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The virtual keyboard on my HP OMNI 10 tablet has begun popping up at every touch of Firefox. This makes it almost impossible to use. Expected/normal behaviour is that when you touch web pages or any app., the keyboard stays out of the way while you move around. When you touch inside a textbox, the keyboard should pop up so you can type. Touch outside the textbox and the keyboard drops down. Now, ( since the start of May 2025 or so, I think), the keyboard pops up every time I touch the Firefox page, anywhere. This makes it almost impossible to use.

For example, on a Youtube video, I touch the video to start playing.... and the keyboard pops up, covering up the video! I have to touch the x to drop the keyboard down again. When I want to rewind or move forward, I touch the video to get the controls to appear and...the keyboard pops up, covering the video. I have to touch the x to drop the keyboard and by then the video controls have timed out and gone away again!

Right now, if I close the keyboard and touch this page outside the textbox, the keyboard pops up.

In Microsoft Edge the behaviour is normal and in an app., like Notepad, the keyboard only pops up if I touch inside Notepad.

By the way, I did all this typing once already but when you said you couldn't read my troubleshooting information automatically, I tried your manual steps, and that took me to another web page. When I came back to this page, all my typing was gone! Very annoying. please don't do that again.

When using the browser, my monitor starts to "blink". To be more precise, it just pops up a black screen for a second or two. I use both monitors and both go off, the cursor remains. There was no such thing before using the browser, but Firefox remains the only sensible browser, so I don't want to change it to something else. I've tried turning off hardware acceleration, but it doesn't help.

I delete all the old bookmarks that come up and restart and they come up again or Firefox completely freezes my computer. I tried to Refresh Firefox and that worked UNTIL I signed out and signed back in again. Then I get dozens of sites trying to open and freezing again.

After letting Firefox idle for a bit (like 5 seconds) and nothing playing on the screen, when I come back, it causes screen stuttering for my whole desktop. Disabling hardware hardware acceleration doesn't help much.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-arch1-1 Display (CMN1521): 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz in 15" [Built-in] WM: Hyprland 0.49.0 (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H (20) @ 4.70 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]

i noticed that my laptop is getting too hot, when i opened task manger i found that Firefox is using a lot of ressources every time, i have a decent ram of 24GB and i7 7th gen plus an gtx1050, i don't think it's my work flow because i've been always using too much tabs without any problem, i suspect an update issue, what do you think ?

I keep getting this message- With firefox I get this message: Close Firefox Firefox is already running, but is not responding. The old Firefox process must be closed to open a new window.

I have followed the instructions to resolve this, but none of them are working.

firefox 138.0.1 is eating up memory, specifically;

-contentproc -isforbrowser -prefshandle

theres over 20 of them requiring 200mb each

please tell me how to turn this off

thx

Firefox consuming too much Memory, ranging from 1800 MB up to 2000 MB, causing my other programs (most notably Corel WordPerfect) to constantly crash. How do we resolve this?

Recently, after two Firefox updates, there are changes on my home page.

1. I only get the top bar and not a full page. I have to click on the green circle with the enlarge icon to get a full page.

2. No longer can access multiple pages on the home screen so cannot cut/paste or transfer and drop info onto different pages.

While I have Firefox as a browser, my search is usually done by google.

How can these problems be fixed.

Thank you.

I'm debugging some web sites, and I often need to reload a page to see if a change I made on the server works correctly. On iPads and Android devices, this doesn't seem possible. Yes, there are the circular-arrow buttons, but they only work with Firefox (and Chrome;-) on my MacOS or my linux server, but not on my iPads or Android gadgets. They act like they're doing something, but the page on their screen doesn't change. (With FF or Chrome on the "real" computers, it does change). The only advice I find online is to use CTL-R or something similar but those "devices" don't have CTL buttons. Nothing else I guess at works, either.

When I ask online, I get replies that work for linux, MacOS or Windows, but clearly saying "iPad or Android doesn't help; the answers don't apply to those systems.

Am I missing something? Web developers need ways debug their code or html or whatever they're working on, and this requires checking how it works on the actual users' screens.

A major bug unfortunately means that Firefox cannot open in full screen anymore. I have tried restarting it more than a dozen times, but it still doesn't work. Please solve this as soon as possible; I am begging you, I’m on my knees for the developers.

You guys do an update. Suddenly I can't open any sites. Top of the tab, a little set of dots go side to side foreverrrrrr. Do not, I repeat, do not ask me, "are you doing this, or are you doing that"......that's not a solution.

It's bad enough I have to use another browser to read FOX NEWS, cause your page refreshes non-stop.....

Oh and I used clear history, and my sites all want me to relog back in. Again, do not tell me to unclick cookies and stuff....

i've recently had problems with not being able to login to certain accounts (others are fine) resulting in hanging. other times i might be writing a message (or other) and the browser crashes. can you help me, please?

Apparently Firefox updated overnight and now my New Tab Page, which had a ton of tiles on it that I'd pinned over the years is now completely blank, no tiles, no nothing (except the Firefox logo). If there were at least some blank tiles, I'd have something to work with, but when I say blank, that's exactly what I mean.

Is there any way to get back the tiles I had? Because none of the pages I've opened or searched so far has created a tile on the page.

Thanks.

Power consumption of Firefox is so high that it nearly killed the display of my iMac. My screen started flickering with horizontal lines across the display. When i touched the screen, it was so hot that I could boil water using it. I did not realize that it was Firefox that was killing my PC until I looked at the power consumption (see the attached screenshot). I hope there is a solution to this since I really love Firefox and have been using it for well over a decade.

I recently updated my Mac OS to 15.4, and for whatever reason, ever since I did, Firefox stopped working. I can open it, but if I try to go to any web site it just has a dot bouncing back and forth like it looks like it's trying to go to the site, but then it times out. I have deleted and re-installed Firefox several times - the last one being version 137.0.2 for Mac, but it still won't open any site. I don't know what to do to get it working and Mac tech support had no ideas other than to contact Mozilla tech support, so here I am. Can you help me? This has never happened before and it makes no sense that it would not work. You can see by the enclosed screen shot that it opens, but fails to open any photos or go beyond that. The 'checking for updates' alert just keeps spinning and spinning. Rick Garside

As of a few days ago (potentially coinciding with the most recent update?) I've had several websites become varying degrees of unresponsive when using Firefox while being connected to a VPN (Nord, in this case).

Some sites will load but then get throttled--i.e. YouTube will load and (usually) populate thumbnails, but clicking on a video will result in the video instantly dropping to its lowest available resolution, playing for a few seconds, and then stalling. Interestingly(?) if I try to watch a live stream, chat will be fully functional but the video will be unable to load. Other sites will load but then very quickly stop responding at all. Others are straight up just not loading period, while many others have no issues at all.

I've cleared my cache, deleted cookies for the affected sites, tried Firefox in a private window, tried Firefox with no extensions, and reinstalled both Nord and Firefox to no avail. All of the affected sites are fully functional so long as I'm not connected to a VPN, and are also fully functional on other browsers, even while connected to a VPN. All other non-browser related applications that require the internet are also unaffected, and my internet speeds in general aren't showing any issues.

I've been unable to find any other chatter about this anywhere, and I unfortunately don't have any other devices available to try and replicate the issues. I would not be surprised if it was one of those wonderful Me Exclusive DNS issues or something, but figured it was worth throwing out there.

ANNOYING!! I am unable to reach USA TODAY puzzles.

Window turns black with rotating arrow. I do not want to give in to BING, but I am able to work the puzzles when I use it.

I use Win 11 and normally use DUCK DUCK GO search