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Some background: Firefox (and many other apps) were running fine, then late yesterday afternoon (but I haven't had time to look at it until now) my laptop started swapping heavily, and after waiting for some time for it to become usable, I gave up and held the power-button down for long enough to make the computer turn off. Then I waited some seconds and pressed the button to turn it back on. Things seem to work, except that firefox won't start normally.

What happens now: When I start it by executing `firefox-esr` from a terminal, it dies (the terminal just displays "zsh: killed firefox-esr"), if I then try to start it again, it open a dialog saying the was some problem (didn't note down what it said precisely) and that I could start it in safe mode, when I accept that, firefox opens with a page saying it couldn't restore my session (it talks Danish) and offers to start a new or restore the session, when I clcik that (I've never known it not to work) it opens windows and tabs that looks like what I had. It does not open a dialog like the one shown on: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

Instead of spending a lot of time troubleshooting. I thought I would just go for a full refresh, so I found: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

but following that doesn't work! I can follow the first two steps (i.e. clicking the menu and select "Help" and "More troubleshooting information". That opens a new tab on "about:support", but that does not have a "Refresh firefox" button on the right side of the page as described.

The "Copy text to clipboard" button on that page does not copy anything, but the "Copy raw to clipboard" puts the data that is shared below on the clipboard.

i need this site for visa application

the message is Seien Sie vorsichtig. Irgendetwas stimmt hier nicht.

Firefox hat ein möglicherweise schwerwiegendes Sicherheitsproblem auf indianvisaonline.gov.in entdeckt. Jemand, der sich als die Website ausgibt, könnte versuchen, Dinge wie Kreditkartendaten, Passwörter oder E-Mails zu stehlen.

The cloudflare will not let me access chatgpt or other sites and I have tried doing the troubleshooting but not getting anywhere. I am not computer savvy so I dont know how to fix this

I'm not able to access the internet VIA ethernet on my Firefox browser. I can only access the internet on wifi. I'm logged into my account so what is blocking this? I even turned off my VPN and it's still not working.

I need to interact with a Danish website that is geofenced, accepting contact from Scandinavia and Germany only. How do I select the German VPN for Firefox browser?

Why have amazon prime videos stopped working with firefox and how can I fix it?. It was working last week and suddenly stopped. Now all attempts to play videos are met with a permanent Amazon hourglass.

Hey FF Support Team,

I am using Firefox version 157.0.1 (64-bit) (mint-001-1.0) on Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon. 4 Monitors are connected. In a previous version, don't know which but it is not long time ago, Firefox opened, when I clicked on the task bar icon, always on the monitor, where I moved the mouse to. Now in the writen version above, it is opening on the monitor, where the last Firefox window was closed.

It used to be so easy to tell Firefox where to open a new window, but that feature is gone now. Or is there maybe a setting somewhere to turn it back on? I didn't find anything in about:config, though.

Please do not confuse the behavior described here with the System Settings feature > Moving and Resizing Windows > Location of newly opened Windows, which works differently and is, unfortunately, very impractical.

I hope you can give me the key tip

Best regards Mario

I guess i cant get help, its just an fyi.

I'm on Linux CachyOS, was setting up a manual back up for both of the profiles I use. When setting up the second backup it, instead of writing to the directory it decided to overwrite the path, essentially deleting, not sending do the trash bin, DELETING my documents directory and creating the directory again, but now only the back up for the second profile was inside. Thankfully i have a backup, though a little out of date by like a few weeks. I'm not sure how much of it was user error for not reading and how much of it was just some weird error.

Hi. This is my first post so please bear with me.

Firstly, I have an android tablet on which I have installed the Proton Pass app and the Proton Pass extension for Firefox. Both are working correctly. Firefox is v152.0.4 and the OS is Android 12.

I have also installed the Proton Pass app to my Moto G55 and it's working correctly. But when I try to add the extension to Firefox on my G55 the Add to Firefox option is greyed out. Firefox is v158.0 and the OS is Android 16..

I have searched extensively for a solution but no luck so far. Any help gratefully appreciated Thanks

i'm currently using serpantinum on hyprland on CachyOS. my firefox version is 158.0

i added a link to a screen recording i did. i'll apologize if i wasted anyone's time with this but i really don't know what to do. https://drive.proton.me/urls/EZH3R2A25W#7vNQ3JmPduij

I need help with a personal AI and I don't have no answer to help me cuz my old AI wouldn't do anything i need a new ad protect my data and block all my footage so I can't get hacked by any hackers out there i need foxfire to block anything that tried to get close to steal my money and also have a huge problem with going because I keep getting stolen from over and over and over with this AI i might not get stolen fun but the old AI I got stolen from i need help from this AI my data and help me with answers Intestines

Xubuntu 24.04.5 Firefox 158

Firefox used to position a new window on the screen in a somewhat predictable manner prior to 158.

For example, if there was a blank space on the screen between other windows, the browser would locate it and be placed there. A new instance would also appear on the active screen (I have two: left and right with a single window manager spanning both) where the mouse was located. Now the window is just placed in some arbitrary locations and may appear on the non-active screen.

I have a number of scripts that load various sets of windows on the screen (typically a number of xfce4-terminals and the browser) which used to pretty much work, but no longer as the browser windows can show up any place and must then be relocated. When I start a new session I have eight distinct desktops with many versions of Firefox on each. It is tiresome to have to relocate one browser window after another.

Is there any option I can set that would revert to the older screen placement algorithm?

Also, I asked this before and don't remember getting any satisfactory response. Why is the -geometry flag not supported on Firefox any longer? What's the opposition to giving the user control over this? I want some command-line method for accurately setting the size (WxH) and position (X:Y) of the browser window on the screen. Am I missing something here?

Thanks for any pointers.