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Hello! My question is related to a post in Google's blog: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/protecting-chrome-users-in-kazakhstan.html Also, see Mozilla's post on this: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/08/21/protecting-our-users-in-kazakhstan/

Now, this happens again in Kazakhstan. Today, 6th of December our mobile service providers sent SMS to everyone living in Nur-Sultan (former Astana), Kazakhstan regarding some kind of "Cyber training" and the urge to install a certificate on the devices. Examples: https://beeline.kz/ru/events/news/certificate?utm_source=mainpage-banner-1 (Russian) https://www.kcell.kz/en/product/trust-certificate (English)

The certificate is attached. Please, check the issue and if possible block it asap.

Thank you!

The Firefox VPN isn't supposed to start automatically when the desktop starts. Why does the VPN start automatically about 1% of the time? Windows 10 desktop. Latest version installed. Turned off every night.

Changed and saved my password in two places (including my password manager). Went in to sign out in my account setting in the triple bars. The "Sign In" "pop-up" that states at the top "Pass Required-Mozilla Firefox" and "Please enter Primary Password" displays (see image). When I enter my newly changed password either by copy and paste or manual entry it will not accept my most recent change. The reason I changed my password is every time I open Firebox that same sign in pop-up block displays asking for my password even though I am already signed in. I cannot login anywhere in the "Foxfire Lockwise". no where where it requires me to sign in or even sign out will it allow me to enter my password. And that Password sign in pop up keep popping up at odd times. I even Refresh and cleared startup cache. Should I just delete Firefox completely and start over? Have had Firefox for well over 15 years.

Windows 10 on a Dell Laptop

Hi! I live in the Kazakhstan and again like in previous year our goverment force us(right now it is only in Astana, but after they will force whole country to do that) to install their "security certificate" to collect and analyze all our data. All social media sites have been blocked, all sites with VPN services were also blocked(only kaspersky secure connection is "downloadable", but anyway it doesn't work). Can someone give me free VPN service that don't require registration and can give like 100-200mb traffic. I am not tech-pro, so i need more simple way to get access like install something and press "connect" button. Thank You!

I downloaded and installed firefox-83 using terminal, it resulted in a new 'firefox' folder being created but still when i start firefox from desktop, the older version starts. i have to go to the folder for newer version. How do I remove the older version? also, my bookmarks are not there in newer version.

tried to sync bookmarks on a new computer. Got:

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Sorry. We’ve locked your account.

The confirmation email we sent to *************** was returned and we’ve locked your account to protect your Firefox data.

If this is a valid email address, let us know and we can help unlock your account. No longer own that email? Create a new account Back

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clicked "let us know"

     got a page with no way to let anyone know

checked "contact us"

     no way to contact you

tried "support"

     got no support

its a valid email address no confirmation email was sent to this address. ( yes, I checked all the places) I have two other machines on the network that signed into the account automatically with no trouble.

Every 2-3 upgrades FF will not communicate with gmail. After random restarts or cookie or cache deletes it might or might not work for a few hours but then it goes back into disconnect mode. FF is the best browser in every other way but Gmail is the most important thing I use on the web. Please help.

My browser is 83.0 and up to date. Too bad I can't copy the info from the 'about' screen.

Is there a way to get mailto (email links) to use an existing open Gmail tab instead of opening a new one?

about:preferences#general > Applications mailto => Use Gmail

Gmail tab is always open (and pinned)

Thanks!

Why do I get this when I search?

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Hi, I’m trying to do a sync for the first time but it’s not working. It's between 2 profiles on the same Mac using the latest Firefox 83.0 on Catalina 10.15.7, and I need to sync only the history from the old profile to the new one. The new one has everything I need set up except for the history (several years worth from the old profile). After opening both profiles using the about:profiles page, logging in w/ each having a different device name, and selecting History only, I ran the sync but nothing transferred. I found a log subfolder in the weave folder within the new profile folder and it shows a lengthy error report autosaved as a plain text file, but I received no error when doing the sync. It shows "FirefoxAccounts ERROR Pairing channel error: Error: WebSocket unexpectedly closed".

If I can’t sync between profiles how can I import/export just the history? I tried doing a copy/paste and drag & drop between profiles like you can with bookmarks but it didn’t work. I read that history and bookmarks, along w/ other data are both stored in the places.sqlite file, so I can’t just replace the new one w/ the old one or I will then lose things I need.

Right clicking on a pdf file on a web page normally would allow the "Open link in new tab" option to open the pdf file in the new tab. Now the tab opens but the file is not displayed. And a Windows Explorer window opens to save the file.

Every time I have a voice call or a video call in messenger or FB room, I am unable to open it in Firefox. I always get the message to either open it in chrome or download Messenger for Windows. Is there any attempt to include this feature in Firefox?

While I appreciate the fact someone took to time to translate the dev tools to another language, this feature is highly inconvenient, it make it all weird and different names I am not used to and it make it hard to explain to someone else in other language or watch toturials where they use the English version. This go beyond bad when the language is from right to left, then the all interface looks even weirder.

And as for now I am forced to go back to chrome because this make firefox dev tools impossible to use for me

A few days ago, I accidentally closed 1 window (clicked the "X" in the upper-right corner) that had 248 tabs in it, without realizing it. Since then, I've 'properly' closed Firefox (Menu icon; Exit) and reopened it again many times. I have 3 other windows open in my current session, each with many-hundreds of tabs in them (one has 1335 tabs!).

Fortunately, I have an archived copy of my entire Profiles folder from a month ago. Saving aside my current sessionstore.jsonlz4 file, and substituting the month-old one into its place, then restarting Firefox, shows me that I still have that old 'lost' window there (with all 248 tabs intact), along with the other (old) 3 windows. But I've made a lot of changes to the tabs in those other 3 windows since I 'lost' the 4th one; so I can't just use that backup of all 4 windows, going forward now. I need to recover that 4th window, into my current session.

Is there some way to make a copy of one entire window (with all its contained tabs with their titles and URLs) from one session, close Firefox, then open a new Firefox session and 'paste' those contents into a new (empty) window?

I downloaded the "Copy All Tab Urls" Add-on (by Michele Pezza), which allows me to copy that one window's 248 'lost' tabs (titles and URLs) to my clipboard. Which is fine for pasting that list into a Word document. But I can't figure out how to 'paste' that list into a new Firefox window, as properly-configured individual tabs. Or, maybe there's some other solution?

I can't be the only one who's accidentally closed a big fat window inside a multi-window session, and gone too far from the event to simply restore the whole session from a backup. Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hi,

is there any support inside FF for S/MIME secured mail?

I´m currently a member of an organisation that have choosen to use Outlook Web App as an email client. But when using this on FF I can´t find how to install encrypted mail with S/MIME.

Is there any more people using Outlook Web App who have solved this problem?

Best regards Anders

I have Firefox set to restore sessions upon restart. Up until a week ago this worked fine. I also use pinned tabs extensively with no problem until recently. Now when I restart Firefox one of 2 things happen. Either the pinned tabs are gone while all non-pinned tabs remain, or everything launches correctly but the pinned tabs disappear one by one (in a perfect sequence) over the course of a few seconds right after startup. I am absolutely confounded by this bizarre behavior. My computer is a Win 10 Dell desktop.