Why does mozilla block my plugin for webcams?
Firefox latest update has disabled my webcams because the plugin that enables them is not verified. So I have no way to view my security system unless I set up on another… (read more)
Firefox latest update has disabled my webcams because the plugin that enables them is not verified. So I have no way to view my security system unless I set up on another browser. So you must not want Firefox to be used for this type of service. All was well until the latest update was installed.
Firefox
“Old Firefox Data” folder just appeared on my desktop
Yesterday I noticed a folder on my desktop named "Old Firefox Data". In that folder were copies of two of my profiles (I have at least a dozen profiles set up). They are … (read more)
Yesterday I noticed a folder on my desktop named "Old Firefox Data". In that folder were copies of two of my profiles (I have at least a dozen profiles set up). They are both dated 11/11/15 and timestamped about 35 minutes apart. I've researched it a bit and the information I got was that it is a folder created when one 'Refreshes Firefox'. I am fairly certain that I've never used that function. This happened just before or after Fx upgraded itself from v42 to v43.
A user of one of my extensions posted a message to my support forum that the same thing happened to him and he swears he never 'Refreshed Firefox'. in fact, he doesn't know how to do it even if he wanted. He said he got up to answer the phone and when he came back, his computer had re-booted, the folder appeared on his desktop and all his extensions were missing from Fx along with any customization of the UI.
Refreshing Firefox is not something that can easily be done accidentally. In fact, I can't even find a button to do this with Fx v43.
Is there any other way for that folder to be created other than 'Refreshing Firefox'?
Note: I realize there are similar questions on this board about this, but none of the answers really provide a satisfactory solution.
Firefox refuses my login so I cannot get Help or read responses like 'how to regain Readabilty which has stopped downloading'; do I have to leave Firefox??
I have used Firefox for many years but tonight it is severely letting me down. After restarting my machine a favourite program no longer was visible, Readability, which … (read more)
I have used Firefox for many years but tonight it is severely letting me down. After restarting my machine a favourite program no longer was visible, Readability, which I rely upon. When I attempted to download it several times Firefox kept refusing to reload it even though I have used it for many years with Firefox, saying there was some kind of a conflict between it and the company. When I attempted to seek help from this Forum, it started asking me for login information which it then repeatedly rejected. So I have created an entirely new login and hope that this one works. At the moment I'm extremely frustrated and contemplating leaving Firefox altogether, which would be a real nuisance as I have many bookmarks etc. It is all set up and I don't want to leave it but will be forced to do so if someone cannot resolve these issues. What has gone wrong with Firefox?
there was an error downloading
I cannot add any add-ons. I always get the error message: "firefox cannot modify the needed file" or "there was an error downloading..." Suse Leap 42.1, 64-bit, As root,… (read more)
I cannot add any add-ons. I always get the error message: "firefox cannot modify the needed file" or "there was an error downloading..."
