How to get Firefox to respect color profiles per monitor.
I've recently swapped to firefox from chrome, and I noticed one major difference in how the browser manages color profiles. While chrome uses the color profile per monito… (read more)
I've recently swapped to firefox from chrome, and I noticed one major difference in how the browser manages color profiles. While chrome uses the color profile per monitor, and updates when a window goes form one to the other, Firefox seems to only use the color profile from the first monitor regardless of which monitor i am on.
After some digging, I mange to find a guide (https://cameratico.com/guides/firefox-color-management/) that shows how to setup firefox to use an ICC profile. However, I can't seem to find a way to get Firefox to use ICC profile per monitor.
Is there a way?
Firefox
How do I find the directory that a bookmark is in?
Having a search "feature" that does not immediately come up with not only the bookmark but also it's location in the bookmark folders is frankly useless. It has been driv… (read more)
Having a search "feature" that does not immediately come up with not only the bookmark but also it's location in the bookmark folders is frankly useless. It has been driving me crazy for years, and is what eventually made me give up on Firefox. Yes I know there are extensions that can do this (though I am now a bit out of the loop and don't know of any current ones) but they are simply not the solution. Extensions change and are often disabled after an upgrade leaving me to scramble looking for yet another half assed solution.
Imagine if the file manager on your operating system allowed you to find the words "idiot" in a file somewhere on your system but didn't give you any way to actually find the location of this file in your system without lots of extra work! That would be completely unacceptable - Well that is what I have with Firefox!
As users, lazy developers of all sorts of software have tried for years to force us to store our snippets of data in one gigantic box and then force us to rely on searching, sometimes for ages to find whatever it is we put in that box.
This is not how organized people like to work. Putting every single tool I own in a big box in my garage would be insane and using that system would be just as insane on a computer or in an application. We generally put woodworking tools together, mechanic type tools together, measurement tools together, electronics tools together. Then when we need that funny little thing we use to pry open mobile phones, we can find it, even though we don't know its name or exactly where it is, it is with the electronics tools, we go to that box, drawer or wall-board and ah, there it is, no unpacking a huge box of unrelated tools (The thing we are looking for is always at the bottom).
Well my bookmarks are the same. There are times when a directory system does not help and then I rely on searching but most the time my work flow is like this: Today I am working on a robotics thing. I remember seeing a cool little motor I came across when I last worked on robotics stepper motors I remember the name of the stepper motor so I search for it. It shows me the directory I put it in and presto there too I find the information I saved about the other cool little motor. I have this happen over and over. This the only reason I save bookmarks. Hell if I am going to throw all bookmarks into a single box an use search then why bother with bookmarks at all? I can just use Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever other search engine takes my fancy!
If there are other people out there that feel like I do, please note your irritation here so that those wonderful people who give so much of their time to improving Firefox can know that this is a big issue.
If there is a new search tool that also shows the directory structure, please bring it to my attention.
BTW, I am whining a lot in this post but it is because I love Firefox and really miss using it. If programming were my passion rest assured this is something I would be happy to help with but it is not, my skills lie in other areas where I regularly contribute to the good of others. Thank you Firefox developers.
My bookmarks have become quite messy since losing the ability to easily find things and I want to bring them back into line. I miss being able to find stuff I liked.
Oh and please don't tell me "Tags" - tags are another half assed solution for this workflow. Tags have their place and are useful but not for keeping things organized. They are too reliant on searching.
Tags: So all my tools are in one box with a sticky label tagging some as woodworking, some as metalworking, some as electronics - that is still one very big, very messy hard to work with box of garbage!
-Dennis
Copy bookmark folder with subfolders to another Firefox instance
This dirty trick required to move a single bookmark folder from one Firefox profile to another stopped working for me for some reason. I tried different firefox versions,… (read more)
This dirty trick required to move a single bookmark folder from one Firefox profile to another stopped working for me for some reason. I tried different firefox versions, including the one from portableapps.com, I tried starting the second instance with -no-remote switch. Nothing worked. When I tried drag&drop between the instances there was the blue feedback dash indicating the place where the folder was going to be dropped in the target Library window. But nothing happened. I tried holding Ctrl as well, also using Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V key combinations.
