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Firefox on ubuntu 22.04 always vanishes after some time

Hi all. I have been using firefox with ubuntu 22.04 for about since when ubuntu 22.04 was released (2022). On firefox, I usually use the nordpass and tab grouping extens… (read more)

Hi all. I have been using firefox with ubuntu 22.04 for about since when ubuntu 22.04 was released (2022).

On firefox, I usually use the nordpass and tab grouping extensions. For the third or fourth time in a row, firefox has simply vanished from my system from day to night.

I click the icon and nothing happens. I try typing "firefox" in the terminal and get

   Command '/usr/bin/firefox' requires the firefox snap to be installed.
   Please install it with:
   snap install firefox

Even if I accept the bizarreness of snap simply deciding from one day to another that I don't have this package (or did I never have it and never needed it in the first place?) and try "snap install firefox" I get:

   snap "firefox" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'

After reading the result of "snap refresh help" I decided to "snap refresh" to update all of it's packages. Still, "snap install firefox" and "firefox" keep giving me the same result.

What is happening here?

Asked by Marco Montevechi Filho 4 days ago

Answered by Marco Montevechi Filho 4 days ago

Update/upgrade Firefox for Linux/Ubuntu

Hello everyone, i have Linux/Ubuntu software with Firefox browser and for 5 months it has not asked me to update, with it's pop up message. Now it is urgently asking me t… (read more)

Hello everyone, i have Linux/Ubuntu software with Firefox browser and for 5 months it has not asked me to update, with it's pop up message. Now it is urgently asking me to update, i have followed the directions given in order to download the latest Firefox version as instructed but with no success. I am downloading it, but it doesn't have an instruction to "run" it. As a consequence, my system is getting slower and slower and i am afraid it will crush! Any ideas? Sooooos!!!

Asked by Eugenia Minacoulis 5 days ago

Last reply by James 5 days ago

download

I'm running fedora open access software 64 bit. when I hit download firefox the computer runs it and it seems like it does it but I can't find it in downloads and it basi… (read more)

I'm running fedora open access software 64 bit. when I hit download firefox the computer runs it and it seems like it does it but I can't find it in downloads and it basically doesn't complete. What to do?

Asked by atomsondc 6 days ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 6 days ago

Picture-in-Picture (built-in) not working.

Using: Firefox v132.0.2 (64-bit) for Linux (Arch Linux) Picture-in-Picture (built-in) not working correctly. Consider attached image e.g., the video is visible, but I ca… (read more)

Using: Firefox v132.0.2 (64-bit) for Linux (Arch Linux)

Picture-in-Picture (built-in) not working correctly. Consider attached image e.g., the video is visible, but I can't really use the any of the other tabs visible here. What I noted: I can scroll the other tab/window using mouse wheel when the Picture-in-Picture is in focus, but as soon as I click on any of the other tabs/window, the video goes to background, and hence becomes "invisible".

Asked by plabanroy69 1 week ago

Last reply by plabanroy69 6 days ago

no speaker sound

installed mint 22 and my sound does not work, in you tube see videos good but no sound i think its a driver issue, but i am new to linux trying to fix. any help is good. … (read more)

installed mint 22 and my sound does not work, in you tube see videos good but no sound i think its a driver issue, but i am new to linux trying to fix. any help is good.

Asked by gino 1 week ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 week ago

Viewing the email content in dark mode

I am using Linux Mint in Dark Mode. Most emails which come through are easily read in the panel. See attached. But others are practically unreadable in Dark Mode. See at… (read more)

I am using Linux Mint in Dark Mode. Most emails which come through are easily read in the panel. See attached.

But others are practically unreadable in Dark Mode. See attached.

How do I adjust the settings so that the unreadable ones become readable in the panel. Thank you in advance or any help.

Asked by dunbrokin 3 weeks ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 3 weeks ago

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Firefox isn't allowing me to upload images almost anywhere

I am on endeavourOS (linux). Whenever I try to upload images for a profile picture to sites like youtube or X, the image becomes corrupted and doesn't upload correctly. I… (read more)

I am on endeavourOS (linux). Whenever I try to upload images for a profile picture to sites like youtube or X, the image becomes corrupted and doesn't upload correctly. It did this with whatsapp too and I had to use a separate app for it. Other posts said that disabling "privacy.resistFingerprinting" would fix it, but it's already disabled.

Attached below are an example of this bug and the contents of this image when viewed on a text editor.

Asked by Gabe Lily 4 months ago

Answered by Gabe Lily 3 months ago

Firefox 133 can't load websites, other browsers can

After a recent update to Firefox 133.0.3 (on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 22.04), Firefox is having difficulty connecting to websites and exhibiting some other odd behavior: - After… (read more)

After a recent update to Firefox 133.0.3 (on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 22.04), Firefox is having difficulty connecting to websites and exhibiting some other odd behavior:

- After initially starting Firefox, it will load websites (e.g., previously open tabs) for up to 30 seconds. After that, it will not load any website in a new tab, showing the loading animation for several seconds before stopping all activity and just displaying an hourglass icon in the tab. These sites can be connected to in other web browsers. - After closing Firefox, its process is still running; I have to manually find its pid and kill it. - If I start Firefox from the terminal, I see these messages when it starts having trouble loading websites:

libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0 libva info: Trying to open /snap/firefox/5437/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

Asked by endsley 3 weeks ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 3 weeks ago

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"Note: Not all extensions can be allowed in Private Windows." okay, BUT WHY?

