Firefox - Tips and Tricks

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This pages collects my tips and tricks for the changes I usually do to customise my Firefox.

Enabling Desktop Notification

See this post on how to enable the desktop notification in Firefox.

Disable overscroll gesture to navigate

When using my laptop I use the touchpad to scroll around the webpage. I most cases this means scrolling up and down, sometimes this also means scrolling side to side.

Firefox includes this overscrolling gesture that if you are at the very left of the webpage and scroll further left, the browser will instead navigate to previous page, and respectively to right page if you try to scroll right instead.

This can be disabled in the Advanced Configuration page.

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox and navigate to the address about:config.
  2. Accept the warning if required.
  3. Set browser.gesture.swipe.left to «blank».
  4. Set browser.gesture.swipe.right to «blank».
  5. Close tab

Sometimes it is practical so save links to files without having them opened with any other programs or the webbrowser. FireFox supports saving a link by ALT+clicking the link. This setting can be enabled in the Advanced Configuration page.

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox and navigate to the address about:config.
  2. Accept the warning if required.
  3. Set browser.altClickSave to True.
  4. Close tab

Disable control of media in browser using hardware media keys

For some devices I want the media keys should control the media application and not the webbrowser. FireFox can be configured to ignore the media keys input from the keyboard in the Advanced Configuration page.

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox and navigate to the address about:config.
  2. Accept the warning if required.
  3. Set media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled to False.
  4. Close tab
  5. A restart of the browser may be needed.
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