New answers tagged firefox
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Firefox show black screen on first time run when using Wayland
To resolve this problem, I added a environment variable :
sudo vim /etc/environment
then added the following line into the file :
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
Now firefox opens normally
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Firefox fails to start in ubuntu 22.04
install gnome-42-2204
sudo snap install gnome-42-2204
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How to install gimp-help locally on Ubuntu 22.04?
To view the help pages of GIMP on Ubuntu 22.04 with the snap version, you can install the necessary help files by following these steps:
Open a terminal.
Run the following command to install the help ...
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How to install gimp-help locally on Ubuntu 22.04?
Switch from snap to apt for reinstalling GIMP 2.10.30
sudo apt update and sudo apt install gimp-help-common gimp-help-en
Update the installed version of Firefox from 113 to 114.
Here's how I got ...
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How to install gimp-help locally on Ubuntu 22.04?
I can access gimp-help packages after installing gvfs-backends in Kubuntu 23.04.
sudo apt install gvfs-backends
Gimp is installed via APT.
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Max (formerly HBOMax) streaming error under 20.04 / Firefox 104
Use Chrome or Opera-env. Both have all the proprietary tools needed to playback DRM video.
Open source browser are not likely to ever have DRM in them unless you install/activate it yourself. Firefox, ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 firefox desktop icon
If you prefer the command line way, you can use the following code snippet:
cd ~/.local/share/applications
cp /snap/firefox/current/firefox.desktop .
sed -i 's/Icon=\/default256.png/Icon=\/snap\/...
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Installed fonts not detected on firefox 99 snap on Ubuntu 22.04
As @DamianYerrick in his comment, this is a bug in the snap version of Firefox (or more correctly, an upstream bug in snapd).
As a workaround, there's a interim solution recommended in comment #11 of ...
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Firefox: How to reduce height of bars
Here is a Firefox userChrome.css file that reduces the tab and navigation bar heights to increase available screen space:
SlimBarsFirefox
:root {
--tab-max-height: 24px !important;
--tab-min-...
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How does Firefox detect light/dark theme change on KDE systems?
I think that the answer is located in the file /widget/gtk/nsLookAndFeel.cpp.
Lines 1190-1200 in the latest stable code:
// It seems GTK doesn't have an API to query if the current theme is "...
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Ubuntu 23.04 firefox PPA no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm
The solution is to install the package ubuntu-restricted-extras.
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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How launch Firefox snap with profile that is already running
sudo systemd --user
Is invoked as the user root(not your current user invoking sudo) without actual root login and therefore, invoked as such, doesn't have an existing user-runtime environment ...
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I maybe have 2 versions of Firefox, and i want to get rid of one of them
At Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS version, sudo apt install firefox installs snap version of firefox. I think this is causing that issue. You can better to remove firefox with both sudo apt remove firefox and ...
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How can I change the voice used by Firefox Reader View (Narrator) in Ubuntu?
Based on Rafael's answer, here is a script to automatically set this up:
setup-speach.bash:
#!/usr/bin/bash
set -e
# Text to speach
sudo apt-get install -y \
speech-dispatcher \
festival \
...
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Mozilla Firefox hanging on Ubuntu 22.04 when type Ctrl+S by accident
Just noticed this issue on Ubuntu 23.04 shipped Firefox (snap) too. Seems like this bug is still not solved.
What's actually happening is, even though Ctrl+S is pressed only once, for some reason it ...
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Firefox show black screen on first time run when using Wayland
I'm still having the same issue on Ubuntu 23.04, which is kind of incredible, since I expect Firefox and Wayland to be the standard configuration nowadays.
I read the post mentioned in Yuvi's answer ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freeze due to Firefox (sometimes with as low as 3 tabs)
The suggestion from @Jos in the comments has solved my problem. In summary, my system had systemd-oomd disabled. I enabled it through the systemctl interface, and my system has not crashed since. When ...
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Touchscreen woes on Ubuntu 22.04
Try running this in the terminal and after you will need to log out and then back in to "apply" the changes.
echo export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/use-xinput2.sh
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User-specified print settings in GTK applications are silently overriden by system printer defaults
The printing problem has been resolved with the following workaround (I consider this a workaround, since such arcane steps should not be required to attain the expected behavior that users expect by ...
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Firefox not affected by gtk theme
on Debian bullseye I did the following:
install Tweaks
open Tweaks > Appearance > Themes: Applications "Adwaita-dark"
open Firefox > Settings
3.1. > Language and Appearance: ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 firefox desktop icon
I had the same problem with snap version of Firefox in Lubuntu. Removing and reinstalling firefox didn't fix the desktop icon for some reason, even after rebooting. I couldn't find the firefox.desktop ...
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Slow Browsers startup and hight CPU usage
My initial suggestions are:
Replace the disk with an SSD
Buy more RAM
Get a better computer
Based off the age and specs of the machine. However if none of these are possible for you right now, we ...
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