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I just bought a new laptop at Best Buy; and asked the Geek Squad to transfer everything from my old Lenovo to the new one. Re: my Thunderbird email: on my old laptop I have about 10,000 emails in my in box. I also have previous years' emails stored in local folders, by year. When the transfer occurred, only one month of "inbox" emails show in the new laptop, which is receiving new ones as well. I cannot find the local folders containing the previous emails. Although I brought the laptops back to Best Buy, the Geek Squad rep was unable to find a way to transfer successfully. They suggested that TBird might be able to download directly from the server? I have looked thru the suggested transfer methods using USB to copy and load,, essentially, onto the new device but am wary of attempting, not wanting to screw up the records . on the old laptop. I have limited tech experience. Can you advise as to how I can get my new laptop to accept the same setup as old, with all the stuff intact? FYI: there is a TB Profile Backup folder on my old laptop that was created during the Geek session; it is 21 GB zip folder. Any help / guidance much appreciated. Kathy Ormosi kormosi@verizon.net

Hi,

I'm working on a Firefox extension where I need to detect print event. I've tried the following approaches:

• beforeprint – Fires immediately when the print dialog opens (works correctly in Chrome).
• afterprint – Fires immediately when the dialog closes (works correctly in Chrome).
• window.focus and visibilitychange – Work inconsistently with noticeable delay, depending on how Firefox handles focus/visibility updates after closing the dialog.

Questions: 1. Is there a reliable way in Firefox to detect print event? 2. Are there any known workarounds or events that could be used for this purpose?

Thanks.

I can not get into my Yahoo Email account. When I log in it says, "Something's gone wrong".

I can get into my Email through a different browser on the same computer. This started last 

Wednesday (01-29) or Thursday (01-30). Help.

Thank you for your time. Tony S.

Hi all, I used to run two Firefox instances on the same computer, each one using a different account (as I mentioned in the Subject), but I don't remember how I managed this, so now that I moved to a new computer I can't reproduce it! Thanks for helping, if anyone knows. Regards, Mike

Hi - I wanted to migrate all my changes made in the flatpak app to the aur version. I noticed the profile content has a different structure in both - aur and flatpak configs. And any attempts to replace profile content with the other resulted in browser ignoring these and initing new config files. Was wondering if my config can be ported over or thats not possible thanks.

I am an academic. I use Canvas. When I am in Canvas and I try to open a document in it from Firefox, what I get are solid black pages. I do not have this problem with Canvas in Chrome or in Edge. I really don't want to use those Browsers. I actually have this problem with every PDF I try to open from all sites. This is a recent problem. But if I cannot correct it, I will have to use other Browsers.

E. Wray Bryant, Ph.D. [edited email from community support forum]

Hi,

I take a look to forums and docs but didn't find answer to it : just found informations about the use of firefox -P

Is there a way to change the defaults profile path.

For example, in the profiles.ini :

Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/be7er9lz.default Default=1

this is a relative path referring to %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\[PathVariableValue]

Is there a way to change a config file or config to customise the path for all users a windows computer ?

For example :

setting this variable to \\nameofserver\Firefox\

will made all relatives profiles looking for : \\nameofserver\Firefox\[PathVariableValue]

without this option, I should be obliged to edit all users profiles.ini to change path to absolute

Thanks for your help

ludovic

For highly encrypted messages and sensitive information each time renewed or discovered for the first time cam be very intimidating for certain people. Based on the facts and past experiences, this has become extremely important to discuss and share knowledge with true and trustworthy people only to ours and others peace of mind and safety.

For years I have used Thunderbird. I have had copies of Thunderbird both on my Windows 11 desktop and on my Windows 11 laptop. When I am at home I use the desktop and when I travel I use the laptop. When I leave home I copy the entire Profile directory from Appdata /Roaming directory to the Laptop and then reverse when I return home. Last week I returned home and no matter what I tried I couldn't get the Desktop to use the Profile transferred from the Laptop. It poped up a message that the version was wrong. Upon checking the Thunderbird version on the Laptop I saw it was newer than Desktop. So I uninstalled Thunderbird and reinstalled only to find out that downloaded version was still behind the Laptop. So today I finally was able to install the newest version on the Desktop but now I get the popup titled Profile missing with the following message "Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

Any help appreciated getting Thunderbird working on my Desktop.

