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Firefox
Start with different profile on M$ Windows
Start second Firefox with profile manager:
"C:\Programme\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -ProfileManager
Old versions of firefox seem to need:
SET MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 "C:\Programme\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager
Enabling Zoom gestures on OSX
about.config:
browser.gesture.pince.in — Value = cmd_fullZoomReduce browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift — Value = cmd_fullZoomReset browser.gesture.pinch.latched — Value = false browser.gesture.pinch.out — Value = cmd_fullZoomEnlarge browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift — Value = cmd_fullZoomReset browser.gesture.pinch.threshold — Value = 40 to 100 (set it to a number that works for you)
References:
Tuning the look and feel
This ist outdated on current versions of firefox, use extension Classic theme restorer instead
To put the tabs bar again down in recent versions of firefox without the respective menu item:
- Open location “about:config”
- Search for “browser.tabs.onTop”
- Toggle to “false” (by doubleclick)
Have fun!
References:
Firefox Tabs wieder unter die Adressleiste
Disable hiding of URL scheme
about:config:
browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false
Disable autocorrection of URLs
about:config:
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false
References:
Strange problem on importing personal certificate
I just encountered the (in)famous “The PKCS 12 operation failed for unknown reasons.” error message while trying to import a personal PKCS#12 certificate and key into firefox 43 or firefox 45 on ubuntu.
As the the import worked on a different firefox profile by the same user account on the same machine as expected, I concluded that the certificat file was okay, but I had some runtime or configuration issue within firefox.
While neither finding helpfull information on the web nor some means to do analytic troubleshooting, I just started to try out things.
In the end, it turned out that starting firefox without my previously opened tabs allowed me to import the certificate in question.
So some of my opened tabs did prevent installing a personal certificat into firefox … - WTF???