So I had to repave my primary workstation to fix a problem with my ZFS configuration (my ashift setting was causing problems) and things are mostly back online, but I wasn’t able to print from firefox for some reason.

I think the problem was that I had installed firefox prior to adding the printer. Anyway, long story short, this command seemed to fix the problem for me:

# snap connect firefox:cups-control

Firefox 105.0.1 restores focus behavior on startup

Posted on 2022-10-05 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

Well I’m happy to learn that Firefox 105.0.1 restores focus behavior on startup. That’s been driving me mad!

Configuring download directory for Chromium and Firefox snaps

Posted on 2022-09-30 [Friday] by Jay Jay

So I read this and this and solved my problem. Basically I bind /temp/download to /media/$USER/download and then I can set the download directory in Chromium and Firefox snaps to /media/$USER/download and my downloads go where I want them. This was actually harder to figure out than it should have been.

How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature?

Posted on 2021-08-27 [Friday] by Jay Jay

How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature?

Firefox 88

Posted on 2021-04-20 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay

A new version of Firefox released: Firefox 88.

How to start Firefox in KDE as the Active Window

Posted on 2021-02-20 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

I’m not sure what the –window regex is for, but it complains if absent, so I just made it ‘.’. This command will start firefox and make it the active window:

kstart --activate --window . firefox

Firefox HTTPS-Only Mode

Posted on 2020-11-19 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Today is a historic day! I’m now running Firefox 83 an have enabled the new HTTPS-Only mode!