Firefox Support Forum

I recently upgraded from 16.0.2 to 17.0. The fonts used by firefox in the toolbar and the names on the tabs have changed to a dirty, bold look. I do not like it. In 16.0.2 I am using the default theme. In 17.0 I am also using the default theme of 17.0. I am running Windows 7. Since my home and work machines have similar configurations, the work version (still 16.0.2) has the nicer looking fonts. If this antiquated system allowed one to attach screen shots, I could visually show the difference brought about by the upgrade to 17.0

How do I get back the application fonts that were used in 16.0.2?

I have Firefox at work and in the "Tools" tab I can select "view in IE" or right click at any website and I get the option to "Switch Rendering Engine".

Did this feature go away?

 Thank you, Mike

My system HD (C:/) has only about 50 Mb free space. When i'm watching some video on YouTube in 1080p, it says that has no free space and video doesn't play. (It plays for some second and stops) Windows 7 Ultimate. Firefox 16.0.2 Thanks!

The identity safe toolbar was working with the prior release. When visiting a web page with a saved login, the login information is not filled in. I tried disabling and reenabling (with restarts) and this did not resolve the issue.

Whenever i open firefox the default search engine in the little search bar is always Yahoo, and nothing i do changes it back to google permanently. Even when i type something in the address bar it uses yahoo. Ive tried everything including going in to about:config and changing a bunch of stuff like putting in the google string but nothing works...

I want to hide the "Transferring data..." status that shows on the lower left of the browser screen because it is as hazardous as a flickering icon, from a usability standpoint.

I downloaded the new version of Firefox and it will not work with my yahoo toolbar anymore.It worked fine until I updated to the new version. I have went back to the old version 16.0 and now it keeps saying my version is out of date. How can I fix this problem and get the new version to work with my yahoo tool bar?

This add-on is an important one to me and tens of thousands of others as well. Sadly this very useful add-on and functionality is now gone from my FF as of 17.. Many people are downgrading or refusing to upgrade solely because it will break this add-on.

In FF17 a major change was made to the function tosource's return value that broke not just this but many other add-ons as well. Now I don't have a problem with a change of standards and requiring everyone to update code to work with that. But this was handled in completely the wrong way by Mozilla IMO.

Where is the support to the add-on community that has loyally supported your product all these years and giving them a proper chance to migrate/change code to work with the new function return values? Why was there no schedule with a phase-in plan and a deadline for such changes?

Heck, a phase-in plan could have included a phase-in period where the function would support both methods by issuing an extra parameter for the new functionality. Then you could gradually switch the main return to be the new format. That way existing plugins would still be fine.

It seems a bit horrible from an end user standpoint suddenly not having this great tool that improves the firefox experience so much. I know many others feel that same way about this add-on as i've seen countless comments about it, and i'm sure many others feel that way about add-ons that they use that also are now broken too.

I'm writing here to ask either Mozilla to offer a fix, or the larger community to see if there is some workaround/middle ground that could be found. Perchance write a JS Function that could be included/injected into the broken add-ons that would convert/reformat the response of that function call so it remains usable to them with the data they need?

I really hope someone can come up with some temp solution for everyone until more permanent ones can be developed.

Thanks for reading..

Months ago, there was a site which you could search subtitles with this url: http://www.greeksubtitlesproject.com

Now, they changed their url to: http://www.greeksubtitles.info/

I have added the search engine of the first one, it worked fine. After they changed their url, I removed it. I went to the new site, clicked to add the search engine. It was added in the menu. I wrote some text to test it, clicked enter and... it did the search but with the old url! Not the new one.

Is there a way to make it work? To have a search engine at the search engine menu, which will search in http://www.greeksubtitles.info/ ?

Near the top of my screen, every time I go to a chat board a bar comes up that says firefox and then allow and then a check mark. HOW do I get rid of that. Thank you

When I go to the Java test page (http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp), it says the Plugin is disabled. The Manage Add-Ons page said it was Disabled after a reboot, but is enabled now. Chrome and IE both agree that I have Java 7 Update 9 installed, and the testjava page works just fine.

A couple of sites I use frequently have embedded Java apps, so I need to get this resolved.

In Firefox 17, none of the Personas I apply show any kind of image, whether header or footer. They still change the color of my tabs, and the text of the names of my tabs, so the personas are successfully being applied in some fashion. Searching for an answer was unclear. As per some suggestions, I re-enabled the Default theme, restarted Firefox, then changed Personas, yet the problem persisted.

Thank you for your time.

The latest of version of Firefox 17.0 just downloaded is preventing Norton Identity safe from filling in my user names and passwords. Identity Safe still appears in the menu bar and is still enabled as an add-on but it doesn't fill in user names and passwords. How can I re-install the previous version of Firefox which worked fine?

The spell-checking dictionaries on my computer now include: French (reform); French (classic); French (classic/reform); and French (modern). I have no clue how they got there, but spell-checking tries to default to French (reform). I don't see a way to delete them. Can anyone help?

Thanks, Ed LeRoy

When trying to use Microsoft WMI tools with Firefox, Firefox seems to be blocking the ActiveX controls used. How can I enable these ActiveX controls in Firefox so the the WMI tools work OK? They work in IE9 OK. This is for Windows 7 64 bit with Firefox 16.0.2