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I use a MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.11 and the latest version of FireFox (72.0.2) and I'm unable to figure out how to bring up the Context menu. With previous versions of FireFox. I could hold down the Control key and click a tab and that would bring up the Context menu. But with the latest versions of FireFox, that option is no longer available.

I suppose if I bought a two-button mouse, I could bring up the Context menu with the right button, but you should be able to bring up the Context menu with the trackpad that come with Apple's MacBook Pro.

So how do you bring up the Context menu on an Apple MacBook Pro?

Thank you so much.

I have followed the instructions in the support section very carefully and still cannot get Firefox to update. I did see the note that the person who is the admin or the person who installed Firefox is the only person who can update it. That would be me and me alone, and I've exhaustively checked my Mac's settings and preferences and everything else I can think of. I'm new to Mac so I may well have missed something important during set-up...........but I can't figure out or find what that may be. Whenever I follow the link on the support page that says I can update, all it does is download the updated version of Firefox, not an update. I don't want to start all over and lose all of my bookmarks and developer tools just because something isn't working. I realize it is probably something rather simple, but I just seem to be missing it and I've passed the frustration point now.  :) Thanks for any assistance in getting this straightened out!

Upgraded to OS X Sierra. Started Firefox and it crashed about 30 seconds after starting. Tried to restart it. Same thing. Problem continues every time I try to start it. Tried starting it in Safe Mode. Same thing. Tried refreshing it. Same thing. Uninstalled and did a clean install. Same issue. Followed every procedure I could find and nothing seems to work. Kind of wondering what's going on and how I can fix it so I can ditch Safari (useless POS browser)

Not very technical btw.

Thoughts?

With FF not running, I'll be using my computer and FF will open to an empty page... and maybe 30 seconds later it will close. This happens at random times. I've looked through Sync & Auto Update settings and do not see any controls established by FF that would allow it to run autonomously. Any ideas?

Report ID: bp-1de3d894-9edf-47e9-a2ef-859912160928

Firefox crashes non-stop on launch, even Nightly seems to be failing. I can't pinpoint what the problem is.

Even safe mode crashes, please help.

I went to preferences >general> Tabs, and marked Open new windows in a new tab instead. I actually did it a few times, also closed and reopened Firefox. Still, a new tab opens, but the link opens not in the tab but in a new window. Very annoying! Any ideas would be appreciated.

Absturz-ID: bp-0ea5b693-1bf8-402d-98c1-8553b2160721

Process: firefox [661] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Identifier: org.mozilla.firefox Version: 50.0.2 (5016.11.29) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process:  ??? [1] Responsible: firefox [661] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-12-14 02:53:01.483 +0100 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G1108) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: 19FAD957-DB86-D5F7-DE0E-A7698CCF5DAC

Time Awake Since Boot: 1800 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

VM Regions Near 0: -->

   __TEXT                 00000001081d7000-00000001081da000 [   12K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 org.mozilla.firefox 0x00000001081d9300 0x1081d7000 + 8960

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):

 rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0x00007fff57a27c10  rcx: 0x0000010000000203  rdx: 0x0000020000000200
 rdi: 0x00007fff764302a8  rsi: 0x0000000000012068  rbp: 0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x00007fff57a27bf0
  r8: 0x0000000000000040   r9: 0x00007fff764302a0  r10: 0xffffffffffffffff  r11: 0x0000000000000201
 r12: 0x00007fff57a28410  r13: 0x00007fff57a28439  r14: 0x0000000000000029  r15: 0x00007fff76431050
 rip: 0x00000001081d9300  rfl: 0x0000000000010246  cr2: 0x0000000000000000
 

Logical CPU: 14 Error Code: 0x00000004 Trap Number: 14

Binary Images:

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I downloaded the newest version of Firefox and it simply crashes before it opens.

This is the Crash ID:

Crash ID: bp-19c953f3-7fb3-4ba3-9136-06c9d0181024

I don't know what to do.

Netflix is not working. When I try to play a video I get this message, "Firefox is installing components needed to play the audio or video on this page, Please try again later".

I don't know hoe to fix this. Does anyone else know how to resolve this? Thanks.

At one point last night, Firefox was not responding, so I forced it to quit. That took a while, and I had no idea why, so I shut down the computer. When I started Firefox up again, there was a dialog box that said Firefox was trying to install a 'helper add-on (or something--I don't remember) and it opened my administrator log-in box. I cancelled it. In case this comes up again, what is this helper and can I install it without fear of installing something bad? Thanks.

bp-142a7886-259c-4733-8865-3af880200918 9/18/20, 9:26 AM View bp-43c1908b-ef7e-4fb7-b622-ba1a80200918 9/18/20, 9:17 AM

These are the crash reports that came up for this morning. It has crashed each time since then. I'm trying to upload pictures from the desktop to ebay listing. Please help, thanks!

My Firefox browser quits unexpectedly several times a week. When I reopen it, I do a session restore and everything works fine. What makes this happen over and over?

i have the same OS and all else is same, but recently firefox keeps going back to the previous page randomly , and i have to click that forward arrow to get it back. a real pain as it reloads and i have to start over from what i was reading/copy-pasting etc. Perhaps it's a bug with a recent firefox update?

I need to install firefox version 41.0 in order to be able to use my outlook through my employer's portal. I can't figure out how / where to download this from your site. Please help!!! I can't access email without it.

I use a MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.11 and the latest version of FireFox (72.0.2) and I'm unable to figure out how to close multiple tabs at once.

With past versions of FireFox, I could bring up the context menu (by holding down the control key and clicking on a tab) and choose "Close other tabs" or choose "Close tabs to the right of this tab." I could also choose either option from the File menu, but all those options seem to be gone now and I can't even bring up the Context menu any more. Maybe if I had a two-button mouse, I could click the right button, but you should be able to do the same thing with the standard trackpad that comes with the MacBook. I'm sorry.

Anyway, how do you close multiple tabs?

Thank you so much.