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Not sure but I read that windows 10 has reached the end of support in oct. 2025. I have no idea what book marks I had because My friend put them in for me. I do not know why firefox or windows had the rights to chage my computer and I do not have the funds to buy a new windows 11 computer. So bottom line what can I do to fix this issue

I've seen a lot of questions online about making just the icons on the taskbar larger. With the greying of America (all of those boomers out there), many of us are not able to see the miniscule icons that firefox has anymore. Please help! Many thanks!!

Also, I've tried clicking the box below in order for an email to be sent to me when someone answers this question, but it won't check. Could you please email me or have the program email me when someone answers the question? I'm sending this from my logged in account. [edited email from public community support forum]

I have a Mac Pro laptop. Firefox has been my default browser. I never had problems accessing websites before, but now, suddenly, I get a rejection notice that prevents me from using certain websites and even links in emails. I am 74 years old and not technically mobile or able to figure out how to correct the rejection notices I receive. You have no phone number or other way to reach you. I have looked and tried to find where the problem may be but I have been unsuccessful. I have no idea if it is an accessibility problem or a connectivity problem . As well, the fonts on any instructions you provide are almost impossible to read as they were written for midget eyes. I would be grateful if you could assist me and send many thanks.

I want to achieve windowed functionality of Firefox's F11 fullscreen mode, where there's no window borders nor tab/url bar, which pops in on hover. Having every pixel actually be web space is just preferable to me. This used to be possible in old Firefox versions simply by resizing a fullscreened FF window using a resizer extension or window manager (such as seen here, with version 55.0.3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1klHdUHiKtLVITmrQnul8O1zF32l-Uz6c/view). At some point, something must have changed in FF's fullscreen API because it no longer responds to any of this.

I'm willing to pay anyone savvy enough to come up with a solution. Ideally by figuring out how to again be able to simply resize F11 windows. Note: "full-screen-api.ignore-widgets" isn't cutting it, there will still be a window border and the tab/url bar won't automatically pop up.

Cheers.

Immediately after my last Mozilla update, the system asked me if I wanted Firefox as my search engine. I clicked yes, as I always do when prompted. I don't know if this is the cause or if there's another connection I'm missing, but since then I haven't been able to access other websites. Every time I try, an error message appears saying "Oops, the system has crashed..." or something like that. However, if I use Google or Edge, everything works fine. How can I fix this problem? Can anyone help me? Thank you very much in advance.

my e-mail : [edited email from community support forum]

I have dark mode set as a theme and a dark reader extension enabled. As of yesterday, when I open a PDF it always displayed with white text and a black background. I have vision issues and need my PDF'S to be able to easily read.

I use a Lenovo desktop computer that I have used along with the Firefox browser for about 3 years and never had any problems until now. For the past two days it takes up to a couple of minutes to for the Firefox browser to open a page. While the page is loading, I get at the bottom right corner of the screen "performing a TLS handshake." I vaguely understand this terminology but am not an expert on the subject. This "handshake" repeatedly occurs with all sites that I open daily with the Firefox browser. The pages usually open within a couple of seconds. Now it takes minutes and sometimes doesn't open at all. I have difficulty opening even the Firefox home page and when it finally opens, it is incomplete? Do you have any suggestions that might help me?

I must add that the internet connection from my provider, Eastlink, located in Nova Scotia, Canada, is by Ookla tests very slow, ranging from 40 to 55bps instead of the regular150bps or higher. I don't know if the problem is with my desktop or with the provider and the provider has not responded to my telephone request with any information that explain where is the source of the slow internet speed problem.

My email address is [edited email from community support forum]

Gerald Comeau

I can run Firefox once after starting the computer. If I close Firefox, I cannot run it again. Any attempt to start says there is an instance of Firefox running so it cannot start. I did some research and for that running the following yielded some indication of a problem that I cannot seem to solve.

>taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe ERROR: The process "firefox.exe" with PID 10220 could not be terminated. Reason: There is no running instance of the task.

Something appears to have left this PID so that the computer thinks it is running when it appears that it isn't there.

Please advise. [edited email from community support forum]

dear reader hope you are doing well ive got an issue im not sure if it is my laptop specific or firefox default

please refer to below attached images If i cntrl+f and try to find a string on the window, firefox highlights all the hits in a dark pink color and the scroll bar is not visible!! that is a issue isint it as a cannot find the scroller and hold it and scroll it up or down!

let me know please if there are any gaps in my explanation of the issue if there isint , please suggest/provide a fix

appreciate it yours Pranav

Recently I've noticed that some web sites are displaying text in very washed-out colours or on backgrounds of similar colour to the text. This produces a low contrast ratio and makes the text very hard to read. I tried setting the text colour in Firefox settings, but this seems only to affect text where the web site does not explicitly set a colour. Is there any way to ovcerridethe web site's choice of colour?

I need to know how to make subtitles readable again. I want bright white on dark back ground. This constant dim gray on light back ground is terrible. I am elderly, deaf in one ear and wear a hearing aid. I need the subtitles to be readable.

Please tell me how to fix them if it is something I can change. Or is it something the channel owner is doing? That same question applies to the YT bingo card video rectangles. Sometimes they are giant and in a single row I like the 3 wide display, like a bingo card.

Lastly, why do the video choices display on the right side of the screen? That makes the info below them unreadable. They used to be on the left side so hovering over the text is readable. Who is charge of fixing that?

The Firefox default behaviour to reload a page for view-source even when it is already in memory is unnecessary and causes many difficulties when tracking CGI bugs.

This unnecessary reloading can be turned off by setting accessibility.blockautorefresh to true.

However, fixing these stupid page reloads this way introduces another hyper-annoying behaviour: then Firefox blocks redirects.

So this accessibility setting is bad in both possible settings. Is there a possibility to prevent reloading pages for view-source while still allowing redirects?

After moving to a new laptop my Mozilla appearance changed drastically such that often the text is invisible (sometimes clicking on "select all" is a sub-optimal workaround".) Some images are blank spaces. I've tried working with "Website Appearance" in the settings to no avail. Thanks for your help!

For a while now, Firefox and a few other browsers default my keyboard to navigating through web page items rather than typing letters when I click in the search bar or address bar. Then I have to click TAB (sometimes several times) to get the keyboard typing again. I have tried 4 keyboards total and they all act the same way but act normally on my Windows PC. I have done extensive investigating into why this might be happening and why its only happening in web browsers and have come up with nothing. I am using Raspbian OS on a RPi5 and have used it smoothly for about 7 months. This issue has slowly gotten worse until it is now constant. I reinstalled the OS completely and it stopped malfunctioning for a few days but came back in a hurry. I've come to you as a last resort. I am sure Firefox is not the issue but if you know of any possible reason why this might be happening and point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful. Thanks.