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Hello,

Can you please tell me how to downgrade Firefox Nightly to Firefox Stable Release channel on Linux Ubuntu. When I try to exchange the firefox versions in the snap store of Ubuntu I seem to loose my whole data stored in Firefox.

Thanks.

Best NR

I use firefox 109.01 on ubuntu 22.04 (snap package) and i downloaded text file successfully and firefox indicated that the file downloaded successfully and didn't change the location of the file , then after two or three days i opened the downloads in firefox and it showed me that the file is failed download and i have the choice to click on retry download then i checked the file and the file is not corrupted.

so what are the possible reasons for that and how to fix this problem.

thanks.

Starting a few weeks ago, Firefox stopped being able to save files if a dialog box was involved. (If it doesn't take a dialog box, like a JavaScript-triggered file download, then the file saves just fine.) It also can't open files.

I'm running Firefox on linux, Ubuntu 22.10 specifically. When I run it from a terminal and then watch the error output, if I try ^O or ^S, the error message on console is this:

(firefox:35195): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:54:26.232: Can't open portal file chooser: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

When I try to get Firefox to open an external URL handler (In this case, using a Zoom link in an email message in Thunderbird, which opens in Firefox and then Firefox is supposed to launch Zoom), the error message on console is this:

[Parent 35195, Main Thread] WARNING: Could not launch default application for URI: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop: 'glib warning', file /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:167

• • (firefox:35195): WARNING **: 10:55:56.064: Could not launch default application for URI: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

I did some googling and it looks like bugs in Firefox spawning error messages like this have been opened, patched and closed in previous years, so I guess it's that smae bug again? I don't know. I've been waiting for the dev team to spot this one and patch it but I updated Firefox and it's still present.

I've tried opening in Safe Mode, no change. I've tried disabling all my extensions, no change. I've tried refreshing Firefox (ie resetting to default settings), no change. I followed some advice in a bug thread to install the package xdg-desktop-portal, which changed the open&save error messages to the current ones, but besides that no luck.

Any ideas? I know this is a dense one, sorry. Thanks for your volunteer work helping ppl like me :)

I recently transferred to Linux operating system, and when I login to firefox, and press sync, my saved logins aren't there. I've tried to log out then log back in, restarted the app several times, but won't show anything!

Before I transferred to Linux I was using Windows, and I made sure that the sync worked before transferring, so I tested the sync on a portable version of Firefox, and I was successful in syncing my saved logins.

But now it doesn't work, and I cannot see any of my passwords or logins, there is only 1 saved login which is locally stored, which was there before I logged into my account on Firefox.

Hello, I have a big problem with Firefox (109.0.1 64bit). I start Firefox with the help of devilspie2 to a certain position. But Firefox jumps to a different position than specified every time I start it.

I found out now that it only happens when "Open previous windows and tabs" is active in the settings! If I deactivate the setting, the startup works as it should.

I would like to start with multiple tabs, is there any way to get this problem under control?

Thanks and greetings!

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I am facing recurring tab and window crashes on Firefox 108. This is one of the submitted crash reports https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/b930a34e-c41d-4514-9dbd-a09970230204#tab-details

I have tried disable extensions one by one but it does not seem to affect the problem. Or at least there isn't a clear pattern that can help isolate the problem.

How can I fix this? Can someone help me read these reports better?

From some point on, my Firefox started behaving strangely. When I start up the browser, it opens new window under other opened windows instead of does it above ones. When I try to open new window in an already running browser, it does it properly. In my mind, it's really uncomfortable and unintuitive behavior so it will be good if I can fix this issue and make Firefox starts up normally (on top of other windows) like all other applications in my system. I'm currently running on 64-bit Ubuntu 22.04. Firefox (snap) version 109.0.1.

Thank in advance for any help or advice regarding my problem.

I tried the RPM and Flatpak Firefox, both in the newest version give me crashes when Loading Youtube, Invidious, Stud.IP, Nextcloud and more "bigger" sites.

It seems like an OOM error, but I have way enough RAM, 4GB/12GB used.

I tried the Flatpak and the RPM Version.

I tried troubleshooting mode.

I used the Arkenfox user.js on both installs.

Journalctl logs:

https://cloud.uol.de/s/ENY9Dkg7zgQKZZt

https://cloud.uol.de/s/9AyGAibGBnLqG3Y

Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.8-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Memory: 11.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4000

I cant login to my firefox account on both devices anymore since a recent update.

I use the Arkenfox user.js on Desktop and Mull on Android.

sync still works, even though I cant login to my account.

Firefox 109.0 on Linux, Flatpak version.

Mull newest update from F-Droid based on 109.1.1 (nightly)

Whenever I open Firefox, the window will appear shortly after, but it will take around a minute for websites to load.

