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One website opens with a blank white screen.

When logging in to a website that I use many times every day all day, all of a sudden I log on and all I get is a blank white screen. I have tried clearing everything, re… (read more)

When logging in to a website that I use many times every day all day, all of a sudden I log on and all I get is a blank white screen. I have tried clearing everything, restarting Firefox, removing Firefox and re-installing it, rebooting the computer, starting Firefox in the safe mode but no change. The same problem shows up on three different computers on two different networks with two different ISPs. The website opens normally on Edge and Chrome. I would prefer to be able to use Firefox. Using version 139.0.4 (64-bit) on all three computers. I would really appreciate any help that is available.

Asked by Barry 5 months ago

Last reply by Denys 4 months ago

browser will not open any window. no new windows, only tab and that is a problem

Why won't Firefox open any new windows? I give ir the command to open a window and yet all i get are tabs and I never click on open a tab. I have an HP probook this for w… (read more)

Why won't Firefox open any new windows? I give ir the command to open a window and yet all i get are tabs and I never click on open a tab. I have an HP probook this for windows 10 and i am also having the same problem with Chrome. I have uninstalled and reinstalled chrome and that did not fix it so it is not that. What would cause this? I have already cleared the cache cookies history browsing etc. and nothing is fixing it. PLEASE HELP.

Asked by GINAHERE 5 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 5 months ago

What is crashhelper and why is it coming up in the new version of firefox?

So I just noticed after downloading the new update to Firefox, version 139.0.1 that something new came up in my task manager called Crashhelper. Never seen this before. C… (read more)

So I just noticed after downloading the new update to Firefox, version 139.0.1 that something new came up in my task manager called Crashhelper. Never seen this before. Closed it down and it seemed to have no issues shutting down at least. I haven't had Firefox crash in recent months, so I'm assuming that this cropping up might be a glitch of some kind? I looked this up to see if anyone else had this issue, and it seems someone on Reddit did encounter this, on Linux, and another on Windows also seems to have run into it. How do we stop this from coming up whenever we start up the browser?

Asked by Marc7 5 months ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 5 months ago

Firefox cannot find location, even with Location enabled

I cannot for the life of me figure this out. Whenever I load a website that needs location (for example, Google Maps or my province's lottery) and enable location permiss… (read more)

I cannot for the life of me figure this out. Whenever I load a website that needs location (for example, Google Maps or my province's lottery) and enable location permissions, the websites come back saying they cannot find my location.

I have refreshed Firefox, disabled all Enhanced Tracking Protection, disabled all extensions, and have even ran Firefox in Troubleshoot mode - all to no avail. Is there any way this can be fixed? These websites all work on Chrome and Edge and work on my Firefox for iPhone.

On Windows 10 22H2.

Asked by Falom 5 months ago

Last reply by pieterdekker 1 week ago

HW Acceleration running on Linux is disabled in Firefox

I am running Firefox on Linux. Desktop environment is KDE. Compositor is Wayland. I have a 11th Gen Intel Tiger lake Core i3 with integrated Intel UHD Graphics GPU. I do… (read more)

I am running Firefox on Linux. Desktop environment is KDE. Compositor is Wayland. I have a 11th Gen Intel Tiger lake Core i3 with integrated Intel UHD Graphics GPU. I do not have a eGPU or any other GPU apart from the integrated Intel UHD Graphics GPU. Intel drivers are installed and are being used. Please see the details given below from about:support for more details. What I have observed that Hardware acceleration, specifically WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR, WEBRENDER_SHADER_CACHE and WEBRENDER_DCOMP_PRESENT are disabled. The details are given below.

I have enabled the force hardware acceleration too by setting the property media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled to true. But still the above three hardware acceleration are still not available.

How can I get these enabled?

output from about:support GPU #1 Active Yes Description Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (TGL GT2) Vendor ID 0x8086 Device ID 0x9a78 Driver Vendor mesa/iris Driver Version 25.1.3.0 RAM 0

Decision Log HW_COMPOSITING default available OPENGL_COMPOSITING default available WEBRENDER default available WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR default disabled Disabled by default Blocklisted; failure code

                                                                                                                               FEATURE_FAILURE_DISABLED
                                                       env	        blocklisted	Blocklisted by gfxInfo	
                                                                                               Blocklisted; failure code 
                                                                                       FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR_DISABLED

WEBRENDER_PARTIAL default available WEBRENDER_SHADER_CACHE default disabled Disabled by default Blocklisted; failure code

                                                                                                                       FEATURE_FAILURE_DISABLED

WEBRENDER_OPTIMIZED_SHADERS default available WEBRENDER_ANGLE default available

                                                       env	        unavailable	OS not supported	Blocklisted; failure code 
                                                                                               FEATURE_FAILURE_OS_NOT_SUPPORTED

