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My firefox on my android phone crashed which seems to caused all my bookmarks to gone missing!

Is there something i can do to maybe recover them?

This happened on Firefox BETA. (in case this is relevant or important information.)

edit: my browsing history is gone too. strange. it looks like it resetted everything after the crash?

I've noticed my open tabs do not sync automatically like it does when I move from desktop to my Android device. Example scenario to explain this better:

I'm on my desktop Firefox with several open tabs. Then I pick up my Android device (4.2 Jelly Bean) and open Firefox Android, and I go to open new tab and chose the "Sync" menu, unfortunately the tabs it shows from my desktop device are not up to date at all.

In fact the only way I've found to sync up these tabs is to go on my Android device under Sync -> Firefox Sync -> Menu Button -> Sync Now. Then my tabs update perfect, but shouldn't this just happen automatically, or at least from a "Sync Now" button right in Firefox Android? Am I completely missing something obvious?

Thanks!!

EDIT: I have solved this problem on my end. It turns out that my mouse manufacturer had a 'helper' program that was screwing up the horizontal-tilt support. Quitting it solved the problem. To others having the same problem, I suggest checking your own mouse's helper utilities.

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I am given to understand that previous versions of Firefox supported horizontal scrolling when used with a scrollwheel mouse that supported tilt messages. However, I've been unable to get it to work on Firefox 20.0.1. I've tried disabling smooth scrolling, hardware acceleration, restarting in safe mode, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

(The troubleshooting information below represents the usual configuration of my browser, without disabling any extensions.)

On the other hand, other applications seem to handle mousewheel tilts just fine; I've tried it with applications as simple as Notepad on Windows and they scroll horizontally in response to mousewheel tilts. I'm stumped; did Mozilla remove tilt support in later versions of Firefox?

I am having a problem with a xul drag and drop function designed for selenium rc and selenium IDE. It works in Firefox 10 ESR but does not work in Firefox 17 ESR.

the code used for the draganddrop function is added below:

Selenium.prototype.doXulDragAndDropToObject = function(locatorStartElement, locatorEndElement) { var startElement = this.page().findElement(locatorStartElement); if (startElement.wrappedJSObject) {

   startElement = startElement.wrappedJSObject;

}

var endElement = this.page().findElement(locatorEndElement); if (endElement.wrappedJSObject) {

   endElement = endElement.wrappedJSObject;

}

var dropValue;

var startTreerow = getAncestorsByTagName(startElement, 'treerow')[0]; var treeCells = startTreerow.children; for(var i=0; i<treeCells.length; i++) {

   var val = treeCells[i].getAttribute('value');
   if(val) {
       dropValue = JSON.parse(val);
   }

}

if(dropValue) {

   endElement.drop(dropValue);

} }

The is the error message I received when the draganddrop fails in FireFox 17 ESR:

[error] Unexpected Exception: message -> An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable, code -> 11, INDEX_SIZE_ERR -> 1, DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR -> 2, HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR -> 3, WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR -> 4, INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR -> 5, NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR -> 6, NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR -> 7, NOT_FOUND_ERR -> 8, NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR -> 9, INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR -> 10, INVALID_STATE_ERR -> 11, SYNTAX_ERR -> 12, INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR -> 13, NAMESPACE_ERR -> 14, INVALID_ACCESS_ERR -> 15, VALIDATION_ERR -> 16, TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR -> 17, SECURITY_ERR -> 18, NETWORK_ERR -> 19, ABORT_ERR -> 20, URL_MISMATCH_ERR -> 21, QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR -> 22, TIMEOUT_ERR -> 23, INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR -> 24, DATA_CLONE_ERR -> 25, result -> 2152923147, name -> InvalidStateError, filename -> chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js, lineNumber -> 1183, columnNumber -> 0, location -> JS frame :: chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js :: :: line 1183, inner -> null, data -> null

firefox selenium-rc selenium-ide

Automatic updates do not work behind proxy on Windows machines. Fix this Alot of applications can do this but neither Firefox nor Thunderbird can. Noone cares for your stupid decisions about FirefoxOS replicating ChromeOs which is money on the wind as well. But why not do something useful for ........

