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I am a pensioner in te UK. Due to restricted mobility I spend a lot of time using Firefox to access many web sites. This normally works perfectly. Today I tried to access the web site of national chain store specialising in outdoor clothing and equipment because I need a new showerproof jacket. I have never used that site before, yet Firefox reported Error 403 : Forbidden. Have you people never been told tat error messages are supposed to be useful? What is Forbidden. Why when it has not happemed before?

The web site is https://www.millets.co.uk/

I have a web site so I have other browsers just for checking for layout problems.

I tried Chromium, same error but the message said You are not authorised to access this site. Presumably that is what your incompetent message should have said. But why should a pensioner trying to buy something from a chain store ever need any sort of authorisation?

I tried Opera. Connected me no problem!

I tried Edge. Connected me no problem.

Clearly somebody somewhere is an incompetent idiot, but it isn't me. So who is it? If it is yourselves then please do something to fix this.

Bonjour, je ne peux plus me connecter à ma boite mail hotmail.com depuis la version 144.0.2 (64bits) de Firefox Je suis avec Windows 11 famille 64 bits - 24H2 et 25H2 (j'ai essayé avec les 2 versions) avec un compte local. Je choisis de me connecter avec un mot de passe et après avoir validé le mot de passe, j'arrive sur une page qui me dit d'utiliser un autre appareil ou une autre méthode de connexion. Je joins les fenêtres de connexion étape par étape Avec Google Chrome (que je ne veux pas utiliser), je me connecte sans problème à ma boite mail avec les même étapes décrites ci-dessus. Pouvez-vous m'apporter une solution ? Merci, Marc T.

One of the recent updates changed Firefox's behaviour. It now remembers my login status to various sites when I close the browser. For example, if I was logged in to facebook when I closed the browser, I will be logged in when I open the browser and navigate to facebook.com. This was not the case until very recently (a few weeks at most). Is there a way to change this?

I have strict privacy settings, and Firefox should delete all cookies when it is closed. There are no 'exceptions'. I have 'always use private mode' checked for history. Also: I haven't changed any settings recently - something changed in Firefox.

Any advice? Thank you.

For some reason all of my bookmarks are gone. I have tried all the suggested fixes and it's still not working. Don't know where they went but I would sure like to have them back. Plus, now when I try to bookmark a page its not accepting it. :(

I installed Firefox yesterday, and everything was fine for a day. Today, when I play a YouTube video, the entire page freezes - I can't pause it, select text, or do anything. The page starts responding after about 10 seconds from last interaction.

Compared to Chrome, I can play 20 YouTube videos at once and everything works fine.

The problem only occurs on YouTube. Sites like CDA and Jellyfin work fine.

Sys: Latest Windows 11 I5-10400F Intel Arc B580 RAM 32GB 2133 MT/s

Crash report IDs: bp-31e9bb18-9b55-45a8-85fb-5e8340251103 | bp-c7eef78f-d94c-4949-923e-533ed0251031 | bp-6eb06859-ca6b-4046-97bc-000b90251022

A bit over a month ago, I was away from home for several weeks. When I came back, a browser that worked perfectly before became near unusable with constant and random crashes. Sometimes they occur even with no user input. I have tried troubleshooting mode, I have removed all extensions, I have tried all the fixes I found on Google, I have reinstalled the browser, I have updated all the drivers, I have done MemTest86 which was passed with flying colours and I have even installed a firefox fork (waterfox) to try and fix this all to no avail. I have no clue where to go from here, as it feels very bizarre. All help is much appreciated.

Hello I am having major problems with Firefox at the moment and have done for a while. I curently have four pages open but as you can see from the attached screen shot of my Task Manager, there are 14 Firefox processes. The usage is OTT on memory and everything else. Could you tell me why this is happening? Currently it is running in Troubleshooting mode but that is not doing anything to improve the problem. It has been known to shut my computer down, as it gets too hot. I run on Windows 10 and Bitdefender is my security. All help is gratefully received. Thanks Lisa

Hello, the other day I asked the question why logging in to Hulu and The Hartford Ins. Co. did not work on Firefox, but did work on Microsoft Edge. I received some suggestions on what to try, but the problem resolved itself after a couple of days. Lo and behold, yesterday Microsoft ran an update to Windows 11, which they seem to do every two or three days!!!) and now I have the same problem with Hulu that I had before. I get the impression Microsoft is doing that on purpose to force users to use their browser and I resent the hell out of it. Any suggestions on how to get around this problem, short of running the updates? I'd hate to quit using Firefox when streaming on Hulu.

