Custom Firefox tweaks

Pick and choose the settings to experience Firefox the way you want to and download the fixfx.sh with your custom presets. Questions? Ideas? See the code and more on .

Click selection

Settable defaults

Result

After a single click, everything is selected: URL bar is focused; everything is selected.

After a double-click, a single word is selected: URL bar is focused; the double-clicked word is selected.

After a triple-click, everything is selected: URL bar is focused; everything is selected.

Selection clipboard

Settable defaults

Result

Pressing Ctrl L or F6 selects the URL bar, but does not copy to clipboard (i.e. a subsequent middle-click paste will not paste the URL): URL bar is focused; everything is selected, but nothing copied to the selection clipboard.

Pressing Ctrl K selects the search bar, but does not copy to clipboard: Search bar is focused; everything is selected, but nothing copied to the selection clipboard.


If the URL bar is focused in a tab … A tab is shown; URL bar is focused … and you switch from a different tab … A different tab is shown; URL bar is not focused … to the tab which has the focused URL bar, then sometimes the URL bar is selected, but its content is not copied to clipboard: A tab is shown; URL bar is selected, but nothing copied to the selection clipboard.


Typing a URL auto-completes the rest, but the selection is not copied to clipboard: The start of a URL is typed; the rest of the URL is selected, but nothing copied to the selection clipboard.

Video player

Settable defaults

Result

Pressing seeks backward, pressing seeks forward by the default amount of seconds in the built-in video player (a <video> element): The built-in video player, here shown with controls on.

Pressing seeks backward, pressing seeks forward by the default amount of seconds in the Picture-in-Picture video player: Picture-in-Picture video player, here shown with controls.

Search bar

Settable defaults

Result

After typing a query into the search bar … Search bar is focused, something is typed into it, and suggestions are shown below … submitting the search (e.g. by hitting Enter, clicking the arrow icon, one of the suggestions, or a search engine) does not clear the search bar: Search bar is focused, the previously typed query remains.

Other script options

Settable defaults

Result

When running the script, the script will automatically find all Firefox directories, and add them to the selection. If it finds more than one and the script was run interactively, it’ll ask you which ones you want to tweak; otherwise, it’ll tweak all of them. The effects of these options are shown in a table in the documentation.

Customized script

Download

Download customized fixfx.sh

What next? Follow the steps in the Documentation.

Equivalent command line

Option style:

./fixfx.sh