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I have two bank accounts. Both have been hacked and both banks traced it back to digital on line banking. they both claim that somehow hackers are getting to my persona… (read more)

I have two bank accounts. Both have been hacked and both banks traced it back to digital on line banking. they both claim that somehow hackers are getting to my personal info thru my computer. I do not use the phone of banking...and Firefox is and has been for a long time my default browser. Can hackers get my info from Firefox?

Asked by Jackie Collins 8 hours ago

Hiding "The security sandbox is disabled" warning

I've purposefully used the environment variable to disable the security sandbox. How can I acknowledge and hide the persistent warning? Is there any about:config value f… (read more)

I've purposefully used the environment variable to disable the security sandbox.

How can I acknowledge and hide the persistent warning? Is there any about:config value for it?

Thank you!

Asked by Maximiliano 9 hours ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 9 hours ago

Random empty .htm file downloaded

I was googling something related to my game and i clicked on a Reddit search result, which i made sure is the official Reddit website not some shady one, then an empty .h… (read more)

I was googling something related to my game and i clicked on a Reddit search result, which i made sure is the official Reddit website not some shady one, then an empty .htm file from moz-safe-about resource got downloaded randomly. I didn't open it, i uploaded it to VirusTotal which came out safe and then i instantly deleted it and ran a virus scan with Windows Security which also came out clean. i tried to recreate this by opening the same website again both on Firefox and other browsers like Zen(Firefox based) and Chrome but nothing happened.

is this a harmless bug or should i worry that it could be a virus that didnt get detected?

Asked by xyefuh 2 days ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 1 day ago

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AI on Firefox without direct permission

Tonight I was roaming around my Firefox settings looking at something else, when I noticed this AI piece pre-checked. Why is FIREFOX, who is supposed to be for privacy an… (read more)

Tonight I was roaming around my Firefox settings looking at something else, when I noticed this AI piece pre-checked. Why is FIREFOX, who is supposed to be for privacy and security, authorizing an update that automatically choose AI? Not cool Mozilla. Not Cool. Anyone else have this? and yes, I've already fixed it ;-)

Asked by nikeit2010 3 days ago

Last reply by Paul 2 days ago

"The security sandbox is disabled" warning

I recently started to get a"The security sandbox is disable" warning. I have already gone into about:config my settings: Content Process Sandbox Level 8 Effective Cont… (read more)

I recently started to get a"The security sandbox is disable" warning. I have already gone into about:config

my settings:

Content Process Sandbox Level 8 Effective Content Process Sandbox Level 0 (note in about:config this setting is 6?) Win32k Lockdown State for Content Process Win32k Lockdown enabled -- default value is true GPU Process Sandbox Level 1

Firefox ver 145.0.2 (64bit)

Asked by Dave Sollish 5 days ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 4 days ago

Android apk download safety

Hi Mozilla community. I wanted to pose this question based on years of d/l's of a specific community built game Unciv (on github). The repo and experience are cleanly ma… (read more)

Hi Mozilla community. I wanted to pose this question based on years of d/l's of a specific community built game Unciv (on github).

The repo and experience are cleanly maintained by competent devs. Releases are provided for several platforms, including as an Android signed apk.

I tend to keep up with the latest release rather than waiting for a new version on Google Play. This implies download of the apk, install. Firefox puts significant scrutiny on this signed apk, downloaded from a generally safe site (github), from a repo with ~10k ⭐'s.

I feel Firefox could be a bit more coherent in its security compulsiveness (which is not unreasonable to have). Of the above, starting with the signed apk, this is a practical opportunity to have a checkbox for an allowance sidestepping excessive scrutiny in future downloads that fulfills the download phenotype. Because change is implicit, a failure on the phenotype check could trigger a notice with check, a shifted allowance in the phenotype identity, versus compounded.

diligence check: I posed the above to gpt 4 & 5.1, answer there is this can't happen without some work (for android), but has merit. Posing q.

Asked by hackedpassword 1 week ago

I can't tell if I have a browser hijacker

I can't tell if I've got a browser hijacker. I'm on an android phone on Firefox and using duckduckgo. I have avast antivirus, but the free version. And in the last 24 hou… (read more)

I can't tell if I've got a browser hijacker. I'm on an android phone on Firefox and using duckduckgo. I have avast antivirus, but the free version. And in the last 24 hours, sometimes when I type inquiries, usually if its a string of letters and numbers, it will redirect me to a website unrelated to my search. For instance, typing in mig23(looking up fighter jet), it won't do searches and instead will take me to some UK boat website. "OICE", a typo, takes me to a NASA OIIR website. It appears to be close to whatever I typed in, but also doesn't happen every single time. This doesn't happen on my other devices, but it also doesn't happen when I use google in Firefox. However, it is possible that this happened on my laptop but I do not have access to it right now.

I am always in fear of viruses and I desperately want this to be a computer glitch. I cleared the DNS cache, I deleted some files and apps and rebooted and its still happening! I don't know what file could've done it.

Asked by Owain Alexander 1 week ago

Last reply by Owain Alexander 1 week ago

Password visible when manually created

When creating a password on Linux Desktop version 144 it shows the password text instead of hiding or at least provding a option to hide when typing out the password. … (read more)

When creating a password on Linux Desktop version 144 it shows the password text instead of hiding or at least provding a option to hide when typing out the password.

Asked by natalkalyu 1 week ago

Make FF open certificates in standarized OS (windows) window instead of custom FF tab

Seriously - it could be as easy as to just click "view certificate" so it opens up in Windows's standard certificate window where I can easily import it to my cert store,… (read more)

Seriously - it could be as easy as to just click "view certificate" so it opens up in Windows's standard certificate window where I can easily import it to my cert store, but someone decided it requires a bunch of useless and forgettable tasks so that FF recognizes it.

Asked by uacnix 1 week ago

Phishing

A website that is a scam will not clear from my ipad screen. I have restarted. Cleared all history Website still appears when i reboot and go to Firefox. Here is the … (read more)

A website that is a scam will not clear from my ipad screen. I have restarted. Cleared all history Website still appears when i reboot and go to Firefox. Here is the site. Https://yajiyumpantry-08a7e3e1b8d0.herokuappp.-com. Apple website states all apple communications will have apple,com in there website names. so i believe this is a scam. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT? now my screen is locked when i go to firefox.

Asked by madrobdm2 2 weeks ago

Personal data not removed on deinstall

I'm giving my old Galaxy S7 to a friend, I've got her a prepaid SIM and put it into the S7 (my own SIM has gone into a new S22). I've managed to set up the S7 to sync wit… (read more)

I'm giving my old Galaxy S7 to a friend, I've got her a prepaid SIM and put it into the S7 (my own SIM has gone into a new S22). I've managed to set up the S7 to sync with her data via DAVx5, Thunderbird was easy to set up thanks to the QR-Code export, and various other things worked as expected.

BUT she uses firefox sync, and so do I. I deinstalled firefox on the S7, and reinstalled it, and changed to her sync account - but all my own personal data (bookmarks, chronology etc) are still there. That's not only really annoying, but also a breach of my private sphere.

Google KI tells me to give her sync account a new password, before doing that decoupling from sync on all used devices; we have five, so that would be a real pain. The only other option I see is a factory reset and then repeat all the work setting up the S7.

So what I'm asking for is an option when firefox is deinstalled, or as an extra option in the settings, to delete all stored personal data.

Asked by info13340 2 weeks ago

Last reply by Grace Miller 2 weeks ago