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The AI overviews that I am used to seeing at the top when I ask a question have disappeared. I think it has something to do with the AI controls but I can't figure out how to turn that option back on in Windows 10 Firefox. The only video I found refers to Windows 11 and the screens don't match. Is this feature still available and if so how do I enable it?

I'm sorry, maybe the problem was there in previous versions however I just noticed it. Or rather the absence of it. The problem is when I open a new tab where I had that mini weather report widget enabled (and I checked that the button in the settings is set to be enabled) the widget is not there anymore, nowhere to be seen.

I made two screenshots of my browser's new tab with no weather widget and one with the settings open to show that the weather widget on/off button is enabled. I'm sorry however that I had to blur things I thought it would be sensitive information.

My OS is Win11 Home Greek and my Firefox is in Greek as well.

I downloaded the Firefox ESR for my High Siera OS, but I still get the message that Firefox is no longer supported, Why??? Just let me know what I need to do so I can use the browser without worry.

I have a MacPro 2012, updated to the max. I'm retired, and by budget does not allow for a new computer.

Thanks. Doina Paraschiv

I am currently using a ~6 yr old laptop with a 256GB SSD running Win11, v25H.2, build 26200.8457. My Firefox is 151.0.1 64bit. After a Firefox update a couple months ago, Privacy Badger was put forth as a recommended extension for FF and since it was showing on the toolbar I installed/activated it. It worked fine for maybe 2-3 weeks, then I started getting popups from Dell saying "can't do system backup, not enough memory", so I looked and I have a 256GB SSD but it showed I had <4GB free/available when every time I had checked it in the past, on at least a monthly basis, it was always around 65GB free. After doing a lot of web searching, one of the things mentioned for finding what was eating my memory was to check Task Manager, so I did. I generally have only 2, maybe 3 FF tabs open at a time but Task Mgr was usually showing up to 23 open and that FF was using about 950MB of disk space - something that I'd never seen before. I looked back at what updates were done and aside from an Intel Bluetooth update, the only thing that was different was that I had activated Privacy Badger. So, I opened FF, clicked on P-B, then 'uninstall', closed and restarted FF and the P-B icon was gone from the toolbar. However, in the next couple weeks, I noticed that when I looked at certain websites, I was still getting their popup notices about "please disable your ad-blocker so we can make money off the ads" or "we're honoring your opt-out request", or other. But, this didn't happen all the time, just sporadically, but I did notice that ads were largely gone from the websites I usually go looking at. I even went so far as to go to FF menu and check "use standard tracking protection", "never remember history", and didn't activate VPN or anything else. I went through the FF menus 'settings', 'extensions', 'more tools' and could not find any reference to P-B being active. However, FF still seems to be going a bit nuts about opening instances - I've uploaded an image of what Task Mgr is seeing as I type this out - in the background is my open FF showing 2 tabs open, but in the foreground Task Mgr is showing I have 12 open 'instances' taking up >600MB. About 10 days ago, I went through some of the FF help questions on the site and followed through with making sure this was clicked and that was unclicked and so forth, even went so far as to 'refresh' FF. Nothing has changed for the better, as a matter of fact now practically all websites I visit are asking me "do you want to disable your ad-blocker?". How do I answer that? I UNINSTALLED THE AD-BLOCKER!!!

Also, when researching where my disk storage disappeared to, I installed WinDirStat. Running that, I found capabilityaccessmanager.db-wal file was over 80GB which was way over what it should be. I found some steps to get rid of it and did so, but then found that my laptop now takes 5-6 minutes to start up (with an SSD???) where it used to start in ~45 seconds, and my wifi connection sometimes takes another 2-3 minutes to connect on top of the startup cycle. Looking at what capability....-wal does and it supposedly keeps track of or monitors or something with internet connections... And in the last two weeks or so, that db-wal file has gone again from ~26GB to almost 70GB and my free disk space is back down to about 6GB. So here's a theory: somehow Privacy Badger made some kind of change to Firefox, something hidden below all the surface commands and options, and that change is making FF keep all tabs/windows that are opened in that session in the back seat as it were until FF is closed. In the meantime, since FF has all these tabs/windows/sites still in memory waiting to be activated again and sucking up memory, CapabilityAccessManager is trying to also keep these in active memory but it doesn't delete those instances/websites when FF is closed because the last it heard from FF was 'keep these active in case we re-open them'.

