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There is no audio on any website in Firefox only. I'm using Windows 11

1. Numbered list item When a video is playing there used to be an audio icon showing the tab is playing audio, this does not show anymore.
2. Numbered list item Firefox does not appear in the Windows volume mixer
3. Numbered list item The Firefox Task Manager Utility 'Windows Media Framework Audio Decoder is always idle.
4. Numbered list item I've restarted the Windows AudioSrv service and Windows explorer process

Nothing works. Please help.

For a few months, I have encountered an issue with videos playback on my browser. On most websites (including Reddit, Dailymotion, and even some videos on YouTube), whenever I scrub back a video, it will stop for about ten seconds, while the audio keeps playing.

My current extensions are: Metamask, Bionic Reader, uBlock Origin, Return Youtube Dislike, and TWP Translate Web Pages. I have tried using Troubleshooting mode, but the problem persisted, so I think it's not because of my extension.

My OS is Opensuse Tumbleweed, with Firefox version 155.0.3. I didn't have this issue with Firefox ESR on my previous Debian 11 installation. I hope someone can find a solution for this, as it is extremely troublesome switching to Chrome whenever I want to watch videos.

When I play a video in fullscreen, there is a strange black border that appears around the video which makes the content smaller than it would otherwise be. This border does not display in Safari or Chrome, just in Firefox. It also occurs in every media player I've tested, including YouTube and Netflix.

Annoyingly, I can't get this to show up in a screenshot. It seems like Firefox guesses the aspect ratio or resolution wrong when it puts media in fullscreen, and it has the effect of downsizing the actual interactive part of the display. Meaning, I can't move my mouse into the border area to take a screenshot of it.

I'm on an ARM Macbook running MacOS 13.5, if that matters.

Is this a bug, and/or is there a way to fix this?

I've been searching for a solution on HOW to edit HTML files (for websites) on my new laptop. I used to use IE11 (Internet Explorer 11), on Windows XP / 7 (32 bit), which worked spot on, the steps were as follows: (I write websites from scratch most of the time) 1) Click on, say, index.html 2) IE11 shows the actual page 3)Click on View/ Source 4)The source code shows up in Notepad 5) Edlt the code, Save and click Reload the webpage. You can straightaway see the changes.

Currently my new laptop runs Win 11 pro, Microsoft does NOT support IE11 anymore, I can however run IE11 as a add-on, BUT it does not work very well . I also tried a couple of free dedicated editing programs also, BUT they are exceedingly clumsy to use and can't equate to the old IE11 at any level. Somewhere I read that Firefox ( i have v115) can emulate what IE11 could do, hence I am on this forum posing the question, as i can't find the solution,

Anyone in the same boat?

Please share your ideas, Many thanks

I have my Firefox Firefox Privacy & Security History settings set to 'Always Use Private Browsing Mode.' Yet every time I open Firefox and visit the History tab, 'Recently Closed Tabs' shows a history of the websites I've visited. How do I disable this feature?

When I go into fullscreen on firefox macos, hovering near the top shows the traffic lights (fullscreen, minimize, close window buttons) and moves everything down. This may be expected behavior, but it is very annoying as when you try to open new tabs the tab bar moves out of the way of the traffic lights, and the traffic lights area is around the size of the tab bar. Is there any way to make the traffic lights always visible or keep them from moving?

I noticed that someone else had this question, but instead of answering it, it just got archived.

When browsing Youtube, the browser Back Button doesn't work. For example, if I start on the Youtube main page, then click on a video, it will show the video. But then, when I click the browser's "Back" navigation buttion, it does not take me back to the main page. The URL in the address bar will be the main page, but it will continue to display the video I just watched instead.

This only seems to happen on Youtube. It's been a problem for a while - possibly as much as 2 years or even more. And it doesn't happen every single time. However, it has been happening a lot more frequently lately.

It's almost as if Firefox just doesn't want to refresh.

I've tried clearing the cache. The problem persists. I've dried disabling all add-ons. It still happens. I've tried running it in troubleshooting mode. Still a problem.

I've tried to duplicate this in Microsoft Edge; it doesn't seem to happen there.

After removing elements from a website with another add-on, I'm left with a considerable white gap at the top.

