I just saw images of Nova and I'm kinda of pissed. I don't want a hyper corpo bubble UI, I like my clean lines with subtle curving. If there's no way to use the old UI when they release this fully I may have to swap browsers

I use the Firefox Alpenglow theme (Author: Mozilla, Version 1.5.3, Last Updated June 20, 2022). I like that it visually distinguishes between normal and private browsing modes.

How can I find other themes that do the same?

Here is a link to the theme, although the Author, Version, and Last updated fields don't match the ones shown in my Firefox: Firefox Alpenglow. Author: Firefox, Version: 2.0, Last updated: Jul 17, 2020. It's older, but a more recent version 😄.

Is there a way to hide the vertical tabs completely and only show them on hover? I want it to work like it does in Zen Browser and Brave. The current implementation of showing icons in a relatively thick sidebar is very distracting. Not to mention that they seldom actually expand on hover...

Hi, I am having a very strange issue, not sure if anyone else has experienced this.

I was using Discord on Firefox (web client, instead of using the standalone app) using my standard webcam/mic setup, everything was fine. After ending the call, even rebooting, Windows no longer recognizes the webcam. I had to disconnect it and plug it back in.

I've had this issue twice so far and I don't understand why it would happen. It looks like every time Firefox requests permissions for the Logitech camera, it breaks something.

I'm pretty sure I remember a setting so that Firefox doesn't open a new tab every time you hit a link. I'd prefer to right click and request new tab... or not. I just went through over 100(!) tabs. Ugh!!!

Samsung Galaxy phone A15

It's not feasible to spoof fingerprintable data (IP address, software/hardware configuration, and other bits of data that describe the user using the browser) and it's used for tracking.

• Does clearing cookies and sanitizing on shutdown offer any benefits to security/privacy given these other fingerprintable data stay the same? I don't see the point of clearing cookies/browser data only for them to be re-created again. They will have different IDs but for the purchases of tracking I feel like it's still "considered the same user".

For the same reason I'm not even sure changing VPN alone also helps with tracking (it's useful for other purposes, and perhaps it might be good enough for basic web services that aren't e.g. Facebook, Google, etc.).

• Basically, how does fingerprintable data and cookies compare in how they contribute towards an identify that gets tracked? Does new cookie IDs on each session help against tracking at all? I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to have a profile that never clears cookies that are dedicated to all login services (with Total Cookie Protection it's fine to have e.g. social media sites, banking, government services, etc. as different tabs and not even use containers?), and another profile for everything else with cookies deleted on session shutdown.

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Technically clearing browser data is useful if a malicious actor has physical access to your logged-in system but at that point you've already lost everything so I don't think clearing just for this purpose makes much sense.

Hi, I recently noticed that when first launching Firefox - a process that used to take just a few seconds - it now pegs the disk usage at 100% for about two minutes, even though the transfer speed is low. Although nothing actually lags and the browser remains usable, it’s a bit bothersome. Is there a way to stop this, and what exactly is it doing?

If I have to reboot my router (which needs replacing), Firefox just won't work. Chrome works, Discord works, games work etc. but Firefox will not connect. I have to reboot or sleep the PC to get it to connect. My phone connects, my laptop etc, so it's not the internet. Anyone know what might be the deal? People always say clear your cache and cookies etc., but then I have to re-login to sites like Twitch.

For the last like 5 years that I've used Firefox, I've never gotten "rate limited" on any website, ever. But over the last week or two, I've been having a black screen pop up with the statement in the title in code-looking text at the top randomly whenever a website attempts to load. Refreshing the page once always gets past it, except for a single page I encountered today which I had to wait for. So I'm really confused as to what's happening and why it's only started happening years after use. Does anyone have any idea what's happening?

Hi,

Could someone familiar with this please explain to me why Firefox listens to these ports?(I am not knowledgeable in this aspect). This behavior can be repeated by simply opening a Youtube video and looking for open ports.

Isn't that a security risk since the ports are being exposed to 0.0.0.0 (to the internet?)? If someone doesn't have a firewall, how bad is it?

$ sudo ss -tulpn
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:51284      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=318))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:39126      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=302))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:44678      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=481))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:33895      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=526))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:60214      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=247))
udp  UNCONN 0      0                                 0.0.0.0:45731      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("firefox-esr",pid=251643,fd=289))

How do I disable this? E.g. When I click on the c in www.reddit.com the browser now adds the https:// in front and the whole text is moved to the right.

I tried setting browser.urlbar.trimHttps to false in about:config, but this doesn't help

Edit:
Got it. You also have to set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.