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When I start Firefox without any internet, i.e. Airplane mode, the browser starts up pretty quickly. However when I connect to internet, either via WiFi or LAN, the startup time increases dramatically. This means that Firefox is connecting to the internet, waiting for some server to respond and then finish the launching of the browser. I have been able to figure out that Firefox connects to the following URLs when it launches.

1. cdn.statically.io
2. img-getpocket.cdn.mozilla.net
3. ublockorigin.github.io
4. aus5.mozilla.org
5. content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

Please note that this is not the complete list, it is just what I have been able to figure out. There might be other URLs that Firefox connects too, which I am not aware off.

So my questions are as follows 1) How do I come to know all the URLs Firefox is connecting too, when it launches? 2) How can I check how much time does the server take to respond back to Firefox? 3) Is there a way that to stop the connection between these servers and Firefox? For example, pockets is getting shut down and I do not use pockets. So I maybe the connection to img-getpocket.cdn.mozilla.net can be terminated or stopped. OR maybe the connection to content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net can be asychronous and need not hold up the browser loading and so on

Hello, I'm experiencing problems with the newest Firefox App for Android. Every time I minimalize the app and return back to Firefox pages keep autorefreshing. I have uBlock Origin instaled. I turned off battery saving for thr Firefox app.

Sometimes, when another application displays a window in the same display area as the Firefox browser window, Firefox will reassert itself as the front-most focused window. I can try clicking on the other app in the dock, or use Exposé to re-select the other app, but Firefox will just reassert itself again. I have to minimize Firefox in order to interact with the other app that's being covered.

Firefox is not in full-screen mode, just in regular window mode.

When i have several Firefox windows open and then minimize all of them, They will not maximize unless I open a new Firefox window and keep it up. If I minimize it it joins the other window in refusing to open back up. What is happening here?

All 4 of my Firefox installations started sucking big time recently. Unbelievably poor performance loading pages, which was working super fast before. Never had such an issue, running on 4 different, high performance PCs and having same symptoms, where I have to wait for Facebooks posts to load for minute or so. Youtube stops playing in the middle of the video. In meantime if I try same pages on other browsers everything works fast AF. I'm on 1000Mbps connection at office and 500Mbps home. Noticed massive increase in RAM usage, which used to be around 3GB, it is now using 6+. What has happened ?

This has been an issue that I've been having for the past month and have been unable to find a proper fix to it.

While Firefox opens normally, none of the previous windows show up on screen. Even though I can still technically interact such as opening new tabs in it and click through tabs with Firefox View. Once I try to pull them up none of them show on the monitor nor can be interacted with further. I have both uninstall and reinstall Firefox and deleted/rename the xulstore.json, but neither of them fix the problem The only temporary solution I've found is through refreshing Firefox through about:support, even then it only takes a couple days to suddenly have the problem come back all over again.

For added info I'm using a 2019 iMac with 15.2 OS.

Hello! I've been observing strange behaviour during the startup of a new profile window in Firefox. Before launching there is a split second pop-up with no name and flickering colours. Any idea what that might be? I installed firefox on a different win 10 pc and the same happens there

Constantly getting the following messages - "Not Responding." "This application is not responding. The program may respond if you wait. Do you want to end this process?" I am on my email or reading an article on my email and it goes blank. Also, I get "Restore session or start new session." The only way I can get to start my computer ( getting the password box ) is if I do Control Alt Delete many times.

Very Frustrating indeed!

help me to use the browser!

I just simply need it to maximize.

I'm not too tech savvy. The only thing I tried was to reinstall Firefox which did not help.

There is a bug which was reported 3 month ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1959157. It appeared out of nowhere and I don't even know if it was fixed since then. But it is bugging me a lot, no pun intended. Any help would be appreciated.

Since the last update Firefox sends the processor load through the roof. Both on desktop and on Android. For the first time since like version 7 I'm a bit disappointed.

What's up with this?

I have a 120Hz display with dynamic refresh rate enabled in the Windows settings (48Hz-120Hz). With dynamic refresh rate enabled Firefox locks browsing at 60Hz. With dynamic refresh rate disabled Firefox shows all websites at 120Hz. Due to battery efficiency reasons I would like to use dynamic refresh rate but still use Firefox with 120Hz across all websites. Is there a hidden setting which I have missed? Thanks!

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.

On macOS (Sonoma for me), if a Firefox window has focus and and there is a window that doesn't have a dock icon (for example, the "About This Mac" window) that is behind the Firefox window, using Mission Control to bring that window to the front doesn't work.

Well, actually it does work, but then the Firefox window immediately comes back to the front. If any other app has the focus, then it works correctly (Firefox doesn't force its way back to the front).

Does anyone else experience this, or is it just my system?