I can manually change (pointless) the margin-top property to -100px, but how do I do this with the Stylus add-on?

Stylus doesn't like negative values:

margin-top -100px

10:20 Expected "{" but found "-100px".

Is there a lighter/simpler alternative to Stylus?

Hi,

I have been trying to use the extension "Sidebery" to replace "Tree Style Tab"

If my tabs are nested, bookmarking the tab tree will give me nested folder structure in firefox's bookmark.

If I right click on the top level folder in the bookmark, select "open all in tabs", firefox will only open those bookmarks in the 1st level folder, but won't open those bookmarks in the nested folders.

I wonder is there a way to do it? That is, open all bookmarks in a folder with those in the nested folder, all at once?

Best, Jake

I have multiple internal websites, which all follow the pattern of [site.one.two] which resolves fine using the internal DNS server i have configured by going to https://site.one.two and through other programs via site.one.two, and all the [one.two] suffixes are blacklisted from being resolved with DoH in firefox, but it still forces a web-search, even with searching from address bar being turned off, instead of resolving through my local DNS server (local server resolves local domain suffixes, anything else gets resolved through cloudflare DNS). I haven't found a fix in any other forums, and there are enough unique internal addresses that manually adding each and [every site.one.two] as an exception would be something i would like to avoid. Is there any way to tell firefox to resolve through DNS first for addresses or domain suffixes?

Just switched to firefox as my default and found that I can't sign in to netflix. It always gives me the "incorrect password" message. I've tried resetting the password, clearing cookies, restarting, turning the DNS proection off, restarting my computer, etc to no avail. Anyone else have this issue or know a potential solution?

Prior to getting some desktop PC upgrades that required a new install of Windows 11 and a new install of Firefox, I backed up my entire PC (yea!).

Now that I have re-installed Firefox, I see that I have none of my saved bookmarks and so I want to restore the Firefox profile - all of it or at least the bookmarks.

I have tried following the Firefox instructions for this, but am apparently not doing it right.

I can't seem to locate the bookmarks file, for starters, in my backed up files. I find the profile but I don't find anything like places.sqlite.

Can someone help me so that I am locating the right (and complete) files, copying them correctly, and then switching to the new/old profile correctly?

Thanks in advance.

I had something like 7 windows open 10 minutes ago (yes I am a tab hoarder). I was trying to run a game that used a lot of RAM, so I decided that I would close ALL of my firefox tabs in hope that the game would run smoother with the 5gb that Firefox was using. I didn't think anything of losing the tabs because I had accidentally closed windows in the past using the big red 'x', and an easy ctrl + shift + t always restored the entire window no problem. When I tried to open firefox again within the next 5 minutes, only 3 of the windows restored themselves, I assume using the general > startup > open previous windows and tabs setting. Using Ctrl + Shift + T did nothing to restore them. Please help, as the windows that did reopen were the ones that I cared the least about.

Ever since I update Firefox a month or so ago, every time I open the browser it wants to restore my last session. I've went into setting and check it to make sure I did have it on. I even turn it on, rebooted and the took it off and rebooted. Nothing seams to work. Any help?

When I go to youtube from firefox the page is WAY to large for the screen. This started last week. I can't figure out anyway to get the old screen back. Today I tried going to youtube from google and everything worked normally. How can I fix this? I wasn't doing anything in firefox to try to manipulate youtube. It just started misbehaving on its own. HELP, I don't want to need to use google.

Thanks

Hi.

Whenever I click a button on the keyboard, the CTRL+F function comes up on it's own. I had previously disabled it because it ruins all shortcuts on youtube and with tourettes, I often also get thrown around if I am reading long articles, because of misclicks.

Unfortunately I did the big mistake of updating, also with a tourettes-missclick, so my question is: 1) How do I remove the 'quick'-search function? I want the Ctrl+F bar to come up ONLY WHEN I CLICK ctrl+F, and I want it to go away again if I click ctrl+F again. I forget how to do it. 2) How do I remove all future update prompts? Given that it has been made so hard to configure firefox into something tolerable, I don't want to throw all my setup away with minor updates always thrown at me. It takes me a long time every time there's an update, I have to fix language and other stuff back again. It's just not worth it in time for me to use Firefox, if I have to make a setup so often. 3) Recommendations for the best version of Firefox to go back to and stay in for eternity, alternatively, browsers that does not change or add functions without first asking the user... (The answer is no, by the way, I don't want more new fancy functions)

Sorry for this nagging but I simply can't use my browser like this. It's just not working.

Just to preface I have already tried looking for a similar issue in support and most of the answers are like "just make sure to not be in private browsing" but I am sure that I am not and my extensions are all allowed in private browsing anyways. I also know this is not a theme issue as after I removed ublock origin and re-added it to firefox the extension icon showed up in the menu just like usual, but I do not want to do this for every single extension as I have a large amount and I am worried about personal settings that I have saved being undone. In the past I have used this same firefox setup without any of these issues whatsoever and without changing any settings since then.

The main issue is that when I click the extensions menu toolbar icon (the puzzle piece) it only takes me to about:addons. On this page I can confirm all my extensions are there, and I know that they are working, due to things like ads still being blocked from ublock origin or tracking links being blocked from clearURLs. However there is no icon for them after clicking/right clicking the the extensions puzzle piece, or when using the "customize toolbar" feature, or in the overflow menu, or in any other possible place. I have also tried telling the toolbar to reset to default and this does not help. Since the puzzle piece icon never shows me a menu, there is no way to right-click an extension and get the menu option to "pin to toolbar" as this option can't be found in the about:addons page as far as I have found.

Is there any way to fix this beyond just re-adding every single one of my extensions?

My windows install in my dualboot pc is unable to open at the moment, I can access the windows files from my linux. But i need the firefox data on that pc that I kept. I don't remember which email I used on that account so I'm kind of stuck on getting my data from online. Is there a way to recieve all the data from another drive without opening firefox?

Hello, today i had weird FF behavior, for while i was browsing i have got BSOD. When i have analyzed the minidump file it says firefox.exe is a reason.

FF: 115.0.3 Here is WinDBG log:

Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 10.0.22000.194 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Loading Dump File [C:\Windows\Minidump\072923-8328-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available

Symbol search path is: srv* Executable search path is: Windows 10 Kernel Version 19041 MP (16 procs) Free x64 Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Edition build lab: 19041.1.amd64fre.vb_release.191206-1406 Machine Name: Kernel base = 0xfffff801`5f800000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff801`6042a2d0 Debug session time: Sat Jul 29 00:42:10.245 2023 (UTC + 3:00) System Uptime: 0 days 3:55:03.853 Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ ................................................................ ............................ Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .............. For analysis of this file, run !analyze -v 9: kd> !analyze -v

• *
• Bugcheck Analysis *
• *

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (3b) An exception happened while executing a system service routine. Arguments: Arg1: 00000000c0000005, Exception code that caused the bugcheck Arg2: fffff8015fdf5f61, Address of the instruction which caused the bugcheck Arg3: ffffb20bb3347a20, Address of the context record for the exception that caused the bugcheck Arg4: 0000000000000000, zero.

Debugging Details:

KEY_VALUES_STRING: 1

   Key  : Analysis.CPU.mSec
   Value: 3937

   Key  : Analysis.DebugAnalysisManager
   Value: Create

   Key  : Analysis.Elapsed.mSec
   Value: 19210

   Key  : Analysis.Init.CPU.mSec
   Value: 5155

   Key  : Analysis.Init.Elapsed.mSec
   Value: 33986

   Key  : Analysis.Memory.CommitPeak.Mb
   Value: 80

   Key  : WER.OS.Branch
   Value: vb_release

   Key  : WER.OS.Timestamp
   Value: 2019-12-06T14:06:00Z

   Key  : WER.OS.Version
   Value: 10.0.19041.1

BUGCHECK_CODE: 3b

BUGCHECK_P1: c0000005

BUGCHECK_P2: fffff8015fdf5f61

BUGCHECK_P3: ffffb20bb3347a20

BUGCHECK_P4: 0

CONTEXT: ffffb20bb3347a20 -- (.cxr 0xffffb20bb3347a20) rax=ffffb20bb33484e0 rbx=000000000000000b rcx=ffff8001fb3cc080 rdx=0000000000000000 rsi=ffff8001fb3cc080 rdi=dfffa007000746c0 rip=fffff8015fdf5f61 rsp=ffffb20bb3348420 rbp=ffffb20bb3348609

