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Where can I get Firefox 52.9.0? There was a list of old versions here but now I can't find it. I found https://download2.portableapps.com/portableapps/FirefoxPortableLegacy52/FirefoxPortableLegacy52_52.9.0_English.paf.exe I really did not want the portable version but avast considers it a threat so it may not be genuine.

Hi, when I log into my bank I give my account number and then a password. I have told firefox not to remember my password but it is remembering the bank account number which automatically pops up when I am on the banks log in page. How do I stop this? Also when I signed up for this firefox help it asked for an email address and all my email addresses poped up for me to chose from. I didn't like this either. Appreciate any help. If these features can't be turned off whats the last version I can use that won't do this? cheers Neil

If I key a search term into the browser bar and hit enter it begins searching. About 95% of the time nothing happens. No message. I just notice the 'x' to stop the search is gone, and a 'retry' circle replaces it.

This has been going on for months. I have used firefox for years. I have renewed it, replaced it, removed all addons, accepted updates usually each day. stopped accepting updates. Refreshing, renewing, seems to help for a couple minutes. Deleting all history helped...maybe. I am on satellite internet. Also use chrome. Most of the time now, After I key a query in firefox, I switch to chrome and do the same query while waiting. Chrome works. Just doesn't have all my passwords and sites yet.

I am on windows 7 home premium. I have an AMD FX 6100 6-core CPU running at 3.3 Ghz. I have 8 gigs of RAM. I am not overclocking. I use Avast antivirus. A few months ago I bought the avast cleanup tool which was a massive mistake, I had already done all the things it wanted to try, it is just a nuisance. In settings, I have a message that says firefox is managed by my organization. I wish I could get rid of that. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance.

Hi, this site when trying to login keeps looping, it has only happened recently and I've cleared cookies and disabled all the addons for it, the site works, but when trying to login it loops https://www.nexusmods.com and says in the loop-

users.nexusmods.com

Checking if the site connection is secure users.nexusmods.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

even tried in private browsing, cannot use any other web browser. Please help thanks.

When I load Chargehub.com into Firefox I should be able to see icons for electric vehicle charging stations plus a menu for such things as plug filters.

However, although the chargehub site loads with a Google map (after selecting Map) I don't get the EV charging station icons or menu. I do get POI icons such as for airfields, cemeteries, parks, churches, etc only when fully zoomed in. The Google zoom symbols and street map view options are also available.

I have not experienced this issue on any other WEB site including Plugshare or Chargemap. Further, when I open Google maps in Firefox and do the search, "ev charging stations in ontario canada", i do see the icons for charging stations.

I am running Windows 7 with Firefox version 107.01 on a desktop computer. Adblock and uBlock origin are installed. However I have the same results when running Firefox in safemode.

I do understand that Microsoft no longer supports Windows 7. However, my son is also running Windows 7 on his desktop computer, yet chargehub opens properly on his computer when using Firefox as his browser.

I've tried searching the WEB for an answer but no success so far.

Thank you in advance for any help.

My Firefox is up-to-date (107.0.1), and it was working fine for some time but suddenly websites started to unload or partially load and so slow. I thought it was a connection problem but then I realized things work fine with Chrome (which I'm using now to type this). I checked the help articles about the possibility of being blocked by a firewall or anti-virus, and I did add Firefox in the exceptions for both, and I made many reboots, and still Fiirefox is not working and not loading the pages quickly (if at all). I even reduced the security level in Firefox settings and picked the "No Proxy" option, and disabled my anti-virus (Avast) completely, but nothing works at all. It was fine just yesterday.

I use Win7 64bit

Tips please? Thanks.

tell me whether i can find a window i closed today having multiple tabs, using "history" and recently closed tabs/windows (both). i especially want to be able to restore the tab for Institute for the Study of War and its companions. i hope you are warm and rested.

to do my regular research, i have lost three or four (or more) windows with multiple tabs, as a result of my reorganizing tabs. i think of each window with one of its tabs, so these would be, "Emma Loop" (which includes all federal court districts tabs and related info); "Kyle Griffin" (which includes various journalist/news tabs); "emptywheel" (which includes various journalist/news tabs); and other such similar windows whose name ID i don't remember.

restore scares me because it will apply to bookmarks.

i recently began migrating from twitter to mastadon, and wanted to add my regular tabs to mastadon. i moved tabs to keep track, but it seems the tab's parent windows disappeared. i cannot be more clear, because i had a total of about 15 windows with multiple tabs EACH. i regularly exited the program to install updates and because of my settings, all the windows/tabs were saved correctly. this is a great feature.

it takes time to create a window with multiple tabs, and i don't have much of a brain, so it's hard for me to learn new stuff. maybe we can work together to clarify what i need. i just want my "lost" windows/tabs to return to the others so i can continue going forward. i blame this guy - the "new twitter owner" - who has even made changes to UKRAINIANS' account performances. thank you.