Yes i know, linux doesn't have this problem and its ok there but microsoft isn't so generous thats why many companies have to think of dirty way doing things. Thats the only thing i ask, one more dirty thing for dirty os, thanks.

Edited by a moderator due to language. See the Rules & Guidelines .

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.

when a form has an upload file control the browser pops up a selection dialog starting in a default folder, can the location of this folder be changed? if i browse to another one in the dialog the new location does seem to be cached somewhere for a few days but gets wiped again eventually

Apologies if this is a stupid question. It seems to be the case that websites designed for mobiles (e.g. http://m.guardian.co.uk/), have a default text size setting which ignores the equivalent setting in Firefox Android. Consequently, in some websites like the one mentioned above, the text is unnecessarily large, making the reading process rather labour intensive. I know I could revert to the desktop site, but I'm more likely to revert back to the default android browser (which has no problem adjusting the text on these sites), which would be shame, as apart from this problem, I am loving the Firefox experience.

I am on Samsung Galaxy S2, Android 4.0.4.

Cheers

when the android phone is turned off, and then back on again, any desk top icon or bookmark of an web page with a manifest will not work when in airplane mode. You must at least make an attempt to turn on wifi, even an unsuccessful attempt to find a wifi connection will do. Then when you use the book mark or the desktop icon, it will work. I have a series of phones which only have internect connection - no phone company tower connection SAMSUNG-SGH-1997 firmware version 2.2.1 kernel verions 2.6.32.9 FROYO.UCKH1. Contact wih android support only got suggestion to use the google chrome browser, which incidentally does not work on 2.2.1

am working for <a href=”http://www.examresultstoday.com/”>examresultstoday.com</a> and while i want to download some files or backup of cpanel then tend to use idm but what to do in order to be able to download my backup using it ?

When I open Firefox to my home page (Xfinity.comcast.net) I am able to move my cursor around the page, but nothing that I click on responds - followed by a pop-up window indicating "Warning - unresponsive script" with various script URLs. I have the option to click continue (which does nothing) or stop script (which also does nothing). If I close this window it pops up again. At no time am I able to click on anything and get a response NOR am I able to close out of my home page. I have upgraded and downgraded my Adobe programs (including the reader) with no change in response. [Also, If I click on any other of my programs, it takes forever for the connection to stop spinning (if it does at all).] If I use Internet Explorer as my browser, I am able to access other web sites, but making any connections is very slow. All system scans with malware and antivirus programs come back indicating NO viruses or other problems.

I mistakingly denied the storage of offline data to www.mega.co.nz by clicking the never allow for this site button.I browsed every tab and button in the firefox options menu and found a the offline content and web user tab under advanced options, but i cant seem to add the page to the exceptions list... how can I allow it to store data offline?

I want to start using the 'Master Password' feature. There are a couple of hundred 'stored' passwords in the Options-Security-Saved Passwords tab so I'm wondering if it would be best to delete ALL of these before setting up a Master Password. I will be changing and deleting several of the 'stored' passwords anyway. But my main question is whether or not the 'Master Password' would encrypt All of the existing 'stored' passwords and what if they have already been comprised by surfing anyway??

Even after I visit several websites, the pinned icon on my Win 7 taskbar for Firefox 21 does not show any visited websites, nor does it show tasks like "Open new tab," or "reopen last session."

I just recently reinstalled, and did see my "bookmark.htm" file in the jumplist under "recent," but no websites have appeared since then. Also, my privacy settings default to "Use custom settings for history," even after I reset them to "remember history."

Sometimes I find that I need to refer back to an email that was deleted. Right now the emails are dumped from the trash folder very quickly. I would like to let the deleted emails stay in the trash folder for a much longer period of time.

When phone is turned to full screen mode, there is no loading status.

So it is difficult to know when you have clicked on an icon. There is no indication on the page for how long the next page is going to be.

Is there a way off having a loading bar on full screen without the status bar?