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Firefox does not appear in volume mixer in Windows 11

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 (20XY005MGE) with Win11 Pro. All of a sudden, Firefox does not play any sound. I notice that it does not show up in the volume mix… (read more)

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 (20XY005MGE) with Win11 Pro.

All of a sudden, Firefox does not play any sound. I notice that it does not show up in the volume mixer. I tried:

Youtube does not play sounds, the Spotify page notices that it cannot play sound (the spotify App for Windows works fine, though). News sites (tagesschau.de / video, deutschlandfunk.de / audio) play the video, but no sound.

I had the problem a few months ago already but I cannot recall the solution :(

Thanks for helpful hints!

Asked by Wolfgang-Hannover 2 years ago

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Import Passwords

I have followed various threads about importing my passwords without any success. I recently swapped PCs so I exported passwords and bookmarks to disk to install on the… (read more)

I have followed various threads about importing my passwords without any success.

I recently swapped PCs so I exported passwords and bookmarks to disk to install on the new PC.

The bookmarks have imported ok but the passwords are in the CSV format created by Mozilla on export from the old PC and there is no option to import a CSV which seems a bit crazy.

I cannot find a way to import this data. I have tried syncing with my laptop to get the passwords but that doesn't work either.

If anyone could help me resolve this problem I would be very grateful.

Many thanks,

Mark.

Asked by Mark Eustace 2 years ago

Answered by Mark Eustace 2 years ago

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Adding an option to visit the extension store page?

I tried eveything but found no way to access the store page of a specific extension, am i missing something? Searching isnt good if it has a simple name as thounsands sh… (read more)

I tried eveything but found no way to access the store page of a specific extension, am i missing something?

Searching isnt good if it has a simple name as thounsands show up

Asked by sscicluna89 2 years ago

Answered by sscicluna89 2 years ago

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I can't see text or icons on some webpages while in dark mode. Can't switch to light mode.

One website in particular is almost 100% black. I cannot see most text. On another site, I cannot see check boxes, can't see the trash can icon. This just happened rec… (read more)

One website in particular is almost 100% black. I cannot see most text. On another site, I cannot see check boxes, can't see the trash can icon.

This just happened recently. When I switch to Light Mode in the settings, both sites remain dark.

What settings can I change so everything on a site is visible?

Asked by craigrepo73 1 year ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago

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Unable to open web page, "application/octet-stream " error

I'm trying to open a web page, which worked perfectly until about a week ago. The address is: https://xdaforums.com/f/xiaomi-poco-x3-pro.12163/ I now get a popup window,… (read more)

I'm trying to open a web page, which worked perfectly until about a week ago. The address is: https://xdaforums.com/f/xiaomi-poco-x3-pro.12163/

I now get a popup window, which tells me that I'm trying to open a "application/octet-stream (377 bytes)" and gives me the option of "open with" or "save file".

I don't want to do either, just view the page as before.

Asked by zapzog 1 year ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago

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Fullpage translation icon doesn't appear on address bar

With the new 118 version that introduced fullpage translations, whenever I got to a site that's not in English and that is one of the supported languages, the translation… (read more)

With the new 118 version that introduced fullpage translations, whenever I got to a site that's not in English and that is one of the supported languages, the translation icon doesn't appear at all in the address bar. I can go to the menu and click "Translate Page..." and then the icon will appear but when I click to "Show original" it dissapears.

Asked by Ecastro179 2 years ago

Answered by TyDraniu 2 years ago

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Automaticaly save images to the downloads directory without going through the popup window.

How to save images to the downloads directory (that I chose in settings) without using right click -> save image as .. -> popup window .. then choose the location w… (read more)

How to save images to the downloads directory (that I chose in settings) without using right click -> save image as .. -> popup window .. then choose the location where I want to save it.

I tried alt+click, it didn't work, it saves the webpage url instead of the image. I prefer a solution that does not involve any add-ons.

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS Firefox version: 121.0.1 (64-bit)


Thank you.

Asked by gouyez 1 year ago

Answered by zeroknight 1 year ago

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firefox 121.0.1 is blocking website widget?

Hi I am the admin site owner of the above site on th site we have a widget that lets us monitor who is in our teamspeak server from the home page this was working great u… (read more)

Hi I am the admin site owner of the above site on th site we have a widget that lets us monitor who is in our teamspeak server from the home page this was working great until I and other members updated to firefox 121.0.1. 2 days ago, now we get this message in the widget frame insted.