Dear sirs,

I've got the latest English (US) version of Firefox 108.0 from this website. The problem is with Windows crashing in few seconds after Firefox is launched. Although this trouble appeared yesterday (maybe after the automatic update of FF - I'm not sure).

Please advise any solution ASAP!

Windows 7 Home Extended SP1 64-bit. Now I'm using another browser to write this message.

I updated to new version 108.0.1 (64-bit) and found: icons for my extensions disappeared. Extensions exists and turned on, but toolbar don't show them. How can I restore them?

Radmir.

I can't for the life of me understand what is going on with my browser. Everytime I try to watch a video that I have purchased I get this error message:

"Firefox is installing components needed to play the audio or video on this page. Please try again later."

I have tried searching for a solution but no avail. I have disabled and re-enabled DRM, bit it was a no go. I tried re-downloading firefox, still had the same issue. I created a new profile, still won't work! I have been searching for solutions constantly and tried so many but none seem to work. Finally someone suggested that I check my extensions and App data and I saw a sign that said:

"widevine decryption module provided by google inc. will be installed shortly"

but it has been almost a day and it still hasn't been installed. In advanced preferences I looked up widevine and saw this:

media.gmp-widevinecdm.autoupdate true media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled true media.gmp-widevinecdm.lastDownloadFailReason Error: Failed downloading via ServiceRequest, status: 0, reason: error media.gmp-widevinecdm.lastDownloadFailed 1671609470 media.gmp-widevinecdm.lastInstallStart 1671609449 media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible true

Is the problem with my computer or internet?

I am under a disaster with todays mess of firefox, even on chrome now to try here to get some help. I am having to redo my pc OS etc and I am needing to swap over my app data to the temporary backup pc. I know how to do that but it won't even let me start firefox as it is an older version. I install a newer version and that is one of the new version disasters I hate. I have no time to figure out how to make it look to where it is usable. I got the old pc running and found the version it had. I install that, which is an esr but it still gives me the same problem. I need my firefox working so I can use it with my original tabs and bookmarks. Or you can be like some and tell me to just go elsewhere as a fix for the mess which is todays firefox. I used to have about zero of these kind of problems. How do I get myself to my original setup on the temp pc?

I had two Firefox windows open. One had 100+ tabs open, the other had around 5 open. Like a klutz I accidentally closed the window with the 100+ tabs open instead of the other window. Now when Firefox restarts it opens the version with the 5 tabs.  :-( I read about lost tabs in Firefox. I have found a file with the 100+ tabs in it. It is called: upgrade.jsonlz4-20221007134813. But what do I do next to restore Firefox to restart with the 100+ tabs version? Thanks.

Firefox began returning a PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR error on all websites a few days ago. Chrome likewise. MIcrosoft Edge is working fine. I am running Windows 7 with Kaspersky. I tried turning off the Windows Firewall and the Kaspersky protection, but it didn't help. I also tried disabling plugins, theme, and add-ons but it still didn't help. Any suggestions?

I have noticed for awhile now that when I load my Firefox homepage its keeps taking longer, certainly longer than it used to take. Also, when I load a You-tube video it takes about a minute for things to work properly. The video and audio are erratic and skipping and simply disjointed for about the first minute, but then after that period of time the You-tube video runs OK, both audio and video. Something seems to be causing those problems recently that I didn't have previously. The problem seems to just keep getting worse also. I would appreciate any input and suggestions that may help the problem. Thank you.

I am using Firefox 108.0.2(32bit) on a Windows 7 computer. Within the last three weeks two sites Menards.com & aarp.org have become blocked by security rules: Menards by Incapsula & AARP by Imperva. All other websites I currently visit work fine as did these before. I've cleared cache and cookies and "forget these websites" in history. This solves the problem for the first page on Menards.com but any link-click and the problem returns. This also cleared the AARP website but I cannot log in to my account there nor access some of the other clickable links. I can access these websites fine on other computers on this network using Firefox. This computer will access those two sites using the portable chrome browser but not the installed Tor browser. This computer will not access these sites using a VPN or with AVG disabled. I've toggled a few DNS and HTTP settings with no effects. For a year, the only thing I noticed different from this computers and the others is that this one continues to allow Java to be updated whereas the others are unable to download its update. Could that be the problem? Why these are the only two websites that seem to be affected is the baffling part. Menards has thanked me but has not gotten back and AARP wants me to reinstall my operating system. Thanks for any help you may suggest.

