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Firefox tweaks
Browser back button behaviour
There is an option in Firefox, hidden in about:config
browser.backspace_action :
0 : go back one page (the default on Windows)
1 : scroll up (the default on linux before 2006-12-07)
2 : do nothing (the default on linux after 2006-12-07)
Enable HTML5 video player on BBC website
For whatever reason, the BBC website defaults to flash for videos and displays an error message to install it when disabled, even though they have a usable HTML5 player they use for mobile devices. So, desktop browsers will have to pretend to be a mobile by changing the User-Agent string. Firefox removed options for site-specific strings, but addons are available to do this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-js-fixer/?src=search
Set the user agent to the following and limit it to the BBC News website
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; en-us; Nexus 5 Build/JOP40D) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2307.2 Mobile Safari/537.36
Disable Pocket
Go to about:config, search for pocket and set the following settings to false:
extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs=false extensions.pocket.enabled=false extensions.pocket.showHome=false