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I am using AOL as an email account. Many times I am looking at my email, clicking delete or spam, then maybe open one/two/three different emails, read them, delete or save, and my whole system freezes. I have to turn off the pc, then logon. I then open CC Cleaner to clear out the issues only to find that there could be 5000+ items in my browser history, a few hundred cookies all in that short period of time - 3 minutes all this stuff clogs up my computer. CC Cleaner will remove all this junk. I then open up Firefox, get into AOL, start another session. Could be I am able to continue to read my emails for a short period or a long period of time, just reading email, then the computer freezes up again. I have to turn off the machine, turn it back on, get into CC Cleaner and clear out the 5000+ browsing history items and cookies. There is no way that I can capture this CC Cleaner Screen information.

One thing that I thought about is that AOL is spamming me with thousands of junk ads, flashing in and out, on the right side of the screen as I read my email or even just open AOL. Since Yahoo took over AOL and redid AOL in the image of Yahoo, things are a horror. I made a formal complaint with the Ad Agency (forgot the name), opted out of all the ads that I am allowed to opt out and nothing gets better. The Ad Agency is of no help. Does anyone have an idea what is going on / what I can do to stop this?

When attempting to access gmail on my new (2023) iMac running Sonoma 14.5, Firefox 115.12.0esr freezes and must be force-quit. I've seen similar issues on this and the Apple forum, but not this particular problem. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Hi,

ist the famous and great Mozilla FireFox Developer team aware of the issue and is working on it?

I am happey to describe in more detail if required. thx

Hello,

Relevant system referenced below:

MacBook Pro 2021 Mac OS 14.5 Firefox 126.0.1 (64-bit) Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.11 (7673)

I have a case of vanishing bookmarks. I quit Firefox last evening with command-Q as I’ve done a thousand times before. When I launched it this morning I was greeted with Firefox with an empty Bookmarks Toolbar and “Getting started” message. I opened a Manage Bookmarks window and everything there was empty too. I found, as well, that all of my saved UIDs and passwords were gone except for three, two of which I haven’t used in months. Weird.

Next I opened Firefox Help and found information about Troubleshooting Mode; I restarted in troubleshooting mode but nothing had changed. After restarting in normal mode, I tried Restoring Bookmarks; I chose Manage Bookmarks from the dropdown and then clicked the button in the Library window. Restore showed only one file and it was created today with only 14 items. Selecting Choose File… showed Desktop with Old Firefox Data highlighted. In that folder was only w34y3u9y…628 folder. From there I selected bookmarkbackups and the only file there was bookmarks-2024-06-06_11…lz4, a file created at 3:33 today. I found the key4.db file and it was created at 3:33 today.

I have Carbon Copy Cloner and use it for a weekly backup to a remote SSD drive. There are a year's-worth or so of weekly backups on that device. I tried trashing Firefox and reinstalling it from last week’s backup. While this worked, it didn’t solve the issue; it was still like a fresh copy of Firefox with no bookmarks.

I’m hopeful that I can restore the bulk of the lost bookmarks from CCC but I have no clue as to which files/folders to restore and I don’t want to guess. If you think this is possible, please tell me which files or folders to replace. Should I delete the files to be replaced from the current system and if so where are they located? I’m comfortable using Terminal for basic purposes but need explicit directions for entering commands and navigating to locations or files.

Thanks for your time,

David

For the last several weeks (can't give an exact date, but it's been more than just a couple weeks, less than a couple months), both my husband and I have had issues loading videos in FF. We both have the latest version of FF. I went thru "Fix common audio and video issues" and did all those things, as well as trying to load the videos in troubleshooting mode. Nothing has helped (tho now that i cleared all the cache, i'm gonna have to log back into all those websites :( ). Nothing else is problematic. Our internet connection is fine. In fact, my husband has resorted to using MS browser to watch videos--they load fine in that browser. I have no other idea what to do. Searching your database for "youtube videos load slow" only resulted in a couple hits with no resolution. Hopefully this isn't the third. thanks

I've removed firefox and reinstalled but for some reason my IOS continuity microphone and my Loopback (Rogue amoeba) virtual devices no longer show in firefox but they show up in firefox beta. Is there a setting that masks these devices off from the production branch?

Hi,

my firefox does not load any webpage no matter what Firefox profile I am using (created a new one for tests). I have a Win10 pc with Avast and Comodo installed, the system with the mentioned software and multiple different Firefox profiles was running since several years without problems.

A month ago I had the same issue with Firefox 126, which I guess was caused by a windows update, where I had trouble getting it installed. But after this (I had to increase the system reserved partition) Firefox was running without any problmes like before ...

Now no pages kan be load and always the crash monitor pops up.

