Firefox Support Forum

duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1283167

Having trouble downloading from Play Store. Nothing happens when I try to update YouTube or update Firefox.

Since Ubuntu Mozilla Daily ppa is no longer regularly updated (see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa ), I want to build my own self-signed Firefox packages similar to the ones created by Ubuntu Mozilla Daily; but I can't find anywhere the way they are built.

Actually I successfully compile Firefox, so I need just the necessary informations in order to build a deb package with it.

Thank you

when I open some website link on my homepage,the firefox turns to "chrome://browser/content/www.google.com.hk",and shows( some words I have translated from Chinese into english)

"未找到文件(can not find the file)

Firefox 无法在(can not find the files at) chrome://browser/content/www.google.com.hk 找到该文件。

   请检查文件名的大小写或者其他输入错误。(please check the filename or other input errors)
   请检查文件是否已被移动，重命名或删除。(please check if the files are removed ,renamed or deleted)"

BTW,I installed a Chrome a few days ago,but soon unstalled it.

Please confirm your email address. -- Does not work for older account reset and new on just created.

Can't even confirm my email address of a new account. Does not arrive even after half an hour.

What happend to asking a question without being registered? I can not complete any questions because this confirmation mail does not get sent.

when using an Adobe flash page a small window appears requiring a download (usually 10kb) to get past the grayed-out covering of the flash item. Ad blocker can stop download window, but then the flash page will not appear for use. Quote:

"Adobe Flash Player Settings Local Storage cdn.arenaconnect.arkadiumhosted.com is requesting permission to store information on your computer. Requested: up to 10 KB Currently Used: 0 kb (with) Allow & Deny buttons "

Of course, the "request" makes it impossible to get past the Deny to the flash page.

Using Windows 7

I have a new computer. I downloaded Mozilla, we t to the internet, and saved a url in "unsorted bookmarks". I then imported my bookmarks from my other computer. They also show in a version of "unsorted", but it appears to be a different unsorted library. They seem to be in two different locations, both labeled "unsorted".

What is going on?

Yesterday I was looking online to see how can I transfer pictures,files from my Nexus 7 tablet to my desktop computer with the usb cable.. I've found several support forums like this one I'm using right now,someone has already asked a question like mine so I followed the best answer, I typed the commands in the terminal as the helper suggested,then I restarted my desktop pc,after that it didn't connect any more,it connects wireless usually,but since yesterday no connection:( I still have the page/link that shows the answer I've followed (the top one) :

http://askubuntu.com/questions/207569/how-do-i-connect-a-nexus-7-to-transfer-files

thank you!!

my reminder fox add-on disappeared after firefox update. I can install this add-on again, but then I will lose all the data that was there before update. How can I reinstall it without losing the data?

Hi,

My problem "was" that I was working on Firefox at my home and at my office. As computers are fast these days, I am in habit of opening large number of tabs in firefox. And I always wanted to open the same tabs at my office which I was opening at my home and vice versa. I further wanted to clean the browsing history after leaving the computer at my work as well as home.

While searching through the forums, I reached to this thread:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/960096

And to my satisfaction, the exact answer was not there.

Anyways, doing a little more search, I found why I will never stop loving Firefox and its because of its wonderful "addons".

So here I re-write the problem,

I want to save the addresses of different tabs opened in my Firefox and save them to a file that can be re-opened by Firefox on the same computer or on a different computer with the option to clean the browser history after leaving the computer.

Solution: "Session Manager Addon" of firefox.

Steps to the solution:

1. Download and install a firefox addon called "session manager".

URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/

2. After installing this addon, go to Firefox -> Sesion Manager -> Session Manager -> Session Manager Options. (or to Tools -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> Session Manager Options)

Go to "Advanced" tab.

Now change the default location for saving the session. Say you name it to your desktop.

Now, you have "Session Manager" addon installed, the default location of saving the session file is known to you (say your desktop).

