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  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoFirefox@lemmy.ml•What are your favourite extensions?English
    361·
    3 months ago

    Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later

    Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

    Feedbro - RSS reader with filtering capabilities

    Redirector - auto-redirect specific URLs (for example, changing a YouTube Shorts url into a regular one, or changing Reddit links to always go to Old Reddit)

    Undo Close Tab Button - allows you to restore recently closed tabs including the tab’s history in the back button (max amount = browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo)

    Violentmonkey - using userscripts that allow you to change things on websites.

    YouTube Comment Reader - allows you to search through the comments of a video (by clicking on the addon in the Extension menu and then clicking on the “YouTube Comment Reader” at the top or the “X Comments” at the bottom of the tooltip)

    Page Shadow - allows you to use dark and light themes on sites that don’t have the option to change it.

    And if you’re like me and you find that some YT videos feel too slow but 1.25x is too fast, then you can use Enhancer for YouTube’s “Playback speed” feature to have smaller speed steps. Then you can hold ctrl and use the scrollwheel (while over the video) to change the video’s speed by the amount you chose (I use 0.05 speed variation, mostly changing to 1.05x or 1.10x)

  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoFirefox@lemmy.ml•You can change the density of Firefox's UI in about:config by setting "browser.uidensity" between 0 to 2, and it applies immediately!
    1·
    4 months ago

    For the more advanced, you can also mess around with the userChrome.css file. To create it open a text editor and save the file as userChrome.css in the \Chrome folder in your Firefox profile folder* (make sure to restart Firefox to apply the changes)

    To enable the file, enter about:config in the address bar, then accept the warning if it appears. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and double-click it to set it to true.

    *enter about:support in the address bar, or click on the Help menu > More Troubleshooting Information, then scroll to the Profile Folder line and click on Open Folder. Usually it’s C:\Users\~USERNAME~\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\~PROFILENAME~

    *Note: the first 2 lines about tab height might not work if you don’t have the Playing/Muted text line in tabs disabled. To disable that line go to about:config, search for browser.tabs.secondaryTextUnsupportedLocales, and add ,en (or the relevant language that you’re using in your system) at the end of the value for it then click Enter and restart Firefox to apply the change.

    Here’s the userChrome I use (compiled from different sources)

    /*    Tabs/Tab Bar height    */
:root {
 --tab-min-height: 20px !important;
 --tab-max-height: 20px !important;
}

/*    Menu Bar height    */
#toolbar-menubar {
  margin-top: 0px !important;
  margin-bottom: 0px !important;
  padding-top: 0px !important;
  padding-bottom: 0px !important;
  line-height: 22px !important;
  max-height: 22px !important;
}
/* Fixing title bar buttons (close/min/max) due to shortened Menu Bar height */
#toolbar-menubar .titlebar-button {
  padding-block: 1px !important;
}

/* toolbar/address bar/url bar height  */
/* https://github.com/CarterSnich/firefox-xtra-compact/blob/master/chrome/userChrome.css */
toolbar#nav-bar {
	max-height: 30px !important;
}
hbox#urlbar {
	min-height: 22px !important;
}
hbox#urlbar:not([focused="true"]) {
	max-height: 22px !important;
}

/*    Menu Items height/padding    */
menupopup > menu, /* this is the sub-menus/folders/containers */
menupopup > menuitem {
  padding-block: 3px !important; /* above and below each item */
  margin-left: 0px !important; /* margin is the outer space around an item */
  padding-left: 8px !important; /* padding is the inner space inside an item */
  margin-right: 0px !important;
  padding-right: 7px !important; /* otherwise some text in menus gets cut off with ellipses */
}

/* the padding of the menu itself */
menupopup {
  --panel-padding: 1px !important;
}