AdapterDeviceID: 0x5916 AdapterDriverVersion: 30.0.100.9865 AdapterSubsysID: 224e17aa AdapterVendorID: 0x8086 Add-ons: formautofill%40mozilla.org:1.0.1,pictureinpicture%40mozilla.org:1.0.0,webcompat%40mozilla.org:125.1.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3,addons-search-detection%40mozilla.com:2.0.0,google%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,leo_ende_de%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,ecosia%40search.mozilla.org:1.2,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.3,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.6,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,ebay%40search.mozilla.org:1.4 AvailablePageFile: 28210671616 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 6727372800 AvailableVirtualMemory: 138531126534144 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20240606181944 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0xf4 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 6 ContentSandboxWin32kState: Win32k Lockdown enabled -- default value is true CrashTime: 1719121467 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true GPUProcessLaunchCount: 1 GPUProcessStatus: Running GpuSandboxLevel: 1 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1718671975 LastInteractionDuration: 76 LastStartupWasCrash: 0 LauncherProcessState: 0 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Avast Software s.r.o.":["aswJsFlt.dll","snxhk.dll","aswhook.dll","AavmRpch.dll","aswCmnIS.dll","aswCmnOS.dll","dll_loader.dll","aswCmnBS.dll"],"Comodo Security Solutions, Inc.":["guard64.dll"],"Microsoft Windows":["CryptoWinRT.dll","d3d9.dll","windows.internal.shell.broker.dll","TaskFlowDataEngine.dll","linkinfo.dll","ntshrui.dll","thumbcache.dll","wpnapps.dll","Windows.StateRepositoryPS.dll","cdp.dll","explorerframe.dll","dataexchange.dll","edputil.dll","oleacc.dll","tiptsf.dll","GdiPlus.dll","cscapi.dll","twinapi.dll","ondemandconnroutehelper.dll","MSAudDecMFT.dll","mfperfhelper.dll","msmpeg2vdec.dll","winrnr.dll","pnrpnsp.dll","NapiNSP.dll","wscapi.dll","winmm.dll","wininet.dll","wsock32.dll","windows.staterepositorycore.dll","msdmo.dll","RTWorkQ.dll","mfplat.dll","ktmw32.dll","FWPUCLNT.DLL","OneCoreCommonProxyStub.dll","Windows.Security.Integrity.dll","comctl32.dll","Windows.ApplicationModel.dll","npmproxy.dll","directmanipulation.dll","Windows.Globalization.dll","DWrite.dll","srvcli.dll","urlmon.dll","Windows.UI.Immersive.dll","iertutil.dll","BCP47mrm.dll","InputHost.dll","dbgcore.dll","TextInputFramework.dll","Windows.UI.dll","MrmCoreR.dll","Bcp47Langs.dll","dhcpcsvc6.DLL","dhcpcsvc.dll","DXCore.dll","AppXDeploymentClient.dll","winnsi.dll","MP3DMOD.DLL","OneCoreUAPCommonProxyStub.dll","rasadhlp.dll","UIAnimation.dll","MMDevAPI.dll","AudioSes.dll","twinapi.appcore.dll","WindowManagementAPI.dll","ninput.dll","avrt.dll","ColorAdapterClient.dll","mscms.dll","xmllite.dll","nlaapi.dll","wshbth.dll","wtsapi32.dll","dsreg.dll","d3dcompiler_47.dll","d3d11.dll","WinTypes.dll","dcomp.dll","CoreUIComponents.dll","CoreMessaging.dll","policymanager.dll","netprofm.dll","apphelp.dll","dbghelp.dll","WindowsCodecs.dll","uxtheme.dll","resourcepolicyclient.dll","dwmapi.dll","rmclient.dll","windows.storage.dll","winhttp.dll","propsys.dll","kernel.appcore.dll","dxgi.dll","fwbase.dll","firewallapi.dll","profext.dll","rsaenh.dll","msvcp110_win.dll","ntmarta.dll","IPHLPAPI.DLL","netutils.dll","dnsapi.dll","mswsock.dll","cryptsp.dll","cryptbase.dll","wldp.dll","ntasn1.dll","ncrypt.dll","winsta.dll","msasn1.dll","fltLib.dll","version.dll","devobj.dll","umpdc.dll","powrprof.dll","sspicli.dll","userenv.dll","profapi.dll","bcrypt.dll","ucrtbase.dll","wintrust.dll","crypt32.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","cfgmgr32.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","msvcp_win.dll","win32u.dll","gdi32full.dll","user32.dll","imagehlp.dll","oleaut32.dll","ole32.dll","combase.dll","clbcatq.dll","nsi.dll","sechost.dll","shlwapi.dll","SHCore.dll","kernel32.dll","msvcrt.dll","gdi32.dll","rpcrt4.dll","advapi32.dll","ws2_32.dll","psapi.dll","shell32.dll","msctf.dll","setupapi.dll","imm32.dll","ntdll.dll"],"Microsoft Windows Software Compatibility Publisher":["msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll","msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll"],"Mozilla Corporation":["firefox.exe","xul.dll","gkcodecs.dll","libGLESv2.dll","nss3.dll","freebl3.dll","osclientcerts.dll","mozglue.dll","nssckbi.dll","softokn3.dll","lgpllibs.dll","libEGL.dll"]} MozCrashReason: Shutdown hanging at step AppShutdownNetTeardown. Something is blocking the main-thread. Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000100-T00) DWrite? DWrite+ WR? WR+ WebGL? EGL? EGL- GL Context? GL Context- GL Context+ WebGL+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox QuotaManagerStorageIsNetworkResource: 0 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 1269 ShutdownProgress: profile-change-net-teardown ShutdownReason: AppClose StartupCacheValid: 1 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1719121150 SubmittedFrom: Client SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 60

