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I have been using Firefox Quantum 57. 0.4 64 bit for Linux Mint 1.0 will I be able to use Firefox 113.0.2 and is there anything I need to do after downloading it. I am computer illiterate, any help will be greatly appreciated.

After I boot my system I am not able to open Firefox as it complains about an open instance. After around half a minute the file disappears on its own.

Deleting the lock file manually works for starting firefox, but seems to sometimes delete my cookies as well.

The issue is not reproducible by just logging out and in again.

Firefox Browser 113.0.2 (64-bit) "Mozilla Firefox for Garuda Linux"

OS: Garuda Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.3.5-zen1-1-zen DE: Plasma 5.27.5 WM: KWin

If you can find out what causes this error code to appear, we would be on the road to solving the problem. BTW, it can play videos on the selection screen but only raises the error when i try to launch the movie. I also have difficulty with News videos where the wait symbol never stops, it just keeps trying to play it and never succeeds.

Hello,

I am trying to understand if there is a way to customize the tab rearranging behaviour.

In particular, the thing I find very unpractical is that, after a tab is closed, the others do rearrange, but after the mouse goes out of the tab bar. This is particularly annoying when I have to close multiple tabs, since thanks to this behaviour, the tabs which I close after the first one are always the unintended ones.

The solution would be to let the tab rearrangement happen instantly after the closure of the tab. In my opinion even without animations, I do not really care about that.

If you have any suggestions let me know.

Thanks in advance!

Search in tabs (%) extend search to all tabs of all containers.

When I do a search in tabs, it only searches in the tabs of the current container. How can I make it look for tabs from other containers as well?

Very thanks.

I have Firefox set up to basically clear itself of all history, cookies, data, etc. each time it closes. As a result this means I need to log into my password manager each time I open a new Firefox session, rather than every 72 hours which is the setting I have put in the password manager itself. I know how to make exceptions for websites, but it's making an exception for an extension that is confusing me. Any help is appreciated!

Hi, I'm not sure if I just cant find the setting or if this is a feature request. I'm using the Firefox Developer edition, and I during web development I often deal with many query Params in the URL. Is there a way to have a long URL be displayed in multiple lines, or even better, one line per query parameter?

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My preferred languages are set to: en-us, en, ja My preferred fonts for Japanese are set to: proportional: Sans Serif, Serif: IPA 明朝, Sans Serif: IPA ゴシック For web pages that set the language to Japanese (using lang="ja" or similar), the correct (Japanese) font is selected. However, for web pages that do not indicate the language, Firefox selects a Chinese font, ignoring my preferred language and fonts.

My Linux/Computer guru passed away 5 years ago I have been using Firefox Quantum 57. 0.4 64 bit for Linux Mint 1.0 but am finding sites I need to access won't open or if they open can't use the functions there. I know nothing about computers and I have not been able to find a tech to take my desktop to to get it updated. I am afraid to update because computer is currently set up with protections so I can do banking etc.. but soon I won't be able to access that. Any suggestions as to what to do at this point or suggestions of tech's in the Far West Valley of Phoenix AZ to assist ? Thanks so much for your time and any suggestions. Cheers,

I don't like Firefox videos showing up in my media player controls, so I turned off media.hardwarekeys.enabled, but it doesn't seem to do anything anymore. I'm pretty sure it used to work at some point, don't know when it stopped working. Even though I have it turned off, videos still appears in the Media Player on my panel, and I can play and pause them with the play/pause button on my keyboard. I have also tried disabling dom.media.mediasession.enabled, but that doesn't help either.

KDE Neon 5.27 Firefox 113.0.2

Storage seem to be broken in general, although the problem has morphed with my bad troubleshooting attempts. This problem started ~last week (or ~two months after I switched OS from Windows to Garuda Linux, a variant of Arch) and has progressively gotten worse.

Initial problem: Privacy Badger errors and says storage is broken. Putting `navigator.storage.estimate()` into PB's extension console leads to a quota of a large number, and a usage of 0. Pandora.com then logs me out, and doesn't allow me to log back in. Console reveals it's an indexedDB problem about storage quotas. Many websites are forgetting tokens - I'll log in, and then 15 minutes later, log in again. This happened on Discord, Fastmail, and this support forum (in fact, I couldn't log in on Firefox here. Had to use Chromium). Bitwarden's extension also errors, although this one doesn't directly mention storage and instead says that the sync is out of date directly after syncing. Alright. (If I had to guess, the sync process no longer can write to storage so it's stuck with an old sync).

