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This is both a settings issue, and a privacy and security issue. I want to disable the google lens context menu item to protect my security and privacy from constant AI monitoring. I've almost accidentally clicked the new option before and I don't want to send photos or images to google's AI unless I specifically intend to do so.

I feel like Mozilla is interfering with people's privacy more and more, taking away features from their users, adding features we don't want, butting in and telling us how our browsers should work. This is starting to become absurd. Now you've added AI into the browser that can control how your tabs are displayed and named even, a setting I found while trying to disable Google Lens.

There's a couple other settings I need to figure out how to disable too, such as the context menu of translate and the ChatGPT context menu items. I just removed ChatGPT and a new AI chat bot option appeared. Just wow. What the hell Mozilla. Is your intention to just turn your browser into one big spyware?

Give me the option to disable all of this stuff you keep adding. I have a policy thats supposed to disable your auto updates too but YOU disabled that as well allowing you to install all this malware/spyware into my machine without my authorization.

Firefox is not deleting search history when using Clear Recent History. The URLs still appear in the Show All History.

In Settings under Privacy and Security, the box is ticked for Delete cookies and site data, and also for Clear history when Firefox closes. I have manually cleared cookies and site data and history within Settings, but the it still remains under History even when I've closed Firefox and restarted the PC.

Under Sync, the box for History is not ticked.

This has been happening for some time without me realising. I have now deleted pages.sqlite and this has cleared the history, but it still retains all new site data under History and will not clear it.

I have disabled then uninstalled anti-virus, I have removed CCleaner because this was also not deleting history.

And I've also reinstalled Firefox, but the problem persists.

What am I doing wrong please?

I am using Windows 11.

I had to wipe clean my iMac today due to some access issue. Everything was gone !!! I had to re-install Firefox as the default browser. Now I want MarketWatch to open on Firefox every time I open the Firefox browser. Please send step-by-step instruction to this 82 yrs old lady user.

Also, I had Mozilla VPN. Please show me how to re-install/download/put back this service so that I can park it on the tool bar and choose to use it at will.

Please keep your instruction very human friendly. I don't comprehend well the "digital lingo".

Thank you for your understanding.

Annie Fletcher Ph: [edited phone# from public community support forum] (for account look up on your end)

In Settings I have "Save files to" set to Desktop. Under Applications, I have PDF Files set to "Save File." If I download any other type of file, it is saved to the Desktop, as instructed. However, when I open Firefox, the Save dialog shows PDF files will be saved to Downloads. If I change it to Desktop, the file will be saved to the Desktop. Other types of file, as mentioned above, show Desktop as the default in the Save dialog. Once I set Desktop for a PDF file, it will be remembered until I close and reopen Firefox. It will then switch back to the Downloads folder, but again, only for PDF files. Why? This is something that has stated happening sometime over the last couple of months.

Windows 10 Pro 22H2, October 2025 patches installed. Firefox v144.0.2

We have two Windows desktop computers. One still runs Windows 10 because it does not have the requirements Microsoft set for a Windows 11 upgrade. Recently Windows 10 was reinstalled on the Windows 10 computer, choosing the option to remove apps and settings. Firefox was reinstalled. It started without problem and continues OK. However there is a problem.

Before reinstalling W10, I had copied the Firefox Profile folder to a USB drive. More specifically, I have a copy of Roaming > Mozilla > Firefox > Profiles. Prior to copying the Profiles folder from the USB to the computer, I reread a couple of web pages, including Mozilla, about transferring Profiles. At that point I realized that I may have made a mistake. The web pages stressed that Firefox should not be running when the Profiles folder copying is being done. I’m pretty certain that I had not shut Firefox down. So I am writing this in hopes that someone will be able to tell me how I can replace the current Profiles folder with the folder that is saved on the USB. What follows is some information that I hope can be helpful. On the USB: The Profiles folder contains two subfolders. Each subfolder’s name ends with .default-thirteen digits, the first six digits being identical. The “Date modified” on one folder is a little more than a week old; the other is over 5 years old. On the W10 computer: In the Roaming > Mozilla > Firefox > Profiles folder, there are 4 subfolders: 1st. ~ .default-13 digits starting with 1597077, 695 Mb 2nd.~.default- 13 digits starting with the same1597077, 78 Mb 3rd.~.default-release, 130 Mb 4th.~.default-release, 90 Mb All “Date modified” are very recent, including one date today

So I’m hoping that someone will read this to be able to help me bring Firefox back to what it was before the W10 was reinstalled.

Hello,

In the DevToolbox, the “Copy all as HAR” and “Create file...” functions are not working. It seems that in both cases, only empty space is placed in the clipboard and in the file (this has been happening since the last update).

Thank you in advance.