Well this happened after a Firefox Update with that i also suspect that using a User.js can aslo cause it would you like to look for the problem pls.

```js // /* You may copy+paste this file and use it as it is.

*
* If you make changes to your about:config while the program is running, the
* changes will be overwritten by the user.js when the application restarts.
*
* To make lasting changes to preferences, you will have to edit the user.js.
*/

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* Betterfox                                                                *
* "Ad meliora"                                                             *
* version: 107a1                                                           *
* url: https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox                              *

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/** TRACKING PROTECTION ***/ user_pref("browser.contentblocking.category", "strict"); user_pref("privacy.trackingprotection.emailtracking.enabled", true); user_pref("urlclassifier.trackingSkipURLs", "*.reddit.com, *.twitter.com, *.twimg.com, *.tiktok.com"); user_pref("urlclassifier.features.socialtracking.skipURLs", "*.instagram.com, *.twitter.com, *.twimg.com"); user_pref("privacy.partition.always_partition_third_party_non_cookie_storage", true); user_pref("privacy.partition.always_partition_third_party_non_cookie_storage.exempt_sessionstorage", false); user_pref("beacon.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.uitour.enabled", false);

/** OCSP & CERTS / HPKP ***/ user_pref("security.OCSP.enabled", 0); user_pref("security.remote_settings.crlite_filters.enabled", true); user_pref("security.pki.crlite_mode", 2); user_pref("security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level", 2);

/** SSL / TLS ***/ user_pref("security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken", true); user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert", true); user_pref("security.tls.enable_0rtt_data", false);

/** FONTS***/ user_pref("layout.css.font-visibility.private", 1); user_pref("layout.css.font-visibility.trackingprotection", 1);

/** RFP ***/ user_pref("browser.startup.blankWindow", false); user_pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", false);

/** DISK AVOIDANCE ***/ user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false); user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.forceMediaMemoryCache", true); user_pref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level", 2); user_pref("browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit", true); user_pref("browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled", true);

/** SHUTDOWN & SANITIZING ***/ user_pref("privacy.history.custom", true);

/** SPECULATIVE CONNECTIONS ***/ user_pref("network.http.speculative-parallel-limit", 0); user_pref("network.dns.disablePrefetch", true); user_pref("browser.urlbar.speculativeConnect.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.places.speculativeConnect.enabled", false); user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false); user_pref("network.predictor.enabled", false); user_pref("network.predictor.enable-prefetch", false);

/** SEARCH / URL BAR ***/ user_pref("browser.search.separatePrivateDefault.ui.enabled", true); user_pref("browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh", true); user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored", false); user_pref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true);

/** HTTPS-ONLY MODE ***/ user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode", true); user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode_error_page_user_suggestions", true);

/** DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH) ***/ user_pref("network.dns.skipTRR-when-parental-control-enabled", false);

/** PROXY / SOCKS / IPv6 ***/ user_pref("network.proxy.socks_remote_dns", true); user_pref("network.file.disable_unc_paths", true); user_pref("network.gio.supported-protocols", "");

/** PASSWORDS AND AUTOFILL user_pref("signon.formlessCapture.enabled", false); user_pref("signon.privateBrowsingCapture.enabled", false); user_pref("signon.autofillForms", false); user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false); user_pref("editor.truncate_user_pastes", false); ***/

/** ADDRESS + CREDIT CARD MANAGER ***/ user_pref("extensions.formautofill.addresses.enabled", false); user_pref("extensions.formautofill.creditCards.enabled", false); user_pref("extensions.formautofill.heuristics.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.formfill.enable", false);

/** MIXED CONTENT + CROSS-SITE ***/ user_pref("network.auth.subresource-http-auth-allow", 1); user_pref("pdfjs.enableScripting", false); user_pref("extensions.postDownloadThirdPartyPrompt", false); user_pref("permissions.delegation.enabled", false);

/** HEADERS / REFERERS ***/ user_pref("network.http.referer.XOriginTrimmingPolicy", 2);

/** CONTAINERS ***/ user_pref("privacy.userContext.ui.enabled", true);

/** WEBRTC ***/ user_pref("media.peerconnection.ice.proxy_only_if_behind_proxy", true); user_pref("media.peerconnection.ice.default_address_only", true);

/** GOOGLE SAFE BROWSING ***/ user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_potentially_unwanted", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_uncommon", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.blockedURIs.enabled", false);

/** MOZILLA ***/ user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.firefox-view", false); user_pref("dom.push.enabled", false); user_pref("permissions.default.desktop-notification", 2); user_pref("permissions.default.geo", 2); user_pref("geo.provider.network.url", "https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=%MOZILLA_API_KEY%"); user_pref("geo.provider.ms-windows-location", false); // WINDOWS user_pref("geo.provider.use_corelocation", false); // MAC user_pref("geo.provider.use_gpsd", false); // LINUX user_pref("geo.provider.use_geoclue", false); // LINUX user_pref("browser.region.update.enabled", false); user_pref("permissions.manager.defaultsUrl", ""); user_pref("webchannel.allowObject.urlWhitelist", "");