OK, this is odd. I load back the profile directory I still have saved from the last machine. Still symptomatic. Maybe it's a permissions problem? I run `chmod -R 777 ~/.mozilla/firefox` and relaunch. Still symptomatic. I nuke my firefox directory entirely, reinstall firefox (switching to For Developers) in the process, reimport my bookmarks, and run chmod again. Still symptomatic. Alright.

Maybe it's a problem with my extensions. I really, really doubt that, but maybe. I restart into troubleshooting mode. The problem still exists, but when I go back my bookmarks and extensions are gone.

Problem as it stands now: Pandora.com still logs me out, but I can log back in. Sometimes. It just doesn't remember when I relaunch firefox. Along the way at some point, visiting about:support now shows nothing. As in, when I press "copy text to clipboard" this is the report I get back:

  Application Basics
  ------------------
  
  Name:
  Version:
  Build ID:
  Distribution ID:
  User Agent:
  OS:
  OS Theme:
  Multiprocess Windows:
  Fission Windows:
  Remote Processes:
  Enterprise Policies:
  Google Location Service Key:
  Google Safebrowsing Key:
  Mozilla Location Service Key:
  ...full report in Troubleshooting Information section below, but it's not very helpful

When I open the browser console, I am greeted with dozens of errors. Here are the first few:

  NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: Component returned failure code: 0x80004001    (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIAppStartup.secondsSinceLastOSRestart]
      _collectStartupConditionsTelemetry resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:1608
      BG__onFirstWindowLoaded resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:1716
      BG_observe resource:///modules/BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:961
      _delayedStartup chrome://browser/content/browser.js:2068
  BrowserGlue.sys.mjs:1617:15
  
  TypeError: connection not specified in clone options.
      cloneStorageConnection resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1416
      <anonymous> resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:2165
      promiseDBConnection resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:1434
      fetchAnnotatedPages resource://gre/modules/History.sys.mjs:183
      _initializePromise resource://gre/modules/DownloadHistory.sys.mjs:205
      ensureInitialized resource://gre/modules/DownloadHistory.sys.mjs:229
      getList resource://gre/modules/DownloadHistory.sys.mjs:63
      _promiseList resource:///modules/DownloadsCommon.sys.mjs:790
  
  TypeError: connection not specified or invalid.
      wrapStorageConnection resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1507
      <anonymous> resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:2177
      withConnectionWrapper resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:1484
      get resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:2253
      #kickOffOriginsAlternativeFrecency resource://gre/modules/PlacesFrecencyRecalculator.sys.mjs:366
      AlternativeFrecencyHelper resource://gre/modules/PlacesFrecencyRecalculator.sys.mjs:350
      PlacesFrecencyRecalculator resource://gre/modules/PlacesFrecencyRecalculator.sys.mjs:136
  
  TypeError: can't access property "executeBeforeShutdown", db is undefined
      withConnectionWrapper resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:1485

(Many more errors here of "db is undefined" in various places)

  NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)    [nsINavBookmarksService.tagsFolder] PlacesUtils.sys.mjs:2085
  
  Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: database or disk is full
      handleCompletion resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1067
  Sqlite.sys.mjs:402:15
  
  StorageError: Storage error: QuotaExceededError: IndexedDB: main/partitioning-exempt-urls importChanges() IndexedDB:  importChanges() in main/partitioning-exempt-urls The current transaction exceeded its quota limitations.
      StorageError resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:157
      _adjustedError resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:928
      maybeSync resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:816
  Caused by: QuotaExceededError: IndexedDB: main/partitioning-exempt-urls importChanges() IndexedDB:  importChanges() in main/partitioning-exempt-urls The current transaction exceeded its quota limitations.
  
  StorageError: Storage error: InvalidStateError: IndexedDB: main/message-groups importChanges() IndexedDB: collections, timestamps, records importChanges() in main/message-groups A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations.
      StorageError resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:157
      _adjustedError resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:928
      maybeSync resource://services-settings/RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:816
  Caused by: InvalidStateError: IndexedDB: main/message-groups importChanges() IndexedDB: collections, timestamps, records importChanges() in main/message-groups A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations.
      importChanges resource://services-settings/Database.sys.mjs:120
      promise resource://services-settings/IDBHelpers.jsm:128
      executeIDB resource://services-settings/IDBHelpers.jsm:92
      executeIDB resource://services-settings/Database.sys.mjs:474
  RemoteSettingsClient.sys.mjs:532:15

  RemoteSettingsWorker error: QuotaExceededError: IndexedDB:  execute() The current transaction exceeded its quota limitations.
  
