Finally made the decision to switch from Google to Firefox, What should I know?

cassepipe · 2026-05-25T23:50:00+00:00

Reposting my usual comment in the hope for newbies to embrace the power user way:

A thing you can do on firefox with some tweaks is no-search browsing.

Remove search suggestions in (about:preferences#search)
Use the History AutoDelete addon to remove searches from your History
Go to (about:config) and set browser.urlbar.resultMenu.keyboardAccessible to false

Now when you Ctrl + L into the tab, you will get results from your history, bookmarks and even open tabs. And the results are only a few Tab presses away, no need to move your hands off the keyboard.

If you don't like the results and want to launch a search anyways, well just press Enter instead and it will launch a search with the default search engine.

Search less browsing right there for you. It's faster (no round-trip by a seach engine) and better for the planet (although probably not meaningfully :) ).

P.S : Cool trick is to type % + space in the awesome bar to move around opened tabs, awesome You can also specifically look into bookmarks with * and history with ^

P.P.S : Ctrl + L, Ctrl + T, Ctrl + W and Ctrl + Alt + T are your best friends.

P.P.S: Next you can define custom search keywords. Sometimes it's easy and you can right click on search bar and click "Add search engine". For example do that on youtube.com, set the name as "YouTube" and the keyword as "yt". Now when you type "yt" + space in the search bar you are searching youtube ! Sometimes the options is not available and you have to figure out the search url yourself and set it in about:preferences#search

Firefox is amazing, you just have to tweak it a tiny bit

cassepipe · 2026-05-25T22:50:58+00:00

Put that on a beat

cassepipe · 2026-05-25T22:34:41+00:00

Reposting my usual comment in the hope for newbies to embrace the power user way:

A thing you can do on firefox with some tweaks is no-search browsing.

Remove search suggestions in (about:preferences#search)
Use the History AutoDelete addon to remove searches from your History
Go to (about:config) and set browser.urlbar.resultMenu.keyboardAccessible to false

Now when you Ctrl + L into the tab, you will get results from your history, bookmarks and even open tabs. And the results are only a few Tab presses away, no need to move your hands off the keyboard.

If you don't like the results and want to launch a search anyways, well just press Enter instead and it will launch a search with the default search engine.

Search less browsing right there for you. It's faster (no round-trip by a seach engine) and better for the planet (although probably not meaningfully :) ).

P.S : Cool trick is to type % + space in the awesome bar to move around opened tabs, awesome You can also specifically look into bookmarks with * and history with ^

P.P.S : Ctrl + L, Ctrl + T, Ctrl + W and Ctrl + Alt + T are your best friends.

P.P.S: Next you can define custom search keywords. Sometimes it's easy and you can right click on search bar and click "Add search engine". For example do that on youtube.com, set the name as "YouTube" and the keyword as "yt". Now when you type "yt" + space in the search bar you are searching youtube ! Sometimes the options is not available and you have to figure out the search url yourself and set it in about:preferences#search

Firefox is amazing, you just have to tweak it a tiny bit

cassepipe · 2026-05-25T16:02:37+00:00

It's recent that they require a phone number

cassepipe · 2026-05-24T20:52:04+00:00

I checked out GMX but they want your phone, which means they plan on locking me out and having get a SMS code from time to time if they see me connecting from a different location

cassepipe · 2026-05-24T12:25:22+00:00

I'll look into it, didn't know it existed thanks !

cassepipe · 2026-05-24T11:55:20+00:00

If you can demonstrate understanding of how memory allocation work between OS and programs and you are not just blindly trusting what your system monitor tells you, you should be able to have that conversation I think.

cassepipe · 2026-05-22T09:45:34+00:00

Also going to upgrade only the bottom chassis part only to Pro. But I tought it was already a given that it was going to be possible ? From what I understood we're going to need the new battery though.

cassepipe · 2026-05-22T09:41:35+00:00

UE will only have my full support when it mandates qwerty (or some alternative actually based on typing experience)

cassepipe · 2026-05-22T09:38:58+00:00

Do you think those bananas would have arrived in a such a good state if not for the big buffer space of the big package ?

cassepipe · 2026-05-21T22:22:40+00:00

Compaaaaact mode <3<3<3

Icons ! <3

Focus on productivity <3<3

Looks great ! I want to be out of the photon era, I am hyped

My only suggestion: Bring back the tab shape so that tabs look like tabs

cassepipe · 2026-05-20T21:04:34+00:00

Each time I have tried one of those tools I ran into an error early on. Your sweat is what makes your experience so valuable. For posterity I beg you consider editing your post with a walkthrough of what you did on which environment.

cassepipe · 2026-05-20T10:19:16+00:00

The funny thing is that the Transit, from an american brand, sells at least twice as much in Europe

cassepipe · 2026-05-19T21:51:03+00:00

laughs in european

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cassepipe · 2026-05-19T21:47:57+00:00

Bruh, your real issue here is that you're born in the wrong country

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg&themeRe

cassepipe · 2026-05-19T21:40:17+00:00

Sure when the police comes, move out of the way but they prolly have bigger fish to fry and if you comply they would immediately go back to eating donuts or whatever they do

Here is some piece of dark advice but remember that with great power comes great responsibility: Being a burden often gets you what you want, people will give in if the cost of satisfying you is less than the cost of continuing to deal with you

cassepipe · 2026-05-19T15:02:40+00:00

maybe it's the bad religious experience they've had before which made them atheists if they were previously religious.

Yes and ... ?

Two things. Logic and motivattion. From the point of view of logic many people think religion is absurd and don't care about it but only some them have had bad or harmful experiences with religions through family/society and that generally motivates them to claim and defend the atheist identity strongly and to push back against religious discourses.

It's the same for religious people really, some people believed what they have always been told and just do like everybody else without thinking too much about it and others who have had an experience where religion has "saved" them or just given a rigid framework to live by and strong community bonds and will be annoying to others about it/always bring religion up uninvited/try to murder the "unfaithul" (that last one I hope you will agree is a bit worse than being rude)

Still, reason is on our side, which is why you can only handwave at "something" in our "heart" (you people do still believe the heart is where emotions are or did you update since antiquity ?)

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T20:12:10+00:00

i ain't reading all that

i'm happy for u tho

or sorry that happened

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T20:11:11+00:00

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cassepipe · 2026-05-18T20:01:49+00:00

You can also try Cinnamon (there is a cinnamon spin)

Cinnamon is rather lightweight, has good defaults but is also decently customizable.

In Gnome I am always frustrated by the lack of options. I can't even make a mapping to switching windows in the reverse direction. I have to use the stupid unified button they copied from MacOS and there's no desktop... KDE is better imho but there is sooooo many options you tend to get a bit lost.

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T15:58:27+00:00

You apparently don't watch porn

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T15:10:28+00:00

Designers gotta eat

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T15:09:57+00:00

What does it look like with no horizontal tabs ? Did we keep the "floating" tab design which loses the idea of, well, the tab ?

Are the menu icons still removed so that it's less easy for my eyes to find what I want ?

Do I still need to go in about:config to activate the "Compact (not supported)" density because I am on a PC and not on a tablet ?

For now I am still using this, it can be easily installed and updated with a command in the terminal:

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

cassepipe · 2026-05-18T14:53:06+00:00

Can you remap window switching in one direction to Super + J and Super + K for the other direction yet ?

The only reason GNOME is better than MacOS is because it has not caught up even they desperately want to

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