Firefox 73 no longer plays Netflix. It load the homepage but movies fail to play
I'm a Linux (archlinux) user. After the update to FF73 I cannot play Netflix movies. I can log in, see the homepage, choose a movie and then I tries for awhile to run the… (read more)
I'm a Linux (archlinux) user. After the update to FF73 I cannot play Netflix movies. I can log in, see the homepage, choose a movie and then I tries for awhile to run the movie. After a while it fails with error: F7702-1290. It suggest to check I have the latest version of Firefox, which of course, I do. Any Ideas to solve the problem.
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How do I get firefox to stop rediecting my tab trhough my old university library account?
I am trying to access an academic article through my new university. Firefox opens the link through my old university, which was convenient for years, but can't find how… (read more)
I am trying to access an academic article through my new university. Firefox opens the link through my old university, which was convenient for years, but can't find how to change it.
How to rebind the Tab key in the Omnibar?
A recent Firefox update changed what the Tab key does while typing in the omnibar. It used to cycle between suggestions, now it changes focus to the next element in the t… (read more)
A recent Firefox update changed what the Tab key does while typing in the omnibar. It used to cycle between suggestions, now it changes focus to the next element in the toolbar. Is there a way for me to revert this behavior?
Firefox memory leak
Hello, I use Firefox 73.0 (64-bit) on 5.3.18-1-MANJARO GNU/Linux and constantly faced with the fact that Firefox takes up all available memory until the computer freezes … (read more)
Hello,
I use Firefox 73.0 (64-bit) on 5.3.18-1-MANJARO GNU/Linux and constantly faced with the fact that Firefox takes up all available memory until the computer freezes (12Gb RAM without swap). If I restart Firefox, initially memory usage is small, but after some websurfing it constantly grows, as if it were not clearing.
According to the about:memory report, most of the memory is occupied by the "chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml". What is it and why does it take up so much memory?
Example:
7 tabs opened: https://i.imgur.com/W8zWXQZ.png
Memory usage report: https://pastebin.com/raw/MsTk2pAg
OS memory usage: https://pastebin.com/raw/3D5EUm61
OS memory usage after closing Firefox: https://pastebin.com/raw/q65AvTpa
I will be very grateful for your help!
How do I prevent the address and tab bars from appearing in full screen mode?
There's a page I'm viewing in full screen mode, which has buttons at the top of the page (First image). If I'm not careful and move the cursor to the top of the page, the… (read more)
There's a page I'm viewing in full screen mode, which has buttons at the top of the page (First image). If I'm not careful and move the cursor to the top of the page, the address & tabs bars will appear and push everything down away from my cursor (second image). Is there some way to prevent this? I want full screen to be like in the first picture *at all times*, always hiding the top bars, even if I bring the cursor to the top of the screen.
I am using Firefox 71.0 (64-bit) for Linux Mint.
How to prevent links from opening in the same container than the source?
Hi there, this is not my lang, so I will try to explain. Example, I do a google search, google is in a 'G' container, I get a list of link results, clicking any link wil… (read more)
Hi there, this is not my lang, so I will try to explain.
Example, I do a google search, google is in a 'G' container, I get a list of link results, clicking any link will open it in a new tab, in the same 'G' container. So google is able to track.
The only way is to right click and open in other/no container.
So my cuestion is how to switch it, how to make "open link in no container" the default' instead, and 'follow in the same container' only when right click?
It may be a weird question but I still have to ask.
Thx.
Disae videoble "search page" on certain websites
So when watching youtube videos you can click "F" to go fullscreen, this doesnt work on firefox because it thinks i want to search for something in the page. Id like to d… (read more)
So when watching youtube videos you can click "F" to go fullscreen, this doesnt work on firefox because it thinks i want to search for something in the page. Id like to disable that
Do I have a malware addon?
I have Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, Privacy Possum, UBlock origin, No Script, and Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express... All of which are recommended add ons. The oth… (read more)
I have Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger, Privacy Possum, UBlock origin, No Script, and Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express...