Suse Leap 42.1, 64-bit, As root, I destroyed all traces of files/dirs matching /firefox|mozilla/i
Adding with YAST does not work. Downloading the RPM and it's prerequisite, installing as root creates the same error listed above: -rw-r--r-- 1 brianp users 44815404 Dec 24 11:03 MozillaFirefox-43.0-6.1.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 brianp users 15282 Dec 24 11:36 MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-40-5.1.x86_64.rpm
YAST: yast add software: firefox MozillaFirefox 43.0-6.1 and MF-branding-openSuse 40-5.1 install.log: Downloading MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE (download size 15 KiB) Downloading MozillaFirefox (download size 42.74 MiB) Installing MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-40-5.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 21 KiB) Installing MozillaFirefox-43.0-6.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 99.07 MiB) Downloading MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE (download size 15 KiB) Downloading MozillaFirefox (download size 42.74 MiB) Installing MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-40-5.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 21 KiB) Installing MozillaFirefox-43.0-6.1.x86_64.rpm (installed size 99.07 MiB)
kde ap menu -> find firefox -> firefox, contents=desktop config; location=/usr/share/applications, size=528b
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop << contents Desktop Entry] Categories=Network;WebBrowser;GTK; Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Firefox GenericName=Web Browser Comment=Web Browser TryExec=firefox Exec=firefox %u Icon=firefox Terminal=false StartupNotify=true MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;application/x-xpinstall;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp; Type=Application
Actions=PrivateBrowsing;
[Desktop Action PrivateBrowsing] Name=New Private Browsing Window Exec=firefox --private-window %u
raptor:/usr/lib64 # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox
raptor:/usr/lib64 # ll /usr/bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Dec 24 13:23 /usr/bin/firefox -> ../lib64/firefox/firefox.sh raptor:/usr/lib64 # updatedb raptor:/usr/lib64 # locate firefox.sh /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox.sh
MOZ_DIST_BIN="/usr" MOZ_DIST_LIB="/usr/lib64/firefox" MOZ_APPNAME="firefox" MOZ_PROGRAM="$MOZ_DIST_LIB/$MOZ_APPNAME"
brianp@raptor:~/download> file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 3.0.0, BuildID[sha1]=81f73d14c2b27cded4d82f4d99c8c6bfcd54d06f, stripped
raptor:/usr/lib64 # ps -elf | grep -i firefo 0 S brianp 14641 1547 1 80 0 - 359830 - 12:59 ? 00:01:03 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 1 Z brianp 14671 14641 0 80 0 - 0 exit 12:59 ? 00:00:00 [firefox] <defunct> 1 S root 21939 1 0 80 0 - 43561 - 13:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gvim /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop 1 S root 22172 1 0 80 0 - 43574 - 13:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gvim /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox.sh 0 S root 22397 2880 0 80 0 - 2312 pipe_w 13:55 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i firefo
Why does the firefox launch process leave a ZOMBIE behind: [firefox] <defunct>? << Beware! Undead FFox lurking!!!
The /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox binary is running under my UID. All of the ff files are owned by root. Is this the problem?
I installed VLC.
libvlc-qt-devel - Include Files and Libraries Mandatory for Development
/usr/include/vlc-qt /usr/include/vlc-qt/Audio.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Common.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Config.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/ControlAudio.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/ControlVideo.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Enums.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Error.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Instance.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Media.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/MediaList.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/MediaListPlayer.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/MediaPlayer.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/MetaManager.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/QmlVideoObject.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/QmlVideoPlayer.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/SharedExportCore.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/SharedExportQml.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/SharedExportWidgets.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Stats.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/Video.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/VideoDelegate.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/VideoFrame.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/VideoMemoryStream.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/WidgetSeek.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/WidgetVideo.h /usr/include/vlc-qt/WidgetVolumeSlider.h /usr/lib64/libvlc-qt-qml.so /usr/lib64/libvlc-qt-widgets.so /usr/lib64/libvlc-qt.so /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvlc-qt-qml.pc /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvlc-qt-widgets.pc /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvlc-qt.pc
33 files total
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Which files can't be written? Is there an error log with specific filenames/directories, error codes? locate irefox | grep -i log << ZERO FILES? Not a single log file????
" zip.vim version v27 " Browsing zipfile /var/tmp/kdecache-brianp/krun/23558_0_troubleshooter-1.1a-fx.xpi " Select a file with cursor and press ENTER
META-INF/mozilla.rsa bootstrap.js chrome.manifest content/logger.jsm install.rdf content/whitelistedDOMAPI.jsm content/ content/Troubleshoot.jsm META-INF/manifest.mf META-INF/mozilla.sfv
raptor:/usr/lib64 # locate install.rdf /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf /usr/lib64/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/install.rdf /usr/lib64/thunderbird/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
raptor:/usr/lib64 # cat /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
<RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#">
<Description about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest">
{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
43.0
<Description>
<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
43.0
43.0
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
Default The default theme.