Firefox Can’t Open This Page To protect your security, server.nitrado.net will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

I contacted Nitrado support after reading this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/xframe-neterror-page They say they have fixed the issue but it still present after reinstalling the widget, clearing cache (server and firefox app) and server restart, this is effecting all our uses who use firefox, which is all of them :( can anyone help?

Asked by drstig 1 year ago

Answered by zeroknight 1 year ago

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Firefox's HUGE memory usage - AN ONGOING ISSUE you refuse to fix

TO MOZILLA DEVELOPERS In spite of hundreds if not thousands of users reporting this issue over and over again, and your suggested workaround to reduce memory usage in t… (read more)

TO MOZILLA DEVELOPERS

In spite of hundreds if not thousands of users reporting this issue over and over again, and your suggested workaround to reduce memory usage in the settings that doesn't do anything - FIREFOX is still using unacceptably HUGE amount of memory.

With just FOUR (4) tabs open in one window, in the Task Manager I can see 17 (!!!!!!) Firefox windows open using 830 MB of memory. The highest usage of all my apps including memory hungry media apps. It's using THREE times as much memory as my Adobe Audition processing edits of a 1.5 hr audio with several clips.

This is insane!! You have gone crazy with caching to the point of making this browser unusable.

It's freezing up and crashing my Audition so before I work in it I must shut Firefox down completely - and I work on a powerful tower PC designed for media.

If you don't seriously cut back on this insane caching for the sake of browsing speed IN THE NEXT UPDATE, I won't be using your browser at all, it's simple as that. I'm already migrating my bookmarks and setting up Chrome which uses about half the memory that Firefox does with the same tabs, and I suspect that many users will follow suit.

The workarounds you offer DO NOT WORK. Any app that uses more than 500 MB of memory at any give time on my computer - goes.

Asked by etcetera777 2 years ago

Last reply by etcetera777 1 year ago

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Sync failure PC/IOS

Trying to sync between my PC and my iphone. Every time I've attempted it I've gotten this type of error report. And when I press sync on my iphone it tells me that sync i… (read more)

Trying to sync between my PC and my iphone. Every time I've attempted it I've gotten this type of error report. And when I press sync on my iphone it tells me that sync is offline. I've logged out and back in a few times on both devices and I've also tried turning sync on and off again and it's not working. Tried syncing again and it didn't show up on my other pc either.



