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2020-06-03

Disable Firefox 77 Address Bar Popout

*sigh* Another day, another Firefox fuckup. One of the more annoying new "features" in recent Firefox versions is the address bar jumping at you when it gets the focus. In Firefox 75 that misbehavior could be corrected with a couple adjustments in about:config:

browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus false
browser.urlbar.update1 false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions false
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips false

However, with Firefox 77 those settings don't work anymore (you can reset/delete them). Because who would ever want to disable what Mozilla developers in their infinite wisdom decided that you must like?

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2019-05-05

Firefox extensions disabled due to expired intermediate CA certificate

As most people probably know by now Mozilla fucked up the certificate chain for Firefox extensions. Great. And their proposed (temporary) fix is "just enable telemetry for us, and you'll probably get the fix in the next couple hours". Let me think about that for a moment ...

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2014-07-11

Force Extensions into SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey is my preferred web browser, because I'm quite comfortable with its user interface. However, some of my favorite extensions (namely text/plain and ReloadEvery) claim to be incompatible when trying to install them, although they actually work just fine with SeaMonkey. Here's how you can convince an extension that SeaMonkey is totally fine for installation.

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