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I recently have gotten a message about manually updating Firefox on my Windows 11 system. Even after I updated, I then I started getting the same message and also "Failed to check for updates" in the Firefox "about" box and settings page.

I even went about uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling it while deleting the Firefox Program Files and user AppData directories. I also checked for a Windows Firewall entry for the program.

Is there something in another directory or registry setting I need to delete or change? Or does Firefox use a different program for updating that needs a firewall rule?

Thanks for any help.

Issue: The "Recommended stories" setting for the new tab default home page periodically re-enables itself.

Version Info: Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) OS: Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon

Additional Information:

• I do not use pocket, at all
• All settings that I can find related to pocket are disabled
• I do use Firefox Sync, however the other device (124.0.1 (64-bit) on pop_os!) does not have this issue
• Does not correlate to version updates (Mint has automatic updates disabled in policies)
• Does not occur after a simple restart

I am tired of disabling this setting and having it return seemingly randomly. I have no interest in these stories, and consider them spam.

Please assist me in determining why this is happening on this device and how we can go about preventing it going forward.

Thanks, Steven

latest 124.0.2 causing severe problems, it will near instantly bloat to fill all RAM and SWAP even in safe mode causes system load over 24! only solution is to reboot very problematic on for ex: https://epg.pw/xmltv/epg_CA.xml hard to get a screencap since system is nearly totally unresponsive. RAM is ok SSD is ok MX Linux is ok

Hello,

I need your help because i can't find solution to problem. On my macbooks air m1 i experience a very annoying thing: Often while i'm scrolling on websites smooth scroll animation get choppy/sluggish for few moments and lagging. It's like animation is FPS dropping during the scroll. I tried lot of things on both device:

- tried without extensions - created new profiles - use without syncing data - disabling hardware acceleration (gets worst) - disable smooth scroll in settings (get worst) - completely remove firefox with AppCleaner and reinstall it - Reinstall macOS and just install firefox alone. I tried latest Ventura and Sonoma

I don't have clue why this happening but ruin user experience very bad. With Safari everything is fine and smooth. On my wife's device (macbook air m3) have same issue.

Do you have any idea how can i fix it?

Prior to about a month ago, downloading worked as expected: - click a link - the save to... dialog opened - choose the folder - the download is off and running

No more. For about the past month - click a link - wait for a long time with FF frozen - the a wheel starts rotating - after a full minute (or more) the save dialog appears.

Something has been broken in the mad-dash to push updates. It's fine for browsing, but the, you need to download. At that point you wish you were using a different browser (any other browser, in fact) since FF is the only oe that has this problem. Downloading works fine in a 8 chromium browsers that I have and in the 5 FF clones (like Waterfox)

It's just FF that's broken. I can no longer afford to set it as default because of this. The others are not perfect (WF won't activate Pocket, foe example) but downloading promptly is critical.

Currently, I use Firefox version: 116.0.2 or v117.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS.

I encountered a phenomenon like this:

• When I logged in to the application, in the tab I was working on, the Firefox session memory was lost (don't open new tabs)

Steps: 1. Login to the application 2. Operate on the screen 3. Navigate to other URLs, but still on this tab 4. Session storage was lost

What is the cause of this phenomenon? How can I fix it?

Firefox Version: 124.0.2 (64 bit) Windows Version: Windows 10 LTSC 2019 (Version 1809)

When I right click the taskbar and press close Firefox, here comes the interface just as the screenshot uploaded. The blue close button doesn't response no matter how I click it and the Firefox's taskbar is flashing yellow. This bug only occurs on the first window of Firefox and only when user right click the taskbar.

It has been a long time for me wishing that some updates would be released soon to fix this issue, while noting happens. Or this bug is only for me?

Starting Friday April 19, I have been experiencing constant very brief internet outages/reconnections while using Facebook on the desktop. The outages do not occur anywhere else on the internet...and do not occur on other browsers. I prefer to use Firefox. I am using Windows 11.

I keep getting this message that pops up in a private window to restart to keep using firefox. Everytime I click restart Firefox, it closes my tabs and opens them again. However, 5 minutes later the window pops up again. Even after repeated attempts of updating, even doing a full restart on the computer, Firefox continues to send this window to me. The private window in the bar says about:restartrequired.

