For several days now, FF has been launching on its own, each time opening what seem to be an MSN news page

It even happened while I was playing MMOs, making it crash. I am using Zone Alarm Antivirus + Firewall, which does not find any malware on my computer. I NEVER use MSN n… (read more)

It even happened while I was playing MMOs, making it crash.

I am using Zone Alarm Antivirus + Firewall, which does not find any malware on my computer. I NEVER use MSN news, so for the time being I placed the site on block list.

I am very concerned with FF (up to date) launching on its own, regardless which site it opens; that could be a breach of security in FF code itself.

Asked by serenity_guild 20 minutes ago

Galaxy Tab A (2016)

Hello! I use this tab. Galaxy Tab A (2016), unfortunately it is not capable to safe files from Firefox, e.g. PDF files. Samsung browser is working but I like to use Firef… (read more)

Hello! I use this tab. Galaxy Tab A (2016), unfortunately it is not capable to safe files from Firefox, e.g. PDF files. Samsung browser is working but I like to use Firefox. Best regards Ted Ernhill

Asked by ted43 21 hours ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 23 minutes ago

Firefox < 1.5.0.9 / 2.0.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (23930) / Firefox < 1.0 Multiple Spoofing Vulnerabilities (14181)

The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Description The installed version of Firefox is affected by various security… (read more)

The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Description

The installed version of Firefox is affected by various security issues, some of which could lead to execution of arbitrary code on the affected host subject to the user's privileges.

Solution Upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.1 / Firefox 0.9.2 or later Upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.3 or later. Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.9 / 2.0.0.1 or later. Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.11 / 2.0.0.3 or later Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.10 / 2.0.0.2 or later Upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.12 / 2.0.0.4 or later

Where are the patches/updates for this vulnerability located on the Mozilla homepage?

Asked by starks.nicholas 2 days ago

Last reply by cor-el 27 minutes ago

Reorder context menu addon-options

I have many addons and some add a context menu with specific options. One that I often use is "Copy Plain text". Can it be moved upwards, can the order of the context men… (read more)

I have many addons and some add a context menu with specific options. One that I often use is "Copy Plain text". Can it be moved upwards, can the order of the context menu list of options for addons be customized?

Asked by cipricus 32 minutes ago

Last reply by cor-el 26 minutes ago

Firefox crashing when attempting to play video or audio files

Firefox repeatedly crashes when attempting to play video or audio files of whatever type, in every web page. I.e., just opening a YouTube page without playing the video … (read more)

Firefox repeatedly crashes when attempting to play video or audio files of whatever type, in every web page.

I.e., just opening a YouTube page without playing the video is fine, but when I click on Play, it instantly crashes.

Here are all the error reports which I stumbled on, and which I submitted:

bp-50214dc6-3080-481e-ab76-a195f0230607 bp-89b3b226-2a57-4700-ac38-ea15b0230607 bp-ba8a96ea-deb1-42fa-acbe-34d490230607 bp-d2ad8f14-9d03-4774-824b-563690230607 bp-922b6505-b790-452d-9cf7-02ebb0230607 bp-5340f687-bf68-4960-a2fd-638c60230607 bp-27b47181-1a07-426c-be4b-b55060230607

I'm running AntiX Linux 22 32-bit on this hardware:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz) ECS Elitegroup K7VZA rev. 3.0 with VIA KT133A (VT8363A) / VT82C686B chipset and VIA VT82C686 AC97 Audio, at this link are all the technical details: https://soggi.org/motherboards/ecs-elitegroup/K7VZA-3.0.htm 3x generic 256 MB PC-133 SDRAM sticks ATI Radeon 9200 PRO / 9250 1x Maxtor 91531U3 14 GB IDE drive 1x CD/DVDW TS-H552U DVD drive 1x Realtek RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN 1x Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 2x USB 2.0 PCI expansion cards with 5 ports each, NEC uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (nothing connected at the moment) 1x Adaptec SCSI PCI controller with LSI 53c860 chip (not used, not connected to anything at the moment) Generic PS/2 keyboard and mouse

If more detail is needed, I can provide the full output of inxi -zv8 and lshw

Asked by it4lysfinest 1 day ago

Last reply by cor-el 32 minutes ago

Your Firefox is broken, 6-9-2023

So slow I almost think MSFT AI has invented a thing that trips you up... After all, they're the fallback. Just saying. I have MSFT 11 on a strong Nvidia gaming laptop. I… (read more)

So slow I almost think MSFT AI has invented a thing that trips you up... After all, they're the fallback. Just saying.

I have MSFT 11 on a strong Nvidia gaming laptop. It's a fast machine. Once Firefox is open everything works fine and fast. It's just the opening.

