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Suddenly I cannot search from the search bar. It defaults to the address bar. why "fix" something that was not broken. Being forced to use the address bar is frustrating. If you go directly to the address bar, it tells you it cannot find that site.

How do I get searches (my default is Google) to STOP going to the address bar? This started out of the blue and it is making me crazy. I don't want to be asked which search to use, and I don't want it to search in the address bar. I want it in the search box. Thanks.

I am reopening the question from 2020 as the solution described no longer seems to apply. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1284577

I am running Windows 11. Firefox 144.0 (64-bit)

When entering search terms into the search bar in the centre of the page, the information typed appears in the address bar, even after following the fix described in 1284577.

Treating the address bar as the search bar appears to be the default. While the user can additionally deselect the search engine in the address bar, that is an unnecessary and undesired additional step for every search (the primary reason I am using Firefox)

Is there a way to permanently set the default for what I enter into the search bar to remain in the search bar and not to be managed by the address bar? Thanks, Rich

Previous solution: switch browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar to false does not work anymore.

Please help.

Regards, Victor

These icons appeared recently in my Firefox browser I can't remove them. The only recent changes included uninstalling SuperAntiSpyware after finding that Microsoft PC Manager is a better option, which has performed excellently without issues.

Additionally, a free VPN (Proton) was briefly used from the Firefox browser without installation, but after finding it complicated to set up, it was deleted. A few hours later, I noticed the two icons as the windows were misbehaving and they are causing a slowdown in the PC's performance. They do not seem to be add-ons or extensions.

How do I remove the icons and return to the previous performance?

i HAVE CLEARED THE CACHE, DATA, HISTORY, everything i CAN THINK OF. aLL WEB SITES WORK FINE except gO dADDY.

Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.godaddy.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.6bf7d517.1771978173.2cedcff8

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.6bf7d517.1771978173.2cedcff8

I am having a problem with Firefox. Some websites do not load correctly and certain extensions do not work as expected.

I have already tried restarting Firefox and checking my internet connection, but the issue still happens.

Please advise how to fix this problem. Thank you.

I was pasting in data from the internet into my spreadsheet and google sheets (or Firefox) is pasting in said data three times and it is driving me insane. I paste the raw values in a formatted cell, and rapidly it pastes correctly, but then pastes the original data/cell at least once if not twice. Like, say there's a green cell and I paste the values in it, and it works, but it then pastes the data OVER the cell removing the formatting. The worst part? It works correctly on chrome!

Firefox has been my browser of choice for well over 20 years. I have a game I play every day (from FaceBook) just this week when I try to go to it on my laptop - it says your browser does not support WebGL. it has always opened using Firefox - this is a new error message. and the computer is only 5 months old and has Windows 11 on it. I do not want to switch to Google or Edge.

Like I said - opening the app worked every day up until about a week ago. What gives?

Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at mesp.finance.gov.bd.

   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

I don't like to use the address bar to type searches. I like using the SEARCH BOX in Firefox's New Tab instead. But, with each update, I once again have to try to figure out how to set Firefox searches to be typed in the search box. Is there any way to set this so it doesn't get changed with every update?

I am using Firefox on my MacOS Tahoe. There is a persistent annoying issue where whenever I close (physically fold) my laptop screen and reopen it, Firefox will be frozen. It will be frozen in the sense that I am unable to interact with any tabs or anything until I manually quit Firefox and reopen it (which automatically reopens all my tabs), making it usable again. This doesn't happen every time I close and reopen my Mac, but it definitely happens the majority of the time and makes the browser hard to use.

I've attached a screenshot of what a new window looks like when Firefox is frozen. It looks just like a Firefox window when unfocused.

Notes:

• It doesn't entirely freeze Firefox. In fact, I can "switch" to a different tab by clicking on the tab and then shutting and reopening my laptop again. The new tab will show on reopening but Firefox will still be frozen. This process can be repeated.
• I can pretty consistently replicate the bug by shutting my laptop, waiting 10 seconds, and reopening it. This will almost always result in the freeze.
• The bug still happens if I'm not focused on the Firefox window but on a different app.
• The bug doesn't seem to happen if I just lock my screen but don't shut it closed.

Things I've tried that haven't fixed it:

• Updating my OS.
• Restarting my laptop.
• Disabling hardware acceleration.
• Disabling themes and extensions.
• Deleting and reinstalling Firefox, including deleting the user data in the "Library/Application Support" folder.

Let me know if there's any more information I can provide or fixes I can try. Also let me know if I should go ahead and file a Firefox bug report for this. Thank you.

I've searched other forums and I am not having any luck. If I open 1 Firefox browser then 10-15 open instances will show up under Task Manager. They load automatically. This slows down everything and I have to delete the excess browsers. Would you please offer some advice? Thank you in advance.

Sirs,

I have Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon in Swedish language/locale. I set up two users with Firefox 146. Then, I upgraded Firefox to 147.0, and set up a third user on the same machine.

For the two original users, the Firefox is in all-Swedish locale. Perfect. But, for my newly created user, some is in English. Examples in English; Onboarding, Search in Privacy, and New Tab/Shortcuts. Web pages is no problem. The problem is in Firefox proper.

Strangely, New Tab is in Swedish (Ny flik), if I do not use the shortcuts, i.e. chose Empty new page in Settings. How to fix? Minor annoyance, but I would like everything in Swedish, as in v. 146. Is it a bug that will be fixed by Mozilla, or do I have to do anything to fix it myself, or is it un-fixable? Or, is it maybe anything in Linux? I understand it is some changes between 146 and 147 regarding a couple of rather important things. Thanks. >>> System:

 Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
   Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

 Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ProDesk 600 G2 SFF v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
   Chassis: type: 4 serial: <superuser required>
 Mobo: HP model: 805D v: KBC Version 05.39 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: P1H12EA#UUW
   uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: HP v: N02 Ver. 02.60 date: 12/15/2022

CPU:

 Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Skylake-S
   rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 2600 high: 2602 min/max: 800/3200 cores: 1: 2602 2: 2600 3: 2600 4: 2600
   bogomips: 25599
 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

 Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports:
   active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912
   class-ID: 0300
 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
   unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
 Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: Dell U2311H serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
   dpi: 96 size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
   drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4
   direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) device-ID: 8086:1912
 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 3 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A
   device-ID: 8086:1912 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

Audio:

 Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
   driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
 API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-37-generic status: kernel-api
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
   2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Network:

 Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
   bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200
 IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:

 Local Storage: total: 473.23 GiB used: 26.22 GiB (5.5%)
 ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
   tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
 ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
   tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: MBR
 ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 7.45 GiB type: USB rev: 2.0
   spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2.01 scheme: MBR

Partition:

 ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 26.22 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

 ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

 Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Dell KB212-B Quiet Key Keyboard type: keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid
   interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 413c:2107 class-ID: 0301
 Device-2: 1-6:3 info: MosArt Wireless Keyboard/Mouse type: keyboard,mouse
   driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
   chip-ID: 062a:4101 class-ID: 0301
 Device-3: 1-9:4 info: SanDisk Cruzer Blade type: mass storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1
   rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 200mA chip-ID: 0781:5567 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
 Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
   class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

 System Temperatures: cpu: 27.0 C pch: 30.5 C mobo: N/A
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Repos:

 Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2006
 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
   1: deb https: //mirror.accum.se/mirror/linuxmint.com/packages zena main upstream import backport
   2: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
   3: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
   4: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
   5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse

Info:

 Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.35 GiB used: 2.21 GiB (9.5%)
 Processes: 256 Power: uptime: 11h 28m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
   hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

<<< Sincerely. Ronny