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I am getting messages that I am blocking ads for many of my internet requests. I had never received these before but all of a sudden I started to get them. I have tried a number of things but nothing works.

I am running Windows 11 and do not have any Ad blockers.

Opening PDFs automatically with Firefox and, without any changes I might make, saving them with the download function in Firefox, actually ruins the functionality and data entry function of that file. Specifically this happens with PDF files downloaded from the (not all that amusing) PDFs from the FINCEN, (US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network). I do not see why and how Firefox thinks it is allowed to change files that are simply downloaded and saved on Firefox.

In other words, it seems that Firefox strips away certain "permissions" and/or "functions" (like built-in lookup, menu or choice boxes). This means that the file so downloaded via Firefox can no longer be used to properly fill in data, or to look up and choose data items within the file. (I see many times that ANYTHING having to do with "permissions" tends to be an intractable and unsolvable problem for software makers & experts, so, if you do not know right away how to solve the problem, it will probably take you several years to figure this out.)

The PDF in question is created by a government agency. If you have ever dealt with a government agency, then you know that they act sort of like Adobe or Microsoft: "They don't respond, or they do respond & say they do not understand, and if they understand, they are either unwilling or unable to fix the problem."

If there is a switch or option within Firefox, which lets me tell Firefox "Save this file exactly like it is received, nothing added or removed!", that would be nice. I just have not found such an option yet, and it would be nice if it might get provided someday.

I will share my browser data, but I am sort of convinced that a detailed question like mine will not be addressed within that shared data.

Noticed the bookmarks error message at the top of the browser page then looked to find they were gone, no troubleshooting methods have worked and I don't seem to have any backup files. Bookmark manager is blank and there are no selectable options?

As of 4/20/ 2026 When attempting to save pictures or saved pictures, Fire Fox is only offering Full view , and showing full view as the only option regardless of the formats, and especially the center option which I use with my desktop black background. This is one of my favorite features of Firefox and looks like a glitch. I would suspect Windows , except that Firefox shows the formats of center, stretch, tile, and each one shows only the full view in the display box. does anyone else have this problem? I am stressed...

I've got an Angular project running locally on my machine (https://localhost:4300 using NodeJS 24.11.1 and Angular 20.3.0) and I can't get it to consistently load files for me when I refresh the page.

The network call shows the response coming back, but I'm getting a red ban icon in the Status column instead of 200. Sometimes it's styles.css and nothing looks right. Sometimes it's polyfills.js and I get an error in the console about "In this configuration Angular requires Zone.js". Sometimes, it's one or many chunk-*.js files. Sometimes, it goes back and forth about which it doesn't want to load. And then sometimes, everything is fine. When it fails, it takes between 1 and 20-some-odd refreshes of the page to get it to load properly. The passage of time doesn't seem to make a difference, as sometimes I can recompile the project and jump right into Firefox and it loads fine. Other times, it will only load after I've refreshed multiple times. If it's a JS file that fails, I also see a warning in the console window about "Loading failed for the script with source [filename]".

I've added an exception for the SSL certificate. CTRL+F5 doesn't make a difference in the behavior. The only extensions I have running are LastPass and Bitwarden. The only plugins I have in place are "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc." and "Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc." I've disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection for the site. I've rebooted and restarted everything.

Any ideas what might cause this? The other developers on the team don't have this issue. I'm using "ng serve --host 0.0.0.0 --ssl xxx-app-name-xxx --live-reload false" to run my environment. What should I be looking for on my machine that might cause this type of intermittent failure?

I have left Shortcuts toggled on, since I want to see the 18 shortcuts that I have manually pinned. Fine so far.

I have unchecked Sponsored Shortcuts, but I still am seeing sponsored shortcuts. What am I doing wrong?

When I access one website ( https://investright.hdfcsec.com) for my Demat account, it opens a normal page . There is one more option to view my other holdings, by clicking one link in the current page,(it is supposed to open in next tab) but it does not open , but simply keeps showing it is accessing the page, endlessly , but never opens. But the Same website (https://investright.hdfcsec.com) opening in Chrome browser , opens the next page ( I desired to open other holding) instantly , without any Delay. Why there is problem to access in Firefox "next Link" on this website? How to resolve such an issue, as there is no error indication , but simply showing busy, in finding the next link? Is it that some things are preventing to open the Link?

im playing farmville 2 in zynga games online but it plays very slow ans keeps freezing. ive done what was recommened but there is no change to the game, i was wondering if you could help by telling me if there is anything i need to do in the browser to get this game working better

javascript contains the following code:

var txt = "<tr><td" if (SecIndent[i] > 0) txt+= " class='In" + SecIndent[i] + "'" txt+=' onclick("' +'go2('+ "'_" +i +"')"+ '")>' +SecNames[i] +'</td></tr>' alert(txt) // txt += ' onclick("go('+"_'><a href="#_'+i+'">'+SecNames[i]+'</a></td></tr>' document.write(txt); }

seems to be working right -alert displays: <tr><td onclick("go2('_3')")>Chapter 1 – The Number Tiles</td></tr>

when I inspect element it shows <td onclick("go2('_3')")="">Chapter 1 – The Number Tiles</td>

where did the extra =" come from? when I tried other browsers still problems but inspect element was different hopefully this isn't a Windows 10 problem, but very wierd if it is