1705467584142 Sync.LogManager DEBUG Flushing file log 1705467584145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705467584145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705467584145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705467584145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705467584148 Sync.LogManager DEBUG Log cleanup threshold time: 1704603584148 1705467584158 Sync.LogManager DEBUG Done deleting files. 1705467586817 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705467587873 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705467588918 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705467588923 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write - bumping score 1705468406145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE observed topic=push-message, data=chrome://fxa-device-update, subject=[xpconnect wrapped nsISupports] 1705468406145 FirefoxAccounts TRACE FxAccountsPushService _onPushMessage 1705468406145 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG push command: fxaccounts:device_connected 1705468406145 FirefoxAccounts INFO fetching updated device list 1705468406145 FirefoxAccounts INFO Already fetching device list, return existing promise 1705468406164 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/account/devices?filterIdleDevicesTimestamp=1703654006162 1705468408408 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/account/devices?filterIdleDevicesTimestamp=1703654006162 200 1705468408409 Hawk DEBUG (Response) /account/devices?filterIdleDevicesTimestamp=1703654006162: code: 200 - Status text: 1705468408409 Hawk DEBUG Clock offset vs https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1: -409 1705468408409 FirefoxAccounts INFO Got new device list: 0114f71fc43f1c0abec31f11ea4c4f8c, 21486e339a18328ea65760b3cfdc661e, 73c3e7eb9def85f369143f46fe5ad619, c7ab28df9f8b9556bcb602d268c3282e 1705468408410 FirefoxAccounts TRACE Our push subscription looks OK 1705468408410 FirefoxAccounts INFO updating the cache 1705468448524 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write - bumping score 1705468448533 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705468450556 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705468450676 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705468451026 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG FxAccountsProfileClient: Requested profile 1705468451026 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken enter 1705468451026 FirefoxAccounts TRACE getCachedToken returning cached token 1705468451026 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken returning a cached token 1705468451026 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://profile.accounts.firefox.com/v1/profile 1705468451226 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://profile.accounts.firefox.com/v1/profile 304 1705468453581 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705468453583 Sync.Engine.Tabs.Tracker DEBUG Detected a tab change, but conditions aren't met for a quick write or a score bump 1705468454872 Sync.Service DEBUG User-Agent: Firefox/121.0.1 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) FxSync/1.123.0.20240108143603.desktop 1705468454872 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2024-01-16 23:14:14 in browser session 8sHSUqIJcFhS 1705468454872 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login. 1705468454872 Sync.Service INFO User logged in successfully - verifying login. 1705468454872 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705468454873 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG unlockAndVerifyAuthState already has (or can fetch) sync keys 1705468454873 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.network => success.status_ok 1705468454873 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => error.login.failed 1705468454873 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching unlocked auth state returned success.status_ok 1705468454873 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705468454873 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting sync key 1705468454873 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting a sync token from: https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1705468454873 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Getting a token using OAuth 1705468454873 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken enter 1705468454873 FirefoxAccounts TRACE getCachedToken returning cached token 1705468454873 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken returning a cached token 1705468454873 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Beginning OAuth token exchange: https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1705468454873 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1705468507773 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 failed: 2152398862 - NS_ERROR_NET_TIMEOUT 1705468507773 Sync.SyncAuthManager ERROR Non-authentication error in _fetchTokenForUser: TokenServerClientNetworkError({"error":{}})(resource://services-common/tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:28:36) JS Stack trace: TokenServerClientNetworkError@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:51:16 _tokenServerExchangeRequest@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:235:13 1705468507773 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.status_ok => error.login.reason.network 1705468507773 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => error.login.failed 1705468507773 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Failed to fetch the cluster URL: TokenServerClientNetworkError({"error":{}})(resource://services-common/tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:28:36) JS Stack trace: TokenServerClientNetworkError@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:51:16 _tokenServerExchangeRequest@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:235:13 1705468507774 Sync.Service DEBUG verifyLogin failed: TokenServerClientNetworkError({"error":{}})(resource://services-common/tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:28:36) JS Stack trace: TokenServerClientNetworkError@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:51:16 _tokenServerExchangeRequest@tokenserverclient.sys.mjs:235:13 1705468507774 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.network => error.login.reason.network 1705468507774 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => error.login.failed 1705468507774 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error 1705468507774 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1705468507775 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Next sync in 3600000 ms. (why=schedule) 1705468507776 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1705468507776 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Error: Login failed: error.login.reason.network(resource://services-sync/service.sys.mjs:1038:15) JS Stack trace: onNotify@service.sys.mjs:1038:15 1705468507776 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false. 1705468507776 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent

Asked by Echo117A 1 year ago

Answered by Echo117A 1 year ago

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Problems with logging into sites

After the latest Firefox update (121.0.1) , I have been unable to use Firefox to log into iCloud or my Merrill Lynch account. I have to use Chrome instead. Other website … (read more)

After the latest Firefox update (121.0.1) , I have been unable to use Firefox to log into iCloud or my Merrill Lynch account. I have to use Chrome instead. Other website log-ins seem to be ok.

Asked by Charlie Irwin 1 year ago

Answered by zeroknight 1 year ago

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New Tab: no cursor in the address bar

I frequently open new tabs by right-clicking the current tab and choosing "New Tab" from the context menu. Naturally, I want to start typing a URL or search term. But th… (read more)

I frequently open new tabs by right-clicking the current tab and choosing "New Tab" from the context menu. Naturally, I want to start typing a URL or search term.

But the focus/cursor/caret is nowhere and typing does nothing. I have to click on the address bar, and then I can type.

I'm not using New Tab Override and I have Firefox's new tab set to a blank page.

I tried disabling all my add-ons, but I still had the problem.

I tried setting new tab to the Firefox home page and for a short while I got a cursor in the address bar. But the problem returned after a few hours

Any clues on what might be wrong? Firefox version 120.0.1 (64-bit) on MacOS Ventura 13.5.1. Thanks!

(A similar problem is described here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1420220 -- but in my case this is not a container tab.)

Asked by jeremy76 2 years ago

Answered by jeremy76 1 year ago

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firefox expands beyond display

Sheesh, I tried to append to another question but failed. Just as well... I am using a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Every time I put my laptop in s… (read more)

Sheesh, I tried to append to another question but failed. Just as well... I am using a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Every time I put my laptop in standby mode (close the display) then reopen the Firefox window expands beyond the left edge of the computer. I tried some solutions offered on the forum but they did not help. Now when this happens I hit the maximize button and the Firefox display actually shrinks to a small size. That's counterintuitive but... When I hit the maximize button again the Firefox window expands to the correct size. So it's now only a minor annoyance. It seems like there ought to be a simple solution to this but I haven't found it yet.