• This applies to both tabs from older sessions and opening new tabs.
• It doesn't matter whether I've just booted up, or if I've been running for half an hour.
• I've tried disabling all extensions, but that hasn't fixed anything.
• This doesn't happen when running Firefox on Windows 10
• I've tried both the system package and mozilla.org version

I am running Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon on my Gaming Laptop. Specs shouldn't be an issue. Am happy to share any system info necessary. ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!

Using Peacock App in Firefox Browser

I've downloaded Firefox as a browser so I can access Peacock as was suggested on my Peacock app. How or where do I find the Firefox icon to to use Peacock and watch TV etc.

Thanks

From version 109 64 bit needs hardware acceleration disabled on Raspberry Pi 4 to be able play .mp4 files, most video sites, such as Rumble and also Google Maps. If enabled, Firefox freezes/hangs, requiring to be closed via panel tab.

A friend (who knows even less about technology than me) has an old Dell Inspiron 1501 which has been running Linux Mint 18 Xfce, which is now unsupported. I'm beginning to regret it but just to keep it going for a couple of years I offered to update to Mint 20 Xfce, which is the last version listing 1 Gb as the minimum Ram (everything later or other version are 2 Gb or more), which is the most that system can use. Once the wifi was eventually working (old b43 broadcom driver) most things went fine (except Team Viewer, which works on another Mint 20 Xfce system, but that's not a question for here). However, she uses Yahoo mail, and for some reason just attempting to load the login page (login.yahoo.com) causes Firefox to crash (I mentioned Thunderbird in the title as I attempted to access Yahoo Mail with it, but because it needs to access the Yahoo Mail page (as I think this is now based on App codes rather than passwords), and doing that crashed Thunderbird also). I'm pretty sure I have methodically gone through all the troubleshooting steps on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems (clear cookies & cache by deleting history; clear startup cache; refresh; reinstall; new profile). Firefox doesn't crash in Troubleshoot mode, despite the fact is seems to still use hardware acceleration, even though I thought it would disable that. Hence, I'm at the end of what I know to try (and that's just from following the guide, I am not an expert) and would be grateful for any help anyone can offer. I attach an image that lists all the submitted crash reports, as they will refer to slightly different conditions as I tried all the options mentioned above. I'm using my own PC to submit this (so any hardware & system data submitted by this web-form won't be relevant), not the Inspiron 1501 that has the issue. I can open the Yahoo mail page on this machine (same version of Firefox) and also on the Inspiron 1501 using Chrome (but there was a different reason relating to security why we couldn't log in via that). Would really like to get Firefox (and Thunderbird) working on the laptop, if possible.

I am using firefox on a debian installation base: $ firefox-esr --version Mozilla Firefox 91.13.0esr $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ These days web pages come with all kinds of cr@p; so, at times you need to just get all the links inside the page to parse/eyeball them. What I do is grab the "page source" and/or use "Link Gopher". I have been noticing lately that they don't work anymore. Why? The problem seems to relate to javascript generated pages. When you try to see the source all you see is some javascript one liner.

Of course, firefox must have a way to show the source since it shows to you the actual page unencrypted. Which settings in about:config should you change in order to be able to "go to the source" again? lbrtchx

edit: fixed some formatting issues

Hi folks. Currently I am using Firefox Sync to sync my bookmarks between an andriod, Linux laptop and Linux desktop. At times I have difficulty relocating a bookmark to a given position on my desktop or laptop, but my biggest problem centers around bookmarks that I relocate in a different place in the "Unsorted" folder or to a different folder not always appearing in the new position on the other machines. In an attempt to troubleshoot this further I went to my Linux desktop, signed out of FF sync, backed up my 2000+ bookmarks, exported my bookmarks (both to local directories), exited firefox and then renamed the places.sqlite. When I then attempted to restore from json file and when I input bookmarks from the html file I saw all my bookmark directories recreated but all my files were dumped into the "Unsorted Bookmarks" folder. I finally had to put the places.sqlite file back in place in order to continue working, however, my original problems remains. When I attempt to verify the places database I get the following, but clearly something is out of whack. How best can I create a cleaner bookmarks database?

