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Repeated messages that I use an old version despite having downloaded the most recent version

Hi! I get repeated messages that I use an old version despite having downloaded the most recent version. When i try to start Firefox it won't start, I only get a message… (read more)

Hi!

I get repeated messages that I use an old version despite having downloaded the most recent version. When i try to start Firefox it won't start, I only get a message and the precise wording of the message is" You've launched an older version of Firefox Using an older version of Firefox can corrupt bookmarks and browsing history already saved to an existing Firefox profile. To protect your information, create a new profile for this installation of Firefox." Then I get two choices, either "Exit" or "Create New Profile". If I choose the first, I exit. If I choose the latter and create a new profile then I loose my bookmarks and browsing history. Appreciate any solution you might have

Asked by Jan Nilsson 3 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 3 months ago

Comcast login fails

I have used Thunderbird for many years without a issue. But as of a couple days ago I have been getting errors when I open Thunderbird. 1) It always ask me to login even … (read more)

I have used Thunderbird for many years without a issue. But as of a couple days ago I have been getting errors when I open Thunderbird. 1) It always ask me to login even after I save the password to always login. 2) I get this message: "Login to server imap.comcast.net with username caulkerguy@comcast.net failed." 3) Then I get this error message "Alert from account caulkerguy@comcast.net 1014." I have checked all my Server settings and all are correct as per your online settings. I have searched the web and have not found any fixes. Are there any fixes or work arounds? I would hate to stop using Thunderbird as I really like it! I have included 2 screenshots.Thanks for any and all help! Mike: caulkerguy@comcast.net or caulkerguy@gmail.com

Asked by Mike Andrews 2 months ago

Last reply by Mike Andrews 2 months ago

Significant battery drain on S22

Firefox has been a great browser on my new S22 however I have noticed recently that it has been dropping my battery percentage extremely fast, and I notice its lower almo… (read more)

Firefox has been a great browser on my new S22 however I have noticed recently that it has been dropping my battery percentage extremely fast, and I notice its lower almost every minute I check. This is confirmed in the battery settings menu where it shows an abnormally high amount of usage, when I mainly use Firefox for general browsing and close background tabs.

Asked by angadsingh0515 2 months ago

Last reply by Noel Leka 2 months ago

Browser lagging and freezing

The last update forced itself onto my laptop and since then my browser has been lagging and freezing constantly. For example, when I click to refresh a page it will take… (read more)

The last update forced itself onto my laptop and since then my browser has been lagging and freezing constantly. For example, when I click to refresh a page it will take at least 30 seconds before it even starts loading the page again and then it still takes it a minute for the whole page.

Asked by laurenashl 2 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 2 months ago

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ChatGPT no longer gives any response in firefox

I tried clearing cache and temp files. I tried a new profile. I tried a fresh install without logging in on account. Tried disabling all addons, running in safemode and i… (read more)

I tried clearing cache and temp files. I tried a new profile. I tried a fresh install without logging in on account. Tried disabling all addons, running in safemode and incognito. Nothing works.

When opening in Chrome, it works as always. Same computer.

Asked by alyndra 2 months ago

Answered by zeroknight 2 months ago

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Firefox displays html code on .xml page instead of rendering text

Firefox displays text on the .xml page as html code instead of rendering is as normal text. The layout and images on the page look as they should. There is nothing wrong… (read more)

Firefox displays text on the .xml page as html code instead of rendering is as normal text. The layout and images on the page look as they should.

There is nothing wrong with the page, as it is rendered perfectly in Chrome.

In addition, this page doesn't display at all on the phone. When I click on the link it asks me to download it and then asks me which app I want to open it with - instead of simply rendering the page.

I have seen some old threads on this topic, it looks like this issue haven't been resolved for few years.

My question is not just about fixing it in my browser but at the root cause. This page is the RSS feed of my podcast which many people want to access and many use Firefox as their browser. Unless I tell everyone to use Chrome instead.

Can someone help? thanks.

Asked by etcetera777 3 months ago

Answered by etcetera777 3 months ago

Lame game

I play a game at Vegas World. It's basically a free online slot machine site. I have played it for years with Chrome. Recently switched to Firefox. Playing an auto spin s… (read more)

I play a game at Vegas World. It's basically a free online slot machine site. I have played it for years with Chrome. Recently switched to Firefox. Playing an auto spin slot game, Firefox gets slow and hangs after about 25 spins. Chrome will go for 10,000 spins. So, Firefox is useless on game sites. I don't really expect a fix or solution. And I don't actually expect to use Firefox by the end of the day.

