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this exact question has been asked last year, none of the suggestions work: I am running Firefox 154.01 on Winux I have lost sound on Firefox. I have opened the same sites in Chromium and the sound is working fine. It's only in Firefox. I have tried several sites including , YouTube, and radio programs, no sound from Firefox. All of a sudden the sound disappeared. The speakers is turned on the volume is up, just not a sound from Firefox. What to do? Right now I had to switch over to Chromium

The following content is machine translated: The passkey feature (login via QR code scanning with a mobile phone) is not available the Linux version of Firefox. Compared to Windows and macOS, the Linux version does not have a passkey option when logging in; it only has a "security key."(as shown in the image) I cannot use the pass key saved on my iPhone to log in to websites, which is very frustrating. Is this a bug or an incomplete feature? Thank you for your reply. device: archlinux

Untranslated (chinese) : 通行密钥功能（通过手机扫描二维码登录）在linux版的firefox上并不能使用，相比windows和macos，linux版在登录时并没有通行密钥选项，只有一个“安全密钥”（如图），我无法使用保存在iPhone上的通行密钥来登录网站，这很令人沮丧，这是一个bug还是没有完成的功能？感谢您的回复 设备：archlinux

Hello,

I am trying to further secure my Mozilla account and was delighted to see that they added support for passkeys. I am signed into my Proton Pass on Firefox addon, but Firefox does not seem to understand it is supposed to create the passkey inside Proton.

This is unlike behavior I have witnessed on other sites supporting passkeys which has worked flawlessly to set up, such as Amazon.

Currently Running Firefox 158.0(64-bit)mint-001 - 1.0 Linux Mint 21.3. This actually started with 157. This peculiar to the System Package version ONLY. The versions on Flatpak Mint, Windoze, iOS or Android have the problem.

In brief, If the text in a Youtube post exceeds approximately 150 characters, excluding the dots(periods), when the preview is clicked on then the post itself only shows that text and the expected "Read more" is missing. What is visible are three dots in what appears to be a far smaller font thus making me believe the link to the script that does the reveal has been suppressed.

Unless there is something hidden in about:config to cure this there doesn't seem to be any way around this.

Ideas would be welcome

On linux, in the past, firefox kept all its data in home/{user}/.mozilla. This was changed at some pont to spread the data out into /home/{user}/.config, /home/{user}/.cache and maybe another place but when the change was made existing data was not moved and remained in /home/{user}/.mozilla. For my purposes I prefer to see the data in the old location. I make heave use of profiles and I store them on an encrypted partition and I have firejail setup to give access to the old location. Whart does Firefox look at to determine whether to look in the new locations or the old location? What is the new location of profile.ini?

I've been using the split view feature and really like it... however I constantly find myself doing the following:

Having a split view open with related pages, for example a list view in the left pane, and I want to open one of the items in the list view in the opposite pane, currently I have to:

1. Copy the url in the left pane 2. Switch to the right pane 3. Target the address bar 4. Paste the url 5. Load the new url

Ideally an additional 'open link in x' option could be added specifically when a user is in the split view, that will open the link directly in the opposite pane of the current split, so left > right or right > left.

My question is, is there is a way to do this already; I cannot find any reference to this in the docs.

"Open Link in Opposite Split View" would be perfect.

In some multi-line text fields:

• when I begin typing, a menu drops down or pops up.

Each menu option is a previously-typed phrase, not necessarily recent.

Is this a hidden feature of Firefox?

It's very recently evident with at least three websites:

• old Reddit, pictured at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117120940452711262
• Mastodon, pictured here and at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117124332180878790
• here – support.mozilla.org – when I began typing.

Reproducible with multiple Firefox profiles. Also evident with Firefox in safe mode.

Not evident with Microsoft Edge.

At a glance, I don't see anything relevant in release notes – https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/firefox/154.0/releasenotes/

It's possible that the feature was inadvertently enabled in response to an unknown combination of keys (shortcuts) as described in Mastodon.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Sync feature is not working at all, I signed my account on different PCs to have my history synced across all devices but it is like for nothing, every time I log my account into a new PC to have the search history of the last device nothing gets synced, I wait like for an eternity and nothing there, restart and nothing works.

