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Ok well i went to about config and tired off all the accessibility about the quick help bar and now my question is every time i try to go to google search and click on shopping no matter what item i am searching for I get a pop up at the the bottom i of the page every time i hit on shopping that say error update can not be added to this list or some thing like that. it was ok until the last update o of firefox and since i did that but am not sure why. doe not do it in Chrome just frefox. firefox is getting to the point b where i an thing king of leaving it. Thank you tried a scree n shot but it does not sty on long enough '

Managing Firefox bookmarks has become impossible as of 12/1/23. Browser freezes up and then task manager shows multiple instances of FF open.

No help is available anywhere. Community blames the user, mocks the poster, blames PC configuration when nothing was changed. Only offers impossible to understand instructions. Help topics don't help at all.

Why is Firefox freezing and crashing as of 12/1/23?

Where can one get help?

No help for this issue:

"Sorry. We’re having trouble getting your pages back.

We are having trouble restoring your last browsing session. Select Restore Session to try again.

Still not able to restore your session? Sometimes a tab is causing the issue. View previous tabs, remove the checkmark from the tabs you don’t need to recover, and then restore."

Why is Firefox freezing up with bookmarks problems and then opening old tabs upon restart. No bookmarks are imported. Firefox is ruined as of 12/1/23.

Instructions are too complex for average user. Help is no help at all. Why no tech support for Firefox browser issues?

I am suddenly getting pop-up windows from "Firefox Software Updater" as soon as I click the Firefox icon on my desktop (Windows 11) and laptop (Windows 10). The Firefox log in the pop-up is not in color, so I am immediately suspicious. The pop-up window did not happen on my laptop yesterday, but I got it on my desktop today, for the first time. I have answered "no" to the "do you want this app to make changes to this computer?". Is this legit from Mozilla? Usually, the browser updates automatically when I click the icon, saying I am now using the latest version of Firefox. Thank you.

I normally have multiple FF windows open on multiple desktops. After a restart all of a sudden every time I create a new desktop, FF duplicates browser. If I open a new FF Window it will automatically appear across all open desktops.

Tried pretty much everything: Multiple restarts Cleared Cache Refresh Firefox General Settings changes

FF 119.01 Monterey 12.6.6

Any thoughts appreciated

Firefox uses too much memory, sometimes 20GB on a 32GB Windows machine. It's usually one or two threads which are hogging incredible amounts of memory. This time I had about 30 tabs open.

Today I tried Firefox about:memory "Minimize Memory Usage" several times, and it was largely ineffective.

I did a "create memory dump file" of one 5+GB bloated thread using task manager, but can't find a way to upload the compressed archive with this report for analysis. Finding a way to report this issue was quite a challenge. It seems most help avenues are now missing/moved, and other reports of this type of issue are "Archived".

I tried killing the 2 bloated Firefox threads and checked for tabs which might be missing or malfunctioning. Everything continued to run normally while more than 10GB of memory was returned to system use. Leaving these bloated threads overnight doesn't improve anything, in fact I can often get up and find my machine is completely out of memory because Firefox consumed it all. My smallest machines have 16GB RAM.

These memory issues aren't new. I've been reporting them off and on for more than a decade. They get better for a few months after reporting, then they get bad again in a few more months. The battle to get memory leaks fixed is continuous while Firefox springs more leaks.

I'd like to give you the memory image I generated so you'll at least have some real data to look at and analyze for this report.

The attached task manager snapshot image is a very minor example of this issue. The numbers keep increasing like there are one or more large memory leaks.

I often drag elements on trello.com. Whenever I drag an element, that element seems to double in size, making it hard to see what is underneath. Attached is an example.

I believe this is related to the fact that I am running Linux/X11 and my DPR is 2. From about:support:

• Window Device Pixel Ratios 2,2,2,2
• Window Protocol x11
• OS Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29)

Is there an about:config setting or anything that will prevent scaling dragged elements?

Got a problem on two separate computers: Mozilla Crash Reporter keeps popping up when Firefox is not even running. I'm guessing that my antivirus avast is interfering with the update service. I'm I right or wrong? Otherwise, does anyone know how to interpret this? This is the report:

