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I opened Firefox (V 145.0.2) on my Windows 11 laptop today and noticed that the starting window was the only one open, while I have had at least five windows open for quite some time. The "History|Recently closed windows" option is greyed out. I have closed and restarted Firefox dozens of times and my windows always came back until today. Is that window/tab history stored somewhere where I could recover it?

Thinking about backups of the browser state, I looked for my profile folder and discovered that it is empty - \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\mozilla is empty except for a file named vpn.moz. I then discovered that my profile seems instead to be stored under \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Mozilla.Firefox_n80bbvh6b1yt2\LocalCache\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles with the folder name e5di8bjy.default-release I now learned that this location is standard for installation via the Microsoft store - the so-called MSIX version. But it is wrong that the "About"profiles" page shows that my profile is in the AppData\Roaming, not the Packages, location. When I try to open that profile folder, I get a message telling me that it is not available on this computer. It seems like the profile info should be aware of the actual location?

Previously, you could right click & copy an animated GIF from one site, and paste it into the comment field on another site. This would paste the full animated GIF into that comment section. It worked on all forums that support animated GIFs in comments.

It was very convenient to only have to copy a GIF, instead of having to manually save it in some folder, select upload image from computer, manually navigate to that folder, upload the GIF, open windows explorer, manually navigate to that GIF, delete that GIF.

Since 146.0 that no longer works on any site.

All you paste is a still image, taken the moment you right clicked the animated gif.

I am running Linux and updating firefox messed up many things on my computer -- the extent of which I have not yet determined. The main symptoms are my mouse goes spastic and my X Windows session goes rogue.

I was running an old version of firefox and updated to 142.0.1, I think, and that started all my problems. Successive updates to

       firefox-144.0.2.tar.xz,
       firefox-145.0.2.tar.xz, and
       firefox-145.0.tar.xz

have not solved the problems.

I have it change the number of work spaces in my panel workspace switcher, "roll up" any number of my windows, even those hidden, cause the buttons on the panel to not be responsive to clicks so I cannot log out, cause the mouse to jam up against the top of the screen and get stuck there, like the mouse is disconnected.

Other times it's like the keyboard is disconnected. I cannot type anything anywhere, especially in the terminal windows I have open where I can get focus on the terminal window, but the insertion point cursor is shadowed out like the window does not have focus. When this occurs, I can still close programs by clicking with the mouse on the "close" box in the upper-right corner of windows.

At this point, I can type ctrl-alt-F2 and get to an alternate console and log on as root. I have tried selectively killing processes, but the only thing this accomplishes is stopping my X session and leaving a black console screen. The only ways I have found to get back an X session logon is by executing "shutdown -h now" or "init 1" followed by "init 5".

Yesterday, after cold booting my Linux computer and logging on with only two terminal windows running, I started OpenOffice's spreadsheet program and my mouse pointer disappeared. I had to switch to a text console and restart my computer -- certainly something I never had to do before updating firefox.

I am running:

           libxfce4ui-4.12.1-3.el7.x86_64
         libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.x86_64
       xfce4-settings-4.12.1-1.el7.x86_64
xfce4-session-engines-4.12.1-8.el7.x86_64
          xfce4-panel-4.12.1-4.el7.x86_64

xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.5-2.el7.x86_64

             xfce-polkit-0.2-8.el7.x86_64
      xfce4-terminal-0.8.7.4-2.el7.x86_64
        xfce4-session-4.12.1-8.el7.x86_64
      xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0-4.el7.x86_64
   xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0-2.el7.x86_64

on:

     CentOS 7 with the 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 kernel

It appears I will have to reload my operating system and start over. I do know CentOS 7 is EOL and have been thinking about changing to Rocky Linux. I was happywith Red Hat Linux 5.11 and Gnome 2, which is what a secondary computer is running and have even thought of getting Gnome 2 sources and compiling them under a new version of the OS.

Any other suggestions to stop the wierd behavior to get a little more time out of my existing installation?