> Task: checkIntegrity + The places.sqlite database is sane + The favicons.sqlite database is sane > Task: invalidateCaches + The caches have been invalidated > Task: checkCoherence + The database is coherent > Task: expire + Database cleaned up > Task: originFrecencyStats + Recalculated origin frecency stats > Task: vacuum + Initial database size is 5120KiB + The database has been vacuumed + Final database size is 5120KiB > Task: stats + Places.sqlite size is 5120KiB + Favicons.sqlite size is 13600KiB + pragma_user_version is 69 + pragma_page_size is 32768 + pragma_cache_size is -2048 + pragma_journal_mode is wal + pragma_synchronous is 1 + History can store a maximum of 74615 unique pages + Table moz_origins has 1722 records + Table moz_places has 4244 records + Table moz_historyvisits has 4542 records + Table moz_inputhistory has 3 records + Table moz_bookmarks has 2039 records + Table moz_bookmarks_deleted has 0 records + Table moz_keywords has 0 records + Table sqlite_sequence has 1 records + Table moz_anno_attributes has 2 records + Table moz_annos has 6 records + Table moz_items_annos has 0 records + Table moz_meta has 6 records + Table moz_places_metadata has 0 records + Table moz_places_metadata_search_queries has 0 records + Table moz_places_metadata_snapshots has 0 records + Table moz_places_metadata_snapshots_extra has 0 records + Table moz_places_metadata_snapshots_groups has 0 records + Table moz_places_metadata_groups_to_snapshots has 0 records + Table moz_session_metadata has 0 records + Table moz_session_to_places has 0 records + Table moz_previews_tombstones has 0 records + Table sqlite_stat1 has 16 records + Pages sequentiality: 60.3 + sqlite_schema: 32KiB (0.8%), 30.4% eff. + moz_inputhistory: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.3% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_inputhistory_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.2% eff. + moz_bookmarks_deleted: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_bookmarks_deleted_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_keywords: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_keywords_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_sequence: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.1% eff. + moz_anno_attributes: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.2% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_anno_attributes_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.2% eff. + moz_annos: 32KiB (0.8%), 1.8% eff. + moz_items_annos: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_meta: 32KiB (0.8%), 1% eff. + moz_places_metadata: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_search_queries: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_places_metadata_search_queries_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_snapshots: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_snapshots_extra: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_snapshots_groups: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_groups_to_snapshots: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_session_metadata: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_session_metadata_1: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_session_to_places: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_previews_tombstones: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + sqlite_stat1: 32KiB (0.8%), 2.7% eff. + moz_bookmarks_itemindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 67.7% eff. + moz_bookmarks_parentindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 73.6% eff. + moz_bookmarks_dateaddedindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 99.5% eff. + moz_keywords_placepostdata_uniqueindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_annos_placeattributeindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0.2% eff. + moz_items_annos_itemattributeindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_placecreated_uniqueindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_referrerindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_snapshots_pinnedindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_places_metadata_snapshots_extra_typeindex: 32KiB (0.8%), 0% eff. + moz_origins: 96KiB (2.3%), 63.8% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_origins_1: 96KiB (2.3%), 59.5% eff. + moz_places_url_hashindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 60.4% eff. + moz_places_visitcount: 96KiB (2.3%), 34.7% eff. + moz_places_frecencyindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 40% eff. + moz_places_originidindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 42.2% eff. + moz_historyvisits_fromindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 41.3% eff. + moz_bookmarks_itemlastmodifiedindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 39.1% eff. + moz_bookmarks_guid_uniqueindex: 96KiB (2.3%), 41.5% eff. + moz_places_lastvisitdateindex: 128KiB (3%), 51.3% eff. + moz_places_guid_uniqueindex: 128KiB (3%), 64.7% eff. + moz_historyvisits_placedateindex: 128KiB (3%), 65.7% eff. + moz_historyvisits_dateindex: 128KiB (3%), 55.4% eff. + moz_historyvisits: 160KiB (3.8%), 71.4% eff. + moz_places_hostindex: 160KiB (3.8%), 66.4% eff. + moz_bookmarks: 256KiB (6.1%), 81% eff. + moz_places: 1152KiB (27.3%), 96.1% eff. > Task: _refreshUI

So, any ideas how I can move forward and get my bookmarks working between between all my machines?

Thanks very much for your time, John C

I recently bought a new laptop and seem to have Firefox constantly crashing in both normal and troubleshoot mode on both a Windows 11 OS as well as Linux OS's (Pop_OS and Manjaro). In general it will crash every 30 minutes or so but sometimes it can happen rapidly in a row.

I'm not sure what the problem could be but it sounds like a hardware problem? However I don't seem to be experiencing crashes on Edge or Opera when I tried them but I haven't tested it for too long yet. Does anyone have any advice or insight about this?

Here are some recent report ID's:

bp-fa5e703a-fb27-4eb0-8cca-260f10230207

bp-7a261e27-ac52-44ae-aca8-45fbc0230207

bp-2ac09c72-a33b-415a-a1e1-8e2f30230207

bp-eca9bdc5-e0f2-438e-95bf-84bde0230207

bp-fb11c5ac-9ae6-468b-bc23-edc460230207

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/10242ead-71bd-4d33-9bc8-a51f20230207 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/f1852a6c-18bf-4aff-ba28-b90fd0230207 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/96852e0f-5770-4b3e-8dad-753c30230207 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/198728fc-a51e-497e-babc-e09d90230207

here are some of the crash reports. Does anyone know how to fix this issue or where to start looking?