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I have the latest Firefox installed on Linux Mint. But in Firefox privacy settings there is no longer a way to choose browsers. It just says "Firefox is currently your default browser". But every time I do a search, it automatically search with Google. That never never happened until I installed latest Firefox. If Firefox is forcing me to use Google, that why do I need Firefox?? Please explain?

Thanks much for your time

I recently got into Bazzite and I'm currently working on understanding and migrating to this OS, one of the things that got my attention is the PiP mode, which by default doesn't stay on top of other windows, and that made me think about the whole purpose of this functionality to begin with, anyway this led me to think about my best idea ever which is to add "some option" in which the user can choose what is his preferred PiP window behavior and set it as default, so he don't go through all the process again and again.

I would be interested in modifying the behavior of Firefox's urlbar / omnibox such that domain names are displayed in “reverse notation”, e.g. org.mozilla.support instead of support.mozilla.org.

From a cursory look at Firefox's setting, I couldn't find any browser.urlbar.* setting that relates to reverse domain name notation.

I also spent some time looking at add-on development documentation. Albeit being unfamiliar with the technology, it seems to me that the omnibox permission in the manifest.json file will only grant the add-on APIs to extend the functionalities of the bar, rather than allow the add-on to modify how the bar's contents are displayed.

I would be interested to know if there might be a way to achieve reverse domain name notation that I might have missed, or whether this is impossible to do.

If this is the wrong place to ask, I'd be glad if you could suggest what forum/mailing list may be appropriate for this kind of questions.

The bug exists since Firefox version 131.0 circa, when some things related to DPI had been changed, which I was able to guess because, without touching anything, the size/zoom of the content of the websites were slightly different (bigger). Experiencing this in both Windows and Xfce.

Steps to reproduce:

• Have a custom DPI settings in your operating system.
• Open a new Firefox window.
• Note how the Firefox window height is shorter, so yo can see about 20 pixels of your desktop background. Manually resizing the window and restarting the browser has no effect: the correct height is not remembered.

I've reported this one year ago in the tracker, but no one has yet done anything about it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1925284

Am I the only person in the world using Firefox with a custom DPI setting in the OS? I find this hard to believe. Yet I'm experiencing this bug since one years ago. I can't stand using a different browser, but having to resize the window every time is so annoying...

I'm experience trouble with firefox loading pages. It seems that some pages (about 1 in 10) will not load first try. Instead it results in either a "unable to connect", "Hmmm... Can't reach this page" or simply a blank page. I have not noticed any pattern in the pages on which this occurs and they all display correctly after a refresh. This problem only occurs on firefox. I have already tried disabling the proxy without any success. I'm looking for any suggestions for solving/diagnosing this issue.

System info: Firefox 142.0.1 Fedora 42 Linux kernel 6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64

Since the update to 142, on pretty much every site it keeps jumping back to the top of the page. Happens on a lot of sites. For some reason, if I select some text at the top of the page it seems to stop this. A lot of people may not have discovered this. Mozilla just needs to fix it. I am using Ubuntu 24.04. Been using Firefox for many years. Never seen this before.

I already tried setting geo.enabled to false as suggested here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1475504

Is still get the prompt every time no matter how often I decline.

Under the advanced settings for fonts, there is a dropdown menu listing various scripts. These are the only fonts which Firefox can render. For example, there is no option for Coptic, so any Coptic characters are rendered as a box containing the Unicode key.

The fonts in question are installed on my computer and even show up in all of the dropdown menus; Firefox just can't access them.

Firefox does not display thumbnails for some photos I've uploaded to Proton Drive. I can view the photos normally when double-clicking on the thumbnail placeholder, but the thumbnails themselves do not appear.

Note: this is not the case for ALL photos (all are JPG format), only some. Proton help desk claims this may be due to Firefox privacy protections, but disabling those protections for their web site has no effect.

As part of my maintenance process, I have a utility that travels the entire file storage on all computers. Yes, it takes time but is necessary.

My problem is in the home directory is a .mozilla directory and. while processing the directory to the bottom, my process is attempting to look at files that don't exist! An example is: .mozilla/firefox/tar3lacg.default-release/storage/default/https+++www.youtube.com/cache/morgue/97/{71caaab5-6413-4293-ad75-dd3a833ae461}.final

There are a completely unreasonable amount of these files and they just don't exist on the computer! It is causing my error logs to fill up with useless information that is taking way, way too much of my time. Obviously, I can't delete non-existent files, so there seems to be no easy fix. I tend to think these are soft links to these non-existent files, making them broken and therefore problematic. That seems to be the only place where my process can find the names of files that don't exist.

Can this be verified? Can I be let in on the secret place where they can be found and eliminated?

Hi there, I'd like the option to unbind default keybindings. Specifically, the Ctrl+W to close a tab binding. I reflexively hit ctrl+W when I want to delete a word in a text box (from emacs/shell/vim/etc) and this has resulted several times in me closing the tab I was on and losing the text I was writing. It would be useful to me to be able to disable this keybinding so that I don't continue having these accidents. More generally, I imagine that some users will find some keybindings annoying and want to disable or maybe remap them.

So this is half a feature request, and also half a support request if anyone has suggestions for workarounds in the meantime.