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Although I have the mozilla as my default browser , it's not working as my default browser and every page opes by default with Microsoft Edge. Please help me. Thank you

I found old posts about this from 2012 or so, but nothing for current version of Firefox I have been using Firefox for years. This has suddenly started happening on my laptop. Annoyingly it also displays the same configuration pop-up with various screens you have to go through, clicking Skip this step before you can start browsing. I reset the Home Page to my preference. But next time I start Firefox it reverts to the Welcome and forgets all settings.

I found old posts about this from 2012 or so, but nothing for current version of Firefox I have been using Firefox for years. This has suddenly started happening on my laptop. Annoyingly it also displays the same configuration pop-up with various screens you have to go through, clicking Skip this step before you can start browsing. I reset the Home Page to my preference. But next time I start Firefox it reverts to the Welcome and forgets all settings.

Firefox hangs after starting with "session restore" After I click yes to restore the session firefox just hangs. So I just went right back using Version 138. I reinstalled from scratch still the same problem. At least the older 138 loads my previous session after hanging for 4 hours about and then everything works normally. The newest Firefox does the same, but NEVER resolves, it just keeps on hanging. Doesnt make any sense. What makes the system restore hang this badly. It cannot be old profiles. I completely renmed the old firefox install directory and cleanly installed firefox and it still does this. so it is not inheriting anything. I also allowed it to create a completely new setup in ./mozilla/firefox in the user account.

It also uses more than 117% cpu constantly during this period. See top entry.

3635 user1      20   0   11.1g 349628 156920 S 117.9   0.1  12:01.89 firefox-bin 

Seems like I have to move to Thunderbird/Seamonkey or Brave. Since 2019, Firefox became very "strange"

System: NAME="MX" VERSION="21.3 (Wildflower)" ID="mx" VERSION_ID="21.3" PRETTY_NAME="MX 21.3 (Wildflower)" ANSI_COLOR="0;34" HOME_URL="https://mxlinux.org" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://mxlinux.org" PRETTY_NAME="MX 21.3 Wildflower" DISTRIB_ID=MX DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.3 DISTRIB_CODENAME="Wildflower" DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="MX 21.3 Wildflower" PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="11" VERSION="11 (bullseye)" VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=debian

There is this unknown device which signed into my account 19 days ago and when I click sign out nothing happens. It is impossible to remove it from my end, can you assist with this. Refer to the screenshot, thank you.

When I sign in from my desktop I forgot my password and by clicking on forgot password And I saw different mobile no had been added so how can I change my mobile number so that the code can come on my new mobile number

I am observing a trend where popular extensions, such as the "I don't care about cookies" extension, change ownership and become derelict and/or malware, as clearly pointed out in recent reviews for the extensions. However, it takes multiple clicks to get to this information in the reviews, and there is very little curation.

I understand it is likely highly infeasible to audit extensions for malware in any comprehensive way, however I definitely feel that there is room for enhancement of the present processes.

I think this extension search process should be more proactive in informing users of these events. For example, rather than just displaying a star rating next to the extension name, displaying chronological trends would be more information-dense. Like if recent reviews are trending negative. This could also reward and incentivise extensions which are properly supported, (and not malware), displaying that their reviews are maintaining / increasing positivity over time.

A supporting feature could be publicising changes of ownership of an extension prominently - "This extension has changed ownership N times, the most recent change was Y-date to X-owner. Reviews have trended Z since that time".

Is something like this being worked on already? If so I am interested in contributing to it.