Commands tagged firefox (47)

  • Manually Pause/Unpause Firefox Process with POSIX-Signals

    Continue with: killall -CONT -m firefox Suspends all Firefox Threads. Results in Zero CPU load. Useful when having 100+ Tabs open and you temporarily need the power elsewhere. Be careful - might produce RACE CONDITIONS or LOCKUPS in other processes or FF itself. matching is case sensitive.


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    killall -STOP -m firefox
    Schneckentreiber · 2009-05-18 20:02:44 16
  • Cleanup firefox's database.


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    find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -type f -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
    grokskookum · 2009-09-01 21:45:46 25
  • Install a Firefox add-on/theme to all users

    To install a theme use: sudo firefox -install-global-theme /path/to/theme You can get the .xpi or .jar file from the versions history on the add-on/theme page. NOTE: may not work in your system (Debian-based is an example).


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    sudo firefox -install-global-extension /path/to/add-on
    o6291408 · 2009-03-28 11:11:12 9
  • Fix Ubuntu's Broken Sound Server

    Ever since the switch to pulseaudio, Ubuntu users including myself have found themselves with no sound intermittently. To fix this, just use this command and restarts firefox or mplayer or whatever.


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    sudo killall -9 pulseaudio; pulseaudio >/dev/null 2>&1 &
    hank · 2009-04-11 20:18:35 8
  • Cleanup firefox's database.

    Sqlite database keeps collecting cruft as time passes, which can be cleaned by the 'vacuum;' command. This command cleans up the cruft in all sqlite files relating to the user you have logged in as. This command has to be run when firefox is not running, or it will exit displaying the pid of the firefox running.


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    pgrep -u `id -u` firefox-bin || find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name '*.sqlite'|(while read -e f; do echo 'vacuum;'|sqlite3 "$f" ; done)
    kamathln · 2009-08-22 10:36:05 19
  • Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

    Just refining last proposal for this check, showing awk power to make more complex math (instead /1024/1024, 2^20). We don't need declare variable before run lsof, because $(command) returns his output. Also, awk can perform filtering by regexp instead to call grep. I changed the 0.0000xxxx messy output, with a more readable form purging all fractional numbers and files less than 1 MB. Show Sample Output


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    lsof -p $(pidof firefox) | awk '/.mozilla/ { s = int($7/(2^20)); if(s>0) print (s)" MB -- "$9 | "sort -rn" }'
    tzk · 2010-01-13 22:45:53 9
  • List your installed Firefox extensions


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    grep -hIr :name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions | tr '<>=' '"""' | cut -f3 -d'"' | sort -u
    whiskybar · 2010-05-13 15:59:51 6
  • Get your Firefox history

    This is the way to get access to your Firefox history...


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    sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.[dD]efault/places.sqlite "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', visit_date/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_historyvisits WHERE moz_places.id = moz_historyvisits.place_id ORDER BY visit_date;"
    return13 · 2015-02-24 21:51:14 10
  • Releases Firefox of a still running message

    Sometimes Firefox crashes or is bad finished and the message the process is still running appear while it's not. This also works when you sharing account from a NIS server and try to open the browser on multiple computers.


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    rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>/.parentlock
    o6291408 · 2009-04-28 12:15:58 7
  • Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size.

    Check which files are opened by Firefox then sort by largest size (in MB). You can see all files opened by just replacing grep to "/". Useful if you'd like to debug and check which extensions or files are taking too much memory resources in Firefox. Show Sample Output


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    FFPID=$(pidof firefox-bin) && lsof -p $FFPID | awk '{ if($7>0) print ($7/1024/1024)" MB -- "$9; }' | grep ".mozilla" | sort -rn
    josue · 2009-08-16 08:58:22 7
  • get cookies from firefox

    useful to use after with the --load-cookies option of wget


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    echo ".mode tabs select host, case when host glob '.*' then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end, path, case when isSecure then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end, expiry, name, value from moz_cookies;" | sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/cookies.sqlite
    euridice · 2011-08-15 14:49:47 10
  • Do some Perl learning...

    Prerequisites: module Pod::Webserver installed. You can install it typing: sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Pod::Webserver' You can replace elinks with your fav browser. For FF: podwebserver& sleep 2; firefox -remote 'openurl( http://127.0.0.1:8020/, new-tab )' If you have Firefox open, this will pop-up the index web in a new tab.


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    podwebserver& sleep 2; elinks 'http://127.0.0.1:8020'
    vlan7 · 2010-01-27 10:57:34 14
  • Simultaneously running different Firefox profiles

    After running firefox -ProfileManager and creating several different profiles, use this command to run multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously.


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    firefox -P <profile_name> -no-remote
    mariusbutuc · 2010-08-25 19:14:10 5
  • sqlite3 cmd to extract Firefox bookmarks from places.sqlite

    Found this useful query at http://id.motd.org/pivot/entry.php?id=22. The b.parent=2 in the command refers to the bookmarks folder to extract. See the source webpage for additional info.


