When Firefox loads up it calls out to sites, how do I stop that?
I'm using Firefox 68.0, 64 bit, on Win 10 Pro. When I load up Firefox it takes a while (with a lot of disk activity) to load up. Maybe a minute or so at present, (it was… (læs mere)
I'm using Firefox 68.0, 64 bit, on Win 10 Pro.
When I load up Firefox it takes a while (with a lot of disk activity) to load up. Maybe a minute or so at present, (it was longer until I manually cleared out extravagant amounts of data stored by sites that shouldn't have it).
When looking at the Manage Data functionality under the Privacy settings today, I saw that a large number of sites has their "last used" time marked as "3 minutes ago" which corresponded to the time Firefox was started up.
I looked through the sites involved. Over a hundred of them. Mostly sites that I haven't used for a long time, and not sites that the open pages have any links to (in other words these are not legitimate pre-fetches).
I manually selected the appropriate sites and removed cookies and data.
What is happening?
What default site setting/s can I use to prevent this sort of thing in future (on start-up)?
How do I programmatically access the "Manage Data" functionality? (I'd like to check sites what have gotten onto Firefox, how many cookies they have, how much data space they occupy, when last accessed, and remove their data should I wish. I don't want to do this repeatedly every few days, by hand.)
I've attached an image of the Manage Data screen taken about an hour after Firefox started, to illustrate.
Thanks.
Firefox
New computer. Urls will not autofill. Help please!
I've read every tutorial and tried everything. My old computer was Windows 7. I now have Windows 10. I don't know if that matters. But it's really irritating that the… (læs mere)
I've read every tutorial and tried everything. My old computer was Windows 7. I now have Windows 10. I don't know if that matters. But it's really irritating that the address bar will not autofill the urls. I don't know how to fix it.
Thank you!
How do I stop Firefox from auto adding websites to Bookmarks even if that page isn't open?
I have 6 websites that automatically add the sites to my bookmarks, even when I am not on the site. I went there once and somehow they are populating my bookmarks with 1… (læs mere)
I have 6 websites that automatically add the sites to my bookmarks, even when I am not on the site. I went there once and somehow they are populating my bookmarks with 100s of each site. Also, my folders are being duplicated. The attached image shows a sample of my bookmarks. When I set my mouse on the down arrow to scroll to the end, it takes 115 seconds to roll to the end at about 3 seconds per 40-line page scrolled. Current rough estimate is over 1600 bookmark/folder items. I went thru the editing 2 weeks ago, removing all unwanted bookmarks & folders.
How to stop webpage from loading information
Hi, I'm encountering a lot of lag in Firefox. Websites are loading incredibly slow, mostly after the information actually loads. I'm looking for an option to disconnect a… (læs mere)
Hi, I'm encountering a lot of lag in Firefox. Websites are loading incredibly slow, mostly after the information actually loads. I'm looking for an option to disconnect access to the internet for a webpage.
For example, Linkedin is the main contributor of this lag. It loads the visual webpage I see, then it loads a lot of information in the background. Until it finishes this background loading, I can't select any text. I'm looking for the option to stop this background loading. Something "stronger" than the button in the top left, where the refresh button is. I want to stop the webpage from being able to access the internet, is this possible?
USBank printing Payment Confirmation pages not printing correctly. IE works fine. Started beginning of June. How do I fix this?
The USBank Payment Confirmation page has a print button. Using the print button used to print looking the same as the online screen, up until about the beginning of June,… (læs mere)
The USBank Payment Confirmation page has a print button. Using the print button used to print looking the same as the online screen, up until about the beginning of June, now it prints two lines for each online screen (ex: "Fees: No Fee" prints Fees: on one line and No Fee on the next line). Using IE instead of Firefox prints just fine. Also 70% or 100% printing makes no difference. Scaling is automatic.
Missing search icons
After the last update, almost all of the icons for my search engines in the search bar are missing. I have to remember which blank box Amazon was in so I can click on tha… (læs mere)
After the last update, almost all of the icons for my search engines in the search bar are missing. I have to remember which blank box Amazon was in so I can click on that box to get to Amazon. The IMDb icon for some reason is still in its box. How do I get the icons back so I don't have to guess every time I need to find something? I've rebooted, removed and replaced the search box, but nothing works.
Google websites unresponsive on Firefox (gmail, drive, maps...). Pictures/clip art don't load. Click sensitivity offline.