Asked by William Waterbeau 2 years ago

Answered by William Waterbeau 1 year ago

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inoperable -- will not open bookmarks -- will not respond to search or address entered manually

A few hours ago, when I woke the computer from overnight sleep, Firefox (fully updated) was suddenly completely unresponsive. It is not an Internet issue. As you see, Ed… (read more)

A few hours ago, when I woke the computer from overnight sleep, Firefox (fully updated) was suddenly completely unresponsive. It is not an Internet issue. As you see, Edge works fine. I'm online, but Firefox isn't.

I tried reinstalling, which appeared to work. With the new install, I was only able to open the app with the administrator option, which didn't bother me. All my bookmarks were in place and settings and extensions showed as I've had them for years. Unfortunately, all I can do with newly installed Firefox is look at it. I can enter an address manually, but no response other than showing my typing. No bookmarks will open. Browser Menu items appear to open, but mostly do not follow to their content pages.

I did get to the Mozilla troubleshooting page from the menu, and tried a refresh, which of course eliminated my security extensions and bookmarks, but had no other impact on the program. It still looks like Firefox, but is an empty shell. (See troubleshooting information pasted in place below.)

I've never seen anything like this before with any app. It has been days since my last windows update, BTW. There were no problems with it. Everything else is OK with this computer. Firefox just turned into an empty shell, but everything else is normal.

I've been using the Mozilla browser since Netscape. I strongly prefer Firefox to any other browser. I can live without it, I guess, but I won't be very happy.

Has anyone else encountered this dead Firefox situation? If so, what fixed it?

Asked by patriciacravener 1 year ago

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cannot delete this, whether it's a cookie or not: about.ef2a7dd5-93bc-417f-a698-142c3116864f.mozilla

about.ef2a7dd5-93bc-417f-a698-142c3116864f.mozilla This ‘cookie’ (no size shown) has been showing up on my Firefox ‘manage website data’ since at least March ’23 and it w… (read more)

about.ef2a7dd5-93bc-417f-a698-142c3116864f.mozilla This ‘cookie’ (no size shown) has been showing up on my Firefox ‘manage website data’ since at least March ’23 and it will NOT delete. It may not be 'a real cookie' but I still can’t get rid of it.

When I searched online for that apparent address I found: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40175 The info near the top of that site’s page: Torbutton INFO: tor SOCKS: http://expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion/static/images/home/png/block-trackers@3x.png?h=70991bcb via --unknown--:cc55771ba6d6e8c6542066863a47e223 SOCKS is a username? And the ‘onion/hidden service’ address cannot be accessed unless using the Tor browser? So that seems a dead end for me.

I have seen 3 other people posting here in the past year about this particular cookie. hobro1 did an uninstall & still had to remove directories manually after getting some answers from several others. blazee decided – based on the answer given by jscher 2000 – that it probably wasn’t dangerous. mekishev 1 received an answer from cor-el that is incomprehensible to me, except for saying ‘it isn’t a real cookie’. I understand it may not 'a real cookie' but then why is it showing up in 'manage website data' where everything else is a cookie?

Can anyone help, please? I’m about to migrate over to a new computer and really don’t want to take this with me. I don’t like the fact that it persists, and that the cookies ‘keeper’ – SOCKS maybe? – is completely hidden.

Thanks much in advance for any assistance!

PS The only possible explanation I've come up with for how it got this cookie is when I was checking out some Firefox extensions; I didn’t even know what Tor was till trying to figure this out.

Asked by mydiylife 2 years ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago

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delete password / logon data on sync server

Hi, Is there a possibility to delete the sync data without completely deleting the account? I used Firefox Sync to transfer some passwords and I understood that they are … (read more)

Hi, Is there a possibility to delete the sync data without completely deleting the account? I used Firefox Sync to transfer some passwords and I understood that they are encrypted on the sync server. However, it might be that even the encryption might be broken and attackers could steal my passwords. That´s why I would like to delete the password data on the server (but keep the account).

Is this somehow possible? I didn´t find any article about exactly this topic.

Best regards, Sebastian

Asked by sebastianraemsch 1 year ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago