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 settingâs value?
Just chiming in here to share a story. There always existed two download folders on my Android device (âdownloadsâ and âDownloadsâ) and I couldnât 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 Iâm excited to be able to finally fix my issue.
Blank page, doesnât load. Disabling all ad blockers, etc. and doubting my sanity.
And now here I am, reading that this useful feature is deliberately disabled. Iâm nothing short of 
delighted Recreating the duplicate âdownloadsâ folder now.
Mozilla: 1; User: 0
No progress in this matter I see.
I wish theyâd 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 Iâm stuck with tiny letters and unreadable content.
Devs, restore it already. I donât want to use other browsers, especially not Chrome, that darn spying tool. Please donât tell me to use Beta or Nightly. I donât want to use unstable software.
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The about:config block can be bypassed by going to âchrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtmlâ Then you can then set âgeneral.aboutConfig.enableâ 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 doesnât, but I donât 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 
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Thank you so very much!
It was driving me crazy that Firefox sometimes changes the URL to https when I donât want to, I live in an apartment with a Wi-Fi repeater halfway to the landlords house and the dumb thing must be rebooted in order reconnect again when it loses connection to the main wifi which happens sometimes and some days several times a day.
I donât know how much time I have wasted on reloading the tab to the wifi repeater and thinking that it just doesnât work before finding out that Firefox âhelped meâ by âfixingâ the URL to https and the repeater will never respond to https⌠
There is just one thing that I have changed in my about:configure and that is âbrowser.fixup.fallback-to-httpsâ set to false. I donât see how that makes Firefox âunstableâ or that I somehow would need to use the nightly buildâŚ