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When I click on NY Times link, I get this message: You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. I'm just an old guy with a low tolerance level for tech glitches. Any help greatly appreciated!

I called NYT Support, which tells me it must be a Firefox issue since I can open in Chrome, Safari. I thought it might because I have the Enhanced Tracking Protection box checked, but unchecking does nothing.

Out of ideas.

Sometimes, when another application displays a window in the same display area as the Firefox browser window, Firefox will reassert itself as the front-most focused window. I can try clicking on the other app in the dock, or use Exposé to re-select the other app, but Firefox will just reassert itself again. I have to minimize Firefox in order to interact with the other app that's being covered.

Firefox is not in full-screen mode, just in regular window mode.

1. Downloaded the latest GIMP Version 3.0.4 from the Gimp Homepage.

2. Opened the "Download" Icon after download was completed and clicked the downloaded file "gimp-3.0.4-setup.exe".

3. Received the message "This version of GIMP requires Windows 10, or a newer version of Windows."

4. Opened the Windows "Downloads" folder directly.

5. Clicked the file "gimp-3.0.4-setup.exe." directly.

6. The app installed without an error.

Tried this a few times and the error message only appears when the exe-file is clicked from within the Firefox "Download" Icon

Checked in the properties of the exe-file and no "Compatibility mode" is set.

I am running Forefox Version 128.12.0esr (64-bit) on a Windows 11 Pro Version 23H2 desktop PC.

I successfully built Firefox v135 from source for the RISC-V architecture and created a .deb package. After installing the package, Firefox launches correctly, but performance is significantly degraded—especially during video playback, where it becomes very laggy.

Upon inspecting about:support, I noticed that under the "Compositing" section, it shows WebRender (software), and CPU usage is extremely high. Additionally, WebGL 1 and WebGL 2 are not available, despite the presence of a dedicated GPU Hardware and its driver.

During the build process, Firefox required LLVM v14 as a dependency. It appears that this setup defaults to using LLVMpipe, which results in software rendering and prevents the OpenGLES driver from being utilized, leading to the fallback to software WebRender.

In contrast, I tested another .deb package of Firefox built specifically for the VisionFive2 (JH7110) board. In that case, the "Compositing" section correctly shows WebRender (without the "software" tag), and both WebGL 1 and WebGL 2 are available, indicating proper GPU Hardware acceleration.

Could anyone guide me on how to enable hardware-accelerated WebRender and ensure that Firefox uses the GPU instead of falling back to software rendering?

Please find the "about:support" page in the attached Troubleshooting Information.xhtml file. Kindly do let us know if there's any further information needed.

Thanks in advance, Saiteja

I am in a nursing home and so have no control of our connectivity other than to complain to the administrator and or maintenance person. The connection keeps dropping our every few minutes. I have installed 80GB of RAM. On my Windows installation the computer seems to be able to buffer an hour or more of data so these continual drop-outs are no longer an issue. Here on Linux Mint the computer seems to know nothing about buffering, or at least I have not found a way to point to this wonderful 80GB of RAM. Can you point me to a way to access this buffer for the smooth operation of YouTube videos. Thank You, Br. Elias.

the current update with "do-full everyday tasks"; "search" and "find.." is really ingenious! The button "actions" shown in the introduction cannot be found or set with help. ANd, for example "@manage themes" in adress-line doesn't work.....

Hello, I have just upgraded to windows 11. On firefox I used to be able to right mouse click on the firefox icon in the taskbar to select my saved saved (Pinned) websites. In the past with Windows 10 I right mouse clicked on the url of favorite websites then drag and drop on the firefox icon in the taskbar and that was it. On Windows 11 that no longer works. How do I pin my favorite websites to the firefox icon in the taskbar on Windows 11? I thank anyone for your help.

I lost all my bookmarks with the most recent update of Firefox. And now, it won't even let me bookmark anything. It just doesn't respond at all. I have an html of an older version of my bookmarks and was just going to re-populate my bookmarks, but that doesn't work. Plus, when I try and see my download history... nothing there either.

When assigning a URL to the mediaplayer object it started appending the current path to the URL. Did not do that in prior version. You can see it automatically puts the current browsing URL and then the URL that is assigned. So the file will not load. GET https://www.swingtechnologies.com/https://www.swingtechnologies.com/UploadVideos/clarkj@pobox.com/S200629_019 A.mp4 [HTTP/2 404 8ms]

allow audio and video is preset as the default, however, it is still muted. when you got to mute audio it won't play the video, and no audio/video seems to be working fine, I've followed all the guides, tried everywhere I'm aware of in firefox and nothing seems to work

Several years ago I made the mistake of committing myself to using Firefox and naturally I have had shitloads of problems ever since. Today I boot my computer and launch FF and it asks me if I want to "refresh for a new experience". I'm not an inbred retard so I declined. Now all my addons are gone. How the hell do I fix this? Please don't tell me "in the future use such and such addon to fix it when Firefox deliberately fucks up your addons". Thanks.

Hi I have mozilla running as primary for my imac and my 2007 macbook pro that is dying. I've just got a macbook air to replace the macbook.

The imac and macbook pro share th account and passwords just fine. I try to put the correct password into the air, it says incorrect password.

Fine. I do a whole 2 step authentication for resetting the password. Sign in on air. Now macbook pro is saying incorrect password. Fine. Put the same password in, it now says incorrect password.

Every time I change the password on the account, one of ht computers accepts it, the other does not.

I realy just need 2007 to work long enough to get the junk I need off it, and then it will be retired. Fine. But I cannot get the macs to all agree that the password for mozilla is the password-- even tho it's the correct password, says incorrect.

I haven't checked the imac, but knowing my luck it will now say i'm logged out cos incorrect password.

All I want is to sync the mozilla account for all three computers (before I reset this 2007 one and then recycle it).

Help would be appreciated for this luddite. thank you!

disable google sign in pop-up when in firefox, WIN 10. I do have Google set as home page but never sign -in I installed ublock orgin and applied this filter Did NOT work (accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p) Suggestions?

I have Sequoia 15.5 on a 2021 MacBook Pro and have always used FF as my browser. Now, I can't get it to do much more than open. Nothing new happened that I know about, except updates to "Malwarebytes" I have some computer knowledge but not a lot. TIA.

The Atlantic.com site says: as below, this was not the case in the past. Similarly with the NY Times I did not have this problem before I went on vacation on 10 June. Neither tech support can help. This problem does not occur if I use EDGE

Why have I been blocked?

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

For the NY Times site, I get the following for some but not all articlesarticles

You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. Why am I seeing this? There are a few possibilities:

   You are browsing and clicking much faster than is typical of a human being
   Something is preventing Javascript from working on your computer
   There is a bot with the same IP address as you

I've been trying to play multiple videos at once, but when I pause one, it pauses all of them, and vice-versa. I'm not sure if this is a settings or config issue. I've tried disabling all extensions, and the issue persists. It's frustrating having the background music pause every time I have to pause a lecture to write some notes down.