Thank you,

Craig

P.S. I am submitting this on a Windows 10 laptop since I now cannot trust my main computer.

I'm running FF on Windows v145.0.1 and navigate to...

    https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G18&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24

...and the animation doesn't work. This is a recent phenomenon. I have another computer in the office I've turned off FF updates (obvious reasons) and the animation works fine. It worked on my computer until recently. I'm so exhausted with FF updates that break things, it's getting as bad as Windows. I've run FF in troubleshoot mode, no good. I've added this primary domain to exceptions to enhanced tracking, no good. Nothing works so I assume it's Firefox (may not be). But v129.0.2 works fine, in this respect (streaming the animation loops of GOES West).

Does anyone know what configuration or setting I can explore to make this work again?  :-(

Thanks,

After the last Firefox update (146.0), my bookmarks bar only shows thumbnail images. The descriptive text which was previously black text on white back ground now appears to be white text on white background. (Whether my system is set to light theme or dark theme.) This happens on all of my Windows computers (both 10 and 11). How do I resolve this problem?

Firefox for Windows just updated to v146.0. Now I seem to have an extra bar under my toolbar and address panel. How do I remove it? I can't seem to drag it in the menu customiser.

I would like to convert to Thunderbird. I have a very extensive list of Tasks and ToDo items including many repeating tasks for clients. I would like to avoid reentering these in Thunderbird. I can get these into a spreadsheet from their current application.

Will Thunderbird allow me to import or upload tasks?

Is there a format or template available to assure I have complete data?

I have created a website related to food, restaurant menus, and nutrition tools: https://nutritioncalculators.net/ https://nutritioncalculators.net/ . Everything works fine on most browsers, but I’m facing some issues on Firefox. Specifically, some features, forms, and interactive tools don’t always load correctly or behave as expected.

For example, the nutrition calculator tools sometimes freeze or do not respond when I try to use them in Firefox. I want to make sure my website works smoothly for all users, including those using Firefox.

Can someone please guide me on what might be causing these issues and how to fix them so Firefox displays all features properly?

Certain PDFs only allow page view when opened in Firefox. When opened with other PDF viewing software or browsers (Microsoft Edge, Adobe Acrobat, Google Chrome), these PDFs allow continuous scrolling. I don't have this issue for most PDFs.

I've tried fixing the problem by editing the PDF settings in Adobe Acrobat but to no avail. When combining a PDF that works fine with a PDF that doesn't allow continuous scrolling in Firefox, it seems to take on the settings of not allowing continuous scrolling.

Examples (these link to documents from a Florida public document database): Example 1 (made with Power PDF Create) Example 2 (made with Adobe PDF Library): https://depedms.dep.state.fl.us:443/Oculus/servlet/shell?command=getEntity&[guid=5.506115.1]&[profile=Cleanup_Remediation]

Edit: Firefox 145.0.2, Windows 11

When the YouTube shorts tab is open, if I want to open another tab, it immediately starts scrolling. When a shorts show starts, I click the "plus" button and it immediately scrolls down. I hope you get the idea.

Can one remove the green dot update notification on pinned tabs without having to create an bespoke css file? Think some sites spoof this to get you to click on them.

I updated to version 146 today on Windows 10 and had to use administrator credentials. I have Mozilla Maintenance Service previously installed. I tried uninstalling MMS and then re-installed FF using full installer and selecting the custom option to install MMS. I cannot see the option in Settings..General 'Use a background service to install updates' (Screenshot attached) How can I fix this issue which has been present for some time?

Hello, I just updated to Firefox version 146, and now the bookmarks and history in the sidebar are no longer visible because the background is yellow-green and the text is white...so, invisible!

I hope you will fix this quickly with a new update, as it's a real problem.

Thank you in advance. Sincerely,

The last couple of weeks or so (as of 121025), using Firefox is very slow. Is this another Firefox update issue, or Microsoft update issue, Norton update issue or a combination of different updates that aren't working together as has happened many times over the last few years.

Any known solutions to this new problem?

Thanks

Ron