I see this in abrt:

--- Running report_uReport --- Server responded with an error: 'Element 'desktop' is invalid: String '/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasma.desktop' does not match the pattern '^[a-zA-Z0-9_/-]+$

--- Skipping collect_GConf --- No matching actions found for this event.

--- Skipping collect_vimrc_system --- No matching actions found for this event.

--- Skipping collect_vimrc_user --- No matching actions found for this event.

--- Running collect_xsession_errors --- No /home/j/.cache/gdm/session.log

--- Running analyze_CCpp --- Generating backtrace Backtrace is too big (295534 bytes), reducing depth to 512 Backtrace is too big (283210 bytes), reducing depth to 256 Backtrace is too big (283210 bytes), reducing depth to 128 Backtrace is too big (283210 bytes), reducing depth to 64 Backtrace is generated and saved, 23162 bytes

--- Running analyze_BodhiUpdates --- Looking for similar problems in bugzilla abrt-action-find-bodhi-update [WARNING] Duplicate Bugzilla bug '#1207138' was found Searching for updates No updates for this package found

Is this normal behavior for Firerfox 155.0 on Fedora 44 KDE-Plasma 6.7?

Each time I get my tiles arraigned the way I want them, firefox screws them up, re-arraigning them in ways I don't want, and adding ones I do not want and did not ask to be displayed on a new tab.

And while I'm at it, QUIT re-arraigning things in the settings. I used to be able to find passwords and other settings without having to search for them. All you're doing is arraignment the chairs on the Titanic! Each time I get used to particular settings, you guys come in and decide to screw things up, changing them in ways that few if anyone asked to have changed up. STOP IT!

I'm trying to use Firefox Backup and have it save my sensitive data, but every time I enter a password, even if it meets the requirements, I get an error banner: "Something went wrong. Please try again."

It's very frustrating that the error message is so unhelpful. I have no idea what went wrong, nor how to fix it -- just trying again results in the same thing.

What is happening? How do I fix it?

About a month or so, opening tabs changed. It's more annoying and less convenient now for no clear reason.

Before, when I opened 20 links in new tabs, the existing tabs were pushed to the left. Now, the new tabs disappear to the right, and I need to scroll the tabs list to see them.

This makes researching things annoying. Especially when I'm trying to find anything useful among tons of useless search results. Normally, I would see every tab that I opened. I could always instantly see by the number of open tabs and domains if I should continue the search. No tabs? I haven't found enough. Same domain? I'm probably running in circles.

To replicate this workflow, now I'd have to manually scroll every time I open a new tab, which would be mighty annoying.

Meanwhile, there's no advantage to seeing my old tabs rather than new tabs. The new tabs are always more important in the moment because I just opened them.

Can this be changed back to old behaviour in about:config, or by some arcane profile hacking?

Ok, I have firefox in Kubuntu 24.04 from the official mozilla repositories (I don´t like snap) so, by today I received an upgrade to version 157.0 and the new desing with the tab buttons are like pills, and I don't like that appereance, so I did an userChrome.css with this rule:

• {

     border-radius: 5px !important;

}

Worked nice for me by the except that in the tabs background I have 5 pixel corners too, and behind that corners is white, so I tried with a new rule of zero pixel border radius to these elements: #TabsToolBar, #TabsToolbar-customization-target, #tabbrowser-tabs and #tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox with no success

I Like everything with that nice 5 pixel radius but not that blank corners, so what element I have to change its radius to zero in order to have a decent looking browser with no pill buttons? thanks.

Ever since the latest update i've noticed my firefox browser after using it for a while starts eating up all the ram until my computer freezes and needs to restart, i've heard this issue happen to others too but i am wondering if there are any ways to prevent it or will there be any updates to fix it?

I use my firefox on bazzite and have nothing else running in the background, after a while i watch the stats in my task manager and i see firefox using over 10GB of ram and climbing and have to shut it down before it freezes my pc

(can't show any screenshots because if i do then my pc would probably crash when trying to SS it while it has its problem)

Have used this wi-fi before on Fedora Workstation 44. Reinstalled linux using Xfce Fedora 44. Selected now from list of available wi-fi connections and indicates connected at 79%. Firefox not able to use connection? Thanks for any help available.