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Somehow I recently added a favorites side bar to my page and not sure how to get rid of it now. Now when I open my saved pages it turns it into a 2 step process. Now it opens up a side bar and then I have to click on the star to open my saved pages. Before I just clicked on the folder and it opened them up. I have searched on help but none of it helped. One solution was to got to settings and to hide side bar but I don't have that option. Tried to customized toolbars, nothing seems to work. I use the favorites all the time and to turn it into a 2 step process is a pain.

Is there a way to change the app name on the title menu bar on Macbook. "Firefox Developer Edition" is too long and takes up valuable real estate. I tried going into about:config, pulling up the browser.display.titlebar and editing the name, but doesn't change anything? Thanks for your help!

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is a Firefox problem or not, but every time I try to go the Facebook website I get this error:

"Sorry! Something went wrong :("

And it has been going on for weeks. Sometimes it works in the evenings (UK time), which seems weird but it is rare. I tried troubleshooting mode and it made no difference. Facebook is my sole means of contact with some people, including one or two students (I'm a tutor). I also tried to install the newest version of Manjaro, but it made no difference.

Also, I cleared the whole history, and do that at the end of each day anyway, so that is not a fixer.

The reason why there is any doubt that it a is Firefox problem is that it also happens with Chromium but without the occasional successful connection.

Does anyone have any ideas? And is there any other information that it might be useful for me to provide?

(Firefox 131.0.3 and up to date version on 12/03/2025) (Manjaro 24.1.1 and up to date version on 12/03/2025)

Supplementary note: I won't be able to use Caprine as an alternative access as it has effectively been obsoleted due to it being dependent on Electron29, which won't build for some obscure reason. And no, I don't have a smartphone.

Thank you kindly,

Oliver.

When opening several tabs they start to shrink down to the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth for which the default is too small for my sensibility. I've tried messing with it to make it more tolerable but what I really would like is to be able to set the tabs to not change size at all. I would like them to stay the default size. Of course let users have smaller tabs if they like, but let us not if we don't want it.

My second issue is when you have many tabs open and you scroll through them with the mouse wheel, it scrolls 6 tabs at a time per mouse wheel input. I would like it to do 1 tab per mouse wheel input just like if I was clicking on the arrows at the top to scroll through tabs. It just makes sense to stay consistent or to have an option in the config that controls tab scrolling.

These are things users used to have control over and were removed. Unless a setting in about:config was renamed to something weird and I'm just missing it, the settings that replaced these options are insufficient.

i have tried putting YouTube both from bookmarks and fem desktop to my Firefox menu bar and it will not go I am afraid to refresh Firefox because i am afraid to lose all my bookmarks and add on is that the only way to do it? please help me if you can i have not uninstalled Firefox but have reinstalled over what i have and still nothing I am baffeled

I can only use firefox for 90 minutes at a time, before the entire system crashes.

Since the last couple of updates, the infamous memory leak issue has gotten significantly worse. Now 30 minutes of use with no add-ons sees the memory use swell to 13 GB, crashing the system. Sometimes windows 10 crashes, sometimes it just kills firefox.

The thing is, when I check about:memory, it says firefox is only using 1.5 GB. However task manager says 13 GB, and if I close the browser, suddenly 13 GB memory gets freed up.

Does anyone have any idea why there's such a discrepancy?

Hello everyone!

How I can show only the tab icons on vertical tab? Currently I could solve the issue showing enabling vertical tabs, going to Customize Toolbar and just clicking on Done. But every time I use sidebar (showing bookmarks, for example), the vertical tabs display tab titles again, and I need to repeat the process.

There some way to setup this to always show only the icons on vertical tabs? Thanks in advance!

Using Firefox 137.0 (64 bit) Win 11 24H2

I have just noticed that the background colour of the sidebar and the customise firefox is a pinkish red. I much prefer them to be white. I cannot see or find a way to change the pinkish red to white nor why this colour has been chosen.

I do have a theme which includes various tones of red. Not sure if this is relevant but if it is, it seems to defeat the concept of having a theme, which I regard as a header that should not affect the body of the page).

Thanks in advance for the help.

When I turn on "Recommended stories" in settings, I get blank boxes instead of the news feed when I start a new tab. This problem started two-to-three weeks ago. Before that, it was working fine. I don't know what caused this problem or how to fix it.

Thank you for taking the time to look into this issue.

I am just writing to tell you that you can go stick your latest "new and improved" feature (note extreme sarcasm) in AI chatbots where the Sun don't shine.

Someone tell me is Mozilla trying to destroy Firefox?

Are they trying to get people to move to Edge, Chrome, Safari or Opera?

If they are they are going the right way about it!

I am getting sick to the back teeth of Mozilla forcing their crap down our throats.

I have lost count the number of times I have had to go into about:config to turn off the latest crap FX has forced down our throats over the years.

None of us asked for AI Chatbots which is one of the worst ideas ever invented.

I already had to delete Microsoft CoPilot from my PC last September now I had to do it with FX.

Everybody do this and it works:

Goto address bar and type in about:config, goto the search bar and type chat and where it says browser.ml.chat.enabled change from true to false and you will be rid of those garbage chatbots.

I have done that for every forced you you feature FX has added over the years like Pockets and Screengrab and all the other garbage they have added over the years.

The Firefox short cuts does not display all of what I want to use and sometimes deletes my desired items. How can I customize my short cuts so I have what I want and need?

Hi there I've been using firefox for long time and I love that it utilizes gtk4 in gnome. To make it even more like other gnome apps I found I can remove the tab bar and combining everything in one bar. That way it looks like vanilla gnome application. But I don't like the extra clicks I have to do to get side bar or tab list open. I couldn't find any extension that will provide icons only tabs I can insert into the toolbar. So i can someone help A): implement the tab bar besides the url in the toolbar or the other way around the url besides the tab bar? B): display all opened tabs in a page that I can set for a new tab page? (this sounds a great idea can't believe I can't find extension that can do that!) C): at least have the sidebar with the vertical tabs to autohide? Does anybody know how to do any of these 3 or maybe have a better workaround?

After a recent update to FireFox, every time I click the puzzle icon to try and Pin an extension to the Toolbar it takes me to `about:addons` instead. In `about:addons` I cannot click or right-click anything and select Pin To Toolbar as I was once able to.

I have downloaded FireFox Developer Edition and the puzzle icon does exactly what it suppoused to do which is to show a DropDown list of installed extensions I can Pin or Un-Pin.

Looks like a bug.

Why is this happening? Please tell me that's not intentional.