues when launching some X-client remotely is the X-protocol, not so much the ssh overhead!
The X-protocol requires a lot of ping-pong'ing between the client and the server which ...
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How Can I Improve the Font Rendering In Firefox
I've had this issue for ages, maybe it's time to do something about it!
It comes done to ClearType, Microsoft and patents from what I read. Most *nix distro's disable any patent protected font ...
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Flash plugin up to date but Firefox keeps telling me that I have the old version
I ran into this too, and found the answer in mozilla's bugzilla. In short, it happened because the plugin was updated while Firefox was running, and the pluginreg.dat got corrupted. So:
exit firefox
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Why is Firefox so slow over SSH?
The default ssh settings make for a pretty slow connection. Try the following instead:
ssh -YC4c arcfour,blowfish-cbc user@hostname firefox -no-remote
The options used are:
-Y Enables trusted ...
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Why does this curl command from firefox not download anything?
When debugging curl issues, the -v option is often helpful. In this particular instance, you’re running afoul of the If-None-Match header, which tells the server that you already have the file ...
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Debugging high (near total) CPU/memory usage of "Web Content" application on Linux Mint
this is a common problem causing nothing but the battery wasted energy decreasing unplugged operation time significantly.
the cause of the problem appears to be very simple: you may have too many ...
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How to decompress jsonlz4 files (Firefox bookmark backups) using the command line?
I was able to unpack the jsonlz4 by using lz4json:
apt-get install liblz4-dev
git clone https://github.com/andikleen/lz4json.git
cd lz4json
make
./lz4jsoncat ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/bookmarkbackups/*....
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How to decompress jsonlz4 files (Firefox bookmark backups) using the command line?
Save this script in a file, e.g., mozlz4:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from sys import stdin, stdout, argv, stderr
import os
try:
import lz4.block as lz4
except ImportError:
import lz4
stdin = os....
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Why is Firefox so slow over SSH?
I have much better experience in using an ssh tunnel to route traffic through another machine. It's very easy to set up since you have ssh access anyway. In a terminal on your computer, type
ssh -vv -...
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Running Firefox in an Ubuntu VM over SSH opens host machine's Firefox
When Firefox starts, it looks for a Firefox window running on the same display, and if it finds one, it focuses this window (and if you pass a URL on the command line, it opens a new tab to load the ...
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How can I get Japanese characters to show properly in Firefox on Arch?
It should be enough to install the great noto fonts bundles:
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts
The restart firefox and you should be abe to see them. Personally, I also ...
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apt package manager on Debian lists a package as upgradable but does not upgrade
You have firefox-esr pinned to the currently-installed version with a very high priority:
*** 52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1 30000
That prevents any other version with a lower pin priority from being installed,...
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Running Firefox in an Ubuntu VM over SSH opens host machine's Firefox
You want firefox --no-remote (or firefox --new-instance). Otherwise, it will "reuse" your existing firefox process.
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Where does firefox get the “default” applications for opening files from?
A link to a “similar question” (xdg-open default applications behavior – not obviously related, but some experimentation showed that the behaviour is indeed equivalent to the one of xdg-open) led me ...
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Vimperator status bar empty
There's a possibility of forgeting enabling Liberator Statusline Toolbar. Right-click on places like Menu bar, Address bar, Toolbar, etc. A menu shows up in which you will find a line named "Liberator ...
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Why is Firefox so slow over SSH?
I know this post is super old, but this has helped me overcome Firefox over SSH slowness by setting the following in about:config
gfx.xrender.enabled = true
Note: Starting in Firefox 47, the default ...
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How to tell Firefox to use another ALSA device?
Apparently there is no option for firefox, but you can manipulate the ALSA output through environment variables.
Try for example:
ALSA_PCM_CARD=bluetooth firefox
Alternatively, if this does not ...
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Firefox - reading out urls of opened tabs from the command-line
this works for Firefox 57+. You'll need lz4 (via pip). The file header is gathered from the length of b'mozLz40\0'. Use an environment variable for the filepath if you want to use it in a oneliner, ...
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How to prevent Firefox from updating to version 57 on Ubuntu 16.04?
Simply do:
sudo apt-mark hold firefox
This will add firefox package to the list of packages who should not recieve updates.
To reverse it:
sudo apt-mark unhold firefox
You can list the packages ...
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How can I run Firefox on Linux headlessly (i.e. without requiring libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0)?
I know this is a rather old question, but I wanted to add a more recent answer as I got directed here by Google and had to search for a while to find the answer.
As of Firefox 57, you can run in ...
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Firefox tabs in the title bar
You don't need to mess with about:config for that. Open up the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines) to the right of the URL bar and click on Customize. There's a checkbox at the bottom left labeled ...
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Refresh/reload active browser tab from command line?
@lornix's answer didn't quite work for me (I'm not sure why, possibly my window manager doesn't let xdotool switch windows). I wrote a modified version which should be more robust, it:
Doesn't do the ...
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Copy/paste does not always work from Firefox to terminal
In a sense, yes there are two different clipboards (though X11 calls them "selections", and only one of the selections is called “the clipboard”).
In all likelihood, you are thinking of the Primary ...
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Where does firefox get the “default” applications for opening files from?
In Firefox 38.8.0 ESR, under Debian Lenny with GNOME 2, I discovered that the application associated via XDG (described in the answer by the OP) is used only when opening a downloaded file from ...
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How Can I Improve the Font Rendering In Firefox
These sites use Helvetica as their font. On most Debian systems it's not an outline font, but raster one. You can disable bitmapped fonts as the last stage of font configuration dialog:
$ dpkg-...
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Package firefox is not available
In Debian, firefox is called iceweasel and has a different icon. I believe that they are functionally equivalent except for the icon. Similarly Thunderbird is called icedove in Debian.
Debian has ...
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How to increase Firefox scrollbar width?
In about:config, set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to the desired numeric value.
This will only have an effect if widget.non-native-theme.enabled is true (the default as of this ...
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Debian Jessie unable to install GNOME extension, the native host connector is not detected
Yes, you should install the GNOME Shell integration for Chrome. The Debian 9 package’s dependencies are satisfiable in Debian 8, so
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chrome-gnome-shell/...
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Set new default file manager for firefox in Archlinux
Currently (2018-09-25) there exists no user-configurable way to change this behaviour in Firefox.
This is a known bug: Firefox does not use default file manager
It was first reported on Bugzilla on ...
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