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i created a second profile yesterday. after starting the pc today, firefox opened and was empty/clean looking into the about:profile it said that i have two profiles but both were empty/clean looking into appdate structure > profiles i found 5 profile folders i tried deleting the profiles.ini, it created a new one but with the same new profiles i restarted the pc and had again 2 new empty profiles i tried creating a new profile with an existing file path and now i have 8 profile folders restarting again didnt create new profiles then i tried the "clean firefox" function but all i have after the restart are the 3 empty profiles again

how can i open the old profiles, of which the folders still seem to be there?

Hi, The translation feature is a great and much-needed addition. It was one of the main reasons I kept using Chrome, so having it in Firefox—on both desktop and Android—is fantastic. Thank you!

I’ve noticed that to access the translation option, you have to right-click the selected text using a mouse or touchpad. The keyboard’s right-click key, however, doesn’t open the context menu for the selected text, so the translation option isn’t available. This makes it inconvenient for keyboard-focused users.

It would also be very helpful to have built-in pronunciation for selected text. I tried several add-ons that offer this, but none worked reliably. This feature would complement translation nicely.

Finally, it might improve usability to show a small popup button beside selected text to trigger translation—similar to what some translation extensions already do. While I personally prefer keyboard shortcuts, this could enhance accessibility for others.

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I am getting frustrated with Firefox. It is so buggy. Above is a link to a website that does not show any images in the search, however, it works perfectly on Vivaldi. I am continually launching Vivaldi when Firefox fails.

This happens a lot of Yelp, and many websites.

Granted my iMac is older, High Sierra, Firefox version 115.29.0esr.

Frankly, this machine is perfect, fast. It may be old but Apple has given me no reasons to buy another one.

Apologies in advance if I use terminology incorrectly.

I've had this strange but intermittent issue for a while (through multiple Firefox versions) where pages will take a long time to load. I haven't timed loads exactly but I can confidently say it's a minimum of 10 seconds. The problem with diagnosing this issue is it's very intermittent; I can go hours or on a rare occassion days without it happening (I think, maybe I've just not registered some of the times it's happened). I have yet to try disabling all addons because of this.

Random quirks about the issue:

• It only happens on navigation to a new domain (or to a domain from a new tab). Once a domain has loaded, I don't have an issue on said domain for a while.
• It isn't tab specific. I can open a new tab in the same window and they will both take the same amount of time to load, often finishing at the exact same time.
• While waiting for a page to load, I can open a Private Browsing window, paste the URL, and the page will load immediately without issue in the Private Browsing window. This does not affect the page being loaded in the main window.
• I believe it has occurred immediately after a system restart, thus I don't believe it is related to long-running sessions.

The addons I have that don't also run in Private Browsing are:

• Augmented Steam
• BetterTTV
• Enhancer for Youtube (I can't find the addon store link?)
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• PocketTube
• Return YouTube Dislike
• SponsorBlock
• The Camelizer
• Youtube High Definition

On a daily, my tabs crash and won't restore. The only way to fix is to close Firefox and reopen. When I reopen, I'm prompted to create a new profile. This happens daily on the ESR version. There's no crash reports or anything. It's become very unstable and a pain to deal with. I've reinstalled Firefox from scratch, removed all remnants of all profiles, and it still happens.

Good morning, I hope you are having a good day.

I have an account with CA FTB (to make my estimated tax payments) and an account with CA DMV (for DMV stuff like renewing drivers license).

The FTB account is https://webapp.ftb.ca.gov The DMV account is https://www.dmv.ca.gov

So, Firefox browser seems to think these two accounts are the same, and tries to use my FTB credentials for my DMV account.

It seems like the .ca.gov causes the browser to think they are the same account?

So, I would appreciate any insight on how to fix or work around this problem.

Thank you,

Kim

You can create custom prompts in about:config (search for browser.ml.chat.prompt), so you can use something like {"label":"Custom prompt","value":"%selection%"}. This %selection% is the text on the page that is currently selected. When you select something and click the chatbot popup button that appears and choose your custom prompt, it sends to the chatbot the string "<selection>the selected text</selection>". So instead of just returning the actual text, it adds the <selection> tag around it.

There are two problems with this: 1. it's ugly, and 2. the chatbot doesn't ignore it, sometimes changing the response because of the "<selected>" tag.

How to remove this tag so that what is sent is only the "the selected text" string with no tag?

I'm trying to contact a seller on Etsy. I can't place the cursor in the text box to key in my message. I used to be able to do this with no issues, but apparently something changed for Firefox. The text box access does work when I try it on Chrome.

My cloud account is nearly full but when I go to update the account or purchase more space I am blocked. The authenticity of going from Mozilla Firefox to cloud is blocked because it cannot confirm it identity. I at the point of not being able to use my computor due to being blocked. Can anuone tell me how to get through?????

I need to permanently save my browsing history, but I haven't found such a function in Firefox. Firefox regularly deletes my browsing history, which I really dislike. I need it to accurately and precisely save my browsing history without any omissions. I need a solution to this problem.

I’m can not get fire fox to be my main not default on my Apple macOS High Sierra i5 ‘I spoke to ur colleague earlier and said that because it’s old it will still work in firefox ——basically it’s an older version and now where it used to say google or chrome it doesn’t say fire fix it says directory utility please help