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Firefox hides When opened in AndroVM Player.

Android Details:

                    AndroVM for VirtualBox (Tablet version with phone caps)
                   version 4.1.1
                   Virtual Box version : 4.2.8
                   AndroVM Player version: Win32-20130208

My PC hardware details are

                  Windows 7 32bit SP1
                  4GB RAM 
                  Intel HD Graphics
                  HP Compaq 8100 Elite model: AY031AV

This problem occurs on two different (one 32 bit, one 64 bit) machines running Firefox 19.0.2 under Windows 8 Pro. Firefox is the default browser on both machines. Firefox is set to open URL's in a new tab. I have disabled all extensions and add-ins and the problem persists.

[EDIT: Have now upgraded 64bit machine to Firefox 20.0.1 with no change in symptoms.]

ONLY IF Firefox IS CURRENTLY RUNNING, clicking on a URL shortcut will sometimes fail to open the URL in Firefox (or any other browser, for that matter). If Firefox is exited, then clicking on the same shortcut will always launch a new instance of Firefox and open the URL. This problem is intermittent -- about 10% to 20% of the time -- at other times clicking on the same shortcut will cause Firefox to open the URL as expected. However, once a running Firefox instance has ignored a click on the shortcut, no matter how many times the shortcut is clicked, Firefox will not respond until that instance of Firefox is exited.

We are using a software application that has Firefox as the default browser. We are using scanners and the Firefox settings have to be changed every time we scan a document. How do you manage the settings or change the default settings in Firefox, they are taking precedent over the scanner default settings.

We are using Calendar OpenFaces control See the widgets http://openfaces.org/demo/datechooser/DateChooser.jsf

We are using jsf 1.2 So with FireFox 20.0 all our data chooser widgets are not responding Its OK with Firefox 19 Everything is OK in Chrome borwser

Ladies and Gents,

We are running 32 bit Windows 7 Enterprise. I have a user that is trying to access a database through Mozilla Firefox. When he is prompted to enter his smart card/PIN he recieves the error:

"The page you are attempting to access requires your browser to have a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) client certificate that the Web server recognizes"

I have checked to make sure that SSL 3.0 is enabled and that the smart card is loaded under security devices.

I have tried exporting his certificated from IE9 (Which works fine with the database) and importing them into Firefox, no success.

The reason the user is trying to access through Firefox is for a more friendly user interface that the site only provides to Firefox.

I upgraded to Mountain Lion (10.8.3). Firefox 20 now floods my system log with CGContextSaveGState and CGContextTranslateCTM errors. And when I say floods, I mean floods! I'm getting three messages every second. It does not matter what website I got to. I can open even a local file and it does this.

The performance of FF and my overall system is somewhat degraded. However, I cannot use FF as long as it floods my logs.

I bring up Firefox after it crashes, which happens quite often, and all the tabs and windows I was working on are lost, even though I had the options set to "save my windows and tabs from last time." The tabs that are brought up seem to be the same ones I had opened when I first selected that options setting. So the session manager does not keep up-to-date, just kind of randomly selects a session from some time in the past and always brings up that exact session, regardless of where I actually was before my crash (or if I have to kill the Firefox process because Firefox froze).

By the way, some time ago Firefox had the option to, when reloading Firefox after a crash, to choose which tabs to bring up after a crash, in case certain ones were creating the problem, so we could remove those tabs before reloading. What happened to that feature?

I have tried every fix I've read about online, and nothing helps this problem: Firefox has suddenly stopped opening links from external applications. I am using version 20 on a Mac.

-Firefox says it's my default browser. -I've already tried to "go into Safari and change the default browser" trick. No dice. -I've tried reinstalling/upgrading Firefox to the latest version. It's still doing it. -Additionally, I can't trash my old Firefox version because it says "XUL is still in use." No, throwing the old Firefox in the trash does not help, so please don't post that stock reply that I see getting posted ("just trash your old Firefox") because it doesn't work.

Anything else to try?

Is there any way to access a screen that shows or lists all the devices that you have previously synched to your Firefox Sync account? (desktops, laptops, + mobile devices)

i bookmark a lot of my google docs. when i'm using my android phone i expect that when opening those docs i get prompted with the choice to open them with the google drive app. but that just doesn't happen when i'm using firefox for android. instead, the mobile version of the google doc is opened. that's ok, but i would much rather open it with the google drive app. the same things goes for when i want to open, say, a link to a youtube video; i don't seem to get redirected to the youtube app on my phone to open it.

p.s. in case this is of any relevance: i have installed the phony add-on and set it to the android (phone) agent. that's the only way i've been able to open the mobile versions of some of these sites. otherwise, i used to get the desktop version.

