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I agree with @justsomeone. Dumbing down apps is M-soft nanny trick. Surely Firefox is not going to follow suit? Shame because I’ll have to delete it now
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There is no way to disable ‘url fixup’ in firefox for android?
I have NEVER relied on the fixup feature, and about:config has always been the only way to disable it.
Usecase: my 3d printer’s lan dns name is ‘VPN’. If I try to access it and it is off or responds too slowly then firefox takes me to website
I cant disable a ‘feature’ I dont want, because the feature needed to disable it isnt available?
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@david_smith1 @Can_Lit @jon_alia @agmlego @errol @FarmerBob @silviuchingaru @mawriz @hepeko @2ae0e47656 @anon37388305 @a.mpoygiatiwths
there a post on the new mozilla connect platform about it so try to vote for it guys
and have a nice day 
@justsomeguy @strangedata @Henry_Houston @guyfromkcmo
@TarmmMarweit @dudu_public @Sabrina_Jones
there a post on the new mozilla connect platform about it so try to vote for it guys
and have a nice day
I got it, I must create another account have a nice day 
Στις Σάβ, 26 Μαρ 2022, 5:34 μ.μ. ο χρήστης justsomeone via Mozilla Discourse <notifications@discourse.mozilla.org> έγραψε:
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oh come on…I also found this problem recently…
Fortunately, it can still be opened on FF68 or lower vision 
the issue the older that version become the more probably it get issue opening sites also it get unsolved security issue which fixed in later version
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I’ve confirmed, neither Beta or Nightly work with about.config.
I have no idea why they say it works when it dont. I been trying to get the nightly and beta to display about.config and have no luck no matter what I try.
I’ve done the following:
-enabled debug menu in Settings, About Firefox
-disabled any plug-ins
-reset Firefox to default
-reinstalled
-tried other search providers
-tried this on 2 phones, Samsung S9+ and blackview BV9900 pro
-tried syncing my account
Not one thing brings this menu up.
HOW DO YOU GET THIS TO WORK?
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At least provide some feedback in the form of a simple message. Whenever you open a configurations page and it’s blank any sane person would think something is broken and not “Ah, but surely I need beta or nightly builds for this to be working!”.
Also how would I block auto refreshing? Add-on? I have a couple of important sites that I visit every day. Some idiot of a developer decided to implement auto refreshing (probably for the ads, which I’m blocking anyway 
). So now the page would refresh automatically every 2-3 minutes unless I’m playing an audio stream there. And if I pause it, here we go again…Now think about the fact that on your smartphone you are quite often using mobile data. You get the picture.
Both nightly and beta serve completely different user bases. I mean plural because there is also a difference between people who go for te beta and people who go for the nightly. I don’t want to try out new features. I just want to use a normal browser and tweak settings that are actually there but not made available to me. If someone says “But there is an add-on for this and that” I would simply reply like this: using an add-on to change a configuration that is already there is an oxymoron. Add-on is called add-on because it ADDS something extra ON top of the base. Plus more add-ons increase browser instability and vulnerability.
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Hey Mr. justsomeone,
I like those persons that give back reviews. I almost have the same questions on this topic that you have covered on your post.
have a good future justsomeone.
Thanks
Thanks.
They obviously have settings they dont want you to see. Most likely tracking BS. My back side has better excuses when it speaks.
I need to check a particular setting due to an app that is not working. How do I now find the setting’s value?
Just chiming in here to share a story. There always existed two download folders on my Android device (“downloads” and “Downloads”) and I couldn’t figure out why. Deleted one of them and this is when Firefox started being unable to download files.
Turns out I cannot change the download directory in the settings.
Ok, so I find a tutorial guiding me through changes to be done in about:config. I already know this from desktop, so I’m excited to be able to finally fix my issue.
Blank page, doesn’t load. Disabling all ad blockers, etc. and doubting my sanity.
And now here I am, reading that this useful feature is deliberately disabled. I’m nothing short of 
delighted Recreating the duplicate “downloads” folder now.
Mozilla: 1; User: 0
No progress in this matter I see.
I wish they’d restore about:config. I bought a tablet and some websites are shown in desktop mode, regardles of settings. I wanted to force everything to mobile, guess I’m stuck with tiny letters and unreadable content.
Devs, restore it already. I don’t want to use other browsers, especially not Chrome, that darn spying tool. Please don’t tell me to use Beta or Nightly. I don’t want to use unstable software.
The about:config block can be bypassed by going to “chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml” Then you can then set “general.aboutConfig.enable” to true to enable accessing it the normal way
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Thank you so much, Ash9 - this was driving me mad when trying to set up a Lenovo tablet on which Firefox displays pages over-magnified (Chrome doesn’t, but I don’t want to use Chrome)
thanks @Ash9 i edited my post to make your comment as work around
so anyone see that post know about it
thanks again and have a nice day