Systemwide ping spikes and bandwith loss while using Firefox
Recently (a week ago? Could be longer and i didnt notice it) the whole system lags and with it comes a bandwith collapse in regular patterns (roughly every 5 seconds) whi… (read more)
Recently (a week ago? Could be longer and i didnt notice it) the whole system lags and with it comes a bandwith collapse in regular patterns (roughly every 5 seconds) while firefox is open. As the picture are showing, its only while using Firefox. Neither Edge nor Opera has this.
First picture is Nperf speedtest using Firefox. Second one is same test using MS Edge. Last is CMD ping to my router while FF was open.
I already started FF without addons, refreshed it, and also fully uninstalled (including the appdata folders) and reinstalled it, but its still happening.
Firefox
No home page just blank
New release messed up FF again. It is becoming a real joke now Updated to FF 69.02 32 bit in a vm. I want the home page/ new windows/ new tabs to be FF default.I just get… (read more)
New release messed up FF again. It is becoming a real joke now
Updated to FF 69.02 32 bit in a vm. I want the home page/ new windows/ new tabs to be FF default.I just get a blank page?. Plus i cannot log in here o FF says cookies are not allowed when they are. Tried to log in on IE and the username place was above the top of the screen.
[regression] Text rendering is incorrect
Those three operations should make the text rendering correct: Disable hardware acceleration Set gfx.canvas.azure.backends to direct2d1.1,cairo Set gfx.content.azure.back… (read more)
Those three operations should make the text rendering correct:
Disable hardware acceleration Set gfx.canvas.azure.backends to direct2d1.1,cairo Set gfx.content.azure.backends to direct2d1.1,cairo
https://renderingenginetest.netlify.com/
Dark theme can be tested by reversing the foreground and background colors in the HTML.
For reference, here is the correct GDI rendering of this website:
https://i.imgur.com/dWuZfbD.png https://i.imgur.com/M4oKd7i.png
In Firefox ESR 52.4.1 (32-bit), text renders correctly:
https://i.imgur.com/InrXmeI.png https://i.imgur.com/kn3bZra.png
which is the same as the GDI rendering of this website, except for some line spacing issues.
However, in Firefox 70.0b6 (32-bit), the rendering regressed and text no longer renders correctly:
https://i.imgur.com/Jn2NxGJ.png https://i.imgur.com/qDxww7y.png
Line spacing is correct, but don't let this distract you from how profoundly unsmooth the rendering is in the light theme version. The dark theme version is nearly identical though.
TLS Handshake timeout since 67.0
Hello community! I need your help. We have multiple clients connecting thru a corporate VPN and they are having issues with Firefox: When they try to access a website the… (read more)
Hello community! I need your help. We have multiple clients connecting thru a corporate VPN and they are having issues with Firefox: When they try to access a website they are experiencing a timeout with “Performing a TLS Handshake to…”. This only happens on the initial launch of Firefox. A refresh (F5) or reload immediately opens the website after the timeout. As long as the browser stays open, they do not have anymore issues accessing websites. If the browser is closed and re-opened, the issue reappears for the first website requested. This happens for every user connected via VPN. No issues whatsoever when they are directly connected to the network (office). After some troubleshooting, I noticed that the issue appeared from version 67.0. All previous versions do not have the TLS Handshake issue. We are currently using Version 69.0.1. Redoing profiles did not resolve the issue. VPN Users that are having the issue are on Windows 10 while Windows 7 users do not the problem. Also of note, if the client opens Firefox and leaves it idling for 40 sec. (or more) before requesting a https website, they do not get a TLS Handshake timeout. No issues in IE11, Edge or Chrome while connected thru VPN.
Ideas?
Can't contact one particular web site from an email link
2 months ago the email links to articles that I had been using for years stopped working. Error message says can't connect with the web site. This is a very popular web … (read more)
2 months ago the email links to articles that I had been using for years stopped working. Error message says can't connect with the web site. This is a very popular web site.
Firefox crashes
Hi Firefox has many crashes, several times a day, on every tabs opened, sometimes only one tab, sometimes all. Tabs are open on facebook, forums, videos, a don't see a re… (read more)
Hi Firefox has many crashes, several times a day, on every tabs opened, sometimes only one tab, sometimes all. Tabs are open on facebook, forums, videos, a don't see a recurrent scheme, it happens at any moment, even if I have only one tab open on serveral ones... I tried to start safe mode, doesn't change anything. My device is a recent intel NUC core I3, with 8 GO RAM. My OS is Solus, everything is correctly updated (Solus and firefox)
Last crash report : Firefox 69.0.2 Crash Report [@ firefox@0x1f2ee ] ID: 956dce02-3017-4016-b408-de15e0191009
Many thanks for your help
After latest Windows 8.1 update, can't print.
