firefox

  1. T

    firefox - brittle?

    Is it just me, or is the current (well, for "quarterly" values of current) version of firefox exceptionally brittle? For me, it crashes for nothing - click too quickly on a window, quick to many times (because gthe respones is slow sometimes) and it quits. No error messages, just quits This is...
  2. xchris

    Solved Does _really_ teams work with firefox under FreeBSD?

    I am having hard time with this... as other's can't see me, I can see myself anyway on the teams. Tested with www/chromium -works- so no camera permissions for sure. Is some codec I miss or just www/firefox on FreeBSD is .... crippled? Thanks!
  3. MG

    Firefox missing codecs again

    After a succesful build of my custom FreeBSD desktop, the firefox "overlay module" that I included stopped playing particular Youtube video formats. This happens a lot after version upgrades but the CLI output explains nothing this time. Is there any way to make Firefox tell what's going on...
  4. NapoleonWils0n

    Firefox 150 disable the emoji picker

    Disable the annoying emoji picker on Firefox that comes up when you press control and two periods Ctrl + .. I have a keyboard shortcut to relax ublock origins blocking mode which is set to Ctrl+Period And the emoji picker keep popping up in text fields instead of realxing the ublock origin...
  5. tembun

    UI bug in Firefox 153?

    $ pkg info chromium firefox chromium-150.0.7871.100 firefox-153.0_1,2 On the screenshot, www/chromium on the left side and www/firefox on the right side. In Firefox, commit messages are not displayed in cgit.freebsd.org: a tag with class commit-msg is just empty: I've confirmed that on...
  6. C

    Solved Best alternative browsers for use with FreeBSD

    Right now I'm using Firefox 151.0.3, but I'm now wondering what would be the best browser to use alongside Firefox? My plan is to keep using Firefox for regular use such as watching videos, or posting in this forum, but what would be the best browser to use for online banking and that sort of...
  7. ale.lili

    [PORT] www/zen-browser — Zen Browser 1.21.4b (Linux compat, audio + DRM + AAC)

    I've created an unofficial FreeBSD port for Zen Browser, a Firefox-based browser focused on privacy and productivity, running via the Linux compatibility layer (linux_base-rl9 / Rocky Linux 9). Repository: https://github.com/Richard7987/zen-browser-freebsd-port What works - Full audio...
  8. MG

    Firefox missing something for particular media formats.

    [Child 1326,\ MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=5ac6ffbe2400 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file firefox-152.0.3/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168 This happens on several Youtube...
  9. tembun

    Solved Regression in Firefox 152.0 'Save file' dialog?

    I've recently updated Firefox 151.0.3 -> Firefox 152.0. Well, that was done as part of pkg upgrade -f, so I think gtk might be updated as well, but I didn't pay attention to that then. Before the update (literally yesterday), when I'm downloading a file and a dialog window pops up, I'm able to...
  10. patpro

    Firefox and GPU acceleration

    Hello, I’m running the latest Firefox pkg on FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE and I was wondering about GPU acceleration. I’m using an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U CPU with Radeon 780M Graphics. X11 and XFCE4 as desktop GUI. Here is a part of Firefox’s about:support output (plaintext): Application Basics...
  11. NapoleonWils0n

    Cuda working on Freebsd using Podman containers

    Run Linux command line and gui applications on FreeBSD with full Nvidia Cuda hardware acceleration. https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-cuda Mounts the Linuxulator libraries from Freebsd into the Podman containers, so you dont need to install the Nvidia driver into the container...
  12. NapoleonWils0n

    general/other Cuda now working on Freebsd with a Rocky Linux Podman container

    I now have Cuda working on Freebsd using a Rocky Linux Podman container This is the python command run inside the Podman container python3 -c "import torch; print('CUDA Available:', torch.cuda.is_available()); print('Device:', torch.cuda.get_device_name(0) if torch.cuda.is_available() else...
  13. ZioMario

    Shell AI generated content : setup_firefox_netflix.sh — Enable Netflix (Widevine DRM) on Firefox

    Hello. I've created a script that allows to watch Netflix on Firefox,since right now it can be done only with Chromium. Just because Firefox is still the browser we love. Isn't it ? It uses the files extracted from the port "foreign-cdm". Just rename the file from zip to sh and run it.
  14. fjdlr

    Solved Firefox 149 on FreeBSD 15 – YouTube videos not playing ("Unable to play this video")

    Hi, After upgrading to Firefox 149.0,2 on FreeBSD 15, YouTube videos no longer play. Symptoms: YouTube displays: "Unable to play this video" Issue occurs on all videos tested No playback starts at all Environment: FreeBSD 15.0 firefox-149.0,2 (installed Mar 22, 2026) Installed via pkg...
  15. AlfredoLlaquet

    Improve Your English Visually Using Firefox Search Shortcuts

    Firefox setup In "Settings" > "Search" > "Search Shortcuts" add a new entry: - Search Engine Name: Images (or whatever you like) - URL: For Brave-search images: https://search.brave.com/images?q=%s For Duckduckgo images: https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&iax=images&q=%s For Google...
  16. J

    Xfce mutt, mailcap, and Firefox

    I tried configuring FreeBSD on a desktop system (with Xfce) for the first time, and encountered the following problem. My mailcap for mutt has points to Firefox for HTML attachments: text/html; firefox %s; needsterminal; When opening a HTML attachment from within mutt, it is displayed in...
  17. loveydovey

    Firefox network race condition

    I think this is a Firefox issue, not FreeBSD networking stack or anything, but am I the only one having this? Two of websites intermittently open up as if I am not logged in (even though I am logged in)....then I refresh the page, and it opens up like it should with me being logged in. It's...
  18. AlfredoLlaquet

    Navigate Using the Keyboard with Firefox and Firefox-based Browsers

    One of the reasons I'm not switching to Chromium is this little wonder of an extension: https://github.com/KennethSundqvist/key-jump-browser-extension It seems to be little known, so here you have it, keyboard lovers.
  19. fahrenheit

    Widevine CDM (L3) on native Firefox

    Hello all, I want to share that it is possible to enjoy Widevine protect content on Firefox (possibly derivatives also) in addition to what is possible currently with chromium. This will be L3 decode (i.e. software) but in any case it's better than no decode. What you will need: Rust (pkg...
  20. zsolt

    BitPerfect + Firefox YouTube: Right Channel OK, Left Channel Noise

    When I configure BitPerfect for my headphones and play a YouTube video in Firefox, I get normal sound in the right ear, but in the left ear I only hear a loud "shsh-ing" noise. Audacious plays music fine, so the issue seems to be specific to Firefox/YouTube. Has anyone else experienced this or...
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