منتدى دعم ”Firefox“

Hello,

I work on Linux Mint. Software is being updated automatically. FF received an update and became completely unresponsive.

• bookmarks are not loaded
• no button or hamburger menu works
• I can type in the search box BUT enter does not work

I have completely purged FF and reinstalled from the Linux Mint software library. This results in the same unresponsive behavior of FF.

I have no Idea what to do now.

Ok, there might exist a solution to this, but I am not able to find it or even a better way to explain it.

So, the main issue is, I have a lots of tabs open on my Firefox (Linux) and after some minutes of inactivity, Firefox automatically deletes all the data associated with that site.

So, when I switch back to that site, it reloads.

The main issue is with Whatsapp Web, as I don't get notification if I don't switch to the tab every now and then.

There might be a option for this behavior in the settings but I can't seem to find it.

Please help me find a solution.

Thanks

Hello, for a few weeks now, firefox keeps crashing randomly and frequently. I tried disabling all plugins, updating firefox, using a debian-based version of firefox etc.. nothing seems to work.. i find myself having to switch to chromium for some tasks.. :'( below is a list of recent reports .. I hope someone can look into this and suggest what might be the cause. Thanks a lot in advance! Erik

bp-237ca1f6-ca7a-4c77-bb75-26d030220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-698e3610-846d-42ec-817c-e344e0220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-4193ea7b-dba8-49f6-bf59-ef6b40220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-659cc9a7-b0a5-4607-be37-e958f0220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-8c99d045-5bec-45be-9a81-ca02f0220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-215992cc-31ca-49d0-8d32-ae6ee0220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-7f9de548-9f67-4216-8bda-375b00220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-9bb503c8-97d6-4487-953d-274050220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-dc438c3d-679d-4044-bb4e-5af710220905 9/5/22, 11:28 View bp-abc05311-1482-47be-ab38-7e9140220905

H, I'm using Firefox browser on my HP Chromebook but whenever I try to open my site on it. It is not opening properly like site's layouts does not show properly. What could be reason of it, site's code or browser issue?

Now that my search engine for Firefox start page (Bing) have stopped showing images for older browsers (I just get a blank grey screen with their search bar).

Upgrading FF is not an option.

I want to use my own image (but not sure how to go about this). A Bookmark ?

Thanks

I run wxmaxima on ubunbtu 20.04. The help menu option calls up firefox (v 101.0.1 (64 bit)) to find the local on disk html files. However this brings up the error message:

File not found

Firefox can’t find the file at /usr/share/maxima/5.45.1/doc/html/maxima_singlepage.html#g_t_0025.

But this is a valid path with user access permissions and the file maxima_singlepage.html exists and has user read permissions.

So what is firefox doing in looking for this file?

I have used the ms windows 10 version of wxmaxima and the firefox help works perfectly.

Evening, all.

It's very rare I ask for help on ANY fora, if I'm honest. I can almost always sort out my own issues, especially with browsers. However, this one has stumped me.

I've noticed that, on any website where user interaction requires use of a microphone, the Linux build of Firefox only ever offers "source_default_name" for choice of microphone. Well, OK; I can see this being fine for the vast majority of folks who use a laptop; the built-in microphone WILL be the "default" microphone, no questions.

My question is this; what do those of us running desktop PCs do about microphone selection, hmm? A desktop PC doesn't HAVE a "built-in, default microphone", does it? By their very nature, any microphone you're going to use with a desktop is going to be an externally plugged-in device. I have three of these; a USB microphone.....a wireless headset, and the twin stereo mikes on a Logitech c920 webcam.

Do I get anything resembling a drop-down list to choose what I want to use? Uh-uh. Firefox - apparently! - doesn't "see" any of them. Not individually. All I ever see is "source_default_name".....

Grrrr...!!

C'mon, guys! Frankly, this is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Linux, to the best of my knowledge - unlike Windoze - doesn't make 'global' device settings, which every application then uses. It's always been far more fine-grained than that, allowing individual device use on a per-app basis. But that only works if the 'app' in question allows those choices to be made.

Any Chromium-based "clone" - and I use several of these, as I package portable versions for the Puppy Linux community - will give a full drop-down list of every available device it can find. Why can't the Linux builds of Firefox do the same?

I shall be interested to see what, if any, replies I get to this question. It's been bugging me for years...!

Mike.

When navigating in some pages, specially in google docs, the browser's URI fragment (the part after the #) changes frequently for each page/header/slide, and all of them are stored in the history.

That behavior adds lots of entries in the history and also hinders the usage of the search functionality of the address bar (as all the duplicates are shown instead of shown only one and other pages). I want to keep one entry per document, at least in specific pages like gdocs where the "fragment" doesn't add any useful information and each document can have lots of them.