After latest Windows 8.1 update (three days ago), can't print. Get an error message --"an error occurred while printing." Tried all the fixes (reset, refresh, reinstall, … (read more)
After latest Windows 8.1 update (three days ago), can't print. Get an error message --"an error occurred while printing." Tried all the fixes (reset, refresh, reinstall, delete print_printer, etc. ) The print dialogue box sees my printer (Brother MFC-J425W) and IE, offline prints fine.
Language Bar doesn't work in Firefox
I'm trying to help my Uncle out. He's learning polish, and has been using the windows language bar to type in Polish when he needs to. Unfortunately, the language bar r… (read more)
I'm trying to help my Uncle out. He's learning polish, and has been using the windows language bar to type in Polish when he needs to. Unfortunately, the language bar recently stopped working in firefox, and only in firefox. In fact, it will straight up vanish when he opens firefox, then reappear when he closes it. I reset firefox, but that didn't help. I tried turning off all addons as well (he only has 3 plugins [flash, OpenH264 Codec, & Widevine] and 1 extension [Kaspersky]). The computer is also clean, and windows is up to date. Once again, the language bar works in other programs (such as word). Unfortunately, I can't tell you if he's made any recent changes.
When does FF Sync actually sync? It's not push for sure
I'm curious what does actually trigger a sync with Firefox Sync? It's not push, I can tell that and it's not time set as well (I waited, and waited, and waited...)... it … (read more)
I'm curious what does actually trigger a sync with Firefox Sync? It's not push, I can tell that and it's not time set as well (I waited, and waited, and waited...)... it does sync only when I push 'sync now' and sometimes even then it only acts as if synced but it's not.
A little background: I'm using FF 69.0.1, Build ID: 20190917135527 on a Mac and FF 69.0.2, Build ID: 20191001234643 on a Win machine, both signed in with the same login. I make a bookmark and it doesn't show up on the other machine, not on addition, not after a day, not until I manually hit Sync now on BOTH machines. I don't think it's working as designed...
So my question is, how does sync actually work, if it's neither a scheduled nor a push sync?
Thanks.
PS: it's quite useless the way it works now.
Disabling Autoplay: Why is this such a dismal failure?
First of all, there are so many articles on this site and others that don't update reflecting the huge changes recently in Autoplay options. So many settings from the pa… (read more)
First of all, there are so many articles on this site and others that don't update reflecting the huge changes recently in Autoplay options. So many settings from the past don't work or aren't even there anymore. Why are these pages not updated? Who even uses old version of this browser? 99% of the info online is irrelevant because of this sloppiness. Just go to Yahoo.com and see if anything works. Good luck with that. I did find one extension that did work (so far): Disable HTML5 Autoplay But we shouldn't need an extension to do something so basic, so intrinsic to web browsing. We all know distractions impeded our ability to get things done and cost billions every day as people's productivity sharply drops. There is nothing more distracting than a video! So its the number one thing to control. As long as you're over about 4 years old of course. Under that and we're fascinated by unfamiliar shiny objects.
So I'm curious about all the autoplay options I have in about:config and if any of these settings matter anymore, now that I have an extension that does what Firefox seems incapable of doing. When I search for autoplay, this is what I get, sorted alphabetically. I noticed that some are in bold. Why is that? And why is Mozilla so out of touch with us that they can't explain what each of these things actually does? I wonder if they even know. You should be able to hover your mouse cursor over an item and a popup should tell you what it does. Is that so difficult? Guess so.
true dom.media.autoplay.autoplay-policy-api true extensions.webextensions.ExtensionStorageIDB.migrated.disable-html5-autoplay@afnankhan false media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages true media.autoplay.block-event.enabled true media.autoplay.block-webaudio 1 media.autoplay.default false media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed true media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground false services.sync.prefs.sync.media.autoplay.default
Latest update has caused PDF issues, printing disabled, crashes
Windows 10 Pro. Cannot print from firefox and download is also not functional to print. Same file works fine in other browsers.
New version of FF 69 is not loading PDF documents? FF v68 works fine.
With FF69 upgrade not able to load PDF in the browser, where as previous version(FF68)was working fine. This issue is replicable in both Mac and Windows. Attached screens… (read more)
With FF69 upgrade not able to load PDF in the browser, where as previous version(FF68)was working fine. This issue is replicable in both Mac and Windows. Attached screenshot how it looks?
Why the hell does it need updating 5 times a week???!!
