spacecase123 / fox

Firefox stuff

ChrEdgeFkOff - redirect microsoft-edge: links from desktop/startmenu/help to the default browser

ChrEdgeFkOff.cmd
v4 works even with Edge fully uninstalled!
if Edge is already removed, try installing Edge Stable, then remove it via Edge_Removal.bat (to preserve a very small stub)
supports command line parameters: install or remove

Edge Removal

Edge_Removal.bat
already includes ChrEdgeFkOff; $also_remove_webview = 1 (set to 0 to skip it)

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NATURAL SMOOTH SCROLLING V4 "SHARP" - AveYo, 2020-2022

probably the best smooth scrolling preset for mousewheel

copy into firefox / librewolf profile as user.js, add to your existing user.js, or set in about:config

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UserChrome.js stand-alone snippet loader by AveYo

featured snippets (Addressbar = Open input as URL on Enter - press Tab to Search instead & OneClickSearch)
also available for other popular js loaders in the chrome/JS folder

ELI5 request: sorry, age restricted

1. in firefox, open about:support and take note of Application Binary

   • for example: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

2. open a Command Prompt (Admin) or Windows PowerShell (Admin) window

   • press Win+X on windows 10
   • write notepad and press Enter
   • the following steps are done in the Notepad window that just opened

3. File - New

   • copy-paste the UserChrome.js content

4. File - Save As C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\UserChrome.js

   • browse in the dialog to the path noted at step 1
   • write at File name: UserChrome.js
   • select Save as type: All Files
   • select Encoding: ANSI or UTF-8

5. File - New

   • copy-paste the defaults/pref/enable-UserChrome.js content

6. File - Save As C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\enable-UserChrome.js

   • browse in the dialog to the path noted at step 1, and further to defaults / pref subfolder
   • write at File name: enable-UserChrome.js
   • select Save as type: All Files
   • select Encoding: ANSI or UTF-8

steps for linux and macOS are similar, using Terminal and sudo nano/gedit/TextEdit

For MacOS the file paths are /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/UserChrome.js
and /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/defaults/pref/enable-UserChrome.js ref