10 GREAT Ways To Improve Firefox

Today I talk 10 ways you can improve Firefox. If you want to make Firefox better, try these tips.
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[time stamps]
0:00 Intro
2:09 Tab Groups
3:36 Dark Reader
4:18 Spell Checker
5:20 Turn of Sponsored Suggestions
6:18 Smooth Scrolling
6:35 Mozilla Account
7:40 Renable Compact View
8:45 Disable Alt Key Menu Shortcut
9:52 Turn off Telemetry
10:44 Conclusion

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[daleross]

I keep going back too... Firefox is that ex girlfriend you keep hooking up with...

[BIGOTEMACHINE]

Disable cache on disk is probably a good idea, I'm also a big fan of "tree style tab" and "sidebery", something cool is that you can have multiple profiles for Firefox, with different bookmarks, extension, and Windows/tabs sessions

[thingsiplay]

I am on Firefox as default since Windows XP times when Firefox was in version 1. It is not like there are no options and I would not have done my research over and over again. It is just Firefox is the best browser and my number one.

[PhayzinOut]

The customization/CSS Shop keeps me there as well

[xgvto]

Firefox also has built-in fingerprinting resistance! It's in aboug:config, as the example to re-enable the compact layout was. Search for privacy.resistFingerprinting and set the variable to true. Firefox will then take steps to randomize your browser's fingerprint without you needing to install any additional plugins.

[fishpaleryder]

Have you tried Vivaldi? Amazing browser experience so far. Features that's natively built in that I love: ad blocking on android, tab tiling, periodic tab reload, background playback on android and more...

[EarlOfBurl]

Just switched back to the old fox yesterday.

[timchesonis]

I so love your channel because you talk about exactly what we think about. Thank you!

[AliMAli-kfcv]

try using Firefox in full screen mode, it gives you access to the top bar if you move the mouse to the top and doesn't bother you with it the rest of the time

[jseger]

Smooth scrolling! I wondered why scrolling was so bad on Linux as compared to Windows. Smooth scrolling seems to help.

[jeremiasremix]

some more great extensions:
"i don't care about cookies" = approves cookies request
"dualsub" = shows 2 subs or more in many video services
"automatic spell checking language selection" = auto detects and switches to the language you are typing
"stylus" = has different "themes" for many websites, specially useful for dark themes

[glsek]

Matt is flexing that RAM muscle pretty hard... Yeah, you know I got more memory allocated in a single tab than you have in your entire system... ;)

[lgic]

There is an about:config setting for spell check that makes it check both small and big boxes... Should be default but a quick internet search will let you know what setting to change

[OcteractSG]

You might not have this problem since you probably restore Firefox sessions between reboots, but I was annoyed that uBlock Origin does not remember the sites for which I enabled JavaScript after I close Firefox. Brave does remember, so it's a better experience for me as I try to reduce the amount of JavaScript I run. Not sure if anyone knows other options for this on Firefox.

Firefox does have issues with searching for text on pages and PDFs between line breaks. It has not be resolved in the 7 or so years that people have known about it.

I've had a few broken sites running hardened Firefox, and I really don't like using two browsers to do stuff. Brave's togglable shields almost completely address this problem (cross-site cookies are still something I have to manually set for Brave sometimes).

While those are the things Firefox does poorly, I do like having the ability to set my user argent for all sites that I visit before I visit them. It's a good "feature" (if you could call creating your own option in about config a feature) to have for a browser on Linux. Also, Firefox has auto scrolling on Linux, which Brave is missing (and Brave's Windows implementation is inferior for PDFs for some reason). Lastly, Firefox's handling of downloads is better. For example, if I click on a PDF download link, Firefox will let me open it in a new tab instead of automatically putting it in my downloads folder.

Anyway, I find it interesting that neither browser is clearly superior, at least on Linux. Even though Brave is a better experience on Windows, it still does not win on every point.

[Amerikinz]

Great tips and tricks!

Something else I noticed with the “Disable Alt Key Menu Shortcut” (ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses in “about:config”) is when it’s “False”, it’ll let you use swipe gestures on a laptop’s trackpad!

I’ve seen people recommend “Alt” and swiping or installing extensions but Now you don’t have to do that!

[stacylite]

Hey matt. Does syncing your add-ons on your firefox also syncs your personal data on those add-ons? or it just pre-installed it?

[igorminaev]

Auto Tab Discard - for the best memory usage

[davidwayne]

thank you much for this--- I WILL be doing this--- sometimes today most likely.

[mrharryhd]

what did u use to make ur new tab like that?

[ArbinSamad]

thanks brother for telling compact mode