Why does it ask to update so much, they are all betas can't it not just update a full version every few months?
Using multiple devices
I work in a place that provides laptops for use while on the clock. We grab the laptop daily, and we may not get the same one any two days. They aren't assigned to people… (read more)
I work in a place that provides laptops for use while on the clock. We grab the laptop daily, and we may not get the same one any two days. They aren't assigned to people on an ongoing basis. Each time I sign in it puts a new device in my "devices" but that means eventually I will have up to 20 devices. Is this okay? If not, how do I keep each of them from showing up? Do I remove the devices daily? Will that have any effect on using the same laptop later?
When any audio is played while Firefox is open, my entire system's sound will begin to stutter
I'm on a Mac Pro using Sierra 10.12.6. Over the last few months, this problem has become more and more frequent. When playing an audio file (or video with audio), if Fire… (read more)
I'm on a Mac Pro using Sierra 10.12.6. Over the last few months, this problem has become more and more frequent. When playing an audio file (or video with audio), if Firefox is open, my entire system's sound will start "stuttering," for lack of a better word. It does it so quickly that the audio sounds like a buzz. If I quit Firefox, everything returns to normal. I can even re-launch Firefox and play the same video or audio file, and it will work perfectly for a few hours, then it will happen again, and the only solution I can find is to quit Firefox and relaunch it (which is inconvenient if I happen to be also downloading or uploading at the time). BTW, the video continues to play normally--it's the audio that is screwed up--for any application that uses sound (iTunes, VLC, other browsers, etc).
Anyone heard of this happening before? Any suggestions of how to eliminate the problem?
Bug with SSL EV Certificate
Good morning, I am facing an issue where EV certificate fails to show correct company name with quotation marks. Our company legal name is with quotation marks so the SSL… (read more)
Good morning,
I am facing an issue where EV certificate fails to show correct company name with quotation marks. Our company legal name is with quotation marks so the SSL provider is unable to issue the certificate without them. Certificate installation went smoothly, but after new certificate isntallation our customers noticed that with mozzila firefox browsers ( ONLY, with all others everything is fine ) there are an extra stripes being added to the company name. ( See picture attached ). I have contacted our SSL provider and they told me that they can not do anything in this case, because it is a Mozzila bug, that provider is unable to fix. Any ideas in this case guys, how could we solve that?
can't log in
i get sent to create a ff account and get "Loading chunk 23 failed. (missing: https://accounts-static.cdn.mozilla.net/bundle-63ca1bc68e64e3fba65388fc8dfe9c822e0193ca/vend… (read more)
i get sent to create a ff account and get "Loading chunk 23 failed. (missing: https://accounts-static.cdn.mozilla.net/bundle-63ca1bc68e64e3fba65388fc8dfe9c822e0193ca/vendors~fxaClient.bundle" says cookies and local storage disabled. They are not I had to use chrome to make the firefox account but still cannot log in. says cookies and local storage disabled. They are not
userChrome.css: notification-animation
Version: 66.0.4 (64-bit) fedora -1.0 (linux fedora 28) I can't get following to work: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); @-m… (read more)
Version: 66.0.4 (64-bit) fedora -1.0 (linux fedora 28) I can't get following to work: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
@-moz-document url("chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul") {
#alertBox[animate] {
animation-duration: 999s !important;
}
}
I also tried: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
- { animation-duration: 999s !important;}
The file is correctly put under: .mozilla/firefox/0b1lldqo.default-1468459052444/chrome and named: userChrome.css
notify-send -t 440000 "hello" : works just fine.
Thanks a lot, appreciate any help.
MR
Firefox Send Tab wihout Sync?
I just discovered Firefox Send Tab. But apparently, Firefox Sync must be activated for it to work. Is there a way to "control" Firefox Sync? Or separate Firefox Send … (read more)
I just discovered Firefox Send Tab. But apparently, Firefox Sync must be activated for it to work.
Is there a way to "control" Firefox Sync? Or separate Firefox Send Tab from it? All I want right now is the ability to share tabs with my other device.
bing opens no matter what need help
Bing opens every time I open up Firefox. I hate Bing and have searched everywhere for a way to get rid of it. I finally found in about:config there is a line which says… (read more)
Bing opens every time I open up Firefox. I hate Bing and have searched everywhere for a way to get rid of it. I finally found in about:config there is a line which says browser.newtab.url modified string http://www.bing.com etc etc I reckon this might be the culprit, but I daren't alter anything because I don't know what I am doing. I did try "Reset" but it didn't make any difference, Bing reappeared. Any help welcome. Many thanks.