WEBRENDER_DCOMP_PRESENT default available

                                                       user	disabled	        User disabled via pref	Blocklisted; failure code 
                                                                                                  FEATURE_FAILURE_DCOMP_PREF_DISABLED
                                                        env	unavailable	Requires GPU process	Blocklisted; failure code 
                                                                                                FEATURE_FAILURE_NO_GPU_PROCESS
                                                       runtime	unavailable	Requires ANGLE	Blocklisted; failure code 
                                                                                               FEATURE_FAILURE_DCOMP_NOT_ANGLE"

WEBRENDER_SCISSORED_CACHE_CLEARS default available

Asked by LimuxSpring 4 months ago

Last reply by jeff-g 4 months ago

Delayed video start/resume while on bluetooth

To preface this, I am on MacOS. I noticed a small delay before starting videos while I have my AirPods connected. There are a few scenarios where this delay does not exi… (read more)

To preface this, I am on MacOS.

I noticed a small delay before starting videos while I have my AirPods connected. There are a few scenarios where this delay does not exist: - Any other browser - Audio is actively playing elsewhere - Mic is in use (like a zoom meeting in the background, even when muted) - Audio is muted

I have tried safe-mode, reinstalling, and even messing with the config, to no avail. I know for sure this is isolated to Firefox, and I believe it's due to how audio devices are handled. I would rather my videos immediately play rather than wait for a "health" check from my connected device, even if there isn't audio for that time period.

Asked by Spikers 4 months ago

Last reply by Denys 4 months ago

Lost data from profile after wiping windows

Hello, I just wiped windows and lost my bookmarks, passwords, and the like. I looked into the support options, as well Firefox profiles (about:profiles) but can't seem to… (read more)

Hello, I just wiped windows and lost my bookmarks, passwords, and the like. I looked into the support options, as well Firefox profiles (about:profiles) but can't seem to get that data back. It's odd to me that it didn't sync because I also wiped windows last month and it recovered all of my data as soon as I signed into my Firefox account,so I was hoping that would happen again.

Any way to get this back?

Thank you.

Asked by dredre0702 4 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 4 months ago

Firefox Sync is a total nightmare.

Instead of syncing my current settings, sync just overwrote them with an old, outdated copy from another device, completely ruining my addons, bookmarks and various other… (read more)

Instead of syncing my current settings, sync just overwrote them with an old, outdated copy from another device, completely ruining my addons, bookmarks and various other settings. I managed to restore the bookmarks, but is there really no proper way to undo this or prevent such thing from happening in the first place? Is there no way to control if I want to sync my setting TO the server or FROM the server? How such a vital decision is even made then and why wouldn't there be a way for a user to control that? This is so disappointing :(

Asked by Dmytro Shevchenko 3 months ago

Last reply by Vanillaman 1 month ago

Facebook won't load

For the past 2 days, Facebook won't load when I try to change my page to another (just switching between accounts). It acts like it is changing or loading, and then I ju… (read more)

For the past 2 days, Facebook won't load when I try to change my page to another (just switching between accounts). It acts like it is changing or loading, and then I just get nothing. I have done all of the things that are requested from clearing my cache, browsing data, restarting, etc. Nothing is working. I've attached a picture of my screen of I receive when I try to change pages - the big F. LOL Facebook on my phone works fine. I've tried also turning off my VPN and it doesn't load.

I've also had issues with my Xfinity email loading unless I turn off my VPN.

So what is going on?

Asked by Kimberly K. Walters 5 months ago

Last reply by thefazioagency 2 months ago

Firefox keeps randomly moving focused tabs to the end

When I go to view an already open tab it will sometimes randomly move it to the very end of my tabs all the way to the right. I don't want it to move tabs without my inte… (read more)

When I go to view an already open tab it will sometimes randomly move it to the very end of my tabs all the way to the right. I don't want it to move tabs without my intervention. Clicking on a tab should keep it in place.

This has been an issue for about 2 months now. I'm not sure what's causing it or even if it's entirely a Firefox issue as I have noticed something similar happen in another program with tabs that I use often. It still seems like a Firefox issue in that moving a tab all the way to the end is a very specific task that can't normally be done accidentally.

Is there a way to prevent this from happening or has anyone figured it out?

