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For the past few days when I use Firefox and Thunderbird my entire screen will randomly start to flicker, at times very quickly and rarely the entire screen goes black for second or two. This behavior immediately stops when I close the app. It does not happen with any other app. I've tried disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox and that didn't help. Both apps are on the latest version and I also updated my video driver. Tried removing the two add-ons I have. I'm on Windows 11 Firefox 136.0.

Hi. Block Party was just pitched by the WaPo but I see few people here are using it ... yet. Perhaps because you're not monitoring it? I am curious about how it got such a MAJOR free (?) promotion and whether/if there's a way you can or do verify it's claims? For instance, maybe it does what it says it does (clean/close gaps in privacy) but what does it do with the intel it gains?

Is there any chance you can/will verify it in the future?

thanks kindly, steph

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/03/online-privacy-settings-block-party/?carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F41ce69d%2F67e57df78492b94b923ec304%2F5d779da19bbc0f0886c7a302%2F42%2F59%2F67e57df78492b94b923ec304

With the change in the Privacy policy and TOU for Mozilla, it's been mentioned in several official responses that certain functionality will not be possible going forward without those changes.

If I never use suggestions, hints, or any mozilla services with firefox. Just what functionality becomes a problem that you need to change the "We will never sell your data" and the other equally disturbing "you grant mozilla a irrevocable non-exclusive royalty free right..."?

How about some clear transparency instead of the opaque non-specific statements you've been making?

Loyal users of firefox for the last 20+ years deserve better than this.

Oh, and why can't I remove the search shortcuts for bookmarks, tabs and history, I'd like to map those keys to something else.

I was watching YouTube as usual when all of a sudden Firefox randomly opens a page 'moz-extension://98ca81c4-74e4-49b5-baf3-377df6aa10a0/content2/privacy.html.'

It belonged to my extension Video Download Helper, and I thought it was strange because when extensions updated, it never did things like this. Could someone help me figure out what it was perhaps? I want to make sure I'm safe and there hasn't been any data breaches or any hackings. Thank you.

Firefox 134.0.2

Hi!

I was shocked when I recently visited a website of a company that offers IDEs. I've downloaded one of the IDEs a couple of weeks ago and now that I've came back to the website looking for plugins, the website still "knew" which version of the IDE I had downloaded because it gave me warnings about plugins not compatible with my IDE version. Now: My privacy settings in Firefox are "strict", the option "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" is checked and I've closed Firefox several times in the meantime. Still, the website has information about my identity.

I would have expected that with these settings something like what I've described wouldn't happen. I must say, I'm quite disappointed. Is there anything else that I can do within Firefox to enhance my privacy?

Plugins that I've installed: CanvasBlocker Cookie Autodelete Decentraleyes Forget Me Not NoScript

When I run a internet speed test Edge and Chrome are consistently in the 80's range. When I run FF the speed is in the 60/s. It's causing downloads to get hung up. What can I or FF do about this?

i can't load certain sites on firefox, it just gives me a blank white screen. there's no error displayed or anything. some sites load fine (gmail, social media, youtube, etc work normal), but some sites i visit give me a blank screen. they load fine in other browsers and even on firefox mobile, just not on firefox desktop.

i've tried deleting the cache for firefox too, but that didn't fix it either. anyone knows what the problem might be?

thanks!

Liebe Community, ich habe ein Problem bei der Nutzung von Apps, die eine Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung ermöglichen sollen (in meinem Falle enteAuth und OneAuth). Ich habe diese Apps probiert und komme mit beiden nicht zurecht, da sie alle 10-20 Sekunden einen neuen Code generieren, obwohl ich ja erstmal den von mir gescannten Code verifizieren muss. Der Mozilla Login sagt mir dann immer, der Code sei falsch. Dabei wollte ich eigentlich nur Themes gestalten hier im Online-Editor. Liebe Grüße Sven

Dear community, I have a problem when using apps that are supposed to enable two-factor authentication (in my case enteAuth and OneAuth). I have tried these apps and can't get along with either of them because they generate a new code every 10-20 seconds, even though I first have to verify the code I have scanned. The Mozilla login then always tells me that the code is incorrect. I actually only wanted to design themes here in the online editor. Best regards Sven

Suddenly hardware acceleration does not work any more and I have black screens when trying to move or switch from a window playing Netflix. Nvidia 4080 super / Windows 11. It works fine when I disable hardware acceleration.

I have gone into about:config and changed all the telemetry entries et al to false to prevent as much datareporting as possible - what I want to do is prevent Firefox (135) from creating the 'datareprting' folder in my profile folder. I delete it every time I go into Firefox, which is an everyday pain because it returns with EVERY new session. I delete it 1. because they don't need it, and 2. more importantly, firefox is NOTICEABLY faster once it is deleted. People have been asking this since like FF 40. Can anyone solve this?

Firefox worked fine for 3 days on my New win 11 computer. then a white screen but still worked OK .However was now loaded by a third party "quit-hp.com/Firefox and the original program has been removed from my apps. So am unable to clean up the mess and cannot block the app from the computer. My first option is to use Malawarebyte and and HitmanPro to clean up the disk or a complete uninstal and reinstall win 11. this scam is hitching a ride on firefox and pretending to be part of the installation. I am prevented from copying the full address of 3rd party to this post.