/** TELEMETRY ***/ user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.unified", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.server", "data:,"); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled", false); user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out", true); user_pref("toolkit.coverage.opt-out", true); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false); user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.discovery.enabled", false); user_pref("breakpad.reportURL", ""); user_pref("browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport", false); user_pref("browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2", false); user_pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", ""); user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false); user_pref("network.connectivity-service.enabled", false); user_pref("default-browser-agent.enabled", false); user_pref("app.normandy.enabled", false); user_pref("app.normandy.api_url", ""); user_pref("browser.ping-centre.telemetry", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry", false);

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* SECTION: PESKYFOX                                                        *

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/** MOZILLA UI ***/ user_pref("layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override", 2); user_pref("toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets", true); user_pref("app.update.suppressPrompts", true); user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1); user_pref("browser.compactmode.show", true); user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl", ""); user_pref("extensions.getAddons.showPane", false); user_pref("extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.addons", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.features", false); user_pref("browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.aboutwelcome.enabled", false); user_pref("findbar.highlightAll", true); user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false); user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.enable-new-indicator", false);

/** FULLSCREEN ***/ user_pref("full-screen-api.transition-duration.enter", "0 0"); user_pref("full-screen-api.transition-duration.leave", "0 0"); user_pref("full-screen-api.warning.delay", 0); user_pref("full-screen-api.warning.timeout", 0);

/** URL BAR ***/ user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.engines", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites", false); user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator", true); user_pref("browser.urlbar.unitConversion.enabled", true);

/** NEW TAB PAGE ***/ user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories", false);

/*** POCKET ***/ user_pref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false);

/** DOWNLOADS ***/ user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false); user_pref("browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel", false); user_pref("browser.download.manager.addToRecentDocs", false); user_pref("browser.download.always_ask_before_handling_new_types", true);

/** PDF ***/ user_pref("browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline", true);

/** TAB BEHAVIOR ***/ user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 0); user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true); user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs", true); user_pref("browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu", false); user_pref("clipboard.plainTextOnly", true); user_pref("dom.popup_allowed_events", "click dblclick"); user_pref("layout.css.has-selector.enabled", true);

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* SECTION: FASTFOX                                                         *

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user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay_in_oopif", 0); user_pref("browser.startup.preXulSkeletonUI", false);

/** EXPERIMENTAL ***/ user_pref("layout.css.grid-template-masonry-value.enabled", true); user_pref("dom.enable_web_task_scheduling", true); user_pref("layout.css.animation-composition.enabled", true);

/** NETWORK ***/ user_pref("network.ssl_tokens_cache_capacity", 32768); user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 20000); user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600); user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod", 240); user_pref("network.buffer.cache.size", 262144); user_pref("network.buffer.cache.count", 128);

/** GFX ***/ user_pref("gfx.webrender.all", true); user_pref("gfx.webrender.precache-shaders", true); user_pref("gfx.webrender.compositor", true); user_pref("gfx.canvas.accelerated", true); user_pref("gfx.canvas.accelerated.cache-items", 32768); user_pref("gfx.canvas.accelerated.cache-size", 4096); user_pref("gfx.content.skia-font-cache-size", 80); user_pref("image.cache.size", 10485760); user_pref("image.mem.decode_bytes_at_a_time", 131072); user_pref("image.mem.shared.unmap.min_expiration_ms", 120000); user_pref("layers.gpu-process.enabled", true); user_pref("media.memory_cache_max_size", 1048576); user_pref("media.memory_caches_combined_limit_kb", 2560000); user_pref("media.cache_size", 2048000); user_pref("media.cache_readahead_limit", 9000); user_pref("media.cache_resume_threshold", 6000);

/** CACHE ***/ user_pref("browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size", 153600);

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* SECTION: SMOOTHFOX                                                       *

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// see https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/master/Smoothfox.js // Enter your scrolling prefs below this line: // recommended for 60hz displays user_pref("general.smoothScroll", true); // DEFAULT user_pref("mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y", 275); // 250-500 /****************************************************************************

* START: MY OVERRIDES                                                      *

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// Enter your personal prefs below this line:

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* END: BETTERFOX                                                           *

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