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Bonjour,

since the below topic has been solved and therefore closed, I thought I should chime in to deliver additional information.

The said topic : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1288181

I've recently had to move to a new laptop, and discovered that the great solution provided in the above topic didn't seem to work anymore, although I did make sure to restore the userChrome.css file in the new laptop.

Fortunately I found a solution in the following page, which incidentally mentions the above topic in this forum : https://mybyways.com/blog/remove-address-bar-in-firefox-windows

Long story short : once the userChrome.css has been edited/created, one needs to :

->  go to the about:config page
-> search for the item "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets"
-> toggle it from false to true
-> restart Firefox
-> bingo ! the trick works again, one can open a new FF window from a script (window.open) and have the address bar totally hidden

(thus allowing for an entirely clean U/I : no address, no menu, no bookmark bar, no status bar etc... provided the required script code is used (window.open options))

Since I've received great help from this forum, I thought I should give back some. :)

Salutations.

Hello,

I searched the web for answers but couldn't find any. I set firefox to be the default app to open .pdf-files on my macbook. And everytime I open a file, firefox opens a new window.

How can I make sure that a .pdf-file opens in the current window as a new tab?

On Safari this works as intended. On every other OS this works as intedend.

Thanks for time.

When I shutdown or put the desktop computer to sleep at night I typically close Firefox but I want to restore that session when I log back in. That works ok until Windows Update gets its fingers in the pie and may blast out an obnoxiousgram trying to get me to "upgrade" to Windows 11. I also may get a pushy ad for a new version of Norton. After I get rid of that stuff and later try to use the "History" and "restore previous session" items, I get the crap from Windows/Norton as my "previous session". Is there a way to either save the session before I shut down to be able to restore it or go to a second level of "previous session"? It occurs to me now as I write this that maybe I should try to restore the previous session before I close the popup junk if it allows me to do that. That may be the solution but I would welcome your comments.

Hello is it possible to have SEPARATE windows taskbar icons for each windows? Like you would have for example if you opened one windows on normal browsing and one on the private browsing.

Some websites don't have their applications, so I sometimes need them to access just from my taskbar or from the desktop but not open the browser and then access it. While using the Microsoft Edge browser they provided the feature to download any site as an app.

Hi I am running latest firefox on windows 10. After a google search I have to put the view to full screen or move the window to see all the options on the right like 'tools' which I use a lot to limit to UK and the last year. is there any way to notice the window isn;t full size and the optios display should be made smaller or put into 2 lines?

Firefox now opens a new window, rather than a new tab when I click on a bookmark or the +, or when I start a new download, regardless of Tabs settings in the Options General page. This is different from original behavior, and I have no idea what happened. How do I change back to Tabs rather than window?

I cant see the settings in Mozilla. It is a bright white. White color or lights blind my eyes.

Which link or icon does Mozilla have to change every color to a light blue or green or red to help a disabled vision American see the settings options then select the various colors for each part offered.

Until the page / settings is set to some colors I am shut down with this bright white. Thanks

Hello,

Hope you're all well and safe

I download a lot of images on Firefox for different purposes and most time I end up with 20 or so tabs to download from

This got me wondering if there's a way to use the "Save Image As..." context menu (right click) without having to specify the file name and destination directory each time

Can this be configured in Firefox? If not, are you aware of any add-on that provides such a feature?

Using Firefox 93.0 (64-bit) on Windows 10

Thanks in advance,

Regards, John

Please ignore the topic selected above as one of the problems I have is that drop-down lists don't work. Nor can I activate the 3-line action icon top right. The mouse works 100% in all other apps, but not in Firefox where neither mouse button will action a drop-down.

i tried to open "flixtor.to" and "omegal" and alot of things but it just keep talking abt security error. please fix this for me. thanks

Saw a post stating that Firefox updated and now doesn't work with Sandboxie. I spent over a year learning how to update Firefox in order to use it within Sandboxie and with Webroot protection. I can now update Firefox within 5 minutes by following these steps. It is not really ready for publication but maybe it will help you. I copied this from Excel and it is more readable in Excel. Please forgive typos.

To copy from Excel, I had to make it a bulleted list. Each bullet point was another line in Excel.

• After many tests here is the cleanest way found to update Firefox. Changing steps or the order may work only to fail later and sometimes leads to reinstalling and re-configuring Firefox. Suggested steps can probably be ignored but I think they are appropriate and help keep the system clean.
• Note: I only run a single version of Firefox. When updating, no applications are running in a sandbox.

• Clean Firefox Sandboxes
• 1. Suggestion: "Terminate All Programs".
• 2. Suggestion: Initially "Delete Contents" of all sandboxes and then the sandbox used during installation.