Asked by wisemagic1 2 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 2 months ago

pop up just started a couple days ago

Just a day or two ago a thunderbird screen pops up when I open my mail and wants me to log into my google account but does not allow me to. Its oversized and does not all… (read more)

Just a day or two ago a thunderbird screen pops up when I open my mail and wants me to log into my google account but does not allow me to. Its oversized and does not allow reforming it either. When you click on next it goes to another screen that says ----- GOOGLE 400 That's an error. Then a couple lines later it says --- The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That's all we know. --- ( the dashes I added to break up each line)

     So it takes using the ESC key to remove it off the screen, but eventually pops back up. I have to use end task to remove it all together but again when I open mail it returns.  I tried to upload a screen shot to you but it kept giving me an error message.
    I hope you can correct this problem. Yes I did reboot incase it was a computer problem. Thank you for your time and I hope you can fix this matter. I seen in the forum some were having similar issues but did not see my exact problem.

Asked by Anon aYmous 2 months ago

Last reply by Googlethunderbird 1 month ago

Thunderbird keeps asking for live.com email password

I have 6 email accounts and only 1 is a live.com email. That is the only account that keeps popping up a password error when I open Thunderbird. All settings are same sam… (read more)

I have 6 email accounts and only 1 is a live.com email. That is the only account that keeps popping up a password error when I open Thunderbird. All settings are same same, full username with @live.com, SSL/TLS,norm pass and so on. Some days no issue grabbing emails ( no password prob ) then starts having issues, and I never changed anything. Any recommendations to resolve?

Asked by trixster67 2 months ago

Last reply by sfhowes 2 months ago

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Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, restart your device, or use a different profile.

when clicking an email link this is shown "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird proce… (read more)

when clicking an email link this is shown

"Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, restart your device, or use a different profile."

How do I make Thunderbird instead open a new email?

This is on Fedora

Asked by johannes 1 month ago

Answered by johannes 1 month ago

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Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to www.youtube.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Since your latest so called update a few days ago, all I get is the "Secure Connection Failed - An error occurred during a connection to www.youtube.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_E… (read more)

Since your latest so called update a few days ago, all I get is the "Secure Connection Failed - An error occurred during a connection to www.youtube.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR" message when trying to open any pages. Your browser has become less useful than explorer or edge. It's the same message no matter what page is attempted to open.

Asked by cwestgcs 2 years ago

Last reply by David Smith 1 year ago

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Default action "Edit draft message"

Somewhen before or with 91.2.1, the default action when opening an existing email became "Edit draft message." (W10 19043, synching to GMail) That setting is nonintuiti… (read more)

Somewhen before or with 91.2.1, the default action when opening an existing email became "Edit draft message." (W10 19043, synching to GMail) That setting is nonintuitive and just wrong. A default should NEVER be an action that commits to an irreversable behavior path. Please fix.

This extremely bad design "feature" has apparently been around quite a while and generates exactly the problems returned by a search here on "delete attachments Thunderbird." I first noticed the behavior just about the time GMail introduced two-factor authentication. Maybe no connection there, but ...

Asked by c.roy.taylor 2 years ago

Answered by Matt 2 years ago

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Thunderbird inbox scrolling speed is too fast (91.2.1)

Since recent updates (I'm on 91.2.1 32 bit) the gesture-scrolling (two finger drag) with my Windows 10 laptop's touchpad is much faster than before, and I'm finding it to… (read more)

Since recent updates (I'm on 91.2.1 32 bit) the gesture-scrolling (two finger drag) with my Windows 10 laptop's touchpad is much faster than before, and I'm finding it too fast to control. If this is an intentional change, can it be toggled off?

Asked by s.i.m.emg 2 years ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 1 year ago

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Issues when composing a hotmail email

When attempting to compose a Hotmail email, without provocation, the email will leave the screen altogether, landing in either 'draft' or 'sent'. If I'm replying to an em… (read more)

When attempting to compose a Hotmail email, without provocation, the email will leave the screen altogether, landing in either 'draft' or 'sent'. If I'm replying to an email, the reply will disappear into draft or sent folders, and the original gets thrown into the archive folder (or some other folder). The auto-fill option has a tendency to not include vowels. Any help would be appreciated.