Mozilla Mozilla Contributors
true
classic/1.0 </Description>
</RDF>
==================
locate Troubleshoot.jsm << no such file locate bootstrap.js << no such file
Firefox 43.0 slow at contacting websites
Hi everybody, I am having a little problem with Firefox on my Ubuntu, and I was wondering if someone could help me. The problem is that my Firefox started to act very slo… (read more)
Hi everybody,
I am having a little problem with Firefox on my Ubuntu, and I was wondering if someone could help me. The problem is that my Firefox started to act very slow after the v43.0 update. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit.
Every page that I try to open takes about 5-30 seconds to load, and sometimes it doesn't load at all (displays that connection was restarted, or blank tab). I tought it was problem with my OS, so I started up Windows Vista in virtualbox with Firefox v42 (it wasn't updated yet), and went to compare it. And really the Firefox 42 on my Vista in Virtualbox was A LOT faster when opening pages (almost instantly) than Firefox 43.0 on my host OS - Ubuntu.
Then I updated the Firefox on Vista virtualbox from 42 to the version 43.0.2., and it was OK, the speed was the same as before. So no problems on the Virtualbox with the 43. But on host OS, my Ubuntu 14.04, Firefox 43.0 is very slow when loading any page. I read something about nvidia network manager on Firefox reddit, but I am not sure if I do have that program on my Ubuntu. I have laptop with optimus technology and I am using only Intel GPU, so Nvidia should not be the problem, right?
I also checked for updates, to see is there Firefox v43.0.2. for Linux also, but no new updates were found. I am huge fan of Firefox, but this is annoying, browsing the web is simply imoposible. It's even worse when you know that everything it's working fine on Virtualbox, but not on host OS. I tried opening my test pages on Ubuntu browser (based on Chromium) and it worked ok, the load speed was almost the same as on virtualbox. So that leads me to the conclusion - is it something wrong with Ubuntu or Firefox, and can it be fixed?
Note: The problem is that Firefox is slow to "contact" the site. It's like it is testing does website even exists, or does the connection works or something like that. So the problem is in contacting the page, beacuse sometimes it showes nothing, just blank tab, or error message: "Connection was restarted".
I would really be greaful for any help. Thanks!
Sync erased all of my bookmarks and saved data. How do I get it back
logged into my Sync account from a new install and Sync erased all of my saved data from all of my other devices and reset all of them Firefox default. Please Help. … (read more)
logged into my Sync account from a new install and Sync erased all of my saved data from all of my other devices and reset all of them Firefox default. Please Help.
Options for ff add on where user can provide input..?
I am developing a ff add on where i need to provide interface for users to provide some input in add on manager. Like Chrome is giving the same thing as options under ext… (read more)
I am developing a ff add on where i need to provide interface for users to provide some input in add on manager. Like Chrome is giving the same thing as options under extension manager. Can i get a kind of solution to achieve this.?
When I ran a security scan using Windows Defender, it includes that some files in my Cache2 entries folder are suspicious. Could these be viruses or spyware?
When I ran a security scan using Windows Defender, it says that three files in my Cache2 entries folder are suspicious and should be sent to Microsoft for further analysi… (read more)
When I ran a security scan using Windows Defender, it says that three files in my Cache2 entries folder are suspicious and should be sent to Microsoft for further analysis. I am wondering if I should be concerned about this. Could these files be malware, spyware, or viruses? I will clear cache, but just want to make sure if the security of my system has been compromised. Thanks!
I am blind. I need a phone number for instructions on how to reactivate my screen reader on firefox
I am blind. I need a phone number for instructions on how to reactivate my screen reader on firefox
64bit FF insists reboot needed to complete previous update
this has happened previously when updating 32 bit FF, but always cured by reboot. now i am attempting first install of 64bit. i am guessing that it should reside in a se… (read more)
this has happened previously when updating 32 bit FF, but always cured by reboot. now i am attempting first install of 64bit. i am guessing that it should reside in a separate directory. however, i want it to use the same bookmarks, etc as 32 bit. can a single profile be shared by both versions?
