Tips.Firefox.md

Mozilla Firefox Tips

References

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox

• https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/

• https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/index.html

• https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/index.html#working-on-firefox

• https://codetribute.mozilla.org/

• https://chat.mozilla.org/

• Clear Cache

  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox

about:config

• Block HTML5 video autoplay
  • media.autoplay.enabled=false

Keyboard Shortcuts

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly

• Open Bookmarks Backup:

  • CtlL+Shift+O

• Open the Add-ons page, either:

  • Ctrl+Shift+a
  • "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons

How-To

• Export login data from Firefox
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-login-data-firefox
  • Note: Programmatically exporting passwords from Firefox is achieved by accessing the profile folder and handling thelogins.json (data) and key4.db (encryption keys) files. Third-party tools like FF Password Exporter can be used to automate this, while command-line utilities can also parse these files
  • Some programmatic approach idea sources...
    • Reading saved firefox passwords via cli and other woes
      • https://dev.to/smac89/reading-saved-firefox-passwords-via-cli-and-other-woes-56ko
        • https://github.com/glondu/nss-passwords/
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/nis
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/libgss3
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/libnss3-dev
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/libnss3-tools
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/python3-nss
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/questing/libjss-java
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/sssd-tools
    • https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/scute