Good afternoon. Since recently (probably after the last Firefox update to version 136.0) I have a problem: every time I start Firefox it requires the main password set in the settings. Before this problem did not occur, no settings were changed.

I read the official article on this topic, but the recommendations described there did not help me. I turned off the password, logged out of the browser, turned it back on, logged out again, and nothing. When I turned it back on, still at every startup it asked for the password.

I also noticed that every time I start it up, the loading circle next to the cursor spins, like something is happening. Can you tell me what it could be and how to get rid of this problem?

OS: Windows 11 24H2.

Greetings...

I work with multiple computers that each use Firefox as their web browser. In each of the Firefox installation are bookmarks, history, and passwords that have been saved over time.

Q: Is there a manual method available that I could use to merge/combine two or more of these bookmarks/history/password "collections" into a single collection, then install the new combined collection on one or more of the multiple computers?

Please advise. Thank you very much! Take care...

I can't use Firefox at all, because I can't create any profile. I haven't ever installed Firefox in the past on this computer. The error message is attached as an image. Here are the things I've tried: Reinstalling Firefox multiple times, both the exe and the msi Running Firefox as administrator Deleting/renaming the profiles.ini file and the Firefox folder Trying to make the folder not read only with the properties Trying to make another folder elsewhere that isn't in appdata roaming, which doesn't show the error message, but gives another message saying "your changes couldn't be saved" and closes firefox immediately without creating the profile (other screenshot)

Another thing to note is that I'm only able to install Firefox by running the installer as administrator, because it shows an error message "can not create temp folder archive" and stops working.

Please help, I really want to use this browser.

I just set up my Laptop, and now I`m trying to bring my old Profile in, no chance The picture annected is the last, I see, then nothing more. Furthermore: look, please, on the second, no possibility to find my emails and so

I am tired of this bullshit.

So i was using the beta branch of the firefox and beta version stopped working with a site for some time. so i tried to come back to the stable version.

After i do that and fix my config. In every couple of hours there would be a notification window pop up with sound saying this

"firefox this profile was last used with a newer version of this application. Please create a new profile"

So i did create a new profile BUT i copy pasted my own configuration.UI stuff from my old settings from "About:config"

This notification STILL comes up FFS what do i need to do then?

HOW COME MY UI CONFIGURATION TRIGGERS THE DAMN NOTIFICATION?

I will not re-do my fckng UI configuration by hand.

Hello, I have many PCs in my home. Office, Kitchen, Lounge, Bedroom, Man-Cave etc etc etc. I do most of my work on my main PC, but I move around a bit. So I would like to be able to copy My entire Firefox Nightly Build across all my PCs. I have about 16 profiles set up for various jobs. I have seen a few posts that tell me to copy the User/appdata/roaming/firefox folder from one pc to another, but after trying this I ended up with nothing. Is there a simple folder selection I can sync across my network? Thanks Col

Suddenly I cannot access one of my email providers [tutanota.com] because, so its error message says, javascript is not enabled my browser [Firefox is my default browser]. BUT javascript is enabled. [I just checked through taking the steps 1) typing "about:config" in Firefox; 2) clicking "accept risk and proceed"; 3) typing "javaScript" in the select preferences name box; 4) looking at the javascript line for "true" or "false".] Javascript was "true". Help. Please advise.

Hi,

I'm trying to set up Sync across devices but the login page at https://accounts.firefox.com it takes me to never actually does anything after I click the "Sign In" button and it becomes greyed out. See attached Screenshot.

• It definitely is the right password
• I can login here at support.mozilla.org using the same credentials unless I'm mistaken
• It happens on other browsers and on a new profile in Firefox

I'm suspecting maybe it's related to me using the Profiles feature?

Thanks!

When printing history from my bank account there are transactions missing in between pages and extra bank pages. The bank of course says it's the browser. it does it on Edge as well. Please help

OLD firefox data is being created automatically if we are deleting its stil get created again in desktop no profile setting found on fixfox browser In sycn option also not account is added.