"Next" button unresponsive on any Google login page. No icons on google maps. No response to click.
PDF search results are hard to see
When searching for words and phrases in PDFs, the results are very hard to notice on the screen! Sometimes I have the page quite zoomed out, and in this case today I have… (læs mere)
When searching for words and phrases in PDFs, the results are very hard to notice on the screen! Sometimes I have the page quite zoomed out, and in this case today I have 2-page spreads, so the words are quite small. The found-text highlight colour is a very pale blue, and is only as big as the word.
I would like to see, and so suggest, something along these lines:
- a brighter result highlight, more vibrant and contrasting than pale blue (this could be customisable & maybe themable too)
- a border around the result, or at least an oversized highlighted region
- an eye-catching animation to draw your vision towards the search result, such as a pulse in scale, or a large box fading in and shrinking to wrap around the result.
This is very simple to reproduce to check what I am saying, if you haven't already noticed this! Just open a document with many pages and columns and images, zoom out and choose one of the page spread options, and then Ctrl+F search for a word.
Thank you for reading, I hope this can be relayed to the right people!
Can't drag new tab and maximise window in one go? (Windows 10)
I use an ultrwide monitor so I often view two webpages side by side, now for exmaple if I snap firefox to the right side of my screen it works fine, but I can't then drag… (læs mere)
I use an ultrwide monitor so I often view two webpages side by side, now for exmaple if I snap firefox to the right side of my screen it works fine, but I can't then drag out a tab and snap it to the left side of my screen and maximise the space in one go, in Windows 7 this used to work.
In windows 10 you have to drag out the tab, then drag and snap to maximise the space fully, in chrome for example it works in one go, just drag the tab and snap, maximise in one go.
firefox can't resize browser
68.0.1 (64-bit) Windows 10 Laptop Had this issue for a few days This worked fine in the past. All my settings in W10 allow snap / resize. Use Windows logo button + arrow … (læs mere)
68.0.1 (64-bit) Windows 10 Laptop Had this issue for a few days
This worked fine in the past. All my settings in W10 allow snap / resize.
Use Windows logo button + arrow keys (left / right) to resize / snap windows quickly. This doesn't work for firefox. All other apps, including Chrome works fine.
Also, I can't manually stretch the browser borders. It's frozen.
Problem: What can I do about my latest sync failure in Firefox 68.0.1 Stable? (July 19th, 2019)
Here's the sync log. I encourage you to comment on both the Google Doc and on this support forum post as to what I can do about it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9… (læs mere)
Here's the sync log. I encourage you to comment on both the Google Doc and on this support forum post as to what I can do about it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9Vr9zwQhLZXYf5cCSR54r4dyNvzzL9rPekBZM4QTS0/edit?usp=sharing
Suggestion: I'd love to be able to add bookmarks separately to a "Bookmarks Page", aside from the menu, toolbar, and other bookmarks (July 19th, 2019)
This would make a great official Firefox Add-on that I'd install on day one and link to my Firefox Sync account just like I did with Mozilla Support right before I posted… (læs mere)
This would make a great official Firefox Add-on that I'd install on day one and link to my Firefox Sync account just like I did with Mozilla Support right before I posted this suggestion. It's easy to lose track of all the important bookmarks in the three places I can have all my bookmarks in Firefox now: the toolbar, menu and other bookmarks. I'd add sites like routeoneapparel.com and ourstatestore.com to it since I love giving gifts to my friends and family for no special ocassion as often as I can, to let them know they're very often on my mind!
Firefox 68.0.1 YouTube HDR problem
Firefox 68 thinks that I have an HDR equipment and I have to watch HDR versions of differnet youtube videos instead of SDR. Video links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h… (læs mere)
Firefox 68 thinks that I have an HDR equipment and I have to watch HDR versions of differnet youtube videos instead of SDR.
Video links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvEISFw9w0&t=111s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVwkyn3-F8&t=131s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYjApop7Mk&t=8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHUOCxVT5ro&t=23s
This is an example, this glitch happens with every HDR bt2020 video. Edge and Chrome show SRD versions of videos as it should be.
This is Youtube info in Firefox 68.0.1: Codecs vp09.02.51.10.01.09.16.09 (337) / opus (251) Color smpte2084 (PQ) / bt2020
And this is youtube info for Edge: Codecs vp9 (272) / opus (251) Color bt709 / bt709
As you can see - different color profiles. I have no HDR monitor. Windows 10 HDR settings are grayed out. I have tested Firefox 68.0.1 on Windows 7 with old and slow NVIDIA card and on Windows 7 with middle-level AMD Radeon. Results are the same: Firefox shows HDR versions of the videos.