Thank you, Liah

Asked by Liah'O'Marsh 1 hour ago

Microsoft Defender Antivirus found Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml in langpack-en-US@firefox.Mozilla.org.xpi

I recently had Firefox auto update the version of Firefox on my windows computer I have for personal use. Within 48 hours or so, Microsoft defender gave me the following… (read more)

I recently had Firefox auto update the version of Firefox on my windows computer I have for personal use. Within 48 hours or so, Microsoft defender gave me the following notification in the image below, also mentioned in the title.

A little research has had mixed results on Reddit. Anyway, I am not directly looking for advice here on securing my device. Rather, I am wondering if there is any chance this could be a problem on the Firefox end, perhaps an issued caused by the recent update? Thanks.

Asked by everestpaintballer 2 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 hour ago

Tabs below Bookmarks - Firefox 113 and all future releases.

Starting the quest (i.e., tilting at a huge, anonymous, darkside windmill) anew. To the Firefox volunteers, developers, moderators, or whoever might read this that is w… (read more)

Starting the quest (i.e., tilting at a huge, anonymous, darkside windmill) anew.

To the Firefox volunteers, developers, moderators, or whoever might read this that is willing and able to do something about it: Provide a means for end users to place the Tabs below the Bookmarks on screen.

Asked by Troyce 7 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 hour ago

Installing a second s/mime certificate fails

When I try to import a second s/mime certificate in thunderbird it failes with the following message: "The PKCS #12 operation failed for unknown reasons." The first impor… (read more)

When I try to import a second s/mime certificate in thunderbird it failes with the following message: "The PKCS #12 operation failed for unknown reasons." The first import works fine, but the second one doesn't. Both are created with the same script, which is using the same ca. It creates the key and the csr, signs it with the CA and put it in the p12 file. So the both differ only in the used email and the cert/key. I've tried it with the cert containing the full chain and without. No success. It's not possible for me to import it. Is there any point in thurderbird which breaks the import? A good reason I don't see?? :)

Asked by me 1 hour ago

Inbox opens, but doesn't bring ant new mail in. It stop late Tuesday or early Wednesday. A text input window keeps poping up asking for the e-mail password.rd. What do I do now , uninstall Thunderbird and re-instal, or what?

Thunderbird e-mail stopped working yesterday. It is asking for a password. I enter the password and it comes back asking for the password. It and I are just repeating thi… (read more)

Thunderbird e-mail stopped working yesterday. It is asking for a password. I enter the password and it comes back asking for the password. It and I are just repeating this, and cannot get anywhere. All I can think of is to re-install Thunderbird, but I don't know if that will or will not fix it. What do you suggest?'


HOW ARE YOU GOING TO E-MAIL ME WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK? i CAN USE THE MAIL THAT CAME WITH WINDOWS 10.

Asked by DWC4656 1 hour ago

[iOS]After restarting the app, the tabs that previously opened aren't loaded, displaying default new tab screen

Procedure 1. Open Firefox iOS 2. Open some pages 3. Force-close the app 4. Open Firefox again Expected result - The tabs that previously opened is kept and possible to a… (read more)

Procedure 1. Open Firefox iOS 2. Open some pages 3. Force-close the app 4. Open Firefox again

Expected result - The tabs that previously opened is kept and possible to access

Actual result - The tabs exists, but displaying default new tab page, cannot visit the page - pageback/forward is not working - All tabs are affected

note - By pressing down pageback/forward, there is history which says "internal://local/sessionstore?url=..." is generated. - There are some people on my local app store (JP) complaining the same issue. - After erasing and reinstalling the app, this issue happened again.

The app is almost unusable because of this bug.

Asked by bleepblopp 1 week ago

Last reply by Paul 2 hours ago

Firefox Dev Edition 115.0b2 ignores `browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external` pref on OSX

Firefox DE set as the default browser. When clicking an external link, a new window is opened with one tab, the URL address bar is blank. Restarting in troubleshooting … (read more)

Firefox DE set as the default browser. When clicking an external link, a new window is opened with one tab, the URL address bar is blank. Restarting in troubleshooting mode does exhibits the same behaviour.

If anyone else can duplicate this issue I will file a Bugzilla report.

Asked by neil100 21 hours ago

Last reply by neil100 2 hours ago

open new window from links and +, instead of a new tab

I have the latest version of firefox as of 6/8/23. I want to be able to click on a link and the + sign on the upper left webpage, (next to the tab) to open a new window,… (read more)

I have the latest version of firefox as of 6/8/23. I want to be able to click on a link and the + sign on the upper left webpage, (next to the tab) to open a new window, not a new tab. I have been able to do this since firefox was invented many years ago, but suddenly the option for that in settings appears to have disappared. When I uncheck the box in the tab section in settings, "open links in tabs instead of new windows", it is still opening links in tabs. Is there a way to stop the link from opening in a new tab, and instead open a window in a new browser any more? If not, I will be sad to switch over a browser that can still do this. Hopefully someone will provide a solution. While many online posts refer to a "options" button, I only see "settings" button (when I click on the three lines in the upper right).