/* the text part of the item/sub-menu */
menupopup > menu > hbox, /* this is the text part of the sub-menus/folders/containers */
menupopup > menuitem > hbox {
  margin-left: 0px !important;
  margin-right: 8px !important; /* otherwise some text in menus gets cut off with ellipses */
}


menuseparator {
  padding-block: 0px !important;
}

:root{
--arrowpanel-menuitem-padding: 1px 1px !important;
--arrowpanel-menuitem-margin-inline: 1px !important;
--arrowpanel-menuitem-padding-block: 1px !important;
--panel-separator-margin-horizontal: 1px !important;
--panel-subview-body-padding-block: 1px !important;
}
/*(The 2nd number in the first line refers to the left side and right side of the item)*/


/*    Spacing/padding around addons icons in the toolbar/urlbar    */

:root {
  --toolbarbutton-outer-padding: 0px !important;
  --toolbarbutton-inner-padding: 7px !important;
}

.toolbaritem-combined-buttons:not([widget-type='button-and-view']),
.toolbaritem-menu-buttons {
  margin-inline: 0px !important;
  margin-inline-start: 0px !important;
  margin-inline-end: 0px !important;
}

#tabs-newtab-button {
  padding-left: 3px !important;
}
  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite podcast at the moment?
    18·
    1 year ago

    On the humorous side:

    • My Brother, My Brother And Me - 3 brothers giving not-so-serious advice to listeners, reacting to questions from Yahoo Answers (when that was a thing), and overall being funny/silly
    • My Dad Wrote A Porno - 3 people reacting to an “erotica” book series that one of the guys’ dad published (I would say the books are maybe only 5%-20% explicit, depending on the chapter) (some of the characters’ voices can be annoying/grating, and the narrator tends to repeat sentences after they react to them which can be annoying as well)
    • No Such Thing As A Fish - the behind-the-scenes staff of the show QI bring up interesting facts and tidbits from history/nature/etc. (each episode is split into 4 parts where each member brings up a fact and the others react to it and bring up related facts)
    • If I Were You - Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor giving advice to listeners (mostly in a sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek way but sometimes genuinely), mostly about relationships/dating
    • SmartLess - Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) interview a famous person each episode where only one of the hosts known who it is beforehand (it gets better after the first few episodes, though some conversations are less funny/entertaining than others)
    • Office Ladies - Jenna and Angela from The Office (US) reacting to each episode of the show and bringing up behind-the-scenes stuff (some of episodes include interviews with other cast members/staff)
  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What nonfiction books have caused a paradigm-shift in your life?
    14·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if they all fit entirely but:

    • The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard)
    • How The World Works (Noam Chomsky)
    • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely)
    • The Hidden Brain (Shankar Vedantam) / Idiot Brain (Dean Burnett)
    • The Myth Of Choice (Kent Greenfield) / The Paradox Of Choice (Barry Schwartz)
    • The Free Will Delusion: How We Settled For The Illusion Of Morality (James B. Miles)
    • Getting Free: Creating An Association Of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods (James Herod)
    • The Best That Money Can’t Buy (Jacque Fresco)
    • No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Alfie Kohn)
  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Pros and cons of moving cache writes from SSD to RAM
    3·
    1 year ago

    Pro- the SSD will live longer
    Con- the RAM will fill up more, especially when opening resource-heavy pages (though there’s a way to unload inactive tabs so that might not be that big of a deal, and especially if you have enough RAM to spare)

    Personally I’ve been using memory-only cache for about a decade (half on HDD, half on SSD) and I don’t think I’ve noticed any adverse effects from that. (though I rarely have more than 5 tabs open at once)

  • 001Guy001@lemm.eetoScience@beehaw.org•Blue-light filtering glasses probably make no difference to eye strain – study
    7·
    1 year ago

    Especially for sleeping issues, but also for eye strain, I recommend using a program like flux (for a computer) that allows you to set the color temperature for the day and the gradually lower it further at evening and night. This along with dimming or using different lower temperature lightbulbs in the evening/night (not being exposed to bright/florescent lights) really helped me with falling asleep.

    edit: also, lowering the brightness on the monitor itself (mine is set to 27) and in the graphics card control panel (39 for me), and then manually lowering it further in the evening/night in the control panel (25>15>9>0 is how I do it)