Is this a known issue? Has a recent version of Firefox removed this ability?
Tab/tool bar for some websites is now empty
espn.com has bar at the top for showing the latest scores, and a tab bar below it for choosing specifics sports and some other things. Likewise, free.com has a tab bar at… (read more)
espn.com has bar at the top for showing the latest scores, and a tab bar below it for choosing specifics sports and some other things. Likewise, free.com has a tab bar at the top for choosing newspaper sections. They are now all empty (although the space is still present) when using Firefox. They display properly with Safari. This happened in the past few days. I think it happened when I upgraded to 66.0.3, although at that time I also played around with some settings try to fix a problem related to the upgrade (Firefox crashed during the upgrade and I lost my tabs as a result).
Firefox Is Changing The Default Paper Size For All Printers When One Is Selected
Hello! A little background info on what we're dealing with here. I work in a store and we own two workstations. Each workstation shares our two printers. One is a Star Re… (read more)
Hello!
A little background info on what we're dealing with here. I work in a store and we own two workstations. Each workstation shares our two printers. One is a Star Receipt printer, the other is a Brother full size paper printer. Now Workstation2 is working without issue. We are able to print with the system specific default printer settings and nothing changes between printer. All good to go.
Now the issues stems from Workstation1. Our Star Receipt printer is set to print '77MMXRECEIPT', however when we select the Brother printer from the drop down menu then switch back to the Star Receipt the default paper size is forced to 'Letter' which causes the Receipt to print like a large sheet of paper which means we only get a portion of what we are printing.
This wouldn't normally be a problem, but due to some undefined steps(I'm not the only user and we don't always print from one website) the Brother printer is changed to default in Firefox which means that when we select the Receipt printer for printing, the default is again set to 'Letter' until we go to File>Print and set it to default again with '77MMXRECEIPT'.
Here's what I've done to test where the issue is this. I've changed and confirmed that when the Receipt printer is forced to 'Letter', the windows printer settings for both printers does stay on the default settings. I've also confirmed that the printer settings work on all browsers but Firefox and within Firefox I have gone into the .js settings file and deleted anything mentioned as 'print_' as well as going to Help>Troubleshoot>Refresh and completely setting all settings to default with nothing changing. I've also gone into About:config and tried resetting the default printer to no avail. The setting is always forcefully changed to 'Letter' when first switched to Brother printer and back to Star Receipt printer.
My take on it is there is some saved cache or settings file that has recorded and saved the Brother settings along with the Star Receipt settings and sets them both when switched to Brother. I've attempted to check both workstations and compare settings, everything appears the same. I have no idea where else to go on this as I don't know Firefox that intimately. Short of reinstalling Firefox I've done all I can think of.
My current version of Firefox is 66.0.3 (64-bit) labelled as Firefox Quantum.
Please let me know if there is anything you can think of! Thank you for your help.
Have change in tab focus trigger session store
My browser settings have the sessionstore.interval set to the default of 15000 (15 seconds) but only seems to write to the sessionsstore file only when I add or destroy a… (read more)
My browser settings have the sessionstore.interval set to the default of 15000 (15 seconds) but only seems to write to the sessionsstore file only when I add or destroy a tab. This behaviour is fine with me except it does not write to the file if I change focus to another tab.
Is there a preference variable which allows this action?
Unused Tags Can't Be Deleted in the Bookmark Library
I have imported my bookmarks from Firefox 56 and everything seemed fine until I noticed that there are some tags which aren't assigned to any bookmark. I tried to delete … (read more)
I have imported my bookmarks from Firefox 56 and everything seemed fine until I noticed that there are some tags which aren't assigned to any bookmark. I tried to delete them manually but they don't respond to any manipulation. And there's a lot of them, gunking up the database.
