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Hello, I recently updated to 15.3.2 on a silicon Mac Mini. This morning, both Firefox and TBird ran slowly. I restarted twice and spoke to a Senior Adviser at Apple. The second restart was at her advice, and it brought TBird back to normal performance. She said she believed that the computer was indexing after the update to 15.3.2, which took place last night.

We thought that Firefox was normalized as well, but it is still working slowly compared to Safari. Any suggestions?

Thank you for your help.

E.

In the distant past, I used to be able to set Firefox to NOT auto-highlight the URL-bar when I single-click.

At some point Firefox removed this ability. I was wondering in 2025 if there is some workaround to get this function working again.

I would like to have Firefox work this way: -a single click places the cursor in the URL-bar without any highlight (if I want the entire URL-bar highlighted, I will use CRL+L) -a double-click will highlight a specific word or content between two dots (e.g., double-clicking on "mozilla" will highlight just mozilla in support.mozilla.org -it's fine with me if a triple-click highlights the entire URL-bar but I don't require it.

For the past few weeks my credit union website has posted the following error code "A connection failure has occurred. Please try again or call the Member Service Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (907) 563-4567 or (800) 525-9094.

I called member service and they blamed the problem on Mozilla, stating they are slow to update their security protocols to accept GCU's advance security. They refused my suggestion that they reach out to Mozilla and there is no direct way to contact Mozilla Support.

I have used this browzer for years with no problem, and now I can't use it on my online banking site; the only site where this problem occurs. HELP

In the "comments" section of a Yahoo article, a notification will appear that someone has replied to a comment I submitted previously. By clicking on that notification you are supposed to be returned to that article and directly to my comment and the subsequent replies to it. Firefox is returning me to the articles' comment section but not to my specific comment and any added replies.

Microsoft Edge DOES send me back to my specific comment. I cannot find anything in the settings for Firefox that would control this.

Since the last or second to last update whenever i open a new tab(to the right) with a video there is a play button where the tab-title is. i would click to select the new tab and accidentally click this button. the video would play. then i click again to this time change to the new tab for real. now the new tab is muted. so the new tab is playing in the background muted. this is incredibly annoying. the play button is right in the middle of the tab register so to change tabs i have to avoid it to the left or right.

PLEASE at least give the option to not have this button.

1) Does Mozilla Firefox for Mac offer email technical support?

2) After a recent Firefox for Mac update (36.0.1 (aarch64)) the ability to drag and drop files from Finder to the open Gmail (email) window on the browser (not in the Gmail app), does not function -- in fact, is hangs with the circle of death, then have to close the window tab, and reopen. In worst case, have to force quit Firefox browser.

I also have Grammerly installed for the Gmail / email function - I will disable it to see if that's the culprit.

Lastly, very difficult to find product problems and reported issues - and difficult to know "what topic best describes my PROBLEM - not question."

Video is not loaded on youtube, I have the whole site, but when i go to any video, I have an endless download, normal video download will be one of 30, I don't know what to do with this At the same time, such a problem is not observed in other browsers, but I want to use Firefox Please help me

I want to stop my mac from firefox updates Updates on firefox ruin firefox. NO MORE UPDATES How do i stop updates?

I appreciate the risks and if it results in the deaths of 7 billion people in a nuclear inferno, I'm totally fine about that.

i have foxfire tryed to update firefox it sais i had up to 3/14/25 to update i did update but nothing happened it keeos saying server not found i don't know what to do not very smart when it comes to computers i am 80 yrs old

As of this morning (new update 136.0.2) Some websites I use (NYT Crossword) do not display any content and some (cnn.com) are missing some content. Also Duck Duck Go search is broken. I have tried deleting all the browser data as well as shutting done firefox and reopening. All of the above still seem to work in Chrome.

Thanks

My linux system no longer has pulseaudio installed (for reasons unrelated to firefox).

The --enable-alsa option is not rejected by firefox but doesn't work either. The only way to get audio from firefox in this install is through the apulse wrapper:

    apulse firefox ...

Note that chrome browsers have no problem with audio when pulseaudio is not installed.

Is the --enable-alsa in firefox supposed to work?

thanks!

=> firefox --new-instance --enable-alsa [448710] Sandbox: attempt to open unexpected file /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/chrome [448710] Sandbox: attempt to open unexpected file /sys/fs/cgroup/schedtune/chrome [Child 448437, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7f36959274c0 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:285 [Child 448437, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7f3695a15200 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:4634

When Firefox is on, and I shut down or reboot my PC directly without closing Firefox, it shows a problem. When I click the restore session or start new session' option, it takes some time to load the webpage. Sometimes, it takes 3-4 minutes to establish a connection. After resetting all data from Firefox, it fixes, but then it gets slow from time to time again. However, it is a problem to reset all the data regularly.

I enjoy Firefox and use it on all platforms. In the last week it has been difficult to browse if I leave the app for more than a few seconds. I have found that in Task manager, the Firefox processes go to efficiency mode. Once that happens I cannot bring the browser back active. How can I turn off efficiency mode for Firefox? Thanks.