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The Back arrow/button in the address bar is unclickable, greyed out and no longer functional.

Is there a specific fix we can make in about:config to regain function of the back arrow/button? A response from a person (or people) would be appreciated.

Your really do not want as much detail from me as possible. I guarantee that. ("Everything is connected" should be enough of an explanation.) But you ask for details . . . .

This is specifically about updates (not also installation). Which update and and when I do not know, although it could be Microsoft fooling around with Firefox functionality. OR it could be ESR being updated when updates have been disabled. So that raises the question about the extent to which Microsoft is also configuring Firefox when FF is the default browser. (We deserve to know.) I have changed back to normal updates, and will try to disable the incessant frequent updates which always include undoing new standardized FF configurations that were labor intensive to find fixes for the first time. Fortunately, I have kept a file of many of them. Apparently A.I. (oops, maybe it was Firefox) has agreed to give access to Microsoft to interfere with how Firefox is configured when Firefox is the default browser, regardless of the FF version,

Specific details (I will try to make this as repetitive, overly simplified, and superfluous as the auto a.i. responses though I most likely will fail): And if expressing dissatisfaction is violating the rules and guidelines, then please understand I am human, and do not like everything I do online being the result of 1/0 on/off/humanizing A.I. (including genetically . . . oh yeah, we all know where this free "training" of a.i. is going that we are all being used to do without our consent - and worse).

The back arrow/button on the address bar is no longer clickable and it is greyed out. It is apparently another new Firefox standardization that is not one size fits all. The easy solution would have been for the people who do not like the feature to be advised to remove the button/arrow from the address bar. But, no. Instead, at some point, a new update standardized the arrow/button to become unclickable and dysfunctional.

I found a question about how to make the back arrow/button functional again. The question was not why has it been made dysfunctional. The answer was why it had been made dysfunctional.

In short, some people found the arrow/button to be problematic. A.I. said people were losing information they had input to a form, when they used the back arrow/button before completing the form.

So what did FF (or A.I.?) do? Made the arrow/button dysfunctional for everyone because a few folks in lala land did use common sense, and simply remove the button from the address bar so they would not be tempted to use it and lose information.

Why was that a solution instead of Support (A.I.?) telling people who found the arrow/button to be problematic, to remove the arrow/button from the address bar? Really? Why not advise people to make the feature dysfunctional for themselves - instead of the solution being to make it dysfunctional for everyone who uses Firefox Browser.

Here is the basic, simple, question and content I would have preferred, and I'm guessing many actual people would have too.:

Again:

The Back arrow/button in the address bar is unclickable, greyed out and no longer functional. Is there a specific fix we can make in about:config to regain function of the back arrow/button? A response from a person (or people) would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Using Firefox 157.0.1. , Windows 10 Pro. When I right click one of the menu items I get is ""Open link in new tab". This has always worked - keeping the current tab open and opening the link in a new tab. When I click on that now it opens the link I want to go to but then closes and replaces current tab. Is this a new "feature"? Please email [redacted email from community support forum]

Last night, all of a sudden, I get what appears to be the start of the Firefox browser, which I have used daily for as long as I can remember. In desperation to read my email, I went to Google Chrome and Gmail. But I have all my bookmarks with you. How do I get back in?

Paul Gilje [exited email and phone# from public community support forum]

I got a new PC and tried to import my Firefox bookmarks. But on the right side menu when you click bookmarks, it only show recent ones which actually aren't recent at all. How do you get that selection to show all of the bookmarks instead of recent?

Also I'm still getting a prompt underneath the address box to manage bookmarks and I can't get rid of it. How do I clear that out?

firefox not discarding tabs automatically even though i have tab discarding on in about:config via "browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory=true" "browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload=60000"

also if i discard them manually from about:unloads manually whenever i restart firefox all discarded tabs come back to life is it supposed to do that?

Thanks

I have the newest firebox version and i have you tube connected to the menu bar and 2 icons for it on the desktop i m not sure what if an addon are cause it to stay in full screen screen mode i do not wan it in full scene mode. i have done everything i know how to do to stop it from full screen please how do i get it ti default always just giving you a sample of what Iam getting just a sample of the size i do not have firefox zoomed it is on 100 percent and not zoomed the sixes is 16 and 14 an no larger.

I'm absolutely dying for this feature, it is a lifesaver in Vivaldi and Opera and other browsers, the extension options simply don't work the same as they only work when the website has finished loading and in case I've clicked on the wrong link I have to wait for it to load to go back or lose my train of thought whenever I am using this browser after a while because I'm used to the Rocker Gestures to go back and forward. Please implement this feature into the base browser, thank you very much

My old Firefox on my desk top has a home icon to go back to the home page. This new Firefox on my laptop doesn't seem to have one? What am I missing? How do I get back to the home page?

When using the new version of Firefox, I found that bookmarks only appeared in new tabs. Once I opened other web pages, there were no bookmarks above the screen, which made me feel inconvenient. Previously, the new tabs could also be customized, but now they can only be blank or the default pages of Firefox. So, can the new version of Firefox solve these problems? Or which of the older versions of Firefox can still meet my requirements?

My I Mac is old 2014. Recently, I seem to get the spinning ball of death every time I try to load a page or even try to close a page. Articles take a long time to load, too. I am not the computer tech knowledgeable but the other day I found myself yelling at the computer because it was so frustrating trying to do anything.

I suppose it could be time for a new piece of equipment but that is not cost effective at this time.

Tim Connelly Confused and frustrated