3. Now go to, "Firefox -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> Save Session" and give your session a name under the option "Save the current session as". (or to "Tools -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> Save Session")

4. Suppose you give your session a name called "New Session". In your default location of saving the session (say your desktop), you will get a file named "New Session.session"

5. Now this file is the key. It's a small file and you can simply email it to yourself or carry it to your work with you.

6. Just place this file at same location on the different computer and repeat Steps 1 and 2.

7. Now Session Manager is installed and configured on the other computer and the file has been copied to the desktop of this other computer.

8. Go to Firefox -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> Load Session (or to Tools -> Session Manager -> Session Manager -> Load Session) and the saved session will be loaded to the different computer by Firefox.

Now, how this addon can help someone?

1. It is extremely useful for people like me who are addicted to opening many many tabs at once and want to resume working from the same set of tabs whether they are at home, office or some other place.

2. Suppose, you are surfing some personal sites that you do not want other people to know and you can't bookmark those sites. You are on a different computer, say at your office and want to clean the browsing history too.

The best option in such cases is to save the session completely and re-load it on a different computer.

I personally found "Session Manager" addon better than "copy urls expert".

The only improvement I would like to see is that Firefox itself should allow multiple tabs to saved to a file that can be opened by Firefox just like we open a saved HTML page.

And thanks to Michael Kraft for creating this wonderful addon... Really liked and I hope my post help others.

thanks

I answer questions in several different forums.

What I have tried so far, resetting firefox, running firefox in safe mode, restarting pc, restarting firefox

I can copy/paste in xp forums here:

http://www.xpforums.com/

as you can see above the link is not in link form the address would have to by typed in or copy/paste into the address bar of a new tab.

I generally can copy paste links with no problems except here in firefox.

can copy text between tabs and from documents to reply box, links from my documents will show up in reply boxes as links.

Not sure what other details are need but will provide whatever is needed.

Edit: it appears now that the link did post as a link. will test on the microsoft forums. 12:25 am

Edit 2: no it did not work after submission on the microsoft forum, still copy/paste as plain text.

I am running Firefox 26 on Windows 7. Last night Windows needed to do some security updates so I closed Firefox as I normally do by using the exit tab and let Windows go ahead with its updates. This morning I found that Firefox had been deleted. I looked to see that my sessionstore.js file from last night still existed and it does. When Firefox came up all of my tabs were gone, also my bookmarks, add-ons, etc. I clicked on "restore previous session" but nothing happens. I have a bookmarks file from last night in the bookmarks folder, and the sessionstore.js file is dated from last night when I closed Firefox in a normal manner. I'm stumped. Firefox didn't crash, I closed it as I always do before I allowed Microsoft to update Windows and reboot. What am I missing/doing wrong? I'm leaving this session open so that I can continue to have access to that sessionstore file, plus I have copied it to a folder I use for these kinds of disasters. This necessary windows update also deleted my MailWasher Pro program, changed the way that Windows Explorer operates and other "fun" surprises. Thanks Microsoft. It is barely possible that I can recreate my tabs and that would be hugely aggravating, but I have no way of re-creating all of my bookmarks. I need help.

This used to work on my Mac using Firefox and Mac Mail but now it doesn't. Opening regular links are unaffected. I can still click and open easily. This only happens when I try to use the feature, to open links behind mail. When I right click nothing happens. Nothing is opened.

When I move files from server back to local file, I am asked for each existing file, if I wish to override the existing file. There are several hundred pages involved. How can I set FireFTP to check for file size or last modified date without my looking at the confirm message every time?