But, that is secondary to the initial problem of "I uninstalled Privacy Badger but Firefox still acts like it is active", and "Firefox is using a lot of disk space that it looks like it doesn't actually need". I contacted Privacy Badger (extension-devs@eff.org) and ran through the situation with FF appearing to be still honoring P-B even though P-B was uninstalled and they said "Once you remove a browser extension from the browser, the extension should be fully gone. You may have changed various Firefox privacy settings or installed another blocker extension. You may have a VPN or some other software that blocks trackers." But that's just it, I have a separate VPN but it's ad-blocker has never been activated, and I haven't changed any FF privacy settings other than 'never remember history'...

Any words of wisdom on why FireFox still thinks Privacy Badger is still active would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, after updating to FF ver. 151 (Linux Mint 22.3) the container icon on my address-bar disappeared. I can still use containers by right clicking in the bookmarks drop down menu.

I have the latest version 151.0.2 (64-bit), always update. It's terribly buggy now out of nowhere. Tabs won't connect to the internet after laptop wakes from sleep. All other browsers still do. If I close FF and reopen I lose ALL my tabs even though for decades I've had it set to reopen all tabs. What's up?

On a random basis, sites like msn.com, yahoo mail or outlook.com will freeze. Sometimes they may suddenly come back to life, but the normal fix is delete tab and restart tab. Long videos may also freeze. Have cleared history, and changed optimization setting but nothing helps. On 151.0.2 64 bit.

I use WhatsApp web with Firefox 151.0.3 on a Macbook Air. In WhatsApp web, you should be able to emoji over a message sent by someone else. One clicks on the smile icon at the side of the message, the emoji pallet appear above and select one of a handful of emojis. Since a recent update, the pallet no longer opens. It's just white space, the cursor does not change allowing you to pick one of the emojis. See screenshot. Is there a fix for this please?

I installed Firefox Developer Edition and I am having the following issues, whenever I go to Indeed and I go to a job posting the browser opens up additional tabs without my permission or me doing so. Also the browser does the same in Canvas when I go to my course the browser automatically opens up new tabs without my permission and also me doing so. The Firefox Developer Edition browser update is Firefox Developer Edition is up to date 152.0b7 (64 bit). The following extensions are installed AdBlocker Ultimate, FoxyProxy Basic, Ghostery AdBlocker For Privacy, Malwarebytes Browser Guard, Privacy Badger, and UBlock Origin. This behavior got super annoying and I don't know how to fix it. Any help on how to fix this would be appreciated. My operating system is Windows 11.

Malwarebytes is picking up and blocking an outbound connection request from Firefox - www.highperformance.com. Anyone else experiencing this?

I have been getting problems with profiles under 2 separate account after trying org my work in to workspaces in a recent transfer to Linux mint. Some of the obstructions did not make sense such as enter your email and we will ask things only you know in attempting to check what was wrong with my pass. But the interface will simply not respond getting me stuck unable to proceed. So went on my handsets that corresponding to these two profiles to sort why correct pass was not opening the way. In one of them it simple and one reason I don't like so-called rec key. The 2nd required rec key and after keying that long thing I was able to see the pass and it is what it is. Now however my rec key needs replacement so click download which broughtbup indicating it was download but nothing. Went and my download folder, notification , even Documents... Nothing as I am sure this may lead to problems in the future of not soon and wanting to get my organising over asap, I want to tell somebody in charge to help address the problem

I've never changed things from English and can't find how to change it back. There's a pop up window saying you want to have things in English. Yes I do but I don't want to do it every time I open the browser. Any help is appreciated.