Please tell me how to disable adblocker for a site. I am trying to read my local newspaper and I cannot access it due to this issue. I've googled it and cannot find the answer. Please Help!!!

I recently noticed that my Microsoft account remains active after I sign out if I press the back button. All my personal and account information is still displayed, indicating that the account is still signed in. I even tried clearing all browsing data and history, but that didn't resolve the issue. This doesn't happen with my Gmail account, nor when I access my Microsoft account using Edge or Chrome.

I understand that closing the browser likely signs me out, but I have no way to confirm that unless I check for active devices in my account settings. Can you explain why this timeout issue occurs? It seems odd, especially since Mozilla prioritizes security and privacy.

I come to Mozilla Support and at the top It's telling me windows 10 expires 10/14/2025. I don't need to know that I have windows 11. No one from Firefox to answer me directly??

I was told from a vendor I previously purchased from the insecure connection was on my end. Also on my Hotmail Acc. I experienced the same thing.

Thanks, Bill

P.S. I'm not tech savvy

Is it possible to sync all profiles among different devices? So they are tied to your mozilla account, then you get the option to choose which profiles to add on a different firefox browser. Mac and windows for example.

Also it would be nice to be able to change the "banner?". Basically the thing surrounding the profile image.

I am FURIOUS with the latest update! I put my computer on "Sleep" for a couple of hours this morning, and when I cam back to it, the screen was locked up and I had to restart my computer. When I finally came online, everything had changed! I've had multiple Windows with lots of tabs running without any problems for a LONG time, until today! Now, EVERYTHING IS GONE!

Bonjour,

Pour accéder à mon compte vous envoyez un code par mail à utiliser dans les 5 mn sauf que cette adresse mail est obsolète et je reçois les mails avec un décalage très important, ce qui ne me permet plus d'y accéder. Comment faire svp ? je souhaite conserver toute mes informations et pouvoir basculer sur une autre adresse qui fonctionne en direct

Merci

So if you go to My documentation page , go down to point 8 and try and copy the Systemd unit file from the browser to an editor, the line returns are not preserved and instead spaces are substituted. If I copy the text from a chrome browser into an editor, the new lines are preserved. I've copied the HTML source code below.

       [Unit]
       Description=Apache Tomcat 11.0 Web Application Container
       After=network.target
       

       [Service]
       Type=forking
       

       Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.25.0-openjdk-amd64"
       Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/Base/temp/tomcat.pid"
       Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/tom11/"
       Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/Base/"
       Environment="CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC"
       Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom"
       ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/tom11/bin/startup.sh
       ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/tom11/bin/shutdown.sh
       User=tommy
       Group=tommy
       UMask=0007
       RestartSec=10
       Restart=always
       [Install]
       WantedBy=multi-user.target
     

So the code is rendering correctly in the browser, but is being incorrectly copied by Firefox. Note if you copy the above from this forum across to an editor the new lines are preserved, but if you copy it from the website they are not.

I'm running Firefox 144.0.2 (64-bit) on a Mac using Sequoia 15.4.1 OS.

At the most recent Firefox update, I added VPN.

Since then, I've had a problem with Firefox hanging. Not immediately but after varying amounts of time, 20-60 minutes. I get an "Out of Application Memory" pop-up but the usage for both Firefox and other elements are well within normal range, not high. It's completely frozen and the only way out is to do a Force Quit.

There are times when doing a shut down I notice that VPN has somehow been turned Off and once I saw a message of Background Service Error attached to it.

Having to constantly re-start Firefox is a major pain. Oh-- I did turn off the background AI thing under Tabs. I hate AI and try to turn it off everywhere I find it. A resource suck and bad for the planet.

Any help appreciated.