Btw: the problem in gone if I use Firefox 67.0.4. But problem remains in current Firefox Beta and Nightly. Also I have faced this problem in Firefox 68 for Android: it forces me to watch HDR versions of videos, while my smartprone has SDR screen. I ve got latest video drivers for my GTX1060_6GB. I have cleared profile, cleared cache, reinstalled Firefox, ran Firefox in safe mode. Nothing helped. I still forced to watch HDR videos on SDR equipment.
help in understanding upcoming improved tracking protection
Hi, according to this news https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/ mozilla is going to block third-pa… (læs mere)
Hi, according to this news https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/
mozilla is going to block third-party tracking cookies by default (based on a blacklist). I don't understand the difference between the "trackers" and "cookies" -> "third party trackers" option in the firefox settings. The news tells me that "just" the cookie option will be enabled by default, meaning that the trackers are still loaded.
Lets talk about the effects in case of google analytics? When I activate the tracker-block option or use adblock, I will get errors in the developer console (or in add ons) that google analytics isn't found/loaded. When I activate the upcoming third party tracker cookie option I DON'T get this message - so analytics is still executed. Isn't analytics simply not working anymore at all because it is using its cookies OR are there only SOME functions of analytics that will not work anymore?
Could anyone clarfiy this for me?
I have retrieved some windows and folders but they get blocked by OpenDNS.
I try to open a site and get my access blocked by OpenDNS even though the pages are innocuous. I am the administrator of my own self. How can I remove unacceptable blocki… (læs mere)
I try to open a site and get my access blocked by OpenDNS even though the pages are innocuous. I am the administrator of my own self. How can I remove unacceptable blocking.
Disable Ctrl-N Shortcut
I have a user that needs ctrl-n to be 'freed from Firefox. She needs to use that shortcut for a web-based application and every time she uses that shortcut a new tab open… (læs mere)
I have a user that needs ctrl-n to be 'freed from Firefox. She needs to use that shortcut for a web-based application and every time she uses that shortcut a new tab opens instead of applying the shortcut to the application. I have combed the shortcuts and the about:config page with no luck. Do you know of a way to unbind ctrl-n or disable it completely from Firefox?
Top sites not displaying in new tab, Settings wheel not present
I have (or had) several sites pinned so that they would always appear when I opened a new tab. I use them like bookmarks. Rather than add them to the bookmarks bar, I kee… (læs mere)
I have (or had) several sites pinned so that they would always appear when I opened a new tab. I use them like bookmarks. Rather than add them to the bookmarks bar, I keep them there so I don't have to expand the tool bar menu and can see everything at once. Unfortunately, all the tiles on my new tab page are now missing, and there is also no cogwheel present where I can adjust the settings. I did not have Firefox sync before but recently turned it on. However, the tiles were still there initially after I signed in. They didn't disappear until the next day. Any ideas how I can fix this? Thank you!
How do I give an app (such as Zoom) mic permission? How do I get a missed permission dialog box back?
The dialog box to give Zoom (for example) mic permission disappears before I can say yes. Is there a way to give Zoom permission before the app starts? If not, how do I… (læs mere)
The dialog box to give Zoom (for example) mic permission disappears before I can say yes. Is there a way to give Zoom permission before the app starts? If not, how do I get the dialog box back? Zoom is not a website so I'm not sure that going to Options/Permissions will work (but obviously I need to be in a live Zoom session to check this out). And, since I have never been able to give Zoom mic permission, I have not been able to use it - but I need to for an upcoming medical appointment in 3 days. If I give Zoom permission once will that be permanent? Thanks in advance for your help!
How to restore an earlier session even though I have clicked on Start New Session by mistake Is the earlier one lost? If not how to retrieve it?
After a crash, I clicked on Start New Session by mistake, instead of Restore Previous session. As a result I lost all my widows and tabs. If I click restore session now, … (læs mere)
After a crash, I clicked on Start New Session by mistake, instead of Restore Previous session. As a result I lost all my widows and tabs. If I click restore session now, I only get my default page window and nothing else.Very frustrating. What can be done?
Tab overview like in mobile version
Is it possible to get a tab overview in the Firefox desktop version like in the mobile version in iOS?