I am continuously getting the following error when I click on a certain field of a particular site. PLEASE ASSIST ME IN FIXING THIS ISSUE STEP BY STEP IF POSSIBLE

An Error Occurred: Exception while calling encodeEnd on : {Component-Path : [Class: org.ajax4jsf.framework.ajax.AjaxViewRoot,ViewId: /system/DDPIndex.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlForm,Id: _idJsp2][Class: javax.faces.component.UINamingContainer,Id: leftmenu][Class: org.apache.myfaces.component.html.ext.HtmlPanelGrid,Id: _idJsp8]}

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException - Cannot get value for expression '#{NavigationMenu_backing.panelNavigationItems}'

I have a new computer. I have installed beta. I run beta on 2 other computers a tablet and my phone. It instructed me that I needed to unlink other devices and start over. My credentials will not work and a reset email is not being sent. I would like to get my devices logged in and linked again. If it isn't possible I will reluctantly move back to Explorer. Mozilla has been so easy to use until now???? Very frustrating.

I would like to support Modzilla but I am not comfortable with sharing financial information online unless there is no other possible option. Why ? Because (bottom line) the financial consequences of any breach fall squarely and fully on my shoulders - not Modzilla's or Microsoft's or Apple's etc. etc. For me, the consequences of a breach far out weigh the short term convenience of online payment as a supporter or purchaser. (I also used to work in the computing industry, so I'm really not a total Luddite . . . although it might be easy enough to dismiss my concerns as such.)

It would be great if there was a publicly visible (published) option that would enable people to contact Modzilla directly by phone to make a donation. Thanks ! . . Food for thought maybe.

CM_Canada

Es gelingt mir nicht, mich anzumelden als Benutzer bei Mozillaund Thunderbird. Ich arbeite zwar seit langer Zeit mit Mozilla,aber ich habe bisher kein Passwort von Mozilla erhalten und kein Bestätigungsschreiben. Wie kann ich mich mit Erfolg anmelden? Muss ich dazu noch einmal Mozilla deinstallieren und neu installieren und ebenso Thunderbird ? Thunderbird fragr nach einem Passwort für mein E-Mail Konto bei t-online secureimap. [personal information hidden by moderator feer56] Können Sie helfen ? Bodo Chemnitz

This is not so much a question, as an answer that some people desperately need.

Ever since Version 34, Firefox has done a superb job of restoring the tabs that the user has created, either on restarting Firefox (if that option is chosen) or on request.

The details of how to restore tabs are covered in Firefox's basic help online, and even how to deal with several crashes in a row (such as in an addon) ruin the normal backup file are also well explained.

However, today I accidentally pressed Alt+F4 twice on my poorly-designed keyboard and closed my main window, with 93 tabs, and another Firefox window as well. I'm not sure this is exactly what happened, but I lost all 93 of my tabs.

I read many of the postings in which people give various suggestions, but none worked. Every time I restored a version of the sessionstore.js file I saw the same lonely empty tab. Restoring prefs.js did nothing, and neither did making changes in the internal configuration constants.

I tried refreshing/resetting Firefox (which preserves bookmarks), but I still couldn't restore the tabs. It was now clear that the problem was in sessionstore.js (and all its backups) for sure.

I'm writing this for people who must restore their windows or tabs, and don't mind getting technical about it. That was my situation.

The solution was to realize that the sessionstore.js file contains JSON code, which is an efficient way to represent integers and strings arranged in a tree structure.

I figured there must be a JSON editor somewhere, and it turns out there is a great one available online, at www.jsoneditoronline.org . It can read a file on your computer, edit it, then save it back on your computer.

As soon as I viewed sessionstore.js in the editor, it was obvious how easy this was going to be. The top level of the tree is understandable. I simply grabbed the data representing the window with 93 tabs, and dragged it from the list of closed Firefox windows to the list of open windows. This automatically moved the history of each tab, and even the strings entered into forms.

After copying sessionstore.js back to the Firefox profile, I started Firefox one more time. The playing of Pandora signalled that my tabs were back and functioning once again.

Now, editing JSON code is not something that everyone is ready for. And your problem might not be reflected in the JSON tree so simply. But, for technical-minded people who don't want to lose their tabs or windows to a mistake or a crash, this technique can be just what's needed when everything else fails.

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. System Model: GT780DX System Type: x64-based PC Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2201 MHz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 12.0 GB