Running Firefox on my Microsoft Surface causes letterboxing even though it is a widescreen but only when in fullscreen mode playing videos on YT or Browser Games

Please help me as i want to record some gameplay but it keeps getting squished & it is pissing me off. I have asked on reddit & people were unhelpful & tellin… (read more)

Please help me as i want to record some gameplay but it keeps getting squished & it is pissing me off. I have asked on reddit & people were unhelpful & telling me to just buy another computer. this is annoying as it is causing me when playing games it causes text to be unreadable at times. Thanks in advance.

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I have a problem with sound with YouTube. I do not have any problem with PodCast, etc. so the speaker of my computer works fine.

It was working fine until the day before yesterday. The volume of the speaker got low before it stopped working. The PodCast and Vimeo are working fine. So it is not t… (read more)

It was working fine until the day before yesterday. The volume of the speaker got low before it stopped working. The PodCast and Vimeo are working fine. So it is not the problem of my computer speaker.

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Youtube Audio slightly crackles / pops anytime it's set to 2x speed

Whenever I hold down the mouse button or space bar to speed up a video by 2x, it seems to let out a small crackle / pop, it wouldn't be as annoying if it only happened on… (read more)

Whenever I hold down the mouse button or space bar to speed up a video by 2x, it seems to let out a small crackle / pop, it wouldn't be as annoying if it only happened one time but it happens practically anytime I do it, sometimes it's when I first press it down, and sometimes it's when I let go.

I've been using Firefox for years and never had this issue until like 3-4 days ago I'd say, and it's a small thing but it adds up constantly and makes the experience fairly annoying, I tested the audio on google chrome extensively and it doesn't seem to happen there so I have to assume it's a Firefox issue.

Would love to see if there's a way to fix this.

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Issues with sites loading!

Sites struggle to load a lot of the time now, sites like youtube don't load until I clear my browsing history and cookies, some sites don't load at all, some shops don't … (read more)

Sites struggle to load a lot of the time now, sites like youtube don't load until I clear my browsing history and cookies, some sites don't load at all, some shops don't load any image previews. I've tried on other browsers when these things happen and they don't happen there.

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Firefox update 155.0.1 remove three rows of my 4 rows of home page shortcut. How to recover?

As stated above, after the Firefox upgrade to version 155.0.1 I now only have 1 row of home page shortcuts and before the upgrade had 4 full rows of shortcuts. The settin… (read more)

As stated above, after the Firefox upgrade to version 155.0.1 I now only have 1 row of home page shortcuts and before the upgrade had 4 full rows of shortcuts. The setting are still set to 4 rows, but only an auto generated 1 row. I would like to restore my rows without having to add them back one by one.

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Sky news site security risk.

There is seriously something wrong with the way Firefox operates. There is nothing wrong with the following site so why am I seeing this message? Be careful. Something do… (read more)

There is seriously something wrong with the way Firefox operates. There is nothing wrong with the following site so why am I seeing this message?

Be careful. Something doesn’t look right.

Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with news.sky.com. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails.

news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. Advanced What makes the site look dangerous?

The site is set up to allow only secure connections, but there’s a problem with the site’s certificate. It’s possible that a bad actor is trying to impersonate the site. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for news.sky.com. The certificate is only valid for: . What can you do about it?

news.sky.com has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

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Invisible GMail Notifier

I installed a Mozilla/FF GMail Notifier App. I tho't that I removed it as I no longer needed it. It still Notifies me; annoying. But it's not in my Extension List to Rem… (read more)

I installed a Mozilla/FF GMail Notifier App. I tho't that I removed it as I no longer needed it. It still Notifies me; annoying. But it's not in my Extension List to Remove again if need be??? How can a hidden/invisible App be still operating, that is supposed to be Removed?

Since Mozilla/FF has no option to Delete a Question, I found the answer to the above posted. MY error: It was a Google Linked App, not the one I Removed which did indeed become Removed. Sigh!

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Firefox doesn't allow links to be opened from other programs

Seemingly any program that has links that when clicked there, redirect and open a new tab in your browser just, do nothing now that I've swapped to Firefox? No indication… (read more)

Seemingly any program that has links that when clicked there, redirect and open a new tab in your browser just, do nothing now that I've swapped to Firefox? No indication or response on Firefox, it just acts like nothing happened. I don't even know why something this simple would break, let alone what WOULD break it.

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cannot unpin or edit a pinned tab

This is a followup to a previous post. I pinned a tab in firefox, and later deleted the webpage that was pinnned. I do not see a way to edit the pin, so I deleted it and … (read more)

This is a followup to a previous post. I pinned a tab in firefox, and later deleted the webpage that was pinnned. I do not see a way to edit the pin, so I deleted it and created a new one with the new, updated webpage. I use the sync feature to keep all of my browser settings the same across three computers. I have tried multiple approaches to correct the problem. 1. turned off the sync and manually unpinned the tab, cleared the cache and browser history, checked to be sure I do not have the option to reload previous tabs turned on, booted in the mode that does not load any plugins, rebooted the computers 2. with sync turned off, after all of those steps, I opened the new page and pinned it on each computer. when I close the browser and reopen it on any computer, the original pinned tab returns. Turning the sync back on or re-enabling the option to sync tabs and history have no effect.

