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Right now, the only way I can reliably switch profiles in Firefox is to go to about:profiles.

I'd like to be able to launch a profile from the terminal instead. I've tried these commands:

$ firefox -P "home" $ firefox --Profile "/Users/josh/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/o4w0riri.home-1725314907557"

both result in the dialog "Open Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode?". From there, I can either refresh my profile or open in troubleshooting mode, neither of which is a desired option. If I don't specify a profile, it doesn't bring up the dialog, but it's not always the profile I want to open.

I always work with two topics, running two instances of Firefox for each. Each instance contains many tabs. The problem is that when I close the browser, all tabs are closed, and restoring the previous session opens the entire browsing history in both instances. Does anyone know how I can save the tabs in each Firefox instance so that when I reopen the browser, I can easily manage and split them?

How can I prevent the password manager popup from showing up? I don't like how Firefox just shows up all saved logins automatically every reload of `https://discord.com/channels/@me`.

Firefox has quite recently started showing a new and very annoying behaviour.

When I have multiple tabs open with image files, Firefox will randomly unload the images when I switch between tabs. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when and why. In one instance I may be able to go through 10 tabs without an issue, and in other instances it will unload and have to reload images multiple times, even if I am only switching between two tabs.

Sometimes the images will reload automatically a couple of seconds after switching to a new tab, and other times the image will not reload unless I navigate away to a different website and then hit the back button to return to the image. In either case, it's extremely aggravating when looking back and forth between two images in different tabs to compare differences when they reload every single time I switch between them.

This only seems to happen with image files. I can have any number of web pages open in different tabs and they will not unload, but if the address points directly to an image it exhibits this behaviour.

I have already looked for solutions and tried disabling the 'browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory' option through the 'about:config' menu, but this has no effect on the behaviour at all. It continues to unload images when this option is set to 'false'.

This behaviour is a very recent change from how Firefox usually works, so I'm assuming that it's something to do with the latest update(s). I've only noticed it happening in the past couple of weeks, though I don't remember exactly when in that timeframe the problem first appeared.

Looking for any possible solutions or options that I might try to correct this.

When I type in Word 365 (Mozilla Firefox, 129.0.2 (64-bit)- snap for Ubuntu 24.04), using East European characters (e.g. š, č, ž), the text after the first such written character (see the first uploaded image) disappears after going to new line (pressing Enter or moving mouse to another line) (see the second uploaded image). It worked before on the Ubuntu 22.04 with manually installed firefox (not from snap) and is also working in Chrome.

I am unable to find the solution. I already installed additional fonts, I also created links to the installed fonts in $USER/snap/current/.local/share but nothing helps.

Has anyone encountered similar problem (and found a solution)?

I have my webserver "example.com" configured to ask for basic auth credentials on different paths, like "example.com/siteA" and "example.com/siteB". Login and username are different for "siteA" and "siteB".

Firefox will gladly save both sets of username and password when I type them in and login, but unlike with website login forms like Wordpress, there is no built-in way to select an account in this "native" login popup (see attached screenshot).

I could not find a way to edit my stored passwords to distinguish by path, it only stores the host/domain name "example.com".

Is there something I missed or is this currently not supported?

Well I was trying to pay my bills and I couldn't pay PGE as it says its not supported. Tehn I go to pay my Xfinity and Access Denied popped up.. What the hey is going on that these companies wont support Firefox? I hate Google. I've been paying my bill on the Firefox platform for years. This is frustrating. Are you able to help. The last time I was able to speak with a human who walked me through the back end and I'm sure we went to settings but I'm not that skilled.

My wife's WinX desktop was working fine this AM. This PM, she got a notice to update Firefox and said "Yes". Since then, she's been unable to start Firefox and neither can I. There are two error messages: 1. The procedure entry point SECITEM_FreeArray could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\xul.dll 2. Couldn't load CPCOM

I tried uninstalling Firefox and it froze with similar error messages. I finally got it uninstalled and reinstalled and now it seems to be working fine. Anybody else had today's update or is this a freak error?

Hi, This is more of a nuisance than a serious problem. I am constantly getting a header message in Sharepoint "allow access to Microsoft 365 account". When I choose "allow access" I get a pop-up that lets me choose my institutional SSO account, which says I'm signed in already. This doesn't occur in Chrome (where I'm logged into my institutional email).

Does anyone know how to stop this message from popping up every 5 minutes?

I am new to Sharepoint (and not impressed!). I don't actually see any difference in its behavior whether I've allowed access or not.

thanks for any hints

I'm using Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (snap version, so it's updated regularly) and I've been having this issue for months. I use Network pane heavily as aid to develop the backend portion of a web site with a JSON based API. Now and then I need to repeat an HTTP request, so I use the "Resend" option, and everything's fine except I'm unable to see the server response. "Size" column shows "0 B" and "Response" tab is empty. I'm positively sure the server cannot distinguish whether it's a brand new or resent request and does not send empty responses. It's something specific to XHR requests, regular requests are not affected. Troubleshoot Mode doesn't make any difference.

Is this a known issue or something that only happens to me?

Hello,

In the settings I check "always ask where files are saved" but the files are automatically saved in the "Downloads" folder.

Is this a bug? How to solve it please?

Thank you in advance for your response

Sincerely, TD

Could you tell me what kind of situation will result in all extensions can't use and how to solve it? Actually I want to use "IE View We", but it not works. I also try to lower my safety level of browser, or added some extensions which recommend by Firefox. It would be great if I can get a feedback in Chinese. Thank you.

I have already cleared the cache! When I visit the site https://games.usatoday.com/category/puzzles and select the puzzle "Word Roundup", it opens, incorrectly, with this URL: https://games.usatoday.com/games/uclick-word-round-up. The clues do not open. And the correct date is shown and the puzzle can be played without the clues.

But, if I use MS Edge, which I detest, it opens completely with this URL: https://games.usatoday.com/games/uclick-word-round-up.

However, using Firefox, if I go to the developer's site, http://syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com/puzzles/word-roundup, it opens correctly with the correct date BUT WITH A DIFFERENT PUZZLE"!

I have visited URL: https://games.usatoday.com/games/uclick-word-round-up thousands of times without issues.

Does anyone have any thoughts please?