Ilugc special - Firefox discussion Notes

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#+title: Firefox exploration
#+author: Thanga Ayyanar

* Basic

** Set flatpak firefox as default browser

- To get the default browser
#+begin_src shell
  xdg-settings get default-web-browser
#+end_src
- To set default browser
#+begin_src shell
  xdg-settings set default-web-browser org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
#+end_src
- Custom .desktop files
#+begin_src shell
  cd ~/.local/share/applications/
#+end_src
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/614899/setting-a-flatpak-app-as-the-default-web-browser


* Different Firefox flavors

** Firefox
** Firefox Nightly
** Firefox Beta
** Firefox Extended Support Release
** Firefox Developer Edition

** Third party
*** Librewolf
*** Tor browser
*** Firefox + arkenfox

* Firefox - Get started
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/get-started

* Firefox options
** Profile
#+begin_src shell
  flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --ProfileManager
#+end_src
- Profile directory for flatpak firefox located in the following location
#+begin_src shell
  ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox
#+end_src

** Command line options
- One of my most favorite command 
#+begin_src shell
  flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --new-tab "https://google.com"
#+end_src
** Reader view mode
- Also available as npm package (Use it for cli or other automation)
- https://github.com/mozilla/readability
** Process
- invoke it using about:processes
** Sync - with phone
- You can able to sync tabs with phone
** Firefox android - addons
- Firefox android browser has support to install addons

** Customization
- https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
- Create a folder called Chrome in the profile directory
- create a file named userChrome.css in Chrome folder
  #+begin_src css
    /* hide native tabs */

#TabsToolbar {
    visibility: collapse;
}

/* Hide side bar header */
#sidebar-header {
    visibility: collapse !important;
}
  #+end_src
- More info: https://medium.com/@Aenon/firefox-hide-native-tabs-and-titlebar-f0b00bdbb88b

*** Disabling av1 codec
- Disable all the av1 codec, as it is only available after intel 13th gen (To my knowledge)
  - You can check the codec in youtube right click and select status nerd 
  - h264ify will make the youtube use avc codec
  - enhanced-h264ify is the new addon

*** intel gpu tools
- Let you monitor gpu stats
- Install it using
  #+begin_src shell
    sudo apt-get -y install intel-gpu-tools
  #+end_src
- Invoke the top command using
  #+begin_src shell
    sudo intel_gpu_top
  #+end_src
*** Codec supported in linux
#+begin_src shell
  vainfo
#+end_src


* Addons
** Firefox multi account container
- Ctrl + . -> Container menu
** Ublock origin
** Sidebery
** Auto Tab Discard
** Tabliss
** Single file html
- https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli
** Tridactyl
** Foxy Proxy
** Violentmonkey
** Open external links in a container
* Addons (Need to try)
** Org protocol (Emacs)
** Spookfox (Emacs)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2kpqgg8pU

* Hotkeys
| Key        | actions                                          |
|------------+--------------------------------------------------|
| @          | Url search bar to invoke different search engine |
| Ctrl + l   | Move cursor to search bar                        |
| Ctrl + tab | Switch between recent tabs                       |
- custom search shortcut keys
  - Use bookmark to perform custom search
     - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar
  - Also you can use duck duck go bangs
    - https://duckduckgo.com/bangs


* Dev tools (Basics)
- https://devtoolstips.org/
** Console
- Ctrl + B => Multi line java script execution
** Network
- Edit and resend request
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