Φόρουμ κοινότητας «Firefox»

No doubt I had something to do with the (fancy font uppercase in bold) B appearing in my Firefox header line as the first and left-most character (image attached). Anyone know the source for this and how to shut it and anything else it does off? I like many others I have read commenting about unwanted things thru the PC years that have a disdain of things that sneak through uninvited.

The other thing so far as I know had nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox but I'll mention it in case someone has an idea. A product install by the same name permanently labeled an outboard drive with this label bold text'Roboform2Gobold text. I know how it got there, it was with the install the product by that name, which I uninstalled, and no one from that company would or couldn't tell me how to get rid of the relabeling it had done. Uninstalling the software didn't take it out, and no one in a general forum had any suggestions. I know the traditional approach of adding or changing a label, but change attempts don't affect this reminder of a poor product that I had decided not to keep. They refunded, but did not help with the changeless drive label.

Running FF115.23.1ESR on a Win7/32 box I use in network maintenance/configuration.

If I log into the modem main page and select from the side-bar menu, FF drops me back to the modem's login screen (Groundhog Day style). This behaviour is repeatable (endlessly) on:

• * another identical modem (same/latest firmware). These have repeatedly been factory reset and firmware reloaded. No change.
• * another Win7 box (/64) on same FF release.

Opera - reluctantly added on those same Win7 boxes - does not have this (mis-)behaviour.

Win10/64 running FF138.0.4 does not have this issue.

Up until about ten weeks back, the (then-current) Win7/X esr release did NOT have this problem.

Yes, I HAVE cleared cache/cookies repeatedly before sessions, to no avail. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> [EDIT:] The on-line modem/router emulator can be accessed at https://support.netcommwireless.com/e.../login.html The default un/pswd is admin/admin. Once in the main page, select "Advanced" from the left menu list. This (in the emulator) opens the Advanced page, as it should. In a normal situation here, it simply reverts to the login page.

Q1: Anyone have any experience like this, or any clues/suggestions?

Q2: To continue using these Win7 boxes in that role, am I forced to abandon FF?

Using Google Voice became unusable. Firefox too slow. Had been running just fine up till maybe a month ago when I finally gave in and allowed Firefox to update. Not knowing if it was a Windows or other issue I stupidly did a Windows reset and lost all my installed programs (including Firefox). I did a fresh install of Firefox and manually reentered passwords and bookmarks.

Ran fine for a day or two and is now again unusable. Cleared cache and appears to work OK at the moment but still sluggish.

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Facebook's help page says their "end-to-end encryption" will only work with Edge and Chrome. Is anyone at Mozilla working on making Firefox compatible with this? I only use Firefox for Facebook messaging, since I don't trust those other browsers, or the Messenger app, which I know for a fact is a trojan. But as it is, I have an incoming message that I can't read. Thanks.

After half hour or so the browser for Youtube just hangs All the links are not connecting It shows up as arrow NOT hand It just hangs until you refresh the browser so you lose all the queues

The font is all garbled on Firefox on the latest version, and I can't even read the settings to see if I can fix it. Any ideas? I did an inspect and it says it's the "system UI" font, but every other app/browser is loading it fine. Help!

Running Linux Mint 22 and FF 138.0.3. Normal practice is to leave 2 or 3 FF windows open on shutdown so the same windows and tabs will re-open on future boot-ups when opening FF. In the last several versions of FF as well as of the OS, those tabs appear on boot but display random text within a random tab for a given window. Also, the highlighted icon in the tray does not match the window that has opened. If I click and re-click the tray icons, they eventually display as expected.

I am trying to resolve an issue with my firefox browser for MAC OS. Everytime I close my screen to sleep and open it back up, the browser stays on time out mode. I have tried downloading the update, but it never seems to complete or fully initiate. I have gone to the mozilla website and downloading directly from there but the new download wont even let me log into my gmail.com using my biometrics. any ideas?

This is not an error, but it may be useful for some users of the Mac version of Firefox to know.

I have several tabs pinned to the left side of the tab bar (just the icons). Some of them I intend to use as "model" tabs to be duplicated for a session and the duplicate then deleted (such as bank logins).

I have found that, if I left-click to select a pinned tab and THEN right click and select Duplicate Tab, the duplicate appears immediately to the right of the pinned tabs, and to the left of any open non-pinned tabs. But if I right-click the pinned tab WITHOUT first left-clicking it, it goes to the right of the LAST non-pinned tab on the right.

This does not cause any errors, but it may be useful for some people to know; they can control where they want the duplicate tab to appear when they create it!