All of which are recommended add ons.
The other day I ended up with an issue where I was redirected to a "Prize" site. I have since wiped my drive and reloaded my OS... but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again.
So here's the story
I clicked on this website, and the first couple times I got this web page, which was different
from what I was supposed to get,
"game2674.goprzshere39.live/7261852386/?utm_campaign=QPF8euu28II5lw702iHhCugVqK5RzfdNsTpLaMM91qY1&t=main9............ etc",
and the 3rd time I got a warning from Ublock Origin about https://minently.com/RnSda/rDN#/ojdn/-nsy7qV12RbEJREofa... etc.....
and then the fourth time I got the website which was https://occult-study.org/left-hand-path-and-right-hand-path/
Now I no longer get that bizarre site any longer (It said I made the 5
billionth search and won a prize and then my computer beeped), but WTF was that and why did it happen?
Here is the full link to what I initially got... it seems to change for some reason
http://game7666.goprzshere52.live/4613868782
/? (parameters removed by moderator)
Firefox on Linux/ Wayland/ Sway is haveing trouble scaling on multiple screens when the screens have different scaling ratios
My setup: Firefox versions 70-74, developer version and stable; Ubuntu 19.10 with Wayland/ Sway; Internal Monitor 3000x2000 with scaling ratio 2.0 + External Monitor 192… (read more)
My setup:
Firefox versions 70-74, developer version and stable; Ubuntu 19.10 with Wayland/ Sway; Internal Monitor 3000x2000 with scaling ratio 2.0 + External Monitor 1920x1080 with scaling ratio 1.0
Ever since version 70 I noticed that Firefox would on first start scale either according to the external or internal monitor, and be perfectly workable on that one. But when moving it to the other monitor/ opening a new window on the other monitor it would not scale properly, but render according to the scaling factor of the other monitor. So, e.g. when moving from the internal to the external screen it would only render to the top left quarter of the screen, while the application was actually being the right size. At the same time the input mapping was according to the actual window dimensions, and not according to the visual rendering of Firefox. This would also happen the other way round, with Firefox then only rendering the top left part of the web page to the entire screen.
You can see this well on the attached screenshot, but notice that sway is a tiling window manager, so Firefox should actually be exactly the same size as the terminal next to it. Firefox also renders like this when the scaling factor was changed at run time, so the issue seems to me that Firefox on Wayland checks the scaling factor on startup just once globally and does not realize when it was changed or that it can be different on different monitors.
Widevine crashes every time I visit Netflix or Amazon
I'm on Arch Linux and recently updated Firefox to version 73.0 through pacman. I got no errors and Firefox works fine. Except that Widevine crashes whenever I visit Netfl… (read more)
I'm on Arch Linux and recently updated Firefox to version 73.0 through pacman. I got no errors and Firefox works fine. Except that Widevine crashes whenever I visit Netflix or Amazon. I tried removing the plugin and reinstalling it, reinstalling Firefox and starting Firefox in safe mode. If anyone knows a solution to my problem your help would be much appreciated!
Change Firefox 74 urlbar behaviour back to how it was in Firefox 73
In the latest version of Firefox Developer Edition, I notice the the urlbar behaviour has changed from what it was before and I want to change it back. Are there any sett… (read more)
In the latest version of Firefox Developer Edition, I notice the the urlbar behaviour has changed from what it was before and I want to change it back. Are there any settings in about:config that do this? In particular, I want to stop expanding and even showing suggestions whenever I click in the address bar. To me, this is odd and distracting behaviour and not what is done by other browsers so I want to turn it off.
How can I turn off Automatic Updates in Firefox 70?
I am on a metered connection. Updates chew up my data, and I want to CHOOSE when to use that data for updates. There is no toggle in the configuration screen that would a… (read more)
I am on a metered connection. Updates chew up my data, and I want to CHOOSE when to use that data for updates. There is no toggle in the configuration screen that would allow me to turn off automatic updates, and setting the preference via about:config hasn't worked. I am very irritated by this. It's my computer, it's my browser, and I don't like being forced to do what someone else has decided I should do just because they thought it would be a good idea. If I can't find a way to turn off auto updates then I'll abandon Firefox for something more user-friendly.
