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I've been getting messages labeled Moxilla Firefox that tell me to "click here to fix the error now" or "turn on your virus defender" for issues like virus attack, trojan virus, critical alert, etc. Is this a scam or do i need to click? I've been clicking on "Dismiss" to make them go away but they keep coming back. Getting 50-100 a day.

Hello!

A very important email folder in my Thunderbird just vanished. I didn't touch anything! My email was downloading very slowly and so I closed the entire Thunderbird application. When I re-opened it, the folder was gone. Everything else is there as before - all other folders, my inbox etc.

I have no idea what happened or where the folder went. I can't find anything online that addresses the problem or how to solve it. I'm very much a tech novice. I need a solution that a 5 year old could navigate lol

S.O.S. Cara

I like using google because they are pretty much the only option I have for a lot of things because I mainly use my phone, but I just have a strange feeling that they are always listening and I'm not getting certain searches or the most out of my phone that I can with just there stand alone, apps and when I try to download or install certain apps or use certain things. It just always seemed to have a problem with so i'm trying to go around google, but yet still use google if you know what I mean.

Flickr.com will not display properly. I get misplaced text instead of photographs. Flickr will display properly in SlimJet. https://gyazo.com/f9a96b57496bfba29b16d967ef42a0db

The LLMs said your sync website has that ability, but I can't find it. Is than LLM hallucination or simply disabled or something. I really want to not have to recreate these links.

Thanks!

I know that typically mozilla does not put a low bound on advisories, and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/ is the advisory for vulnerabilities fixed in ESR 128.2. CVE-2024-8387 is listed here. yet the advisory for 115, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/ does not list this vulnerability. Was this something that was only impacting 128 (for the ESR builds) or is there a mistake that either 115.15 did patch it but it wasn't documented, or the patch has been missed and ESR 115 is still vulnerable?

I am an avid or rabid Firefox user for more than 20 years. It was Firebird when I began using it. Now, sadly it is no longer my default browser. Recently, when I click an email link it opens a new Firefox web page instead of a tab in the always running Firefox web browser. This new page has different extension(s) behaviors and is unusable to me! Opera is now my default. I have tried "Refresh, Troubleshoot Mode and Uninstall/Reinstall. None of these worked. Any suggestions? Woody Ogden https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodyogden/ https://bvcomputerclub.org/officers2024.php

Phoenix Firefox was originally named Phoenix but the name was changed to avoid trademark conflicts with Phoenix Technologies. The initially-announced replacement, Firebird, provoked objections from the Firebird project community. The current name, Firefox, was chosen on February 9, 2004.

Firefox, free open-source Web browser created by the American software company Mozilla Corporation.

In 1998 the American Internet services company Netscape Communications Corp. decided to designate its Navigator browser as open-source for users, who began the development of Mozilla Firefox. The Mozilla team, led by the American developers Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, sought to create a light fast-loading browser that would appeal to users in its efficiency. In 2002 they released their first browser, Phoenix, which soon included features such as bookmarking (for saving website addresses) and the ability to add extensions to modify or customize the browser.

Woody

Consistently we get a message box that says: "Oops something went wrong" with a red circle & x. Towbook states they can reproduce the error and we should just use Chrome or Edge. Is this something that could be fixed? We would prefer to stay on Firefox.

While my laptop was "aseep" something happened to your service. I was kicked off and told to resign in. I did not remember my password. I was cautioned that my data might be lost. What the hell happened?

Firefox functions like an app of Edge--how on earth can I have Firefox back as it was in my Win 7 machine (before being forced to Win 11 after a monster lightning strike)?

How to switch accounts (change user) do not want to use the email address to log in to Firefox but my screen name--when I click the Firefox Icon automatically logs with my email address and shows my first and last name. How to bypass the auto and have a manual login for user name and password. At 81, I may not have enough years or brain power left to master this not-intuitive Windows 11, which appears to me, to be a bastard mix of Smartphone and Desktop put out by a company that wants total control or at a minimum to grant as little control as possible to the user of the operating system--we will teach you how to think our way or get a pencil and piece of paper.

Ah, "The Golden Years" is a misnomer, the color was golden as is all polished brass, however the Golden color has tarnished.

Using Firefox Developer Edition 132.0b9 (64-bit). Also verified same issue in regular FF. Tested in Chrome to be sure it's Firefox related. No issues in Chrome.

It's very random, but sometimes images will render with a slight green tint to them. When I save the image it doesn't have the tint but I've also included a screenshot to show how the render looks.

Things I've tried:

• Disabling hardware acceleration
• Changing every setting related to gfx.color in about.config and restarting browser (multiple times/tests)
• Using devtools to see if it's a server side issue with the particular website

At this point I'm moving on because I cannot find a fix so this was my last resort.

Link to the specific website where the image lives: https://www.crossvilleinc.com/getmedia/dc3bdab1-5d51-40b3-a6c8-dc2fce8b5a1d/ASK03-Mink-24x24-ALASKA.jpg?height=1350?width=1350

I discovered this issue while trying to chat on Twitch. On my m1 macos, I try to insert emoji into the twitch chat via <control+command+space> shortcut and opening up the emoji picker. When I click on a emote to insert, nothing is inserted. Then, when I try to do the same into the developer's console via <command+option+i> , again nothing is inserted. This does not appear to be the case on Chrome.

Steps to reproduce: 1) be on macOS 2) open emoji picker via <control+command+space> 3) try to insert emoji into twitch chat OR developer's console

nothing is inserted

Hello I recently updated firefox, and I think it got rid of all my old settings. at any rate, I went to the 'add ons' area, and clicked the button to have the evernote web clipper added back to my account. according to the 'add on' area, I have sucessfully installed the evernote web clipper. However, I do not see the little green elephant button in it's usual place in the upper right hand corner of the browser. I tried logging out and restarting firefox, but still the same result. I am afraid that without having the the little green elephant head button to click- there is no way for me to actually use the add on. Can you help me figure out how to make the little green elephant button visible, so I can actually use the add on?

 thank you

M. Cherrier

None of the topics appears to be appropriate. Since yesterday each time I open a new tab another window opens duplicating the already existing window/s. For a while earlier today the multiple windows disappeared and new windows didn't open but now it's happening again. How do I prevent this happening?

As of last week, FF works for a few minutes on startup, but then when you open a new tab and try to go to a site you just get the dancing period, nothing opens. Already open tabs with sites generally still work, but sometimes crash the tabs after a bit. We've tried starting without extensions, uninstalling and reinstalling FF, changing the profile, logging in the PC (Win 10, up to date) with a different login, running SFC and DISM on the PC, and just about everything else.

Opening the FF console shows this message when the tab just rocks the period:

WindowsJumpLists: Failed to fetch favicon for https://online.adp.com/signin/v1/?APPID=WFNPortal&productId=80e309c3-7085-bae1-e053-3505430b5495&returnURL=https://workforcenow.adp.com/&callingAppId=WFN&TARGET=-SM-https://workforcenow.adp.com/theme/admin.html NS_ERROR_FAILURE: WindowsJumpLists.sys.mjs:257:29

Edge works perfectly (and unfortunately, I'm having to use Edge to enter this ticket.). Other applications don't have any issues. I'm not having this issue on 2 other similar PCs I have that run FF, only this one.

Any ideas of what might be the issue with FF on this PC? Thanks, Alex

Video has been running well and suddenly a new issue.

Video begins to display (...for a fraction of a second) then I get Error, Unhandled video privacy. I suspect a setting has been inadvertently changed, but can't find it. Any thoughts?