I am on Canada. I am using a Lenovo Laptop with WIN 10 (22H2) and Firefox 138.04 64bit. When connected to a local streaming service I am refused service because I show as being out of the country. When I load Microsoft Edge and connect I am suddenly back in Canada. The steaming service does not have an answer. Any clues as to why this occurs?

Running - when open to run webtrading site, I got message - This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser stop this page. And stop button. And the webtrading site stops anyway. Could you help Please. Thank you, Frank

Recently Firefox has been hanging up more than usual, I did a double check on all drivers, updates, and virus protection. Normally things work fine but through the day I'll get the "Gah this tab has crashed. " Or the window will freeze and hitch up, sometimes having to be completely closed with task manager. Just wondering if this is something to do with firefox as a whole, my add-ons, or something I can fix with an easy reinstall.

I have been using Firefox for many years now and I have always been greatly satisfied with its stability, performance and features. However with the last couple of releases something has changed. The number of tabs I keep open and what they are connected to have changed very little over the years. The CPU utilization has never been much but now it has become huge - utilizing multiple CPU cores and running them at 100% whether I am using the browser or not. I have gone thru each individual tab/web page removing it, waiting for a period of time and them re-adding it assuming this was a website coding issue. Nothing changed. So I gave up and move 98% of my web browsing to another browser (Opera) - moving one website at a time until what was left on Firefox was 11 tabs. Finally the CPU utilization went away. I got the latest Firefox version update today, installed it and now Firefox has changed behavior yet again. Those same 11 tabs will not use any CPU as long as I keep Firefox open and visible on screen, but if I minimize the Firefox window it immediately jumps up in CPU utilization. This makes no sense to me.

What adds to all this frustration is I am running on a system76 Thelio desktop. While extremely fast they have a known issue with their somewhat loud CPU cooling fan kicking in too fast when high CPU utilization occurs. Firefox never used to cause the fans to run but now the latest couple of versions cause the fan to run continuously.

Here is a paste from "top" showing the top 2 cpu processes - both from Firefox and the browser is minimized:

416154 greeves   20   0 3796844 612012 260196 R 109.6   0.9 147:49.17 firefox-bin                             
416394 greeves   20   0 3537408 822456 130500 R  89.7   1.3 146:40.46 Web Content 

 My apologies if I have run on with too much info that is of no help.  If anyone has any ideas it would be appreciated and I would be happy to test.  FYI, my OS is up to date, Firefox is up to date, BIOS is up to date, I have restarted Firefox many times and I have rebooted several times.  I thought Mint might be the issue so I loaded Pop-Os and tried it with the same results.  Btw neither Opera or Brave shows the problem.  However I would prefer to use Firefox as I really like the features - especially how it handles tabs and grouping them.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Yesterday (5/19), I noticed that Firefox wouldn't load certain websites - specifically, Facebook and my credit union after I tried to login, as well as some commercial websites I use for work, such as Claude.ai. YouTube videos did not play well either - they started buffering after a minute or two. I also noticed that when I was logged into my Google Workspace, apps like Drive and the Calendar had to be refreshed multiple times to get them to fully load - and even then, sometimes that didn't work. Yet other sites would load and function just fine.

After working with Microsoft support yesterday to determine if it was a Windows problem (it doesn't appear to be), I started checking to see if it was a browser issue, especially since I can access everything I need to just fine on Microsoft Edge. I have tried clearing my cache, refreshing Firefox, reinstalling Firefox, and completing a full virus scan on my PC (no issues detected), but nothing has worked and the same problems continue.

Any ideas? (Please note that I have limited tech troubleshooting skills. I am an ordinary user, not a developer.)

Many thanks.

Firefox on MacOS in full screen mode makes the black offset between the screen edge and the Firefox window after logging in after MacOS is locked. It fixes itself when you exit the full screen and enter it again.

How to reproduce?

• Open Firefox and enter the full screen mode
• Close your MacBook and wait until it prompts you for your password or touch id
• The Firefox window has black offset between screen edge and the Firefox window, that was not present before
• Exit the full screen and get into it again, and the offset is gone

Have any of you noticed how much resources Firefox use? Task Manager tells me Firefox requires 11 to function using 700 megs of memory. I have 32 megs on board and if I run auto-clicker on Firefox my fan needs to run to cool the processor... This doesn't happen on Chrome. Firefox is my browser of choice... (add-ons)

When i load twitch i can see video & snapshots of individual creators but when i click on a specific one to watch instead of live action i get a dead screen with a large ? & 4 small squares in each corner around the ? . no error code or message at all. I have windows 7 version 115 which is latest version it lets me update. I have wiped cache & history cookies & still no change still get same issue Thank you