Asked by leiko49 16 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 2 hours ago

No comment section on Yahoo or Fox News

All stories on Fox news and Yahoo do not show comments on the end of the stories. If I use MS edge the comment sections are there on all stories. I am using the latest … (read more)

All stories on Fox news and Yahoo do not show comments on the end of the stories. If I use MS edge the comment sections are there on all stories. I am using the latest mozilla program and am running windows 10.

Asked by Bob9754 10 hours ago

Last reply by MarkRH 3 hours ago

Infinite number of duplicate download windows

I just spent 15 minutes browsing and downloading a lot of images. When I was done I looked at my downloads folder and saw only half of them there. I checked the download … (read more)

I just spent 15 minutes browsing and downloading a lot of images. When I was done I looked at my downloads folder and saw only half of them there. I checked the download history in firefox, and couldn't see some files. They were not queued or in progress. They weren't in the download list at all.

I reproduced this. I downloaded an image again. Right click, save as, click save. Then that image doesn't appear in the download history.

I tried some variations. Hitting enter instead of clicking save. Opening the image in a new tab and using ctrl-s.

Still, no image in the download history or on disk.

I quit firefox and re-openned. Still the file didn't appear on disk or in the download history.

Then I kept trying, and I got a second issue, which I think is related.

Often when I save an image, instead of one window popping up asking me where to save it, I get a second window popping up ontop of that, then a third, then a fourth. All ontop of each other. All asking the same thing. They take the focus, so it's not possible to interact with the main firefox window to continue browsing.

Sometimes if I hit enter literally 50 times then it will save the same image repeatedly, and eventually I can go back to browsing.

Sometimes there's more than 50 popup windows (my hunch is more than 100). My only solution then is to quit firefox forcefully. Which is annoying if I have state in other tabs that I don't want to lose.

This has happened many times over many weeks. It only happens on some file saves. I can't figure out why it happens on some, not others. (Right click > save, and also ctrl-s, they both do the same thing.)

This form won't let me attach a screen recording. Only screenshots. That's annoying because you can't really see the behavior from the screenshot. But I'll try. See the dark black border outside the download dialogue? That's normally a very faint transparent shadow. But because there's so many duplicate windows all exactly ontop of each other, those multiple transparent shadows have become opaque.

What you can't see from a static screenshot is that I could see each window appear ontop of the other. If I try to select the filename text and edit it, very quickly another window appears ontop with the default filename again. I can see the Firefox icon in the Gnome bar on the left shaking every time a new window pops up.

(Hmm, it looks like I can't *upload* screenshots either. I click browse, select a file, and then it doesn't get uploaded.)

I'm on Ubuntu 22.10 with Wayland.

I don't know if this issue is a bug in Firefox, or in Gnome. I've only seen this behavior with Firefox in Gnome. Not Firefox on another DE/OS. And not any other application in Gnome. This behavior has been intermittent since I bought this laptop and installed Ubuntu about a month ago.

Asked by grassyBanana 20 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 4 hours ago

My Sender's Name

I have recently installed Thunderbird version 102.12.0 as my email server. I created a "Default Identity" and put in my first and last name in the "Your Name" section. Wh… (read more)

I have recently installed Thunderbird version 102.12.0 as my email server. I created a "Default Identity" and put in my first and last name in the "Your Name" section. When I send emails, however, the recipient only sees my first name and email address in the "From" line. I would like them to see my first and last name and not to see the email address in the "From" line.

Asked by admin688 4 hours ago

Can't dismiss Calendar reminder, or change any of the event settings (Reminders, Delete it, etc.)

All of a sudden I can't dismiss or snooze a calendar entry reminder, or change any of the event settings (Reminders, Delete it, etc.)102.11.2 on Windows 10 64 bit. … (read more)

All of a sudden I can't dismiss or snooze a calendar entry reminder, or change any of the event settings (Reminders, Delete it, etc.)102.11.2 on Windows 10 64 bit.

Asked by apps6065 1 day ago

Last reply by apps6065 4 hours ago

10 instances of Firefox using 68% of CPU, 90% of memory

I was browsing and commenting on a YouTube video, when my my typing wasn't showing up for several seconds after I typed it...like 20-30 seconds. I checked Windows Task M… (read more)

I was browsing and commenting on a YouTube video, when my my typing wasn't showing up for several seconds after I typed it...like 20-30 seconds. I checked Windows Task Master and 10 instances of firefox were open (I was only using one tab) and they were using 68% of my CPU and 90% of my available memory, basically locking up my computer. I tried closing it and reopening it, but the same thing happened. I had to go to another browser. I remember this happening in the past, and I had to move to another browser permanently. I would much rather stay with Firefox if you can prevent this from happening.

thanks.

Asked by kcourcey1 4 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 4 hours ago