r8=0000000000000000  r9=0000000000000000 r10=0000000000000000

r11=ffffcd7f6d800000 r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000000 r14=ffff8001dacbb6c0 r15=0000000000000001 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na po nc cs=0010 ss=0018 ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00050286 nt!SeDefaultObjectMethod+0xb1: fffff801`5fdf5f61 488b4708 mov rax,qword ptr [rdi+8] ds:002b:dfffa007`000746c8=???????????????? Resetting default scope

BLACKBOXBSD: 1 (!blackboxbsd)

BLACKBOXNTFS: 1 (!blackboxntfs)

BLACKBOXPNP: 1 (!blackboxpnp)

BLACKBOXWINLOGON: 1

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

PROCESS_NAME: firefox.exe

STACK_TEXT: ffffb20b`b3348420 fffff801`5fe11216  : ffff8001`fb3cc050 ffffb20b`b3348609 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!SeDefaultObjectMethod+0xb1 ffffb20b`b3348480 fffff801`5fa212d7  : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 ffffb20b`b3348609 ffff8001`fb3cc080 : nt!ObpRemoveObjectRoutine+0xd6 ffffb20b`b33484e0 fffff801`5fe167a9  : ffff8001`fb3cc050 ffffa007`05affa90 00000000`00000000 ffffa007`05aff7d0 : nt!ObfDereferenceObjectWithTag+0xc7 ffffb20b`b3348520 fffff801`5fe31815  : ffff8001`fe2c0098 fffff801`5fa215c9 ffff8001`fe2c0060 00000000`00000000 : nt!ObCloseHandleTableEntry+0x6c9 ffffb20b`b3348660 fffff801`5fe3213d  : ffff8001`fe2c0060 ffff8001`f83da080 ffffffff`ffffff01 ffff8001`fc4c2798 : nt!ExSweepHandleTable+0xd5 ffffb20b`b3348710 fffff801`5fe31548  : ffffffff`ffffffff ffff8001`fc4c2340 ffffb20b`b3348760 fffff801`5fe50fec : nt!ObKillProcess+0x35 ffffb20b`b3348740 fffff801`5fe83f02  : ffff8001`fc4c2340 ffffa007`04017060 ffffb20b`b3348990 00000000`00000000 : nt!PspRundownSingleProcess+0x204 ffffb20b`b33487d0 fffff801`5fec8578  : 00000001`00000001 00000000`00000001 ffffb20b`b33489e0 0000000c`eaad4000 : nt!PspExitThread+0x5f6 ffffb20b`b33488d0 fffff801`5faddf37  : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`0050d000 : nt!KiSchedulerApcTerminate+0x38 ffffb20b`b3348910 fffff801`5fc01060  : 00000000`00000000 ffffb20b`b33489c0 ffffb20b`b3348b80 00000200`00000000 : nt!KiDeliverApc+0x487 ffffb20b`b33489c0 fffff801`5fc0f49f  : ffff8001`f83da080 ffff8001`fff64ee0 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiInitiateUserApc+0x70 ffffb20b`b3348b00 00007ffd`7960d0e4  : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiSystemServiceExit+0x9f 0000000c`ec46fba8 00000000`00000000  : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x00007ffd`7960d0e4

SYMBOL_NAME: nt!SeDefaultObjectMethod+b1

MODULE_NAME: nt

IMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exe

IMAGE_VERSION: 10.0.19041.2846

STACK_COMMAND: .cxr 0xffffb20bb3347a20 ; kb

BUCKET_ID_FUNC_OFFSET: b1

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x3B_c0000005_nt!SeDefaultObjectMethod

OS_VERSION: 10.0.19041.1

BUILDLAB_STR: vb_release

OSPLATFORM_TYPE: x64

OSNAME: Windows 10

FAILURE_ID_HASH: {0efa101b-e9d0-1362-a826-cbc49be172a8}

Followup: MachineOwner