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--- firefox_annoyances_list [2024/12/26 09:46] – created mike
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   * Set the value of browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel to **false**
+**Issue:** Firefox restores (or at least tries to) open tabs after a controlled reboot or system crash.  This is a huge personal annoyance of mine as, more often than not, the tab recovery doesn’t go well.  I have never found an instance where I wished the browser restores an open tab, so I dug around to figure out how to disable it:
+  * Type about:config into the location bar and hit enter
+  * Acknowledge the “Accept the Risk and Continue” button
+  * Paste **browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash** into the search box and click the pencil button
+  * Set the value of browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to **false**
+**Issue:** Google search results take FOREVER to load.  This aggravated me so much that I finally fired up a packet capture to see what was going on.  Lo and behold, I found that Firefox is now attempting to communicate w/ Google via **QUIC**, a supposedly faster option than communicating over TCP.  I dug around and found that we can force the browser to go back to TCP via disabling http3 (allegedly the future of the internet but, from where I’m sitting, I’m not buying it).  Mikey’s rule #1 – if it’s working, don’t try to fix it.  So let’s “unfix” this issue…
+  * In about:config, search for **network.http.http3.enable** and disable it.
+Enjoy the speedy search results.
+**Issue:** Highlighting information on a web page, followed by right-clicking, displays a menu with the ‘Copy’ option grayed out.  Holy shit, Mozilla, are you really trying to get me to go back to Chrome?  Because I’m almost there.
+I thought I had this fixed but it no worky.  The only workaround I have found that has consistently worked thus far is to ALT-TAB to another program, then back to Firefox.  Copy should no longer be grayed out when you right-click.  Careful though, it still seems iffy.
+**Issue:** Firefox pops up preview balloons when you hover over a browser tab.  You say picky, I say annoying.
+  *In the normal place, search for **browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled** and mark it **false**.
+<color red>**08/22/2024 – Note:**</color> The above “fix” only seems to hold for the current browser session; if you close the browser, then the **browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled** option gets reset to true when the browser starts again.  Still working on a fix for this, but it might involve dumping Firefox for a different browser.  More to come.