  Could not write session state file  DOMException: Could not write chunk (size = 117330) to file /home/hugh/.mozilla/firefox/gkgh2t17.dev-edition-default/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4.tmp. The file may be corrupt. <empty string> SessionFile.sys.mjs:405:17

  QM_TRY failure (ERROR): 'Unavailable failed with resultCode 0x80520012, resultName NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, context dom::localstorage::FirstOriginInitializationAttempt::Datastore', file dom/localstorage/ActorsParent.cpp:1056
  QM_TRY failure (WARNING): 'Unavailable failed with resultCode 0x80520012, resultName NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, context dom::localstorage::FirstOriginInitializationAttempt::Datastore', file dom/localstorage/ActorsParent.cpp:8393
  QM_TRY failure (WARNING): 'Unavailable failed with resultCode 0x8052000F, resultName NS_ERROR_FILE_TOO_BIG, context dom::localstorage::FirstOriginInitializationAttempt::Datastore', file dom/localstorage/ActorsParent.cpp:487

I see the error of "database or disk is full" - however, my disk is new (6 months old) and is literally 95% free space (see attached screenshot). I'm out of ideas, so hopefully someone else has more.

When I right click a tab I do not get the option to "Send Tab to Device" that I am used to on Windows. Is this missing from the Linux version? Or is there a setting for it?

I have searched the internet for this problem and could not find such things. I would appreciate any help!

I've installed a new version of Ubuntu Linux and - as recommended on this page's FAQs - backed up my firefox profile, than copied it into the profile folder on the new os. Now Firefox tells me "You've launched an older version of firefox" and forces me to create a new profile :( Also loading the old profile in "about:profiles" leads to the same result

How can i restore at least my passwords? (When i try to copy only 4.db and logins.json from the old to the new profile, i get the same result)

I can't find an "import old profile"-function anywhere...

Hi,

I have a policies.json file that acts as a white list for me (black listed all urls and then white listed needed urls). I was wondering is it possible to create a second .json file that will act as a black list. I want to give access to a partial admin. user to the policy.json file to be able to edit the file and add websites if needed but I want a another black list running as well to block out specific websites (this one the partial admin. will not have access to).

So to start off the first question would be is firefox only limited to one .json file for policies or can you have multiple .json files (I want to call the second file blacklist.json)? Btw I use Debian and Firefox-esr.

Thanks.

Currently Firefox is redirecting http://localhost:8080 to http://localhost:8081 , each time when type the address in the URL address bar.

I have been working with a container wordpress. I have tested in chrome the address http://localhost:8080 and all works fine.

How can we fix that problems, thanks in advance.

I have removed cookies and site data of localhost in Privacy-and-security> Manage-data>

screen-cast https://imgur.com/lWV1WFa

In a simple HTML file containing an Arabic / Urdu / Persian phrase: "با نشئہ درویشی در ساز و دمادم زن", Firefox in Linux (Ubuntu, to be more precise) uses the default font (DejaVu Sans) for the whole phrase except for one character (UNICODE: 6C1). Font used for this character is Noto Sans Arabic UI. So the text looks broken due to different fonts.

Please have a look at the attached screenshots for better understanding.

I've tried to search but could not find how exactly Firefox resolves preferences in Font Settings and CSS "font-family" preference to local fonts in Linux. Does this have to do something with "fontconfig"?

How can I make Firefox use only the default font for the whole phrase?

Hi,

Firefox reports an incorrect timezone (UTC), despite `privacy.resistFingerprinting` being false. (None of the settings underneath `privacy` have been changed.

The clearest example is here: https://browserspy.dk/date.php (screenshot attached). Another browser (epiphany) reports the correct timezone on that page.

I have tested the following versions: - Mozilla Firefox 102.11.0esr - Mozilla Firefox 113.0 - Mozilla Firefox 113.0b9

It persists under `--safe-mode`, in Private Browsing mode and despite being signed into a firefox account or not.

uname -a: Linux s 6.3.4 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed May 24 16:30:25 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

timedatectl, displays correct timezone

I'm at a loss at how to proceed and debug this, every search leads back to privacy.resistFingerprinting, but as mentioned this isn't the case here.