I got a popup when I opened a new window asking if I want to try out a build in VPN and I logged in to my Google account and after that it did a thing I wasn't expecting, it almost reset my browser but I left another Firefox window open and my data was still there and when I open Firefox my data wasn't there only my account which basally meant from guessing when I login to a Google account it created a completely new profile and mistaken it as the main one then hidden my old one to a point where I think it could get deleted if I close my old profile's window also because I checked profiles and there was only one on all the windows.

Oh and I was trying to export my browser data on the old profile but I didn't found a option, and I tried seeing what the sync feature does and I think when I actually added an account Firefox somehow changed it's mind and now thinks this is a different device or whatever because one of the things in the Connected Services says "Elbey (my username) Firefox on elbey" then another said "Firefox 149, Linux" which these two sound like my devices also because I tried out the sync feature on my old profile and needed to login and it actually worked without doing unexpected stuff which is also how I got this information.

Recently, something happened to my installation of Firefox (I do not know what happened) causing the search suggestions (I do not know the proper name of this feature, but if I am right I will be glad) to appear taller than they were before. This disturbs me (I do not know why). I would like to return the individual search suggestions to their original narrower size.

I've just discovered that a lot of files I've downloaded in the last few months have the original file date instead of the download date. This has created total chaos and confusion with my organization as I have no idea when I did anything!

I presume Firefox has changed something. But why? When? What files does it affect? How do I change it back?

And why weren't we told about this huge change? After over 30 years downloading files from the web, it's become second nature that downloads always take the download date. A monumental change like this needs to be clearly signposted or it's going to create chaos with people's file systems and organization.

Update: On reflection, I think this is a Windows 10 bug, rather than a Firefox issue, so perhaps this thread should be deleted? I looked at the properties of the files in question and discovered that all three dates DO match the download date. The problem seems to be that WINDOWS ITSELF is displaying EXIF data dates instead of modified date. I only recently started using Windows 10 and this would seem to be a Windows 10 bug.

I gave permission to access/show my location. I live in Western New York. When I do any searches instead of showing results in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area of New York, I get search results from Canada. How do I turn off or correct my location?

The Firefox advertising page

I clicked on the Wellnee link and their site is rigged to extort money! I chose the product (advertised as a discount), entered my bank details then instead of buying the product, I'm sent to a page where aside from just leaving the page, I find that i have to order 3 more of the same product, if I want to get the discount, so I exited the page, only to find that not only had I been charged for the original (without the discount!) but an additional charge had been taken!!!

Then I get a text message saying they couldn't connect to my email, so everything is done through texts (they had my email). When I went to their site they use a fake US phone number; there's no email, only a form (does it work?)

https://shop.trywellnee.com/

The fake US +1(844)961-3766

And why can't I contact Mozilla directly rather than this forum?

Hello, on the 24th, I had opened a new tab to search something, like normal. It wasn't loading, so I closed my window of 20 or so tabs to reload the browser. When I reopened the browser, none of my tabs were there, and the "recently closed windows" option wasn't available in the three lines menu in the top-right of the browser page. I cannot search for all of these tabs individually in my history, as some of them were saved from many months ago. But I needed these tabs open to refer to them for work.

I saw a page describing how I could reload my last session from C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\khv448gm.default-release\sessionstore-backups, but those files had already overwritten with the session that didn't have any tabs. I looked through the "Previous Versions" tab in properties, but it only had previous versions of the folder from earlier that day, and not before I had closed the browser. I asked my IT department at work if they were able to load a previous version of the folder for me from before the 23rd, but they just redirected me to Mozilla support first.

My question is, is there any way I can restore all my old browser tabs? Or is there anywhere else I can look on my computer for locally stored previous sessions from before February 24th?

Thank you!

On Debian Linux, how can I make all text in Firefox BOLD - t'ab names, texts on Toolbars, text on web pages, everything?

Been having tab crashes every couple of minutes - doesn't matter what the site is, the tab will crash out and I'll have to refresh. I have a laptop that is synced that I also use that doesn't have this issues - it's isolated to the PC.

Tried sfc, DISM, hardware and memory checks - all come back good. I'm inclined to believe it could be something on the operating system and not hardware, but I also recently reinstalled Windows. I had another thought that it could be something with JavaScript (seemed like a common theme in the error reports, but I'm not 100% what I'm looking at or for).

Firefox displays garbled characters, but other browsers do not display garbled characters on the same website.I'm sure it's not a website issue, because more than one website is experiencing garbled text problems. We tried solutions found online, but none of them worked, including completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox.