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Firefox is Eating My Tabs

Firefox recently started "eating" my tabs: closing them without my permission. There are several tabs I want to keep open at all times, because I refer to them from time … (read more)

Firefox recently started "eating" my tabs: closing them without my permission. There are several tabs I want to keep open at all times, because I refer to them from time to time throughout the day, but Firefox closes them from time to time. I googled the issue and the AI directed me to two settings: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory and browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload. It suggested setting the first one to "false" and increasing the duration of the second, or setting it to "false." However, the setting will only accept numeric values.

Since I am not having low memory issues, I want Firefox to leave my tabs alone. Is there any way to actually do this? If not, it would be really nice if Firefox developers reversed this intrusive change.

Thank you, Terry

Asked by TLMorse 6 days ago

Last reply by TLMorse 6 days ago

bookmarks

Tell me how to get all my bookmarks to appear again after they recently disappeared. When I got the bookmarks back in the toolbar only half of them show up. What happene… (read more)

Tell me how to get all my bookmarks to appear again after they recently disappeared. When I got the bookmarks back in the toolbar only half of them show up. What happened to the bookmark icon on my toolbar? Microsoft edge still has my bookmarks easily available!

Asked by rmeier11736 5 days ago

Can not drag maximized page.

If a page is maximized I can not move it - I have to click on the 'intermediate' of the three choices (minimize, intermediate, maximize) before I can move it or resize it… (read more)

If a page is maximized I can not move it - I have to click on the 'intermediate' of the three choices (minimize, intermediate, maximize) before I can move it or resize it.

I have three monitors. It's the same behavior on all three.

Asked by rjrjack 17 hours ago

LastPass icon not working

When I click on the grey Last Pass icon, a "set preferences" screen is shown. The strictly necessary box is selected and I cannot change it. The Voluntary data collecti… (read more)

When I click on the grey Last Pass icon, a "set preferences" screen is shown. The strictly necessary box is selected and I cannot change it. The Voluntary data collection box is clickable but does not make any difference if it is checked or unchecked. The screen is locked, no matter what I click or unclick. The only thing that I can do is to click the grey LP icon which closes the window.

On two other very similar computers, when the grey icon is clicked, I can search for passwords, alerts, account, etc. Why does the icon work on this computer. I've deleted the addin, deleted Firefox and reloaded several times.

Thank you

Asked by cruisertwo 4 days ago

Firefox shows screens from previous sessons every couple of minutes.

Hello... So, a couple of weeks ago, there was a 15-hour blackout during a Windows 11 update. I had exited firefox, and was shutting the laptop down, and it asked if I wan… (read more)

Hello... So, a couple of weeks ago, there was a 15-hour blackout during a Windows 11 update. I had exited firefox, and was shutting the laptop down, and it asked if I wanted to update and shut down (or other options). I chose update and close. When the lights came on and the router booted back up, Windows finished updating. It works, but here is the rub: whenever Ffox runs, a couple of minutes into the sessions, it will start displaying previous session screens, screen saver-like: one after the other every ten seconds or so. I can't X out, because it disappears whenever I move the cursor. The images appear not only on Ffox, but cover whatever other app's screen until I move the cursor, which is irritating when you're trying to meet the deadline on a novel! Please help! I am running version 140, by the way.

Asked by Jan Benschop 15 hours ago

Someone hacked my acct

I tried to change my password but could not find an acct key, don't even remember having one! This is a new computer and it worked fine until I say that you are showing a… (read more)

I tried to change my password but could not find an acct key, don't even remember having one! This is a new computer and it worked fine until I say that you are showing a very old picture for my account and showing I'm still on Windows 10!!! That is VERY OLD and I've used Firefox for years!!! I changed from Windows 10 to 11 on 7-1-25. Someone has hacked my account I guess!

What to do???

Asked by S Hinson 14 hours ago

Clipboard-related issues in Firefox

I'm using Firefox, updated to version 140.0.4, on my Windows 11 laptop. Since Edge is my primary browser, I normally only use Firefox for two particular websites that don… (read more)

I'm using Firefox, updated to version 140.0.4, on my Windows 11 laptop. Since Edge is my primary browser, I normally only use Firefox for two particular websites that don't work well in Edge. Beginning in March 2025, I've had a strange problem with one of those websites. In certain situations, words or phrases pop up in text boxes, meaning that if I want to type something, I first have to delete the word or phrase. Since it's a game website (not a video type game -- actually contract bridge) and the game is somewhat time-sensitive, this is very annoying. The words and phrases are ones that are appropriate to the website (i.e., not random), and seem to be the same in each session. That's why I labeled this as a "clipboard-related" issue.

Clearing the cache seems to help for a short time, but the problem always returns. <Ctrl>-F5 also helps, but seems to work for some text boxes but not others. In fact, <Ctrl>-F5 works for one type of text box, the type that I use most often, for the remainder of that session. But if I use one of the other text boxes, it doesn't help.

If that isn't strange enough, there are two additional oddities: For the other text boxes, the ones that are unaffected by <Ctrl>-F5, if I continue to use them, they eventually stop popping up words and phrases, again just for the remainder of that session.

The other oddity is that I'm using the free version of the LastPass plugin, and every time one of these words or phrases pops up, the LastPass symbol (a red box with three white dots) also appears at the right of the text box. This is completely inappropriate, since these text boxes have nothing to do with logging in or passwords. For this reason, I'm going to try to contact LastPass to ask about the same issue. However, their support isn't very responsive, so I'm hoping that somebody in the Mozilla forum will have a solution.

As I said, the problem only occurs on this one bridge website, and although I've been using Firefox to access it for several years, the issue never occurred before March 2025.

Asked by billschmidt 13 hours ago

Last reply by billschmidt 12 hours ago

Passwords, Bookmarks, Firefox Icon Disappeared

Under Settings; Privacy and Security, my Passwords have disappeared, and at the same time all of my Bookmarks disappeared also. While I was online this morning, all of a… (read more)

Under Settings; Privacy and Security, my Passwords have disappeared, and at the same time all of my Bookmarks disappeared also.

While I was online this morning, all of a sudden my Mozilla tab went blank and the Firefox Icon on the bottom tray disappeared too.

All 3 problems happened at the same time.

This is a disaster for me.

Can the Passwords be restored? What in the world happened to my system?

Thank you.

Asked by Bradley 13 hours ago

Flickering artifacts 14.0.4 certain scale

Hello, I am having an odd issue where I see flickering bands of cyan/purple blocks whenever I scroll on a page with some video embeds. At first I thought it was related… (read more)

Hello,

I am having an odd issue where I see flickering bands of cyan/purple blocks whenever I scroll on a page with some video embeds. At first I thought it was related to refresh rates (240hz) as some pages flickers but it occurs at 60hz as well.


2560 X 1600 Resolution with 125% windows scaling

Steps to reproduce: 1) have settings above 2) navigate to https://store.steampowered.com/ 3) view a storefront with a video embed 4) zoom to 180% 5) scroll up and down past the video


Specs: 64GB Ram AMD RYZEN AI 365 Geforce RTX 5080

Asked by KimbapCheezits 3 days ago