I've heard that such tags are supposed to disappear on their own after I exit Firefox, but it doesn't seem to work. The problem persists in the Safe Mode too.
looking for an add-on which will show coloured tabs grouped like IE11 does
IE11 shows tabs in coloured groups when you open new tabs from the host tab, if you open a new fresh tab on same page the colour will be different from the first host tab… (read more)
IE11 shows tabs in coloured groups when you open new tabs from the host tab, if you open a new fresh tab on same page the colour will be different from the first host tab but it's daughters will be the same colours as the new host. Anyone know of an add-on to accomplish this. I'm using version 66.
Thanks
firefox blocks googleadservices.com content. How can I fix this?
If I do a shopping search with google, many of the results have links which will not open in Firefox. For example, if I look for a Murphy bed and find this link with Goo… (read more)
If I do a shopping search with google, many of the results have links which will not open in Firefox. For example, if I look for a Murphy bed and find this link with Google, it will not open (and I have already tried putting googleadservices.com in Firefox as an exception site for the popup blocker). : https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjouJHywObhAhXuobMKHSQqDHwYABAmGgJxbg&sig=AOD64_0XaeU2mx9_XNKe-DXK2XdALJhGbw&ctype=5&q=&ved=0ahUKEwiewo3ywObhAhVSm-AKHSgbA3EQiy8IpAE&adurl=
I tried to take a screenshot but that was not possible, but the page I see says this,
"Unable to connect Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.googleadservices.com.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."
Firefox loses bookmarks, 'tiles', etc.
Once more into the breech: Firefox 66.0.3 using only uBlock Origin loses bookmarks, 'tiles' (top sites), history. This is a fresh Windows 10 64b, tweaked some privacy set… (read more)
Once more into the breech:
Firefox 66.0.3 using only uBlock Origin loses bookmarks, 'tiles' (top sites), history. This is a fresh Windows 10 64b, tweaked some privacy settings, and that's the only detail I can think of mentioning. Other than wildvine and another codec there's nothing unusual. I do use Sandboxie but haven't seen any issue whatsoever in researching this problem, going on a year now, all versions of FF.
This was happening on my W7 pc and I can only believe the behavior is built into FF b/c it happens even w/a fresh install. I've read and posted numerous times and cannot fathom WTH is going on. Happens periodically, no trend, every 3-4 days or so.
Places.sqlite database is sane, as is favicons.sqlite db. Profiles shows Default profile: yes, and both root profile and local profile use the same file. My previous posted Q's lead me to believe you will now ask me to delve into something with the .json files.
I can uninstall, reboot and reinstall but the behavior will remain. How can this even be happening? As I understand it (from your answers) my browser.bookmarks.max_backups 15 info will save to a single file. The one that begins using the date and ending with .jsonlz4.
How can I get FF to not hose my info w/o manually copying my %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profile folder on a daily basis? Should I just use Backup manager>export as a stopgap for bookmarks? That's obviously the most iritating issue. Any add-on that will work w/current FF like FredMcD stated back in Jan?
Thanks,
Mac
An online magazine in the UK uses Pagesuite to print pages from it. This facility hasn't worked since the beginning of 2019. Any thoughts?
The PageSuite window comes up, tells me it is loading the selected page(s) and waits while I choose the Printer details. When I press OK that small window goes away and P… (read more)
The PageSuite window comes up, tells me it is loading the selected page(s) and waits while I choose the Printer details. When I press OK that small window goes away and PrintSuite says 'Printing Finished'. Now that's what happened before the New Year, so everything appears to be fine.
It took me some time to figure out that I needed to see what was in the printer queue. That showed nothing.
I eventually thought to set up the printer queue window before I pressed OK. When I do that, the file is sent to the printer and it is immediately removed from the queue. The file name is in the list for a fraction of a second, no more. Just enough time for the file name to register on the screen. So that's the problem I have run into.
Now, details:
Operating system - Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Web browser - Firefox Quantum, v 66.0.3
Printer - Brother HL-1210W
Printing to Adobe PDF creates img only, untagged PDF
When I print a page in Firefox (66.0.3) and select Adobe PDF, the resulting pdf is not OCRed or tagged. I end up with pretty much an image-only PDF that is inaccessible t… (read more)
When I print a page in Firefox (66.0.3) and select Adobe PDF, the resulting pdf is not OCRed or tagged. I end up with pretty much an image-only PDF that is inaccessible to users of screen readers.
