Firefox Enhancements

FirefoxConfigChanges.md

This is the firefox about:config changes for my conveniences on Linux systems.

• To disable closing with last tab.

  • Set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false . Search for lasttab

• To enable magnate link recognation.

  • Create new boolean with network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet and set it to false, It will ask which program to use.
  • If you need to choose the file, Binerie are located at /usr/bin/tixati.

• To enable client side decorations

  • Set browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to true.
  • UPDATE: Client Side decoration can be enabled from customization from FF65

• To remove new Unified extension button in ff-109 (BTW: Since when FF started calling addons, an extension)

  • Set extensions.unifiedExtensions.enabled to false.
  • NB: Only works till FF-111, from FF111, this setting has no effects. Looks like someone paid them well to make sure they go against their remaining community.
  • For FF > 111, only option is to enable legacy user css toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets which has its own deprecation issues, and is not something I would recommend.

• Bring back Old Download Dialog From FF98, firefox made a stupid decision to not ask when downloading files, and just download them. It does not launch any default application, it does not ask where to save file ( and it does not have a logical download manager inbuilt). for now this feature(sic) can be disabled by

  • Set browser.download.improvements_to_download_panel to false to bring back old "ask what to do" dialog
  • Set browser.download.useDownloadDir to false to make them ask where to download each time.

userchrome.css

/* 
    Needed since FF-111 where they forced us to see that ugly chrome like unified extension button.
*/

/* Disable or Remove Extensions Button from Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox - Start */
#unified-extensions-button, #unified-extensions-button > .toolbarbutton-icon{
width: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
}
/* Disable or Remove Extensions Button from Toolbar in Mozilla Firefox - End */

/* ALTERNATIVELY: You can improve its layout by redusing its size */
#unified-extensions-view{
	--uei-icon-size: 16px;
  }
  .unified-extensions-item-menu-button.subviewbutton{
	padding: 2px !important;
  }
  .unified-extensions-item-message-deck{
	display: none
  }
  #unified-extensions-view > vbox > vbox > .unified-extensions-item{
	padding-block: 0px !important;
  }
  .unified-extensions-item-menu-button{
	margin-inline-end: 0 !important;
  }
  .unified-extensions-list .unified-extensions-item-menu-button{
	margin-inline-end: 8px !important;  
  }

This is to remember how to setup magnet link in firefox.