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    sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite "select a.url, a.title from moz_places a, moz_bookmarks b where a.id=b.fk and b.parent=2;"
    jrdbz · 2013-04-12 17:41:34 10
  • Grab a list of MP3s out of Firefox's cache

    Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the names of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a nice, easy to read list. What you do with them after that is *ahem* no concern of mine. ;) Show Sample Output


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    for i in `ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache`; do file $i | grep -i mpeg | awk '{print $1}' | sed s/.$//; done
    BoxingOctopus · 2010-04-11 23:14:18 8
  • Display the list of all opened tabs from Firefox via a python one-liner and a shell hack to deal with python indentation.

    You have to do that before : cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<YOUR PROFILE> Require bash. If you use something else, you may use echo <CODE> | python Forked from ArkSeth python script.


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    python2 <<< $'import json\nf = open("sessionstore.js", "r")\njdata = json.loads(f.read())\nf.close()\nfor win in jdata.get("windows"):\n\tfor tab in win.get("tabs"):\n\t\ti = tab.get("index") - 1\n\t\tprint tab.get("entries")[i].get("url")'
    sputnick · 2009-12-28 21:56:05 8
  • Change the homepage of Firefox

    This command modifies the preferences file of Firefox that is located in .mozilla/firefox/*.default/prefs.js. It edits the file with sed and the -i option. Then it searches the string "browser.startup.homepage", and the string next to it (second string). Finally, it replaces the second string with the new homepage, that is http://sliceoflinux.com in the example. It doesn't work if you haven't set any homepage.


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    sed -i 's|\("browser.startup.homepage",\) "\(.*\)"|\1 "http://sliceoflinux.com"|' .mozilla/firefox/*.default/prefs.js
    sliceoflinux · 2010-04-09 08:00:22 7
  • Do Google search from that command line opening into a new Firefox tab.

    Usage: google "[search string]" Example: google "something im searching for" This will launch firefox and execute a google search in a new tab with the provided search string. You must provide the path to your Firefox binary if using cygwin to $ff or create an alias like follows: alias firefox='/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe' Most Linux flavors with Firefox installed will use just ff="firefox" and even OSX.


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    google() { gg="https://www.google.com/search?q="; ff="firefox"; if [[ $1 ]]; then "$ff" -new-tab "$gg"$(echo ${1//[^a-zA-Z0-9]/+}); else echo 'Usage: google "[seach term]"'; fi }
    lowjax · 2013-08-01 22:21:53 21
  • Grab a list of MP3s out of Firefox's cache

    Grab a list of MP3s (with full path) out of Firefox's cache Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the *full path* of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a clean list. Shorter and Intuitive version of the command submitted by (TuxOtaku) Show Sample Output


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    find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache -exec file {} \; | awk -F ': ' 'tolower($2)~/mpeg/{print $1}'
    sata · 2010-04-19 06:59:55 4
  • Open multiple tabs in Firefox from a file containing urls

    this will open a new tab in firefox for every line in a file the sleep is removable but i found that if you have a large list of urls 50+, and no sleep, it will try to open all the urls at once and this will cause them all to load a lot slower, also depending on the ram of your system sleep gives you a chance to close the tabs before they overload your ram, removing & >2/dev/null will yield unpredictable results.


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    for line in `cat $file`; do firefox -new-tab "$line" & 2>/dev/null; sleep 1; done
    hamsolo474 · 2011-11-12 13:47:24 4
  • Get your Firefox bookmarks

    Extracts yours bookmarks out of sqlite with the format: dateAdded|url Show Sample Output


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    sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.[dD]efault/places.sqlite "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"
    return13 · 2015-03-08 19:26:16 9
  • Monitor all DNS queries made by Firefox


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    NSPR_LOG_MODULES=nsHostResolver:5 NSPR_LOG_FILE=/tmp/log.txt firefox
    mhs · 2015-09-30 01:56:36 10
  • get all bookmarks from all profiles from firefox

    for i in $(ls /home/marco/.mozilla/firefox/*\.*/places.sqlite); do sqlite3 $i "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"; done


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    "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', dateAdded/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_bookmarks WHERE moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk ORDER BY dateAdded;"; done
    weirdname · 2016-05-19 02:09:17 12
  • Read random news on the internet

    Access a random news web page on the internet. The Links browser can of course be replaced by Firefox or any modern graphical web browser.


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    links $( a=( $( lynx -dump -listonly "http://news.google.com" | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" | grep -v "google.com" | sort | uniq ) ) ; amax=${#a[@]} ; n=$(( `date '+%s'` % $amax )) ; echo ${a[n]} )
    pascalvaucheret · 2016-07-26 11:52:12 56
  • Cleanup firefox's database.

    For Mac OS X users only


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    find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/ -type f -name "*.sqlite" -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
    stanishjohnd · 2009-09-02 23:12:13 3
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