This person has the same issue: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/stop-reordering-my-tabs/td-p/93219

Asked by Engage 5 months ago

Last reply by Denys 5 months ago

Firefox hangs or crashes "Gah your tab crashed"

Firefox keeps crashing and Hanging and I get the error message "gah your tab etc" I have followed the advice for fixing the problem but it keeps coming back Its really a… (read more)

Firefox keeps crashing and Hanging and I get the error message "gah your tab etc" I have followed the advice for fixing the problem but it keeps coming back Its really annoying when you are trying to do something I'm no computer whiz and I have looked at the crash reports, its just gobble gook to me, I need help to fix the problem.

Asked by Anthony Gloster-Guest 5 months ago

Last reply by Paul 5 months ago

Can you restore a session with crash files?

I need to recover a `.jsonlz4` file to restore a Firefox session with 8 active instances, as the "Restore Session" feature only opened 5 due to the `browser.sessionstore.… (read more)

I need to recover a `.jsonlz4` file to restore a Firefox session with 8 active instances, as the "Restore Session" feature only opened 5 due to the `browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo` setting being capped at 5, and the full original `.jsonlz4` file is now missing.

In the`firefox/Crash Reports` directory, there are numerous files I can’t interpret, can I retrieve my session data via telemetry or other methods using this crash information. I’m using Linux Mint with Flatpak Firefox, and I also have crash logs containing a "last crash" text file and a string of numbers, could these be useful for getting back my session?

Asked by basketcat 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

Ive stored multiple mispelled words to my dictionary. I navigated to mozilla profile folder & cannot find persdict.dat file.

As the question stated I have navigated to my mozilla profile folder, ( C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pw1dnvcy.default-release ) but there is no … (read more)

As the question stated I have navigated to my mozilla profile folder, ( C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\pw1dnvcy.default-release ) but there is no file called persdict.dat. I have ensured all file name extensions are visible, & none are hidden in windows file explorer (Win 10). I am at al loss I cannot figure this out.

Asked by SugaryPhoenixxx 5 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 5 months ago

New Tabs Now Includes Push Pins on Each Icon on Favorites - Firefox 139.0.1

Just updated to 139.0.1 and got a surprise. My New Tab Favorites Icons now have Push Pins in their upper left corners, leaving less space for the icons, so of course my … (read more)

Just updated to 139.0.1 and got a surprise. My New Tab Favorites Icons now have Push Pins in their upper left corners, leaving less space for the icons, so of course my icons are now smaller than before. Why do the people maintaining the system at Mozilla keep messing with the New Tabs? Last time, they thought they needed to include a large image of the Firefox icon, again shrinking the remaining screen real estate for my icons. That got fixed. Now they decided each favorite icon needs a rather large push pin to indicate that it belongs there. Somebody thought this would be a good idea? Why can't they just leave it alone?

I'm posting two screenshot images of my New Tab screen. You will know which is before and which is after.

Asked by Prentice3 5 months ago

Last reply by Agent virtuel 5 months ago

Where diв containers go?

Hi! Previously, all the sites saved in a single container could be accessed via the dropdown arrow to the left of the 'close,' 'minimize,' and 'maximize' buttons. Now, i… (read more)

Hi!

Previously, all the sites saved in a single container could be accessed via the dropdown arrow to the left of the 'close,' 'minimize,' and 'maximize' buttons. Now, it only shows current tabs, tabs from other devices, close duplicate tabs, and add a tab to one of the containers. But how to open those containers is unclear.

PS I have the latest update 139.0.1

Asked by Leonid Fomichev 5 months ago

Last reply by Denys 5 months ago

Problem Loading Page

I cannot get past the secure connection failed! I have cleared cookies, cache, etc. I have turned off the firewall, and restarted my computer more times that I can coun… (read more)

I cannot get past the secure connection failed! I have cleared cookies, cache, etc. I have turned off the firewall, and restarted my computer more times that I can count....

Asked by snowgoddess17 5 months ago

Last reply by Denys 5 months ago

Unable to connect to local PC - localhost and 127.0.0.1 both fail

Have an app with a web interface that I used for years, but not with several of the latest versions of FF. Chrome, Edge, and DuckDuckGo all show the page as expected and … (read more)

Have an app with a web interface that I used for years, but not with several of the latest versions of FF. Chrome, Edge, and DuckDuckGo all show the page as expected and the page functions properly.

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8384/ Error looks like this:


Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:[port number].

   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.

Have tried a large number of things including:

Ping works for ip and hostname, v4 and v6 Confirmed address is accessible through other browsers Disabled extensions Added exceptions in Settings for HTTPS-only mode Various settings in about:config, careful to return them to previous states when they didn't fix the problem Tried Safe Mode (aka Troubleshoot Mode) Refreshed Firefox (as prompted before uninstalling)

My last step is to reinstall, but thought I'd ask here first. Has anyone seen this before?

Asked by kcary 5 months ago

Last reply by Mohammad Aslam 4 months ago