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My Firefox suddenly seems to be behaving abdurptly. The icon of the taskbar for firefox is also lost, and it was hard to open. I just updated my windows and I observe this effect. What oculd have gone wrong? What data would you need to get to root cause of this?

When I click on a txt file on a Facebook page Firefox no longer opens the file - it opens another instance of the webpage in a new window. The same link opens as a text file in Chrome.

I uninstalled Firefox because it kept crashing when I tried to open a particular site. I followed instructions by removing several files on my computer. When I tried to reinstall it, wanting me to open a new account, and there was no way to sign back in my other account. I have lots of bookmarks and my Outlook files and folders were set up under the Firefox browser. How can I recover and restore what I had?

I have my ubuntu user firefox folder with all files from logins.json to sqllite db files

issue is logins.json has userid and passwords encrypted (json has encryption as Type 1) whereas when try to import it to windows Firefox it fails as it expects CSV to have plain text passwords not encrypted ones

How do I go about syncing my Windows Firefox such that I can get userid/paswords from ubuntu backed up files

Any help is much appreciated.

In advance Happy Holidays

Hi there,

The AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default\storage\archives\0 folder is taking up over 2 GB of space.

I have already tried clearing cache, it did not make a difference.

Is it safe to delete? When I navigate to it i see a bunch of visited web sites.

Running Windows 10.

Thank you

Hello,

so, when I opened a site, Firefox recommended to me that I import the necessary login data from another browser... However in consequence it imported EVERYTHING from the Chrome browser. I deliberately like to keep data separate from browsers, aside from login data. My Chrome browser has way more bookmarks, in other words, my Firefox browser gets cluttered by this and kind of indistinguishable. I don't like that.

I still have an installation of Firefox on an other system that's just a few months old that should be fine. Can I determine the direction of the sync, whether it downloads or uploads data? This could solve my problem. Alternatively, may there be different save states to choose from (although this may the same question)?

If uploading a .gpx file (list of GPS track points - in XML format), FF will open a tab then another etc quite quickly. It also creates a 0 byte file in the downloads directory. This happens eg if using the Google maps to gpx converter (https://mapstogpx.com/).

If FF is closed down, on restarting it just continues - infinite loop.

The way to stop is invoke FF by clicking a saved link or from command line with a url as argument. This stops the loading of the gpx as your chosen page is loaded instead. You can then hover over the existing GPX tabs and select remove duplicate tabs.

What is the easiest way to import the current state of Safari into Firefox? Would like to create the same set of windows, with each window having the same set of tabs, if possible. I did a bit of googling but no success with what I found.

I really want to avoid manually creating all the same things one by one by one...

I'm not talking about importing all the history and passwords and other stuff - the actual windows and tabs.

Thanks...

-bob

ps - would like it to work with current release of Firefox, aka 134.02 on Sequoia and Ventura versions of macOS, as well as Firefox 115.19.0esr on an older macOS Mojave system.

Hi all, In my notebook i use xubuntu 18,04 os with firefox browser pre- installed. As form April 2024 when ubuntu standard support ended i use an ubuntu pro security subscription. Then, some time ago i saw the browser was not updated for over one year remaining at the 113.02 version. So according to ESM instructions i had to go with snap firefox, which i downloaded. I have the following questions for solving some issues: 1. Now i have 2 firefox browsers, one from regular ubuntu deb repositories and the other with snap.I have now to uninstall the old outdated version without causing any problems to the system or loose bookmarks. I will do that via software updater program, via terminal, or is there a recommended procedure ? 2'. Using the snap firefox browser as a default browser, i noticed some kind of malfunctions. p. ex a) trying to attach a file from the computer to an email the browser doesn’ t respond to open file selection. when i press "attach". With the old version this works fine. b) When i tried to export an html bookmarks file for backup, again the browser didn’t respond. This also works fine on the old version. Settings are fine and saved automatically from the previous version Any recommendation will be much helpful.

This is the 2nd time I'm asking. I need to re import my bookmark setting from a previous profile. I've tried but can't find the right folder/ import place? from earlier this year only options from many years ago. Please Help !