I cant access my business webpage back office to enable editing
my business web page is brainambulance.com.au I edit the webpage via https://customers.webarena.com.au/custom_scripts/siteanalytics.php I have always edited under 'manage… (read more)
my business web page is brainambulance.com.au
I edit the webpage via https://customers.webarena.com.au/custom_scripts/siteanalytics.php
I have always edited under 'manage my web page' but now I cant access it. This happened in Safari and it was a security upgrade that blocked me. I used Firefox as it gave me access which is now not available - have you done a security upgrade or other that affects my access?
many thanks.... Arlene Hunt
How can I overide web sites stopping the link preview bar?
I have noticed that since the new way of displaying status has been implemented in FF many web sites (usually questionable ones) are able to hide the box that shows the … (read more)
I have noticed that since the new way of displaying status has been implemented in FF many web sites (usually questionable ones) are able to hide the box that shows the web link that one is hovering over, I cannot find a setting to force the links to be dispayled and this makes FF very vulnerable. I always check the URL of a link before visiting it, but if I cannot it is a risk. Why do FF allow web site codes do this?
Why can't I get Kaspersky to update because Firefox is blocking it
Kaspersky cannot function because Firefox is making it impossible. I can't get a "certificate" from Kaspersky to satisfy Firefox. Kaspersky will not accept my appeals bec… (read more)
Kaspersky cannot function because Firefox is making it impossible. I can't get a "certificate" from Kaspersky to satisfy Firefox. Kaspersky will not accept my appeals because I no longer use the email address I used when I started with Kaspersky 7 years ago. I see MANY OTHERS HAVE HAD THIS PROBLEM, BUT YOU DO NOT REVEAL THE SOLUTION. FIX THIS. mY COMPUTER IS IN REPAIR BECAUSE OF THIS CONFUSION.
i AM CONTACTING YOU FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARY
Windows 10 updated and we lost our ability to choose which user account to open, now we open wife's homepage, with my bookmarks dropdown what is the fix?
The wife's answer is to uninstall Mozilla and lose all bookmarks and reinstall a newer version of Mozilla HELP
I am told I am not getting automatic updates because it is disabled. How do I change this?
I have version 43.0.4 and I get constant prompts to update to the latest version. I have tried to find this many times, to no avail. I get a message that states "updates … (read more)
I have version 43.0.4 and I get constant prompts to update to the latest version. I have tried to find this many times, to no avail. I get a message that states "updates disabled by your system administrator". Since I am the administrator, how do I log in and get access to change this setting so I can get the latest version?
How to completely delete yahoo search engine???
I've removed all the search engines except of google. Now 1)yahoo still appears sometimes 2)yahoo always appears when I input in the address line "frog.fan65" without quo… (read more)
I've removed all the search engines except of google. Now 1)yahoo still appears sometimes 2)yahoo always appears when I input in the address line "frog.fan65" without quotes. I know that this request may be incorrect but WTF? where is google? why does it still shows yahoo even if it "was completely removed"
kaspersky still doesn't work with Firefox after days of reading all i can find. make it work!
Kaspersky 2016 is disabled in Firefox. I've been reading for days now and still can't get this resolved. Everything has been updated. PLEASE HELP!
Firefox keeps opening new windows endlessly every ten seconds or so, how do I make this stop?
This started today, maybe 45 minutes ago. Firefox will continuously open new tabs endlessly every 10-15 seconds. If i go through task manager and directly end the program… (read more)
This started today, maybe 45 minutes ago. Firefox will continuously open new tabs endlessly every 10-15 seconds. If i go through task manager and directly end the program it immediately starts back up and continues. I also tried resetting firefox and going into safe mode. Nothing works and even now I have to pause typing every 10 seconds to close a window. This is incredibly annoying and if I cant fix it soon will be uninstalling firefox. Can someone help please?
Clicking to open a link downloads instead
Clicking to open a link downloads instead of simply opening. It is very annoying. I am just wanting to open it and read it not download or download and save. What has … (read more)
Clicking to open a link downloads instead of simply opening. It is very annoying. I am just wanting to open it and read it not download or download and save. What has changed this started yesterday????