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Dell OptiPlex Micro Form Factor 7020

    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14500T (1.70 GHz)
    Installed RAM	:16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)
    System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
    Storage: 238 GB
    1.70 gigahertz Intel Core i5-14500T
    1.22 megabyte primary memory cache
    11.50 megabyte secondary memory cache
    48 megabyte tertiary memory cache
    64-bit ready
    Multi-core (14 total)
    Hyper-threaded (20 total)
    Purchased: 2024

OS: Windows 11 Pro

    Version: 25H2
    Installed: 11/9/2024
    OS build: 26200.8037

Browser: Firefox

    Vers: 149.0 (64-bit)

Background: Computer had unexplained shutdowns. Dell tech replaced motherboard and block. Now seems to be working OK.

Problem: I had a small icon on the Navigation Toolbar, not more than an outline. It would delete cookies from a site (generally when I had reached some undefined limit I could then close and return to that website.) This icon may or may not have been a “padlock”. It erased the cookies only from the “active” site. It did not “touch” the logins. I have not been able to recreated this icon or anything that works the same way. In the process of trying to recreate that icon, I apparently have changed how the Firefox Bookmarks Bar works. I used to have 2 rows of Bookmarks Tabs. Each has between 1 and (as many as) 10 Bookmarks. When I start Firefox, all the Bookmarks are fine, but when I select a Bookmark and it opens, all the other Bookmarks disappear. There are only 2 ways to get the Bookmarks back: (1) Close Firefox; (2) Click the left arrow on the Navigation Toolbar (Note: This can be used to “cycle” back and back if any other searching has been done.)

What I want:

    1.)	I want the Bookmarks on the Bookmarks Toolbar to remain and I browse.
    2.)	I would like, if possible, to have an icon that quickly clears cookies in the active site that were added in the active session.

everytime I try to get to my sites its very slow and it says mozilla firefox not responding If I wait for a while it will finally allow me to get to my site but it takes a long time

Certain webpages are now enlarged to the point of being unusable. I have not changed any settings in Firefox. Zoom is at the typical 100% and zooming out does not fix the issue. I have attached a screenshot of what this page looks like so you can see. I have tried searching ways to fix this and cannot figure it out. Help is greatly appreciated.

no matter what I try to search get error messages . Just started. Have used ESET security and Firefox for years with no issue till now. Did you change something? Don't get errors with MS EDGE.

everytime I go to view tabs I have had open previously it just doesn't even allow me to open it can you help me with this Jan my number is [edited phone#'s from community support forum]

I linked Google to open when I enter my Firefox browser and I want to delete Google and learn Firefox but I can’t get out of Google. How do I unlink it. From where ?

It seems like on the first search in a session, after the most recent Firefox update, the search window opens a new blank tab that goes nowhere. I have to close the blank tab and search again to get search results. I've tried different search engines.

Well at least I think it did. Facebook has an issue with scrolling through the feed in my group. I don't know whether there's also a problem on the home feed and also one's timeline. The further one goes back, the more sluggish it becomes and it takes longer to display posts. I'm not sure whether this is a browser issue as I haven't tested on other browsers, or a problem with Facebook pulling stuff out of the drawers in its archives. Maybe it's a memory issue due to all posts needing to be loaded in memory so it's possible to go back up through the feed to the newest one. Anyway, it gets to the stage after going back through hundreds of posts over 6 months, FB stalls. So I tried clearing my history (I have this set to not clear cookies). I then closed FB and Firefox. When I started Firefox again, I had to agree to cookies and sign into all my social media accounts, Google accounts and also agree to cookies on sites I visit regularly. So obviously a glitch in the browser, causing many, if not all cookies to be deleted.

All of a sudden I can't download files from apps I use all the time... and download files from all the time. I just tried in Edge & I can download just fine. This just happened this morning. I downloaded multiple files yesterday within firefox & the same apps I'm running today.

Until recently, if I wanted to bookmark a web page, FF would default to the last bookmark folder I had used. Now, it keeps defaulting to one particular folder for no apparent reason and it chooses a folder I almost never use. Is this an unannounced new feature - a default folder? I'm running the latest FF update on a Samsung phone.

I am using windows 11, after the latest update 149.02 I am unable to log into CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) account it gives me error message 0001 with an exclamation mark on the screen, tried disabling all add on no luck,

OK so, I just updated Firefox to 115.34 Oesr (64-bit) on my Windows 7 Desktop. Before this update, it's been my practice to clear my cookies manually from unknown websites about 3 times a day, only keeping the "exception" cookies. But, since the update, there have been SOOO many cookies...something like 75 to 100 and EACH time I manually clear the cookies...even just minutes after I clear it and refresh the "Settings" page they appear again. And, the worst of it is that Google won't let me sign into Google websites like Play Store and Google.com search saying that "there has been unusual traffic..." and makes me solve capchas all day long. Other sites too say Unusual traffic like CVS and won't let me sign in either. And now, I'm not using a VPN.

I googled the matter and it was said to be was a known issue with the 115 update and the A.I. said to get rid of the ad blocker as a possible fix but, it didn't work. Have Firefox clear cache and cookies but that didn't work, changing "Tracking Protection" to "Standard". Nothing works. Is there an update fixing this issue? By the way, I have had Firefox set to clear cache and cookies upon closing. But the cookies pile up so quickly again. Thanks for your help