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When I have Firefox open and go into a few websites, the pages start to mess up. What I see gets weird characters. Started happening maybe in Feb of 2025. Does it on multiple websites. I have to close out and shut down firefox and go back in before it is fixed. It makes it very hard to work when I have to do this all day. It started sporadically and now is multiple times a day. After being open and used for a few hours it starts to mess up. I have multiple tabs I have open and using them at the same time for work throughout the day. I have done this for years.

I made the mistake of clicking a YouTube link via Twitter and now Youtube is convinced my Firefox on my desktop PC is a mobile device. Every tip I see tells me to "just request the desktop version of the site!"; only, that's ONLY a feature in the mobile Firefox app... which I'm NOT using. Every time I go to Youtube's home page: it starts me scrolled down as though it's trying to display on a portrait-mode screen, and only shows 3 videos per row. It's clearly trying to display on a mobile device. If I hold down F5, and force it to refresh for a dozen or so times, for a split second it will display properly before re-setting to mobile mode.

Things I've already done so don't suggest them: - Force refresh teh page - Alreadyd one, didn't work - Clear Website cookies & site data - Already done, didn't work - Restart Firefox - Already done, didn't work - Clear browser cache - Already done, didn't work - Open new private window - Already done, didn't work - Restart Firefox in safe mode - Already done, didn't work - Restore default Firefox theme - Already done, didn't work

The problem apepars to be that Youtube has just reclassified my browser/device as mobile and there's nothing I can do to change it.

One page of Firefox 115.21 opened and Task manager memory usage for Firefox reports-:

1) 9,956 K 2) 46,288 K 3) 11,564 K 4) 55,268 K 5) 21,560 K 6) 9,996 K 7) 5,516 K 8) 302,924 K 9) 40,272 K

These are ALL marked Firefox and in order on my Task Manager, the Page 'opened' was Firefox help forum ,,,, some memory usage here, is this right????

Dave

I need to combine thoughts on a song into a summary I could use to summarize the emotions in a song and how i me dd of feel the song if I send it could you do that The father knows and accepts that this is the natural progression of life, that his daughter deserves love and happiness with a partner of her own choosing. The lyrics acknowledge this: "And it's gonna be your best day," and he participates in the tradition of walking her down the aisle. This shows his willingness to let go and his hope for her future. However, that lingering doubt, that feeling that no one is quite "good enough," surfaces in subtle ways: • "And it's gonna break my heart when she gives hers to you": This isn't just about the loss of her primary affection; it carries a hint of worry. Will this man truly cherish that precious heart? Will he understand its worth as deeply as her father does? • "She might be your better half / Yeah, but she's my everything": This line highlights the father's unique and irreplaceable perspective. While acknowledging the future husband's importance, he firmly states his own profound connection, almost as a quiet assertion of her inherent value, a value he's known since her birth. • "We'll both love her forever / But I loved her long before": This isn't a competition for love, but it subtly underscores the depth and history of his affection. It's a gentle reminder of his foundational role and a silent question: can this new love truly grasp the entirety of her being as he has witnessed it unfold? • "Buddy, that don't mean she's yours": This repeated line isn't about ownership in a possessive way, but more about the enduring nature of his connection. It's a gentle pushback against the idea that marriage fully transfers his "baby girl" into someone else's complete care. There's an underlying sentiment of "you have a part of her now, but a part of her will always be mine, the little girl I raised." • The overall tone: While there's acceptance, there's also a layer of melancholy and a protective instinct that suggests a slight unease. He's happy for her, but there's a quiet sadness at the shift and a hope that this new man will truly be worthy of the treasure he's receiving. The Emotional Something You're Sensing: You're picking up on the beautiful complexity of this moment. It's not a simple handover; it's a father navigating the joy of his daughter's happiness with the inherent vulnerability of letting her go and trusting someone else with her heart. The "emotional something" is this bittersweet tension – the genuine happiness intertwined with a protective concern and the quiet acknowledgment that his primary role is changing, even if his love isn't. The song beautifully captures this internal struggle. The father isn't being overtly negative about the future husband, but his words are laced with the deep, unwavering love of a father who has cherished his daughter from the very beginning and who carries a natural, perhaps even subconscious, hope that she won't ever be hurt or undervalued. You're spot on in recognizing that layer of "no one will ever be truly good enough" and the lingering doubt. It's a testament to the powerful and unique bond between a father and his daughter. The song doesn't explicitly state the doubt, but it's woven into the emotional fabric of the lyrics through the father's reflections and subtle assertions of his enduring love and connection. bold text

I'm running Firefox 137.02 on Mac desktop - on multiple websites I can't open drop-down menus and select a choice, most troublesome is not being able to log-out because of this - I have seen previous question but they are all years old. I have tried closing Firefox and restarting as well as restarting my Mac.

Thanks for any help Jean McQ

When I run firefox, the following commands lsof |grep -i firefox|grep memfd|wc -l lsof |grep -i firefox|grep memfd|grep DEL|wc -l produce values in the 20 000 or even 100 000 range.

For instance, currently with only 1 tab open - the form on which I type this question - I get $lsof |grep -i firefox|grep memfd|wc -l 19317 $lsof |grep -i firefox|grep memfd|grep DEL|wc -l 16362 And these numbers are still on the low side. In normal use (e.g., 10 tabs open), the numbers reach close to 100 000.

Some example lines of lsof: firefox 3883 135330 StreamT~s xxx DEL REG 0,1 27559 /memfd:mozilla-ipc firefox 3883 135325 Indexed~I xxx 156u REG 0,1 67108864 11945 /memfd:pulseaudio (deleted) firefox 3883 135325 Indexed~I xxx 160r REG 0,1 13192 78 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted) firefox 3883 135427 StreamT~s xxx 132r REG 0,1 170 3110 /memfd:mozilla-ipc (deleted)

Although it may be a problem in lsof, this suggests that firefox performs a lot of memmaps that are later deleted, but are deleted in a way that leaves some left over state. Note that the "DEL" state in column 6 does not always agree with "(deleted)" in the right most column.

I first discovered this issue when my computer started failing with messages like pipewire-pulse[103898]: pw.mem: 0x55ce0273ac50: Failed to create memfd: Too many open files This could be a coincidence of course.

Current firefox version: 137.0 (but also occurs in other versiosn, e.g. 133.0.3) uname -r: 6.12.7-100.fc40.x86_64 OS: fedora 40

I cannot tile my Firefox windows to left or right when I choose vertical tabs mode from settings. It works fine with horizontal tabs enabled. I am using Firefox 137.0.1 on Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 6.4.8 with Linux Kernel version 6.8.0-57-generic, display server X11.

Firefox uses too much memory, with 1 tab 1GB+, and with 4 tabs all 3GB+, this is not normal, the forum topic did not help, reinstalled and did not help, there are no more than 6 extensions, and they consume only 160mb.