Firefox Support Forum

Every time I launch Firefox it creates 12-13 instances of Firefox along with one each for Chrome and Console.

I don't need that many instances. Typically I have no more than 3-4 tabs open.

Is there a Configuration setting that I can change to reduce the number of instances to 5 and greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to launch.

I am running Windows 10 Pro V21H2 at current update level. I have a custom made tower with 512GB SSD and a Core2 Duo processing running at 2.93 GHz with 8 GB Ram. Firefox is V17.0.1.

Lately I'm getting a pop-up on my laptop and iphone offering to log in via my Google account. I don't have a Google account, and all the help articles I find just tell people how to disable that. I have cookies set to Strict, I've cleared the cache, made sure things are updated, and I still get this annoying pop-up. I've got various add-ons installed. AdGuard, ClearURLS, Cookie Autodelete, Decentraleyes, UBlock Origin, Disable HTML5, Facebook Container, Flash Control, and HTTPS Everywhere. I'm open to suggestions on where to go from here. Frustrating for this to just start suddenly, and having to find a way to disable it.

When site asks for verification code - I copy it from email into web site. The code is not recognized. Does Firefox keep changing my computer's address? Using Win 10. I have uninstalled/reinstalled FF several times. System keeps crashing. What's happening Me novice, 78yrs old etc.

Everytime I try to close my Firefox browser window, it just stops. There are multiple processes taking in excess of 200 or 300K in memory that seem to be causing the problem. I have to manually end the process just to close Firefox, and it is quite annoying. I just checked, my Firefox is up to date. Yesterday I deleted and re-installed Firefox, but it's still doing the same thing. This is kind of driving me nuts to be honest. I have Chrome, Opera, and Edge also installed on my computer so I'm ready to jetisson Firefox but thought I'd see what the community has to say first.

UPDATE - Firefox worked great for a few days but the issue returned not too soon after that. Whatever happened in the last update was only good temporarily. I've already done all the initial troubleshooting steps and believe I may have discovered the root cause of the issue.

There are multiple processes in Firefox whose size is over 100,000 kilobytes in size. Some are over 200K, 300K, and 400K.

As I compare this with other browsers I have on my computer, Edge has no processes over 100K, and neither does Chrome or Opera. I believe this is not coincidence, there is something internal to Firefox which creates large processes that is causing delays in closing it. Once again the problem has started annoying me and has started giving me thoughts of switching browsers again.

You can see it in the screenshots I posted.

Hi there, for weeks I´m having some problems with my firefox browser. Attached to this you can check a copuple of screenshots.

I have already tried to updated windows10 and firefox, restore and reinstall firefox and my antivirus doesn´t detect any threat. What else can I do?

Thanks in advance for your support.

The dozens of bookmarks I had that I did not put in folders has grown in numbers exponentially. I don't know how. I had nothing to do with it. I went from having about 200 bookmarks (outside of what I had in separate folders) to what seems to be roughly 5000. This is ridiculous. How can I 1, correct this, and 2, stop if from happening again.

In settings for FIrefox, Block Pop-Ups is disabled. Where is this setting mentioned in the Subject so I can turn that off? It is only happening in Firefox, other browsers don't display this issue.

bold textI have locked myself out and cannot receive e-mails. Forgotmy password. Do not want to lose any bookmarks, etc. Made a mess already. Afraid to go further in trying to solve this myself. I think i did something while exploring Settings for the first time.

IS FIREFOX NOW POLITICALLY DOMINATED? I AM SHOCKED AFTER BELIEVING THAT FIREFOX WAS NOT BLOCKING INFORMATION ON THE WEB THAT THEY DIDN'T POLITICALLY AGREE WITH! NOW I FIND OUT THERE IS NO WAY TO CONTACT FIREFOX AND ALL THEY HAVE IS THE STANDARD ASK A QUESTION FROM THE COMMUNITY! THERE ARE TOO MANY GLITCHES WITH DOWNLOADING THEIR UPDATES AND COMPLETELY LOSING MY SAVED PASSWORDS AND NOW THIS BROWSER HAS BLOCKED INFORMATION POSTED ON A NEWS ARTICLE THAT SHOWS TWITTER FEEDS BY THE PRIOR TWITTER ADMIN THAT HAS BEEN FIRED. I HAVE THE STANDARD SECURITY AND DO TRUST THE SITE THAT I AM ON BUT WITHOUT EXPLANATION FIREFOX HAS BLOCKED THOSE FEEDS IN THE ARTICLE. CERTAINLY NOT INTENDED TO PROTECT MY BROWSING BUT TO BLOCK AN INTENTIONAL POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE! I NO LONGER WANT TO TRUST FIREFOX/MOZILLA WITH MY BROWSING CAPABILITIES ESPECIALLY KNOWING IT IS ONLY VOLUNTEERS AND NOT SUPERVISED OR ANY CUSTOMER SERVICE TO GIVE ANSWERS!

Gentlemen, I try with Firefox to open cosmote.gr which is the main Greek telecommunications company and it gives an error www.cosmote.gr. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR. and it won't open no matter what i tried. Please instructions.

Firefox 10x.x will stop rendering pages without giving an error. MX Linux. Nothing showing up in dmesg Not detecting any pattern to when this major issue happens; simply opening a page from a search engine result in a tab might cause it. could run 20 tabs of Youtube often without issue. Issue will only allow one level on Menu to show (can't reach Browser Tools to troubleshoot), selecting a tab window usless wont not move. If issue happens in a video window the video will play but not update display. If I resize Firefox, its window will update frame by frame

[code] System: Kernel: 4.19.0-22-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0

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Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia

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Network: Device-1: Ralink RT5392 PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0

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Drives: Local Storage: total: 126.71 GiB used: 94.69 GiB (74.7%)

          SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
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Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 18.55 GiB size: 18.09 GiB (97.52%) used: 13.12 GiB (72.5%) fs: ext4

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Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: 45.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C

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Repos: Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2981 lib: 1586 flatpak: 0

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Info: Processes: 238 Uptime: 3h 12m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.79 GiB used: 2.33 GiB (29.9%)

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Please help me get my bookmarks back. I've tried all of the suggestions that I understand. There's one that says to go select a file, but it doesn't say where the file is ...

This is my work computer, I need my bookmarks and login information.

Thanks, Allison

Crash ID: bp-c48a5523-2d22-4286-9a4b-c699f0221209

This was after an update last week to arch, I installed all the bits that seemed to be missing and now it crashes without giving me much info at all.

I have no problem with anything with Firefox browser for many years until I just installed AVG Internet Security 2022 last 2 weeks ago into my PC Desktop with Win 10. Everything is fine but I have a little problem with Firefox browser 107 with Google search engine. It only once Google page and then it wont let me click anything on with each links and just pause same page. I called AVG and they said dont know why. When I turn AVG off and it works normal fine with Google page. Other Chrome browser works fine with AVG on . I can click any website thru Firefox browser except Google page. It something with Firefox on Google page is only problem issues. Please help. Sorry I am not good English grammar.

Once again the failure of Firefox to work with comment sections of many websites has reared its head in the latest update of Firefox. I'm using Windows 11 with latest updates. This occurred suddenly in the middle of commenting. Other web browser are OK. These constant recurring problems with Firefox are getting tiresome and although I like the browser and am comfortable using it, I'm seriously considering abandoning it for these annoyances.