Asked by cjeveringham 2 years ago

Last reply by Delenn 1 year ago

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Browser stopped warning that page has changed 97.0.1 (64) (now 99.0.1)

My work consists mainly of capturing accounting data online. It is important that the browser warns me if I try to close or navigate away from a page if the data entered … (read more)

My work consists mainly of capturing accounting data online. It is important that the browser warns me if I try to close or navigate away from a page if the data entered has not been saved or updated, but I no longer get these warnings.

Please help.

Asked by Joshua Jacobs 2 years ago

Answered by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 2 years ago

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Secure Connection Failed on Firefox 98 (SEC_ERROR_LIBRARY_FAILURE)

Greetings. I can't open most sites I usually visit (even google.com) via my Firefox 98.0a1. This happens since today. All error codes are SEC_ERROR_LIBRARY_FAILURE. Trie… (read more)

Greetings. I can't open most sites I usually visit (even google.com) via my Firefox 98.0a1. This happens since today. All error codes are SEC_ERROR_LIBRARY_FAILURE.

Tried to:

  • Disable DNS-over-HTTPS.
  • Disable HTTP/3.
  • Disable proxy (never had it enabled anyway).
  • Disable sending info to Firefox developers.
  • Change settings of DNS-over-HTTPS.
  • Restart the browser (after each action).

Nothing helps me... But I still can visit some websites, but most common resources are not working for me. Please help me because I can't use Microsoft Edge without getting mentally ill. :/

Asked by Николай 2 years ago

Answered by Николай 2 years ago

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Google OAuth2, issue with profile

Google's depreciating "Normal password" authentication method and I am forced to switch to OAuth2. In Account settings I switch authentication method to OAuth2. Popup win… (read more)

Google's depreciating "Normal password" authentication method and I am forced to switch to OAuth2. In Account settings I switch authentication method to OAuth2. Popup window appears asking me to fill my email, which is correctly filled, I click Next and I get the error message from the screenshot. Thing is if I start a fresh profile, I can add gmail account with OAuth2 just fine. I have cookies on and normal password removed from password manager for the account. Any idea if setting something in my profile can solve this?

Asked by blekoty 2 years ago

Last reply by blekoty 1 year ago

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Firefox is somewhat randomly freezing upon opening something in a new tab, and on starting afterwards

Seemingly randomly, when opening a new tab, FF freezes up completely. This has only started happening today. After starting my PC, I opened up FF. Upon opening Dicord i… (read more)

Seemingly randomly, when opening a new tab, FF freezes up completely.

This has only started happening today. After starting my PC, I opened up FF. Upon opening Dicord in a tab (3rd tab, YouTube and Twitter were previous and still open) and clicking on it while loading, it froze. A white line appeared at the top, and FF overlapped, and thus hid, my task bar. Waiting (5 min) did nothing, so I clicked and the "... is not responding" dialogue popped up, and I closed it.

Upon starting again, it restored the tabs that were previously open. I could swap between use them normally. However, when I opened a link in a new tab, it froze again.

After another restart, not even the new empty tab would load, freezing again, and every try afterwards.

Starting in troubleshooting mode or reseting did nothing (though I may not have waited long enough, an 'Old Firefox Data' folder was created and filled, but no window opened). I ran the installer again, which resulted in me having to redo some Addon settings, but worked fine for a while (~1h maybe?), before freezing again. A PC restart fixed it again for a longer while, but then it happened again, this time while trying to write this. Additionally, there was a freeze while clicking into the Subject field here, after which the even the new tabs froze again.

Another PC restart seems to have allowed me to use FF again, while I tipped this on my phone.

Hardware acceleration is off, History deletes every time I close FF, Addons on or off don't seem to matter. CPU and RAM aren't even near fully used. Drivers are up to date, Windows as well. (Running a System File Check right now, as I have upgraded to Win10 only a few days ago, although I was able to use FF during those days without issue, and the PC has been shut down in between as well. The SFC said it found and repaired files, though it didnt say anything other than that, so that might just be a "We found no issues and fixed those." translation kinda thing.)

I really don't know what else to do.

Asked by Celepito 2 years ago

Last reply by lewyes 1 year ago

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Deleted emails keep coming back

A specific set of 57 emails from the time period 3/1 to 3/2 keeps coming back into my Inbox after deleting them or moving them to another folder. Any suggestions as to ho… (read more)

A specific set of 57 emails from the time period 3/1 to 3/2 keeps coming back into my Inbox after deleting them or moving them to another folder. Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? Thanks.

Asked by e1831225a 2 years ago

Last reply by bak703 1 year ago