I have been looking through the documentation for the weave server and have found no way to modify how much history is kept the whole purpose of using the home server was so that i could put a enormous quota and save every thing securely and privatly. 60 days is a joke as I have to come back to projects a year or 3 later and have 200 or so tabs open daily across 4 browser windows per pc i use. I use seperate profiles for seprate aspects of life... ex hobbies vs coding vs work. each gets its own profile and sync account so that when i work on multiple systems or have to redo pc's its much easier to keep things sorted out.

when i left my job and gave them back my laptop i obviously kept the sync key and thought it would be fine to simply come along and enter the details into my new computer and away i go ... like i did when i got the laptop in the first place.

However when i entered all the information it said it had imported it and there were no links, bookmarks, password, history ... nothing.

Is there a way i can find out why this is happening. it can't have overwritten them as i selected the option to sync what is local and on the server.

any ideas.

The main feature that attracts me in Firefox for Android is the ability to synch my Bookmarks with the desktop browser. It does synch the Bookmarks, however, the folder tree of the Desktop Bookmarks is completely messed up and out of order compare to the desktop browser, which makes it difficult to find what I need. It happens both on my tablet and my phone. And there is no option to edit the bookmarks (move them in the proper position). Why is it happening, and is there any way fix this?

Hi,

I am currently facing a problem with a Chat program using jsp (Java Server Pages) where the chat console works perfect except for one little thing. The chat window does not automatically scroll down to the last reply in the chat window.

the code used to scroll down to the last items (based on Netscape) is the following:

if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1) {
  isOther = (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) == "3");
  isNS4 = (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) == "4");
  isNS6 = (navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1) == "5");
} else if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet Explorer") != -1) {
  isIE = true;
} else if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Opera") != -1) {
  isOpera = true;
} else {
  isOther = true;
}
if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Mac") != -1)
    isMac = true;
if (isOther)
    alert("Sorry but you will have to upgrade your browser to NS4+ or IE4+ for this to work properly.");
function setScrollProperties() {
    if (isMac) {
        scrollStart = 0;
        scrollEnd =  answerFrame.document.height - scrollStart;
    } else {
        scrollStart = 0;
        scrollEnd =  answerFrame.document.height - scrollStart;
    }
}
function doScroll() {
    documentYposition += scrollAmount;
    window.scrollTo(0,documentYposition);
    if (documentYposition < scrollEnd) {
        setTimeout('doScroll()',slowScrollInterval);
    }else if (moreScrolling){
        moreScrolling = false;
        scrolling = false;
        startScroll();
    }else{
        scrolling = false;
    }

I cannot see what goes wrong in here and the manufacturer does not know how to fix this either. Irritatingly this scrolling function is working normally in IE, Chrome and some other browsers.

I sure hope you can help me, as this is a very irritating problem that needs to be solved.

Best regards, Corné Snoek

I have FF 19.0.2 (FF 18.x had problems too), I log into Gmail, try to Compose an email, and the attachment (regardless of type or size) won't attach. Gmail gives me an error of "Retry, Remove, Help"

I have the most version of Flash, a few weeks ago with FF18.x everything was working fine, with FF18.x the above problem started. Safe Mode with FF doesn't fix it, in creating a new profile FF was updated to 19.x, that didn't fix it. When Win7 Pro loads normally, I turned off my antivirus software (Kaspersky), and my antimaleware software, cleared all my cache in FF, nothing worked.

Attachments work with IE v8.0 without a problem. Attachments also work on my WinXP Pro (old computer) with older version FF. On my netbook, which has an OEM version of Win7 and FF 10.0, attachments do work.

IF I start Win7 in Safe Mode, then the attachment works. So something in windows is causing the problem. I have not updated Win7 Pro in months, so it's nothing I recently changed, because nothing has changed w/the OS.

I'm at a loss as to what to trouble shoot at this point.

This will mean I will remove firefox from my pc. other people also have the same problem.I need to have more control and let me override the standards and go to the webpage if I deem it acceptable.