I know it may sound a bit strange, but I would like to know WHY an extension is not allowed in a private window, so I might understand the reason why I'm not able to diag… (read more)

I know it may sound a bit strange, but I would like to know WHY an extension is not allowed in a private window, so I might understand the reason why I'm not able to diagnose an issue I'm having with fucking amazon who has their cart all over the place for a misconfiguration in firefox that either I did or an extension is causing, however I'm unable to figure out which because I can't enable extensions in private windows, where the issue does not happen, so I'm not able to reproduce and isolate the problem. Specifically, this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-browsing Plus, I was kinda expecting I could run STG in private too, since it offer such nice and rich grouping and memory management features vanilla FF does not (PS: please take inspiration and bake it inside!!) Thanks in advance.

Asked by Bryan Joshua Pedini 5 months ago

Answered by cor-el 5 months ago

Is there a way to upgrade firefox on Linux Mint 19.1? Why has draconian Linux Mint banned this?

I'm putting off upgrading Linux as I have many hundreds of undocumented addons which will be lost and would take forever to attempt to remember how to re-install. (in fa… (read more)

I'm putting off upgrading Linux as I have many hundreds of undocumented addons which will be lost and would take forever to attempt to remember how to re-install.

(in fact I might just switch to macos and try using homebrew).

It seems very harsh that upgrading Firefox has been prevented by linux mint for years now.

Yes Homebrew is perhaps the way forward! Life would be easier with just one O/S as I need Macos anyway for adobe lightroom.

Asked by davegott2 1 month ago

Last reply by James 1 month ago

Firefox restart

Running Firefox 133.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 desktop Periodically, Firefox will freeze and send the message "Firefox must be restarted to continue". After restarting, Firefox t… (read more)

Running Firefox 133.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 desktop

Periodically, Firefox will freeze and send the message "Firefox must be restarted to continue". After restarting, Firefox takes a long time to recover. This morning, it took nearly 5 minutes to recover.

Asked by Wayne Knight 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

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Open local files (not from web) in a default application after v.127

Hi All, I need open local exists files file:///.../index_details.rst or file:///.../index_details.txt in my default system editor. This has worked pretty well last i… (read more)

Hi All,

I need open local exists files

file:///.../index_details.rst or file:///.../index_details.txt in my default system editor.

This has worked pretty well last in version 127. (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/127.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/)

But after v127 Firefox always opens files directly (see screen). I can't find any settings to change this behavior. Something has been changed.

I keep back the firefox upgrade so long it was posible for me but 127 is now old and i use the last version 133.0-1.

I'm using Linux (Debian).

Thanks

Asked by v8 1 month ago

Answered by v8 1 month ago

Firefox deleted all profiles instead of just the one I asked

I opened firefox profile manager using 'firefox -p' and tried to delete one profile...firefox deleted all profiles except 'default' and 'default-release'...even with them… (read more)

I opened firefox profile manager using 'firefox -p' and tried to delete one profile...firefox deleted all profiles except 'default' and 'default-release'...even with them firefox renamed them with some number suffix and created new folders with the same name ('default' and 'default-release')...I have checked /home/ubuntu18/.mozilla/firefox folder...all profiles/folders gone...UPDATE: As I was typing this there was power loss, firefox deleted old 'default' and 'default-release' too...How to get all profiles back?

Asked by FFLinux 1 month ago

Last reply by FFLinux 1 month ago

update firefox for ubuntu

Hello, I'm trying to update to firefox version 133.0. My O.S. is Ubuntu 20.04. I've untarred the tarball to ~/firefox/firefox-133.0/. If I startup the new firefox, … (read more)

Hello,

I'm trying to update to firefox version 133.0. My O.S. is Ubuntu 20.04. I've untarred the tarball to ~/firefox/firefox-133.0/.

If I startup the new firefox, I receive the following error message: "libxul.so, undefined symbol: gdk_window_show_menu".

I also tried firefox version 120.0, except the result was the same.

How can I fix this?

thanks.

Asked by wilappro 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

I can't take Full-page screenshots in Canvas/Instructure. Please help.

I'd like to take a full-page screenshot of my content within my Canvas/Instructure online class, but it only captures what's visible. I've tried opening the frame in its … (read more)

I'd like to take a full-page screenshot of my content within my Canvas/Instructure online class, but it only captures what's visible. I've tried opening the frame in its own tab, but it doesn't help.

When I use my phone to capture the entire page, it can work, but it's so narrow! Plus I have to continuously tap the "Scroll Down" button for the capturing process to capture more and more.

Can anyone please help? Thanks.

Asked by Mozilla cheese 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

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Where is the "More actions" menu in firefox/thunderbird?

What has happened to the "More actions" menu button - the one that normally is in the upper left corner of windows (see the attached image)? I have just installed a new… (read more)

What has happened to the "More actions" menu button - the one that normally is in the upper left corner of windows (see the attached image)?

I have just installed a new PC, with Debian 12 and KDE (plasma 5.27.5); the other windows have this menu button, but not Firefox and Thunderbird. Is there a way to get it back, eg by moving the menu bar out of the title bar and back to where it used to be?

Asked by jan267 1 month ago

Answered by jan267 1 month ago

v133.0 (64-bit) update error

A problem with an x.0 version? I've been using FF from "source code" for years on Debian Linux, but this is the first time such an update is failing after the most recent… (read more)

A problem with an x.0 version? I've been using FF from "source code" for years on Debian Linux, but this is the first time such an update is failing after the most recent update to v133.0, as illustrated in attached image. How can I now update to the fix for this problem, please?

Asked by Rusy Travis 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago