I have six windows that I use the most. Sometimes I open more windows, but before quitting Firefox, I close windows that are outside of the first six. But if I don’t close the additional windows, the next time I open Firefox, they are all the same position as they were when I closed Firefox.

And that is good.

The problem is, with the taskbar locked, while using Firefox and using Windows the way it’s intended- opening, closing and switching different windows as I need them, the six windows in Firefox switch positions. The windows shift positions so that 6 is 5 and 5 is 6 and 3 is 2 and 1 is 3 and so on. It’s all random.

So why do the windows shift positions?

It is a hassle to have to keep lining them up again and again throughout the day, so that they are always in the right place so that I don’t have to click each taskbar item to find out which window it is. If they remain in the correct order, I have no trouble or wasted time looking for the window I need to use.

The shifting Firefox windows at random is the problem. That is what this inquiry is about.

Here is a temporary fix without having to set them all up from scratch. It takes a few manipulations, but still better than remembering all the tabs in each window then opening each window and tab one at a time in the order I prefer them to be in. I use an addon called Tab Session Manager. This is not an advertisement for the addon. It is necessary to mention it in case others have the same “switching” windows problems. The addon allows you to save each window, then open each of the saved windows in the proper order.

The things I’m trying to get an answer to, are the following questions:

1. Why do the Firefox windows switch positions? 2. And how do I stop it from happening again?

Any help or direction will be appreciated. Thanks.

Ed - Thanks for that thread. Since I posted my question originally (and can't find where just now) I did try one add-on called STOP AUTO RELOAD by kgersen and I'm trying that. I couldn't understand how to add the particular address I wanted to use it on, but it's helping on FB without having entered FB's addy. Most of the time it stops the refresh. If I leave it too long tho, when I come back it does refresh, but at least it isn't refreshing while I'm trying to read it. The annoying blue label "refresh" still comes on my page, but I ignore it.

Stacy

Hi ! I'm a long term user of the "Firefox" browser. My Firefox User Nº is : 14634487 I'm also an existing long term user of both "NordVPN" and "NordPass".

When logging in to "Nordpass" this morning on my (new) MacBook Pro, I received a message in the App window stating that they were "ending support for my extension on 30th of September" and inviting me to "get the latest extension to continue using NordPass in a browser"

So, I bought a 2 year subscription for the extension 'NordPass Premium for Firefox'. Nordpass has acknowledged this by email: Quote : "Thank you for your purchase Here are the details of your order. Item  : NordPass: 2-year subscription Price : £29.43/2 years VAT 20% - £5.89 Total: £35.32/2 years"

In a 'Welcome' email sent by NordPass, I clicked on "Download NordPass which opened a Firefox 'Add-Ons' web-page for downloading the app named "NordPass Password Manager and Digital Vault" - but the only functioning button was 'REMOVE' ! I tried to 'Log In' at the top right corner of the page but I then became stuck in a continuous loop of picture identifications to prove I was not a robot ! It just went on and on ! I abandoned it for a while and, when I returned, the 'Robot check was gone but all my attempts to get the extension have failed ! I can't for the life of me find ANY means of downloading and installing the extension I've PAID FOR !

Whether this is all owing to a fault on the "NordPass" side or in the "Firefox" browser side is a mystery to me. Either way, I'm sending this message to BOTH.

I've now given up trying to do it unaided. PLEASE, could someone advise me how I can get my extension !! If this isn't resolved quickly, I'll seek to have a refund of my £35.32 and will have seriously to consider leaving both "NordVPN" and "NordPass" and/or defecting from "Firefox" to the "Safari" browser.

I'm waiting eagerly to get this sorted. Regards, Ivor Mitackis

Machine: Dell Inspiron 15 5567 CPU: Intel i5-7xxx Op Sys: Ubuntu 24.04.1 Firefox version: Flathub 130.0

For the past 2 weeks Firefox has been repeatedly crashing soon after going on to certain sites or trying to apply my 2FA authenticator add-on.

Suddenly there's a screen shudder and a new window opens, inviting me to submit a crash report. See attached image.

I do not believe that this is down to Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade done at end of August.

But it's enough for me to largely go over to Chromium and Firefox Dev Ed.

If Mozilla don't act on this crashing I can see its market being lost fairly fast.

For some reason I cannot log in on the stub hub site in firefox. other browsers work but not on stubhub.com Please help fix this issue

I receive a daily email from the Toronto Star with brief summaries of current news stories. The summaries include a link that opens the complete article in Firefox (or other browsers).

When I open the full article in Firefox, the article stops at an advertisement (which does not display). The ad includes the wording "Story continues below", but it does not; instead it goes to the end of the article.

When I open the same article in Chrome, the article opens properly.

I am attaching screen shots of the two browsers. I tried manually collecting the Data as well, but it extends to 80 p. I can save it in Word, then convert to a PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, but I cannot convert the file to a .JPEG and attach it. I am happy to send a copy of the Word file; just ask

Hi,

I have a couple of websites now where the Cookie acceptance window/pop up, displays for 1 second then disappears. This effectively leaves the page slightly dimmed and locked. I've tried the URLs in Chrome and the Cookie window display correctly and allows for user selection.

I have tried to add an exception for the URL for pop-ups, and then disabling pop-up blocking completely, but I still have the problem.

Thanks, Nick.

A few months ago, I filled a feedback survey on Firefox, and at the end of the survey it contained an option to check if I was interested in pariticipating in a follow-up study with a researcher from Firefox, and it was promised a financial compesation for my time.

I received an follow-up email today (from fx-researchteam@mozilla.com), talking about the recent survey I took and that I specified that I would like to do a follow-up interview, specifying available dates, interview duration (~60 minutes), and so on. It contained with a survey link from qsurvey.mozilla.com. The survey asked basic personal informations like email, name, gender, nothing too suspicious. Also, they specified they could paypal me $150 as a thanks for my time and feedback.

I saw someone received the same type of email and people claimed it as legit (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1442740), but the email that sent the survey was a different email (from firefoxresearch@mozilla.com).

All I'm asking is if Mozilla does conduct such interviews, and also pay people for their time... if this is not a scam or something...

I have using firefox proudly from very early. But recently i have a big big problem with you new update. I am a software engineer and i need to develop various kind of software, but firefox last update 130.0 give me so much trouble. marquee tool not working my latest firefox update. Please help me, i have misguided for it. Please help me.

Hello, Firefox lagged out and next thing I know - the scroll wheel doesn't scroll the page and instead goes back/forward a page. When I tried to look for a solution I discovered that other keys don't act as usual too, for example 'f' opens the 'file' tab on top, 'e' opens edit etc., but none of them type. Tried looking in the settings, but didn't find anything that could help. Thanks in advance!

hi why did i see this text? Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.tradingview.com. The OCSP response is not yet valid (contains a date in the future).

Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_FUTURE_RESPONSE

   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Learn more…

Dear colleagues:

I have made a page with a stack of z-indexed .heic images. The viewer clicks (jQuery) on the top image to reveal the next.

The page is local, not online. I'm on a Mac mini 2018, OS Ventura 13.6.1, Firefox 13.0.

Safari renders the operation correctly. Firefox fails to load the .heic images. Chrome also fails to load the images.

Any suggestions welcome. My 83yo brain sometimes misses things. cheers Chris

I cannot seem to find what it is called, but only web design related stuff to scrolling.

I'm looking to change the behavior of scrolling bar, that lets me click a point and the page stops at that point, whereas right now, it keeps scrolling to the end/top of the page (based on the direction relative to the starting point). I find the behavior pretty annoying and something that used to be done by the buttons on either end point.

Is this a relic of the past or can i opt-in to it through the config

Hello support.

We have a job that runs every hour pinging a service. From 28th of August each hour we recieve several error emails.

Every querry that is re run completes normally. We can not figure out what the issue is.

We have checked everything on our side.

I have captured tcpdump on the server and found this in wireshark.

[1 bytes missing in capture file].GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

GET http://detectportal.firefox.com/canonical.html HTTP/1.1 Host: detectportal.firefox.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:39:24 CEST Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2346

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Notification: Policy: URL Filtering</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color:#333333; background-color: #ffffff; } h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; color: #2970A6; } a:link { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #2970A6; text-decoration: underline; } p.buttonlink { margin-bottom: 24px; } .copyright { font-size: 12px; color: #666666; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } .details { font-size: 14px; color: #969696; border: none; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 35px; } .shadow { border: 3px solid #9f9f9f; padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px; margin: 10px 35px 0px 30px; background-color: #ffffff; width: 600px; -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #cccccc; /* For IE 8 */ -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='cccccc'); } .logo { border: none; margin: 5px 5px 0px 30px; } </style>

What is the cause of this? And how can we prevent it.

Thank you in advance.

KR, Nikola