In Chrome, if I print the same page and select Save as PDF, the resulting document IS OCRed and tagged.
Firefox has been a browser of choice for NVDA screen reader users, but this issue causes some serious accessibility problems.
There should be an option to "Save as PDF" that OCRs and tags the document. Why would anyone want an untagged PDF? you might as well just use a jpg....
How do I restore default fonts and colors?
I was trying out various custom fonts and colors while checking my email. Now I am not happy with the choices I made. My email is almost impossible to read. I tried check… (read more)
I was trying out various custom fonts and colors while checking my email. Now I am not happy with the choices I made. My email is almost impossible to read. I tried checking the box which says something like "allow website to choose own colors" but nothing changed. I really want to restore the default fonts (and size) and the color. What should I do?
install
Trying to install on a different disk. I uninstall and when I reinstall it puts it in the old place. How can I reinstall to a different disk?
buttons fail to firefox 66.x
Firefox webpage buttons fail to fire. Works in version 65. Also, button work with other browsers including IE 11, latest version of opera and chrome. Anyone else exp… (read more)
Firefox webpage buttons fail to fire. Works in version 65. Also, button work with other browsers including IE 11, latest version of opera and chrome.
Anyone else experience this ....
Why is Mozilla so hostile to its users ?
Why is it that one can loyally use a product and yet have the manufacturers hostile to your use ? Is Mozilla looking for money ? I would be glad to send money. My im… (read more)
Why is it that one can loyally use a product and yet have the manufacturers hostile to your use ? Is Mozilla looking for money ? I would be glad to send money. My impression is that Mozilla simply is biding its time in order to super monetize the users. Prove to me I am wrong.
webpages dont load content but Safari does
Hi, Ive had something weird just started happening last week, but It didnt hit me until this week there was a problem. Im in google searching for whatever, I click on a w… (read more)
Hi, Ive had something weird just started happening last week, but It didnt hit me until this week there was a problem. Im in google searching for whatever, I click on a website and the page loads but the content doesnt. So I got to Safari and the page loads the entire content of the google search. This had been happening to a lot of websites. I didnt make any changes didnt download anything new. Ive checked various settings as stated in some of the firefox help sites and nothing has worked. See my attachments, 1st image is from firefox, 2nd image is from safari identical address as firefox.
I run Macbook pro/ El Capitan and have firefox quantum 66.0.3. I look forward to any help.
How can I make bookmarks auto-fill above advertisments for sites FireFox wants me to visit?
I can't access any of my old questions and they haven't changed. Can I block the address bar auto-fill ads? Is it a hidden setting? FF is set to never save any history… (read more)
I can't access any of my old questions and they haven't changed. Can I block the address bar auto-fill ads? Is it a hidden setting? FF is set to never save any history, I've cleared history manually, and FF clears it upon exit. Many suggestions are for websites I've never visited, which makes me think they are advertisements. I have turned off all suggestions and "helpful" settings to no avail. I just really miss being able to type the first 1-3 letters of a common bookmark and hit enter, now I have to scroll down through a list, starting with FF 62 if I remember correctly. Still hasn't been fixed by updates, wondering if anyone has a workaround that isn't a more user-friendly browser.
I have trouble with just one web site, none of my browsers can open it but i can load any other sites on any browser with no problems,
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could … (read more)
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
This is the message i keep getting, been two days now, can it be fixed,
Task Manager shows FLOW and FIREFOX Using large amount of CPU, If I terminate FLOW it returns to normal, but comes back!
For the last week Task Manager is showing Firefox using lots of CPU, causing fans to come on in laptop, at the same time 'FLOW' is showing about the same high usage. I ne… (read more)
For the last week Task Manager is showing Firefox using lots of CPU, causing fans to come on in laptop, at the same time 'FLOW' is showing about the same high usage. I never installed Flow. When I 'end task' on Flow Firefox reverts to normal. But Flow reappears on it's own. If I remove Conexant Flow, it comes back again. Can anyone help? It also worries me why Flow should be using so much CPU, when (apparently) it is only a driver?