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Open Link in New Tab: Does Not Open Next to Current Tab

Every time I right click and select "Open Link in New Tab" Firefox is not opening this new tab next to the current tab. It instead moves this new tap to the end of all th… (read more)

Every time I right click and select "Open Link in New Tab" Firefox is not opening this new tab next to the current tab. It instead moves this new tap to the end of all the tabs (of the current website). This is an annoying behavior, I have to go all the way to the end of the tabs to look at the name page that I just opened. How do I fix this behavior?

Asked by gekaram 1 month ago

Last reply by Terry 1 month ago

Cursor won't show when writing a letter or note. So I don't know where i stop typing? It works here but not when I open my browser to write letter?

Cursor won't show when writing a letter or note. So I don't know where i stop typing? It works here but not when I open my browser to write letter? … (read more)

Cursor won't show when writing a letter or note. So I don't know where i stop typing? It works here but not when I open my browser to write letter?

Asked by JSM 1 month ago

Last reply by zeroknight 1 month ago

How do I make popup blockers/other extensions STAY in browse?

Transferred to another computer, installed FF as default, but now only Stands Fair adblocker will show, not uBlock origin so I can't point out to the extension which popu… (read more)

Transferred to another computer, installed FF as default, but now only Stands Fair adblocker will show, not uBlock origin so I can't point out to the extension which popups it's missing.

Unrelated but posted THIS as well: How do I get FF to ASK ME EVERYTIME WHERE I WANT TO DOWNLOAD FILES? It's box is ticked, but it STILL saves it to a temp file and opens the file in a window.When I posted that query I just got a bunch of canned responses of kb articles telling me to follow the steps I had already tried.


Thanks!

Asked by MILESTWEST 2 months ago

Preparing Preview hangs

When I tried to print something I would get a "Preparing Preview" hang. Other support answers, suggested 1. deleting the default printer 2. delete some custom settings… (read more)

When I tried to print something I would get a "Preparing Preview" hang.

Other support answers, suggested 1. deleting the default printer 2. delete some custom settings in about:config

Both solutions did not work for me.

In my case it turned out the firewall was the issue:

During the Preparing Preview, firefox tries to connect to port 80 then port 631.

In my case, the firewall was dropping everything except RELATED/ESTABLISHED.

Opening port 631 for the printer did not help either, because firefox was trying port 80 first. Since all requests were silently dropped (default IPtable policy), firefox waited forever for an answer.

Now with the following rules, it worked. [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

These rules needs to be on IPV4 and IPV6 firewalls.

Asked by octavsly1 2 months ago

Prepopulating Visited URLs

When I want to go to the NY Times, and i type "nyt" the address bar automatically populated with the rest of the URL "nytimes.com". When I do the same thing with gmail an… (read more)

When I want to go to the NY Times, and i type "nyt" the address bar automatically populated with the rest of the URL "nytimes.com". When I do the same thing with gmail and "gmail" it runs a search on a search engine instead of completing the rest of the URL.

Why would it do this for one website and not another? How do I fix this, I use gmail all the time so its a bit of a time waster.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Asked by dbarnett13 2 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 2 months ago

Windows Scaling and Layout Larger Text Bug

As a long time Mozilla software user, this is where I go first for Firefox and Thunderbird issues. I am fully aware that the Windows Scaling and Layout is a Micro$oft pro… (read more)

As a long time Mozilla software user, this is where I go first for Firefox and Thunderbird issues. I am fully aware that the Windows Scaling and Layout is a Micro$oft problem. But I found a fix somewhere for Firefox that changed the top of the screen in Firefox (the menu bar, etc.), which took all of 30 seconds to fix. It was a simple about:config edit.

Yesterday I discovered that gmail.com can be set up in Thunderbird, which I did not know previously, so I installed it and set my email up the way I had it on my Window 7 desktop that half of the stuff for )KB, Mouse, etc.) disappeared when my kids moved my house while I was in the hospital. This laptop has Windows 10, and everything was fine, although I could barely read a lot of text on it, until I set the Scaling and Layout to 150%. After that the text was big enough for me to read, but the header and footer in Firefox took up most of the screen. I looked around and found a fix. Now I need something similar for Thunderbird.

Just like before, every post I've read is talking about how to make fonts bigger. That isn't the problem I need to fix. CTRL + Fixes that just fine. I'm talking about the very top of the screen, where the menu bar and page tabs are. On my 23" monitor, I took a standard plastic ruler and this area is just under two inches, where as in Thunderbird it's over three.

I'm getting old, and my memory isn't what it used to be, but I think I changed the ui.textScaleFactor to 100, but while Thunderbird has that field, it has three options and I don't want to mess with that until I am advised on the proper way to address this issue. At minimum, I would at least like the tabs to be smaller, but if I could the headers to be the same size as Firefox, that would be ideal.

Thank you in advance and Happy New Year!

Axel Slingerland Eureka, California

Asked by Tim Bear 2 months ago

saving log in info

How to do this for my paid newspaper subscriptions ask me to log in every week: they say "You can avoid doing that by saving your login information on your browser" (I'm … (read more)

How to do this for my paid newspaper subscriptions ask me to log in every week: they say "You can avoid doing that by saving your login information on your browser" (I'm on Imac)

Asked by humanone 2 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 2 months ago

I'm looking for a way that I can get print result after user click the confirm button in the print dialog.