Is there any way to configure that behavior, to not save every fragment in the history?

To reproduce the above behavior (the same behavior happens in other pages, not only gdocs):

- Open any gdocs document with several headers, or a gdocs presentation with several pages. - Navigate all the document/presentation, and check the history. - Close the document/presentation tab/window. - In a new window/tab, use the address bar to search the document/presentation by the document name: several entries for the same document/presentation are shown (and if they are lots of them, no other different entries with same words are shown in the address bar). - Check also the history: several entries of the same document/presentation are shown (it could be hundreds for long documents, and thousands after seen few documents).

My Firefox refuses to load MetaCPAN's OpenSearch.xml file, even though I can access it without problems.

So this got me thinking, as Opensearch files are relatively easy to write, is it possible to import my own opensearch.xml into Firefox?

If it's impossible, I'll submit a ticket to bugzil.la.

I recently bought a new laptop and seem to have Firefox constantly crashing in both normal and troubleshoot mode on both a Windows 11 OS as well as Linux OS's (Pop_OS and Manjaro). In general it will crash every 30 minutes or so but sometimes it can happen rapidly in a row.

I'm not sure what the problem could be but it sounds like a hardware problem? However I don't seem to be experiencing crashes on Edge or Opera when I tried them but I haven't tested it for too long yet. Does anyone have any advice or insight about this?

Here are some recent report ID's:

bp-fa5e703a-fb27-4eb0-8cca-260f10230207

bp-7a261e27-ac52-44ae-aca8-45fbc0230207

bp-2ac09c72-a33b-415a-a1e1-8e2f30230207

bp-eca9bdc5-e0f2-438e-95bf-84bde0230207

bp-fb11c5ac-9ae6-468b-bc23-edc460230207

Hello all, First of all thank you for the good quality of mozilla products. I am using mainly firefix and thunderbird on linux (Ubuntu) on all my computers, that of my children and of any friend I can convert to open-source computing.

I have done all possible documented actions to configure firefox for blocking pop-ups, including standard (permissions in privacy & security settings) and advanced (filter on autoplay parameters in about:config) options available. I keep receiving pop-up windows with unwanted videos, e.g. on my paid subscription to a local news website. See the attached screen capture, where I right-clicked on the pop-up window. You will see that a "digiteka" player keeps appearing and I never sollicited these videos. I hate this. It's not even pub, it's news, but when I'm reading an article I don't want to be bothered with other news that I'm not interested in. Plus, I don't want any unauthorised software like this digiteka player running on my computer without my permission. It's not a firefox module, it's probably silently downloaded over my connection with my news provider with no notice. I could go as far as blocking autoplay so the video will not start playing automatically, but I would like to completely block the apperance of such windows and any download of something executable on my computer. What could I do in addition? I there any way, other than stopping my subscription to this site?

Many thanks for your help. Patrice.

It's frustrating. Ubuntu machine, everything updated. Every time Firefox updates itself in the background, it requests a restart in a new tab, promising to restore everything. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Having usually dozens of tabs at work open after such a restart, I get an empty tab. An annoying massacre. These are not private bookmarks. There is nothing. All sessions in tabs are lost.

I use Firefox on Linux Debian 11 (Bullseye). After a recent automatic update to Firefox 91.10.0esr, some websites will not load (just sit with a blank page, showing flicking loading symbol). Examples are ocado.com and abelandcole.co.uk. I have tried all the usual things to fix, including, switching off VPN, clearing cookies and caches, running in safe mode, all with no success. Both sites run fine in Vivaldi and Brave. I have eventually got the pages to load by disabling IPv6 in Firefox. Clearly there is a problem with 91.10.0esr. I'm not sure whether the workaround of disabling IPv6 might cause other problems or weaken security or privacy?

Dear Team,

I am using the service tryhackme.com to improve my security skills.

In their rooms, I start the attackbox and the machine getting a single IP: 10.10.103.20

When I enter the http://10.10.249.113 in the firefox browser the http becomes https.

I went to the following link but I do not have the same view. I miss the http only mode.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs#w_what-is-the-difference-between-http-and-https

The support of tryhackme is mentioning to use an addon but I couldn't find on in the firefox support to take the "s" out.

I went to a different room and the HTTP worked so not sure where the issue is as I haven't seen anyone mentioning this issue on the forum.

Thanks!

I've got FF set for https-only. But sometimes it will tell me no https is available but when I go to the site anyway it is https.

Is this a bug or is this something in my settings?

Using Mozilla Firefox 108.0 for Ubuntu canonical 1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.

Thanks.