• If Firefox does not open. This can occur during update, install or even days afterwards, check Webroot:
• 1. Follow instructions in section "Clean Firefox Sandboxes"
• 2. If Webroot is open close (not shut down) and reopen.
• 3. Webroot > "View Status"
• 4. Click "Settings" for "Identity Protection"
• 5. Select tab "Application Protection"
• 6. Ensure all "Firefox" applications "Allow" enabled.
• Note: While I have had seven entries, once this process was learned there has never been more than one. My Wife's computer has had two. The most common second entry is the temporary Firefox update folder "...\updated\firefox.exe".
• To remove "Firefox" entries, other than "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", Perform the following for each entry and do so one-at-a-time.
• FYI: "...\updated\firefox.exe" is created during download and deleted after Firefox has been restarted.
• Warning: Even if an entry can be set to "Deny" and have Firefox executed. Leave it disabled, rather than deleting, until you have your settings, plugins, favorites, etc. documented and you have the time to reinstall. Very early in the learning process I had to reinstall. Since the bulk of these instructions were created I have never had to reinstall.
• 1. Close Firefox
• 2. In Webroot set the entry to "Deny".
• 3. Open Firefox
• 4. If Firefox fails to open set the entry back to "Allow", "Clean Firefox Sandboxes", and reopen Firefox.
• 5. Any that can be set to "Deny" without causing Firefox an issue, *should* be deletable.

• Before using Webroot set FF to "Check for updates but let you choose to install them". Avoid problems that require an uninstall of FF.
• Close all Firefox windows
• For the purist restart the computer before and after an application update or install
• Suggestion: Perform the section above titled "Clean Firefox Sandboxes"
• Shutdown Webroot
• If updating (not installing)
• Sandboxie: Disable Forced programs
• Immediately start Firefox
• Ignore Sandboxie and "Webroot Filtering Extension" messages
• Click "More" (3 horizontal bars)
• Select "Help"
• Select "About Firefox"
• Click "Update to <version number>
• Click "Restart to Update Firefox"
• If installing
• Install (Do not configure Firefox until it is working with Webroot and Sandboxie both running; preferably after completing this process)
• Ignore the "Webroot Filtering Extension" message!
• Continue from Updating or Installing
• Close Firefox
• Sandboxie: Disable Forced programs
• Immediately start Firefox
• Do not close Firefox until instructed (After Webroot has been restarted). This eliminates a later step.
• Ignore Sandboxie and "Webroot Filtering Extension" messages
• If Firefox has an issue at this point it has nothing to do with Webroot or Sandboxie
• Fix the issue and Restart at "Continue from Updating or Installing"
• Suggestion: BEFORE restarting Webroot.
• Cleanup Firefox as much as possible so it opens cleaner and faster in Sandboxie
• PS. I do this every time Firefox is opened unsandboxed (e.g. when Bookmarks added or settings changed)
• More > Settings > Privacy & Security (or enter address about:preferences#privacy)
• Close tabs other than Settings. (There should only be one.)
• In "Cookies and Site Data" click "Clear Data" (Leave everything checked) Click "Clear"
• In "History" click " Clear History" > Select "Everything" and Leave everything checked > Click "OK"
• Restart Webroot
• Ensure all Firefox entries are "enabled" in "Identity Protection" settings. (There should only be one, but there have been more.)
• Close Firefox
• Close, not shutdown, Webroot
• Perform this section until there are no more issues including the appearance of "Webroot Filtering Extension" (usually twice)
• Open Firefox
• If Firefox does not open perform the steps in "If Firefox does not open". Note, some Firefox processes do start but not all.

While i was browsing through websites using Firefox, i opened a new tab and got the notification saying something like While you were browsing, Firefox was updated in the background. There there was a button at the bottom saying Restart Firefox. When i clicked on that button Firefox restarted automatically as expected. My question is that now i want to see the Update History of Firefox. So how can i check/see the Update history of Firefox.

I am using Ubuntu 18.01 and Firefox 95.0.1 (64bit)

Dec.26/2021:

Greetings,

So I would like to elaborate on my original query. When one searches for text on a web-page (ctl-f), all visible occurrences of that text (any case, any wildcard) will be highlited nicely. In the search bar at the bottom, you can click up-chevron, or down-chevron to have the page move-to and present each occurrence of that text nicely.

However, if you click a chevron, and that next occurrence of text is NOT presented (the web-page does not advance to wherever that text exists), then you know that occurrence of text is hidden, perhaps "in a frame" somewhere. Firefox does not highlite which frame. You would essentially need to click on everything that needs a click-to-open/expand, in the entire page, in oder for the Firefox search to then reveal that text.

That *severely* reduces the usefulness of Firefox's search a page for text. We are astonished that this issue has not been raised by anyone else (afaik).

How does one ask Firefox coders to take a look into this? Thanks again. Jason.

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jasonsafely jasonsafely 12/19/20, 12:33 PM

Greetings,

Often when Searching the contents of the current web page for text, some words are hidden or backgrounded, and not visible, as we cycle through the search counter.

How can we reveal those words on the page, that are hidden like ghosts? Thank you. All Replies (1) cor-el cor-el

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12/19/20, 2:15 PM

Are you sure that these results aren't hidden because of search settings like "Match Case" or "whole Words" ?

If you use Quick Find then these settings are hidden and you need to open the Find bar via Ctrl+F.

If the results are in an iframe and aren't visible (i.e. you need to scroll this frame) then they might not be found.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration or userChrome.css is causing the problem.

   switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
   do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window 

   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems 

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I just installed Foxfire on my new laptop.

On my previous laptop when I did a google search it would take me right to what I was looking for.

Now when I do a search...it lists several ads first and the actual thing I am looking for is about 5 or 6 items down. Is there a way to get it back to how it as on my old laptop where there were no ads at the op of the page?

Thank you.