I'm currently developing a website that use user printer. And I'm looking for a hook that I can use to know user click the confirm or cancel in print dialog(or print prev… (read more)

I'm currently developing a website that use user printer. And I'm looking for a hook that I can use to know user click the confirm or cancel in print dialog(or print preview window). the onafterprint method will trigger before user click confirm so I guess it's not an option.

Also, someone please tell me the topic describes my questions, I really don't know which topic is best for my question.

Asked by 979597463 2 months ago

Last reply by Paul 2 months ago

5,000 "mobile" bookmarks aren't transferrable from laptop to laptop (fire.to chrome/icloud)

HI...I have over 6,000 bookmarks, created as files within a single folder on firefox over the past 30 years, all of which were created on one macbook or three. I migrate… (read more)

HI...I have over 6,000 bookmarks, created as files within a single folder on firefox over the past 30 years, all of which were created on one macbook or three. I migrated Firefox to them (as well as a iphone or even Amazon Fire) without their being ruined..don't understand why they, and any other folder on the macbook show under head category of 'mobile bookmarks'. That seems contradictory. B/C I was concerned about the lack of support on firefox (and my mail server-another story), I noticed these files and the folder do not transfer, say, to Chrome (or icloud). What little info there is on mobile bookmarks doesn't have real workaround. I tried creating HTML or JSON folders on my desk top but those too aren't picked up by another browser like Chrome...furthermore, Firefox "export bookmarks" doesn't allow individual folders to be exported, only the whole lot (except those mobile ones!). NO one told me using sync (or even icloud for storing desktop files/folders) would mean I can never export to other browsers!

Asked by yuppiemobile69 2 months ago

Block full screen display permanently

How to block the full screen function permanently at the same time that all menus are hidden, invisible, when you press the full screen button so that the video one gives… (read more)

How to block the full screen function permanently at the same time that all menus are hidden, invisible, when you press the full screen button so that the video one gives a larger image without giving full screen. I have previously found a firefox program that could do that, but unfortunately I got it deleted.

Want to use the solution on a Win 10 PC, desktop PC and a screen of 1.5 m, i.e. 2 screens in one.

Asked by John 2 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 2 months ago

How do I force Firefox to use word-wrap in display source screen?

After the last couple of updates Firefox will not wrap words in view source screen(CTRL+U). This makes the info very difficult to read as most lines of code run off the… (read more)

After the last couple of updates Firefox will not wrap words in view source screen(CTRL+U). This makes the info very difficult to read as most lines of code run off the screen. How do fix this? Thanks.

Asked by nabristow 2 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 2 months ago

Saving an annotated PDF and opening it again causes all non-text annotations to become immutable

Expected behavior: After re-opening a PDF which has been previously annotated, the annotations can still be tweaked, deleted, or repositioned. Actual behavior: Re-open… (read more)

Expected behavior: After re-opening a PDF which has been previously annotated, the annotations can still be tweaked, deleted, or repositioned.

Actual behavior: Re-opening a PDF which has been previously annotated causes drawings and images which had previously been mutable to become an unchangeable part of the PDF.

Steps to recreate: - Open a PDF in Firefox's PDF viewer - Using the "Draw" tool, add a few highlights, scribbles, or other annotations - Using the "Add or edit images" tool, add an image - With either the draw or image tool selected, observe how either annotation type can be clicked on, the repositioned, deleted, or (in the case of drawings) altered in thickness or color - Save the PDF, either by pressing Ctrl+S or by clicking the "Save" button in the top right - Open the saved version of the PDF - Observe that the drawings and images added in steps two and three can no longer be modified or repositioned using the methods in step four.

This does not seem to apply to Text.

This was experienced on Firefox 120.0 running NixOS 23.05 using the default Firefox package (pkgs.firefox)

Asked by Emi 2 months ago

how do run firefox 100% on software?

my hardware is very outdated already and i wanna try if my firefox runs better without any hardware acceleration like running fully on software. i don't think that just … (read more)

my hardware is very outdated already and i wanna try if my firefox runs better without any hardware acceleration like running fully on software.

i don't think that just simply disabling the hardware acceleration in the settings disables the entire hardware acceleration because there are way more about:config preferences which are related to hardware acceleration.

Asked by max.matter01 3 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 3 months ago

How can I disable the bs security?

Firefox is pissing me off. I want to disable SSL security checks long enough to do what needs doing. I'm working from a container so there's really no risk, just need t… (read more)

Firefox is pissing me off. I want to disable SSL security checks long enough to do what needs doing. I'm working from a container so there's really no risk, just need the browser to do what I want not what 'It' wants.

peace

Asked by eilenbeb05 3 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 3 months ago

why does this preference still work..?

the preference "browser.contentblocking.category" does still work although it isn't existing in the about:config settings anymore(was removed as it seems) but how and why… (read more)

the preference "browser.contentblocking.category" does still work although it isn't existing in the about:config settings anymore(was removed as it seems) but how and why does it still work?

Asked by max.matter01 3 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 3 months ago