Just updated to FF73 in linux and the browser crashes immediately on startup
Only in Linux, fortunately. I'm using FFox 73.0 in Windows 7 to write this. I'm running Slacko puppy ver 6.3.0. Until now, FFox has run in it flawlessly. No access to… (read more)
Only in Linux, fortunately. I'm using FFox 73.0 in Windows 7 to write this. I'm running Slacko puppy ver 6.3.0. Until now, FFox has run in it flawlessly. No access to safe mode in this OS. Holding down the <Shift> key starts Geany editor. I've run the FF script in console and have a screenshot.jpg file available for upload. Only a few lines, then the Ffox crash reporter appears. Not too useful. I'll try restoring FFox from a backup and see if I missed something.
How to import csv file
I want to import csv password file from Chrome into Firefox. How is this done?
How can I "save file as"/change the file name while downloading it?
Is there a way for Firefox to ask me under what name I want to save a File/PDF I am downloading?
How to find a mail by Sender across all Folders?
I'd like to quickly find all mails in all folders of an account by a given sender. 'Global Search' Filters don't help, I can just choose 'must involve' or 'can't involv… (read more)
I'd like to quickly find all mails in all folders of an account by a given sender. 'Global Search' Filters don't help, I can just choose 'must involve' or 'can't involve', but not something like 'must be Sender' 'Quick Search' only seems to work in a chosen folder 'Search messages'-> 'From' -> 'is' is cumbersome:doesn't offer autocompletion of addresses, have to type the whole address to get an exact match I have a feeling there must be a way for this and I'm just missing it
Thunderbird
Can only visit this site in safe-mode
For the last few days I have been having a lot of trouble visiting https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IQUEBECB4 Unless I am in safe-mode t… (read more)
For the last few days I have been having a lot of trouble visiting https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IQUEBECB4 Unless I am in safe-mode this site will keep loading more and more data until the tab either crashes or my computer completely locks up. Disabling all my add-ons doesn't help. I have to be in safe mode. Wjhile on the site in any other way than safe-mode, I get those warnings at the top of the page that a page which is loading is slowing down my computer. Even if I click stop loading the page, the same process continues until the tab crashes or the computer locks up. Seems to be they have found a way to defeat all the tracking and ad block measures in Firefox. How can I visit the site without starting FF in a terminal in safe-mode?
Can't make websites think I speak English
Ever since the last update to 72.0, websites that change their content according to the browser's language act as if my language is Heberw although I've set all possible … (read more)
Ever since the last update to 72.0, websites that change their content according to the browser's language act as if my language is Heberw although I've set all possible settings to English in about:preferences and about:config. Image attached.
I remember that right after the update, there was a message that never came back saying I can choose between Hebrew and English as the language that I'll present as my language to websites. I'm pretty sure I chose English but ever since, it seems the browser is doing the opposite. The most notable damage is that Google searches show up in English.
I've tested **Google searching in safe mode and it works fine**. I've also tested a clean and new profile and I couldn't get Google show up the content in English.
I know that for example Google, allows you to change the language you prefer to use their website. The problem is, that I don't store Google's cookies for the sake of privacy (I have an extension that automatically cleans cookies based on domain) and this setting is stored within a cookie.
In the meantime I've installed the Search extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/search-google-us/
Title Bar and Drag space options missing in Openbox Window Manager
When using Firefox under openbox the "Title Bar" and "Drag Space" Options are missing in the customize options. In other Window Managers the settings are there and worki… (read more)
When using Firefox under openbox the "Title Bar" and "Drag Space" Options are missing in the customize options. In other Window Managers the settings are there and working. I know CSD doesn't work under openbox, however one can manually disable the titlebar under openbox. But without these options there are no Maximize or Close buttons.