AdapterDeviceID: 0x6818 AdapterDriverVersion: 27.20.20903.8001 AdapterSubsysID: 25541458 AdapterVendorID: 0x1002 AvailablePageFile: 23509377024 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 4957573120 AvailableVirtualMemory: 138522866925568 BackgroundTaskMode: 1 BackgroundTaskName: backgroundupdate BlockedDllList: BuildID: 20231116134553 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0x2f ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 6 CrashTime: 1701389728 GpuSandboxLevel: 1 HeadlessMode: 1 InstallTime: 1701135841 LastStartupWasCrash: 0 LauncherProcessState: 0 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Avast Software s.r.o.":["aswJsFlt.dll","snxhk.dll","aswhook.dll"],"Microsoft Windows":["ondemandconnroutehelper.dll","twinapi.dll","wscapi.dll","NapiNSP.dll","pnrpnsp.dll","wshbth.dll","winrnr.dll","ktmw32.dll","wsock32.dll","webauthn.dll","wininet.dll","dbgcore.dll","Windows.UI.Immersive.dll","iertutil.dll","Windows.Globalization.dll","DWrite.dll","srvcli.dll","urlmon.dll","BCP47mrm.dll","winmm.dll","TextInputFramework.dll","InputHost.dll","Windows.UI.dll","Bcp47Langs.dll","icm32.dll","FWPUCLNT.DLL","rasadhlp.dll","winhttp.dll","npmproxy.dll","ColorAdapterClient.dll","mscms.dll","dhcpcsvc.dll","dhcpcsvc6.DLL","winnsi.dll","dbghelp.dll","twinapi.appcore.dll","WindowManagementAPI.dll","version.dll","netprofm.dll","nlaapi.dll","propsys.dll","wtsapi32.dll","WinTypes.dll","dcomp.dll","CoreUIComponents.dll","CoreMessaging.dll","uxtheme.dll","dwmapi.dll","kernel.appcore.dll","windows.storage.dll","gpapi.dll","dxgi.dll","rsaenh.dll","ntmarta.dll","IPHLPAPI.DLL","winsta.dll","dnsapi.dll","netutils.dll","mswsock.dll","cryptsp.dll","cryptbase.dll","wldp.dll","ntasn1.dll","ncrypt.dll","msasn1.dll","devobj.dll","sspicli.dll","userenv.dll","profapi.dll","gdi32full.dll","ucrtbase.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","bcrypt.dll","wintrust.dll","win32u.dll","crypt32.dll","msvcp_win.dll","cfgmgr32.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","kernel32.dll","shlwapi.dll","oleaut32.dll","clbcatq.dll","rpcrt4.dll","user32.dll","advapi32.dll","sechost.dll","nsi.dll","psapi.dll","shell32.dll","msctf.dll","setupapi.dll","SHCore.dll","ole32.dll","ws2_32.dll","msvcrt.dll","gdi32.dll","combase.dll","imm32.dll","ntdll.dll"],"Microsoft Windows Software Compatibility Publisher":["VCRUNTIME140_1.dll","msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll"],"Mozilla Corporation":["firefox.exe","xul.dll","freebl3.dll","nss3.dll","osclientcerts.dll","nssckbi.dll","mozglue.dll","softokn3.dll","gkcodecs.dll","lgpllibs.dll"]} MozCrashReason: Shutdown hanging at step XPCOMShutdownThreads. Something is blocking the main-thread. Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000100-T000) DWrite? DWrite+ WR? WR+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 403195 ShutdownProgress: xpcom-shutdown-threads ShutdownReason: AppClose StartupCacheValid: 1 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1701389663 SubmittedFrom: Client SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 42 Throttleable: 1 TotalPageFile: 30027948032 TotalPhysicalMemory: 8553111552 TotalVirtualMemory: 140737488224256 URL: UptimeTS: 658.43255 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 120.0 Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 2 : 1 : 6 : 0x20066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192

MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 : 2 : 17 : 0x20609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192 
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 2 : 3 : 0 : 0x20609 : 0xc : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192 
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 1 : 6 : 0x20066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 2 : 17 : 0x20609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 3 : 0 : 0x20609 : 0xc : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
AF_UNIX : 2 : 1 : 1 : 0 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : a00943d9-9c2e-4633-9b59-0057a3160994 
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 23 : 1 : 6 : 0x22066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 2 : 1 : 6 : 0x22066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 23 : 2 : 17 : 0x22609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 : 2 : 17 : 0x22609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
Hyper-V RAW : 2 : 34 : 1 : 1 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 1234191b-4bf7-4ca7-86e0-dfd7c32b5445 
MSAFD L2CAP [Bluetooth] : 2 : 32 : 1 : 256 : 0x20006 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9fc48064-7298-43e4-b7bd-181f2089792a 
MSAFD RfComm [Bluetooth] : 2 : 32 : 1 : 3 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9fc48064-7298-43e4-b7bd-181f2089792a

XPCOMSpinEventLoopStack: default: nsThread::WaitForAllAsynchronousShutdowns useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

This problem just started recently, where I can't unmount an external USB drive without getting this error message:

The disk "Projects" couldn't be ejected because "Firefox" is using it.

I hate to keep quitting FF just to unmount a USB drive - that means logging in again to various web accounts.

My only extensions running right now are Enhancer for YouTube, Grammarly, and Facebook Container.

What's preventing me from unmounting a USB drive?

Thanks!

i had to rebuild my laptop computer and set up firefox on it, set up/turned on sync and the browser does NOT match the broswer srttings on the desktop where the sync comes from. bookmarked weblink icons only show up when a new tab is opened and vanish once a website is opened, icons for bookmarked weblinks on the bookmarks bar are generic wireframe globe-like-icons only, the custom firefox colour setup i struggled to create over the course of several weeks does not appear at all, nor does the dark theme. how then do i get this to -really- syc???

Later version refuses to connect to my modem, and goes into security web mode. This modem uses HTTP/HTTPS for access, i.e., connects directly it's IP address, then the user enters a username and password. At that point, the the modem switches to HTTPS for control.

With this recent update, there is NO WAY to access the modem for any work, or upgrade the HTTPS certificate on the modem. This is a BUG.

What should happen is that if the web site will accept a HTTP connection, Firefox should NOT refuse connection or test for security issues UNTIL the user or the device switches to HTTPS.

As an aside, I've used Firefox on this Zywall modem for years until recently.

Hello

I have a problem with signing in to my youtube account('s) it tells me that i dont have access anymore.

I tried some fixes like clearing cache, history, proxy and other things you can try. But it still doesnt work

account is fine i can login on other browsers but i think firefox is the best one out there so used to it.

anyone know a fix that might help?

Kind regards Collin