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Re:How to Firefox on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @11:56AM (#44660645)
It has everything to do the browser feature known as "custom search engines", which is a URL replacement capability that was never limited to actual search engines.

As I said before, Mozilla is going to merge your bookmark keywords with custom search engines: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650874

Re:How to Firefox on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @11:31AM (#44660352)
That's by design:

>This feature is separate from the about:profiles experience, and we currently have no plans to change how about:profiles works. You may continue to use about:profiles if that is better for your workflow.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-p...

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:52AM (#44648745)
These so-called "hardening scripts" cause a lot of issues and volunteers have to waste their time helping clueless users who copied them without understanding what they do.
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:50AM (#44648705)
Disabling anonymous telemetry just harms the project. It doesn't give you any "privacy" benefit.
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:48AM (#44648674)
Browsers discard tabs by default, but only when your system is running out of memory. You can use Auto Tab Discard to discard all or most tabs automatically after a certain time.
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:46AM (#44648647)
Use this extension created by a Mozilla employee: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/chrome-mask
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:43AM (#44648612)
Chrome has always had the capability of adding custom search engines. They are just not entangled with your bookmarks.

Firefox is actually going to remove this feature from bookmarks, and you'll have to create new engines from this page: about:preferences#search

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#44648560)
If you want them to fix it:

1) Generate a profile performance with https://profiler.firefox.com/

2) Submit the link with your results to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:39AM (#44648539)
Updates aren't supposed to reset any setting. Submit a bug report for them to fix whatever is doing that for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:37AM (#44648504)
File an issue on Bugzilla with your latest crash ID to help the developers fix it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:35AM (#44648472)
Power users interested in this niche feature can use a script: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1m594nv/multi_tab_...
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:34AM (#44648441)
> both to isolate stuff to break cookie tracking

You don't need containers for this: https://total-cookie-protection-test.netlify.app/

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:31AM (#44648386)
You're either not using uBlock Origin Lite or do not know what the "per-site switches" are: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Per-site-switches
Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:29AM (#44648350)
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:29AM (#44648345)
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re:How to Firefox on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:27AM (#44648326)
The new profile manager has already been enabled for most users.

If you don't see it in the main menu yet, type `about:config` into the address bar and toggle `browser.profiles.enabled`.

Re:Where's Firefox Going Next? on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:30AM (#44579635)

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