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After the latest update(Version 89), the big firefox logo is appearing in my Home Tab. How can I disable it? I didn't have it last night either when I had the older version.

I want to change text encoding so it defaults to Unicode. If I use the [alt] key then the View tab I can change it from Western but it reverts back after closing the page. Sometimes that does not work because the Text Encoding option in the View tab is greyed out. The About Firefox window says I am up to date with 83.0 (64bit).

How can I do keyboard shortcut, "Text encoding options", then "Unicode". I have it on toolbars. Like on screnshot, I pint mouse, then I need to select Unicode, which is bothering. I am opening many many pages, which are always different than unicode.

Since I find the new Proton GUI a step backwards in usability, I plan to defer the inevitable as long as possible by moving to the ESR version (currently V78).

1. How long are ESR versions supported?
2. What is the ESR version release cycle?
3. I plan to try using the -allow-downgrade command line option when downgrading, but the articles "Install an older version of Firefox" and "Command line options" are a bit short on step-by-step instruction. What is the correct procedure / sequence?
4. I have serious misgivings that the result will be usable, given the large difference in version numbers. I have made a backup of my profile. Should I have problems with the downgraded profile, I will presumably have to create a new profile. How can I recover data from the backup profile and import it into the new profile?
5. I am using Firefox Sync and hope that it will relieve me of some of the pain associated with a new profile. I am not syncing History however, because I prefer to keep the histories of my separate Firefox installations on different devices separate. Is there another way to preserve the history from a particular installation?
6. If not, what can I expect from sequentially turning on history sync on my various Firefox installations?
7. Will all history be merged or will subsequent history lists overwrite earlier ones?

Any further advice which might prevent me from screwing this up would be most welcome!

Hi guys.

I can't characterize websites because of the favicon overlaid by the speaker symbol (directly in the YouTube tab).

Is there a way to display the speaker symbol and the favicon at the same time? Or not display the speaker symbol at all, because it is important for me to know which website is in the TAB. I don't need to see the speaker, but the favicon of the website. See attached screenshot.

Of course, the speaker icon only appears when audio is active on a particular website (for example, this applies to a YouTube website).

Thanks.

Mike

Firefox 89.0 (64-bit) Windows 10 (64-bit)

I'm absolutely furious about behaviour of tabs in the latest firefox update. I haven't change anything and I cannot play youtube videos and I've been able to do it normally until this last, bloody update! I've tried to disable media.wmfv9 or some other crap and it didn't work. I've tried anything in terms of mozilla support and it didn't FKN worked!!! I cannot stand another "oops, your tab has crashed" or "oops, firefox just eat ur ram and doesn't give a damn about them features, please restart it". You have like 2 weeks to fix it or I'm migrating to comodo dragon. FK U EOT. Just fix it.

With the new version 89 the row height for bookmarks is way too big and now I am scrolling all over the place. I had them all perfectly spaced to show all in my full screen without scrolling. Is there an adjustment where I can go back to the previous narrower height?

Today I switched from Chrome to Firefox. Since I have two monitors one common thing I do is opening a new tab and then dragging it (the tab not the window) to my second monitor. But when I do this firefox freezes and the only I can do is stopping firefox via Tasmanager and starting it again. I also tried it in debug mode and the same thing happened. I can replicate 100% of the time.

Hi All, I use Get Pocket - a lot! Before the last couple updates the normal bookmark icon - would click on that and there would be a link to Get Pocket list. That has now disappeared. The only way I can find to see the list, is click on the "save to pocket" icon, whereby it then saves the page I am on, although I don't want to save the page, and it also has a link to view the list. So have to click on that, then delete the page just saved. All so ridiculous. I must be missing something here. The update before this, was the same and I reverted back to an older version of Firefox. Thought would try this latest update, but no ... the pocket list link inside the bookmarks icon is not there.

How can I get to view pocket list without having to first save the page I am on, then delete it? What am I missing. I attach three images. One of how I used to use the Get Pocket list .. i.e. using the bookmark icon. Then what the book mark icon shows now .. no pocket list ... and the only way I have found to view the list, but saving a page first :) ..... Thanks for any advice.

The actual new colour of the display (meunuebar, settingbar, taps ...) after updating is a horrible bluegrey ... I want to change that but find no way.... please, if possible answer in german. Thanks in advance. Udo

The most recent update seems to have changed something I can't figure out how to change back myself.

When I start a search in the Firefox search engine box (the one in the middle of the screen), the text is instead entered in the address bar at the top. The search still performs the same but it is more of an aesthetic preference. Is there an option I am overlooking that enables the search text to appear in the search engine box, rather than in the address bar?

I did try disabling the address bar but that just stopped the search function from working.

I upgraded(?) to Firefox 89, which I found unusable. I found the Mozilla-supplied link to backtrack to FF88. 88 downloaded and installed, but did not copy Bookmarks, Logins/Passwords.

Any guidance to retrieving these will be much appreciated.

when i type a search into my google search on a new tab, the writing jumps into the web browser at the top , its so annoying , any help will be appreciated ...Thanks

I download anything over a certain file size, a couple of Mb, and Firefox pops up with this error "failed". I then must manually start the download from where it left of and it resumes this cycle of stopping and me starting.

I cant search in the web search bar since 89.0 update (black arrow in picture). It just goes to address bar (red arrow in picture)which i dont like to search in. Is there a way it can be changed?

Hello Firefoxers,

The topbar of Firefox always was black (see screenshot 1).

Since the last ipdate (yesterday) it changed from black (my favorite) to white (screenshot 2).

Whaterver I tried (Themes and so on), I did not find the solution).

My hope is that anyone of you can help me out.

Thanks in advance & kind rewards,

Wim

I have no idea what happened but I've lost the Firefox menu bar and the icons I was using for quick access disappeared

above it assent easy to find a way to contact you for support

Hey!

I'm new to Firefox and I gotta say: it is the prettiest browser out there!

But there are some things that are trully bothering me and would like to know if it is normal. I would like love to keep using Firefox because of its beauty, but with those things I don't think I'll be able to.

Here are the things: * Performance on Firefox is bad if compared to Opera GX or Edge. Yes, I did enable the hardware acceleration but still... scrolling down on Facebook is choppy (don't know if it is an appropriate word, but still), opening and trying to move the screen on Roll20 (virtual tabletop) and some more... Any clues?

* Websites are not the same Sometimes I see a website with different styles that I was used to see on Opera GX and Edge. Trello scrollbars is an example of that. On Opera GX and Edge, it looks thin, clean and modern, while on Firefox looks like that old, fat scrollbar. There's also a system that I use that all buttons are on the right side of the screen but on Firefox they are on the left side, some inputs starts from the far-right to left intead of the regular left to right and so on...

Could you guys help-me with that? Is everything working as they supposed to?? This new version of Firefox looks amazing but these things are making me not use it.

Here are some details of my computer in case anyone wonders when reading the first topic:

• i7 9750H
• 1660TI 6GB
• 16GB of RAM
• 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD Samsung EVO 960

Thanks!

WIth the newest update, everytime I try to click on the Google search bar to search something, it automatically puts me into the url bar search, rendering the Google search bar unusable. Is there any way I can revert this to how it was previously?