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For the past few days when trying to use Google search on Firefox I get this message:

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?"

Then it makes me jump through several hoops to do a search on google.

This is a Firefox specific message as I can switch to Safari and there is no roadblock.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Any way to resolve?

Why this is a Firefox issue and not other browsers?

Dear Mozilla Firefox Support Team, I am experiencing an ongoing issue with Firefox's weather widget on my Mac. The widget continues to display Fredericksburg instead of New York City, where I am located. When I attempt to change the location by entering "New York," "New York, NY," or ZIP code "10032," Firefox does not display any matching locations. The only available option is "Use current location." I am using Firefox version 157.0.1 (64-bit), and the browser is up to date. Troubleshooting steps already completed: 1. Restarted Firefox several times. 2. Disabled and re-enabled the weather widget. 3. Enabled macOS Location Services specifically for Firefox. 4. Verified that browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.weather.locationSearchEnabled is set to true. 5. Confirmed that Firefox's built-in VPN is disabled. 6. Successfully changed AccuWeather's location to New York. 7. Confirmed that Safari and Microsoft Edge recognize New York. Despite these steps, Firefox continues to display Fredericksburg. More recently, the widget has also displayed the error message: "Weather data is not available right now." My network uses Firewalla with ProtonVPN. I would prefer to maintain my current security configuration. Could you please explain how to reset or manually change Firefox's weather widget location to New York City and restore accurate weather information? Thank you for your assistance.

I've followed all of Firefox's suggestions for translating web pages without success. (I have the latest version of Firefox.) No translation panel automatically opens when I visit a page in French. I have no translation icon in the tool bar to click, and "translate page" doesn't appear in any Firefox drop-down menus. No translation options appear when I right click on the web page. Any suggestions?

Can you please change back tabs to how they used to be before update 157?

The new gradient is horrible / super annoying - feels cluttered - the focus should just be on the content (favicon and tab name). Seriously considering switching to chrome because of this.

Firefox versiosn 156 won't allow tv.youtube.com to work....same as previous versions.

Macbook Air....shows Firefox log and "server can't be found."

Works o.k on Safari, however.

Glenn Jones

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I've used extensions etc. to change this but nothing works. It's not even defaulting to the last folder saved in. Instead it stubbornly keeps using an odd folder I never selected for this purpose.

I am trying to sync my account from my Mac to my phone but it's asking for the code from my authenticator. I do not have Mozilla set up in my authenticator. How do I get the scan?

I see a long list of recommended Badges and/or Extensions. I tried clicking on one but nothing happened? When I find an extension that sounds good, what steps do I take to add that extension to Firefox?

After my macbook pro (Sequoia 15.7.7) restarted, every tab in both of my open Firefox windows were moved to a *tab group in a single window.* The tab group's name is the date—e.g., "2026-10-11 10:50 *". Right-click + `ungroup tabs` does nothing. If I open a new window, it automatically has a tab open in a tab group with a similar name. I can't move tabs into new tab groups. I hate this. I've lost all my previous tab groups, which I use to organize my work and hobbies, and now that's all gone. I've experienced this on TWO macbook pros. I also have a Windows 10 desktop, but that continues to work as expected.

Months ago, I disabled all AI features, and, and so in `about:config`, I can observe that `browser.tabs.groups.smart.*` are all set to false. I also just tried setting `browser.tabs.groups.enabled` to false, but it had no effect.