Thank you so much. Best John

I have a form with a date field. it should open the calendar downwards, and does so in a window with 5 tabs open. however in a window with 60 tabs it opens upwards - thus loosing it's head and the ability to change month and year. it's near the top of the form.

moving the tab from one window and back, without refresh etc, shows the calendar down wards (window with 5 tabs) or upwards (window with 60 tabs)

this is looking to me like a Firefox bug - I wondered if anyone has come across this interesting behaviour?

I apologise - ths was on my desk top - but i'm away so don't have many details. I can provide screen shots etc when I get back

many thanks

Why is Firefox refusing to display Instagram videos?

Windows 7 Home Firefox 115.12.0esr (64-bit) Some Instagram videos play, most don't. E.g. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8FM6cbOG7v/?mc_cid=e24e48195f

For a fraction of a second, the video shows what appears to be the initial display frame, then goes black. Audio plays. Displays OK on Chrome and Edge.

I've explored the following: Autoplay is allowed Turn off tracking protection Clear cache Clear cookies Digital Rights Management (DRM) is allowed Running in trouble shoot mode, i.e. no extensions Popups not blocked I do not have file user.js I tried hiding prefs.js. Hardware acceleration either on or off: no display

Is there a setting that tells Firefox to report why it makes its choices?

When the youtube video is opened, it shows the loading circle without any possibility to start a video. After first refresh of the page it shows the thumbnail of the video, but play button still doesn't work. And then after second refresh it sometimes begin to work properly. The problem exists only on Youtube and its videos. Thank you.

My Firefox browser kept freezing up and acting very slow so I closed it. When I reopened it all my tabs did not repopulate like normal. None of them. I have the box checked to reopen all tabs on restart and it has always worked, not this time. Why! How can I get them back. Thanks, Aldo

when I am trying to visit this page https://rashadulalam.com/register/ after show this message: the page isn’t redirecting properly

Every time when I refresh pages on my CRM Firefox ask me to allow to give access vats556967.megapbx.ru access microphone to your microphone. And If I press allow this popup show again and again again every time when I refresh page It show this popup and I can't work I my CRM. I can't remember My choice that allow, I don't know Why. https://youtu.be/-0r42kwGOcU

please help me I already ask my CRM system developers to help me they check all info and said that problem in Firefox and please send Firefox support question

I check it on another computer and there I get the same problem.

hello tried a few things from help docs on line. nothing working. just keeps happening. tabs will say gah. your tab just crashed. works for a bit but once happens.... have to close whole firefox and open again. just started happening yesterday. I have used firefox for many many years never a problem. Something was not updated right. Please tell me how to fix this once and for all. if not I have to leave using firefox this is driving me crazy. terrible. Latest thing I tried was about:config - sandbox changed 2 items, 1 from true to false other from 6 to 0. as listed in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SIGynLjrjk

nothing has worked. Please help. thank you.

steve [email address].

Using Mac OS 10.13.6, Firefox recently updated to 115.0.3, and now the Overdrive app (from the public library) won't download audiobook files anymore. Have tried clearing cache, restarting, removing book files, restarting, and reloading the OD app, etc. The error message is that the app can't connect to the internet. My internet connection is fine - this is only happening with this app. It only started doing this when Firefox updated. I tried loading an earlier version of Firefox but it automatically went to this Beta update channel version. Can you help me go back to an earlier version of Firefox that won't automatically update? (I'm not able to upgrade this Mac, and this OS is the one that Overdrive works with. Firefox was the only browser that worked with Overdrive. Thanks - hope you can help!