I've tried uninstalling Firefox with a fresh install as well as doing a Refresh of Firefox. Neither seem to solve this problem.

when I search for a page after opening a tab. The page will load slowly then stop. I'll then have to hit enter again for the page the load. This does not happen with Chrome or Edge. Any ideas how to fix this frustrating issue. Thanks.

Mac OS 14.4.1

Firefox crashed and now will not open without crashing. I have trashed it and re-installed but still getting this error and cannot use the application. It will not open in Trouble Shoot mode. I even removed all files in the Library/Application Support

This is the problem report it shows:

Translated Report (Full Report Below)

Process: firefox [9798] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Identifier: org.mozilla.firefox Version: 125.0.1 (12524.4.16) Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [1] User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2024-04-17 12:12:16.9196 -0400 OS Version: macOS 14.4.1 (23E224) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: CD54B57E-E9B1-9010-2F5A-CABA25C40962

Time Awake Since Boot: 6100 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing Library not loaded: @rpath/libmozglue.dylib Referenced from: <A1116842-233E-318A-92DD-E4F0A0FEF912> /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Reason: tried: '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozglue.dylib' (mmap(size=0x169520) failed with errno=1), '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libmozglue.dylib' (mmap(size=0x169520) failed with errno=1) (terminated at launch; ignore backtrace)

Thread 0 Crashed: 0 dyld 0x18dcada50 __abort_with_payload + 8 1 dyld 0x18dcb8628 abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 104 2 dyld 0x18dcb865c abort_with_payload + 16 3 dyld 0x18dc4a6b0 dyld4::halt(char const*, dyld4::StructuredError const*) + 304 4 dyld 0x18dc47258 dyld4::prepare(dyld4::APIs&, dyld3::MachOAnalyzer const*) + 3888 5 dyld 0x18dc45edc start + 1844

Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit):

   x0: 0x0000000000000006   x1: 0x0000000000000001   x2: 0x000000016d0f2920   x3: 0x000000000000005d
   x4: 0x000000016d0f2520   x5: 0x0000000000000000   x6: 0x0000000000000000   x7: 0x0000000000000000
   x8: 0x0000000000000020   x9: 0x000000016d0f249d  x10: 0x000000000000000a  x11: 0x0000000000000000
  x12: 0x0000000000000039  x13: 0x1000000000000000  x14: 0x0000000000000004  x15: 0x0000000000008000
  x16: 0x0000000000000209  x17: 0x000000018dc4337c  x18: 0x0000000000000000  x19: 0x0000000000000000
  x20: 0x000000016d0f2520  x21: 0x000000000000005d  x22: 0x000000016d0f2920  x23: 0x0000000000000001
  x24: 0x0000000000000006  x25: 0x0000000000000001  x26: 0x000000016d0f3298  x27: 0x0000000000000101
  x28: 0x000000016d0f3358   fp: 0x000000016d0f24f0   lr: 0x000000018dcb8628
   sp: 0x000000016d0f24b0   pc: 0x000000018dcada50 cpsr: 0x80001000
  far: 0x0000000000000000  esr: 0x56000080  Address size fault

Binary Images:

      0x102d0c000 -        0x102d13fff org.mozilla.firefox (125.0.1) <a1116842-233e-318a-92dd-e4f0a0fef912> /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
      0x18dc40000 -        0x18dcc89db dyld (*) <f6dd3ec2-85a4-3ab1-8486-b189cd980ebe> /usr/lib/dyld
              0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???

