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BBC News and BBC iPlayer videos show black screen or error

The same thing happens on my two Dell laptops (Inspiron and Latitude), and a Hyper-V VM (on my desktop PC). They all run Bazzite Linux 6.17.7-ba25.fc43.x86_64. A video m… (read more)

The same thing happens on my two Dell laptops (Inspiron and Latitude), and a Hyper-V VM (on my desktop PC). They all run Bazzite Linux 6.17.7-ba25.fc43.x86_64.

A video may play for a second or two, and then it's either a black screen, or an error message of "The content doesn't seem to be working."

On the same two laptops and VM, the Chromium Browser, and LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox?), have no issues playing the same videos.

Firefox version on all three systems is 147.0.3.

Any help/guidance welcome with thanks.

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Third-party Password Managers

I am running Firefox 147 on a Windows 10 desktop PC. I am using DualSafe Password Manager. However, the 'Ask to save passwords' option is ticked in my Settings (see attac… (read more)

I am running Firefox 147 on a Windows 10 desktop PC. I am using DualSafe Password Manager. However, the 'Ask to save passwords' option is ticked in my Settings (see attached screenshot), and also greyed out so I can't alter it. Firefox keeps asking to save passwords for sites that I sign into. Can anyone suggest how I can fix this. To my way of thinking, if a thrid-party password manager is installed, Firefox should see this (it does) and automatically set itself to not ask.

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on Zorin, My custom tab was nuked by partial sync

4 rows of links working great and sync killed it all. Data is in the prefs.js file but firefox wont read it how can I fix this? Hours I have been chasing around with ai c… (read more)

4 rows of links working great and sync killed it all. Data is in the prefs.js file but firefox wont read it how can I fix this? Hours I have been chasing around with ai checking all the settings etc. wth? HOW HARD DOES THIS HAVE TO BE? please help before I uninstall and never come back. Wasted way too much time!

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Can one stop redirection blocking and prevent reloading the page when viewing source as well?

The Firefox default behaviour to reload a page for view-source even when it is already in memory is unnecessary and causes many difficulties when tracking CGI bugs. This … (read more)

The Firefox default behaviour to reload a page for view-source even when it is already in memory is unnecessary and causes many difficulties when tracking CGI bugs.

This unnecessary reloading can be turned off by setting accessibility.blockautorefresh to true.

However, fixing these stupid page reloads this way introduces another hyper-annoying behaviour: then Firefox blocks redirects.

So this accessibility setting is bad in both possible settings. Is there a possibility to prevent reloading pages for view-source while still allowing redirects?

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Firefox is unable to save passwords in LastPass on a Mac desktop. Please help. Safari works. I prefer to use FF. because it's not proprietary. Thanks.

LastPass does not seem to work on Firefox, to save passwords on my Mac. It works on Safari. Also, on Zoom Chat, the page has changed to a white text on black background… (read more)

LastPass does not seem to work on Firefox, to save passwords on my Mac. It works on Safari.

Also, on Zoom Chat, the page has changed to a white text on black background in the last 2 weeks. Please advise. Thank you.

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Firefox is not using my location

Firefox is my default browser, but often shows my location wrong in my home location. Google chrome and maps shows it correctly. Please tell me where firefox thinks I a… (read more)

Firefox is my default browser, but often shows my location wrong in my home location. Google chrome and maps shows it correctly. Please tell me where firefox thinks I am and how I might correct it.

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why is firefox suddenly forcing the use of the address bar for searching.

Suddenly I cannot search from the search bar. It defaults to the address bar. why "fix" something that was not broken. Being forced to use the address bar is frustrati… (read more)

Suddenly I cannot search from the search bar. It defaults to the address bar. why "fix" something that was not broken. Being forced to use the address bar is frustrating. If you go directly to the address bar, it tells you it cannot find that site.

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Lost all history after account sign-in - how to get it back?

I have a machine I've been using for months and haven't got around to archiving the history and tabs for some research I was doing. I realized this could be problematic i… (read more)

I have a machine I've been using for months and haven't got around to archiving the history and tabs for some research I was doing. I realized this could be problematic if anything happened to the machine, so I decided to sign-in to my Mozilla/Firefox account I made years ago, so it would be safely sync'd.

Everything was fine at first, it showed it was syncing and whatnot, but then after several minutes, Firefox crashed. Upon relaunching, ALL of my history is gone! Neither signed-in nor signed-out shows any history at all, except the searches I've done just now trying to undo this mess. Did I really just loose months of history due to some bug or is there a way I can manually restore or see it from the mess of cache/profile files on my machine?

Ubuntu user, so will be at ~/ or similar for most things I assume.

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429 errors logging in to gmx.com email Firefox/Ubuntu all of a sudden, but Ipad/Brave works.

Brave works on iPad, must be Linux/Firefox issue. https://login.gmx.com/login#.1559516-header-login1-1 status-code "429" message "Too Many Requests" request-id "f9ec64a99… (read more)

Brave works on iPad, must be Linux/Firefox issue. https://login.gmx.com/login#.1559516-header-login1-1 status-code "429" message "Too Many Requests" request-id "f9ec64a99d038a4a0fdc19793f707d42"

Works routinely, but not today. Re-booted, cleared browsing data, no help. Firefox Browser 147.0.3 (64 bit) Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu canonocal-002 - 1.0

Memory 8.0 GiB Processor Intel Core i5-4250U CPU 1.3Ghz x 4 Graphics Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5000 (HSW GT3) Disk Capacity 250.1 GB OS Name Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Gnome Version 42.9 Windowing System Wayland

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when will firefox remove the international phone code from formfill

my problem is that whenever I try to use form fill it will input everything and when it gets to the phone number it will add +1 to the entry so my phone number will be an… (read more)

my problem is that whenever I try to use form fill it will input everything and when it gets to the phone number it will add +1 to the entry so my phone number will be an incorrect or invalid number meaning that I will need to manually enter the information anyways which is kind of frustrating because what is the point

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I need to run installer on google

I am unable in run the installer for the updated version of Firefox on my android desktop. Are you able to help me? Thank you in advance Natalie [edited email from commu… (read more)

I am unable in run the installer for the updated version of Firefox on my android desktop. Are you able to help me?

Thank you in advance

Natalie [edited email from community support forum] Johannesburg, South Africa

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