Is there a way, even if it´s within the configuration files, to change that pinned tab or block the old one from opening? Note that the website for the old and the new pinned tab is the same. the difference is the page itself. the old tab was [website].administration-landing. the new page is [website].admin-lp.

The is no reason why the old page, which no longer exists, continues to be pinned in the browser, but I can´t get rid of it.

Please help. Thanks.

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Since the last update 155.01 I can't use Firefox as it freezes and hangs after 3 - 10 seconds.

Since the last update 155.01 I can't use Firefox as it freezes and hangs after 3 - 10 seconds. On Windows 10 , 64 bit. There seems a bug with the last update for Windo… (read more)

Since the last update 155.01 I can't use Firefox as it freezes and hangs after 3 - 10 seconds. On Windows 10 , 64 bit. There seems a bug with the last update for Windows 10 users

Crash report: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/c0455e29-69e9-4030-8b03-fdf430260909

Not sure the crash report is related to the issue.

The same issue happens to all of my 3 Windows 10 PCs since the update from today.

I have uninstalled Firefox and downloaded again, but same issue happens again.

I cleared the cache also but to no avail

How can I use Firefox again?

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I accidentally deleted my old Firefox beta And now I downloaded the app again and tried to log in and everything's new how do I get my old account and settings and data back

I accidentally deleted my old Firefox beta And I need to recover my settings bookmarks and data etc by logging in how do I do that immediately? I'm trying to recover my o… (read more)

I accidentally deleted my old Firefox beta And I need to recover my settings bookmarks and data etc by logging in how do I do that immediately? I'm trying to recover my old Firefox beta account how can I do that immediately

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i am in a loop...

i want to activate the build in VPN but it says i need to sign in. so i do that. then it says i need to click on it and it sends me back to the sing in and tells me to do… (read more)

i want to activate the build in VPN but it says i need to sign in. so i do that. then it says i need to click on it and it sends me back to the sing in and tells me to do it again...

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How do I (automatically) remove Tab Groups from "Recent Tab Groups" history?

One of the more particular habits I have retained after switching from Chrome to Firefox is putting things in Tab Groups. This works great on Chrome as groups are more-or… (read more)

One of the more particular habits I have retained after switching from Chrome to Firefox is putting things in Tab Groups. This works great on Chrome as groups are more-or-less visual, and don't make a mess once you've closed them. On Firefox, however, I've noticed one really annoying thing: tab groups are saved in a giant list. Part of my workflow results in making Tab Groups with the same name as some of my bookmarks. When using the address bar to go to the bookmark will result in the tab group of the same name being brought up. For various purposes, this is decidedly unhelpful. In addition, when using the "Recent Tab Groups" drop down, it is rather annoying to see an entire screen's worth of tab groups being saved, especially when they all have the same(ish) name.

Is there a way to disable this saving of tab group names (and contents)? Clearing it out manually gets very annoying.

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Firefox on Linux renders some ChatGPT emoji as monochrome outlines

I have reproduced a persistent Firefox/Linux emoji rendering issue in ChatGPT and found a small CSS workaround that fixes it. Environment Linux Firefox 155.0.1 The proble… (read more)

I have reproduced a persistent Firefox/Linux emoji rendering issue in ChatGPT and found a small CSS workaround that fixes it.

Environment

Linux Firefox 155.0.1 The problem also reproduces in a completely fresh Firefox profile Noto Color Emoji is installed

Symptoms

In normal ChatGPT conversation text, some common emoji such as:

😄 😂 😀 😁 🙂 😊 🤣 ✅

render as monochrome or outline glyphs.

Other emoji such as:

🚀 🔥 ❤

may render correctly in the same message.

A particularly useful clue is that the same affected emoji render correctly inside ChatGPT code/copy boxes, while failing in ordinary response body text.

Firefox DevTools Fonts inspection showed ordinary fallback fonts including DejaVu Sans, FreeSans and Nimbus Sans being used alongside Noto Color Emoji.

Updating Firefox from 155.0 to 155.0.1 did not fix it, and neither did creating a completely fresh Firefox profile.

Diagnostic test

Running this in Firefox DevTools Console on chatgpt.com immediately fixes the affected emoji throughout the page:

document.documentElement.style.setProperty(

 "font-variant-emoji",
 "emoji",
 "important"

)

Permanent workaround

Using the Stylus extension, scoped only to chatgpt.com:

html {

   font-variant-emoji: emoji !important;

}

This survives a complete Firefox restart.

This appears to be a font/emoji-presentation interaction where some emoji-capable Unicode characters are being satisfied by ordinary monochrome text fonts before the colour emoji font is selected.

Mozilla Bug 1971053 describes closely related glyph-selection behaviour and mentions font-variant-emoji: emoji as a remedy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1971053

I am posting this both in case it helps other Linux/Firefox users and to ask whether this remaining behaviour on Firefox 155.0.1 is expected or should be tracked as a current Firefox/web-compatibility issue.

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