External Modification Summary:

 Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
   task_for_pid: 0
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0
 Calls made by this process:
   task_for_pid: 0
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0
 Calls made by all processes on this machine:
   task_for_pid: 1
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary: ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=525.9M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=525.9M(100%) Writable regions: Total=12.2M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=12.2M(100%)

                               VIRTUAL   REGION 

REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)

===== ======= =

STACK GUARD 56.0M 1 Stack 8176K 1 VM_ALLOCATE 16K 1 __DATA 27K 2 __DATA_CONST 39K 2 __DATA_DIRTY 7K 1 __LINKEDIT 525.4M 2 __TEXT 580K 2 dyld private memory 4384K 4

===== ======= =

TOTAL 594.3M 16

Full Report

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Model: MacBookPro17,1, BootROM 10151.101.3, proc 8:4:4 processors, 8 GB, SMC Graphics: Apple M1, Apple M1, Built-In Display: Color LCD, 2560 x 1600 Retina, Main, MirrorOff, Online Display: DELL U2715H, 2560 x 1440 (QHD/WQHD - Wide Quad High Definition), MirrorOff, Online Memory Module: LPDDR4, Micron AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_wifi (0x14E4, 0x4378), wl0: Jan 13 2024 03:06:59 version 18.20.440.9.7.8.167 FWID 01-7be24857 AirPort: Bluetooth: Version (null), 0 services, 0 devices, 0 incoming serial ports Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0 USB Device: USB31Bus USB Device: USB31Bus USB Device: USB3.1 Hub USB Device: USB2.0 Hub USB Device: USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc. Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc.

I just got a chromebook! Details:

Device name: Lenovo Flex 3 12.2" chromebook, 8GB ram. Intel N100 Device code name: IP Flex 3 CB 12 (pujjo, version 123.15786.0) Firefox version: 124.0.2 (flatpak) OS version: Version 123.0.6312.112 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chrome: Version 123.0.6312.112 (Official Build) (64-bit)

When I watch a youtube video with chrome my cpu usage is 20-30% When I do the same with firefox my cpu usage is 50%

Running `about:support` and going into `webrender_compositor` I get the following errors under `env`: 1. Blocklisted by gfxInfo 2. Blocklisted; failure code 3. FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR_DISABLED

I have set almost all these force renders = True and even granted gpu access to firefox flathub but still no difference in performance. I am asking now because I am just going in circles in the rabbit hole.

In the Firefox settings, it says "Account disconnected" so I click the sign in button, it opens the Mozilla website, and I successfully sign into my account online. Yet the browser still says disconnected. I've tried a few times. How do I fix this?

For some time now, e-mails have been arriving with a delay, e.g. from April 15, they arrived only on April 18. The mail is on the home.pl server pinned via IMAP.

Firefox just stops responding when trying to load a web page. The only way to get it back working is to reboot the computer. I have tried quitting the application but when I try to restart it it doesn't respond and I end up having to force quit and reboot the computer and then it will work fine. MacBook Pro (15" 2017) MacOS13.6.6 Firefox 125.01

Any idea what's going on?

This has been happening for months now, on multiple devices (I have tried at least 3 different devices), and on multiple networks.

I have read the articles in here, but they just want me to check network configuration which is exactly the same for all browsers.

If I restart firefox it starts working again.

How can I prevent it from breaking randomly? This is the only browser having issues, I'm almost positive is some bug and not a configuration thing, given that it happens under multiple circumstances and devices, while Edge and Chrome simply keep working just fine.

There is no consistent repro I can give, afaik it is just random, at some point Firefox just decides to stop working and I have to restart it. This disrupts my work and browsing activities as I can lose progress on input forms and similar actions.

I had used and uninstalled Chrome, and others. All I have is FF and ME. Some times when I attempt to open a web page, FF fails and I have to use ME. But other times ME fails and I need to use FF. I recognize that all browsers other than FF are the same or similar basis. So, how can I stick with JUST FF. And not have to keep ME updated or active. Just let ME sit there unused. Why can't FF work with all web sites? Is the problem with them or with FF?

I see my original question is now archived at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1380948#question-reply I never closed it because I didn't know if my last process could really fix the issue. It didn't, not always. Over the years, there have been times when the issue would still pop up, but not as often as before (2022 and earlier).

I have a feeling that during an issue, FF is having difficulty setting up shop after starting up. Consequently, it is spending more time before it could become prepared to connect to the Net. I've come up with another "solution," which is deleting (or moving out) xulstore.json in the profile folder after exiting or before starting FF. You can create a batch command or script to execute the process.

So far, FF is connecting immediately after startup.