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On Debian 12 running XFCE the shutter function in the top right orner is missing. This is a option like close, minimize, maximize that allows Linux GUI to only see the title bar, so it is out of the way of other screen applications. It is represented by the caret.

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Hello,

I have a local Linux-Firefox installation in /home/user/bin/ and set it for me to be notified, when updates are available (see screenshot). But this never happens. Or where would this notification even show up?

Since FF35, using linux with e26wm, the title bar is gone. Screen seems to be stuck in full setting - F11 just shows/hides top right min/max/exit toggles. Min/max doesn't work. Going to customize toolbars, title bar option is there and checked but the option itself looks like it is grayed out (lighter color). Screen cannot be resized. I am used to a menu accessed via rt. click on the title bar but that is gone (I do have access to that menu with combo alt/rt-clk anywhere on screen - see below). That menu had a shade option (window shade like) which I used extensively but thats gone. If I click alt-rt click anywhere on the screen, I can get my missing control menu back without the shade option but with a borderless option checked which cannot be changed. I am fully aware that linux + E26 is kinda out there but have been all over my settings (includes border settings which firefox ignores). I can't find any permission settings on config/js/pref files which may be a cause. Thing is, mozilla thunderbird's screens work and title bar is in place with desired menu, etc. as do all other apps except ms edge, which leads me to feel it is a firefox setting somewhere and I believe it is the side thingy that everyone seems to love in chromium/chrome might be the cause - the tabs on top option which I don't have an interest in. Sorry for the length here but I'm at my wits end and all a google search offers (here as well) is to go customize etc. etc. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated - been using FF on linux since day 1 without any problems I couldn't figure out till now.

Hi there, I updated Linux Mint today and now have a crash effecting access to Netflix. First time ever to occur. What is wrong and how do I fix it?

Cheers, Ivan

My linux system no longer has pulseaudio installed (for reasons unrelated to firefox).

The --enable-alsa option is not rejected by firefox but doesn't work either. The only way to get audio from firefox in this install is through the apulse wrapper:

    apulse firefox ...

Note that chrome browsers have no problem with audio when pulseaudio is not installed.

Is the --enable-alsa in firefox supposed to work?

thanks!

=> firefox --new-instance --enable-alsa [448710] Sandbox: attempt to open unexpected file /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/chrome [448710] Sandbox: attempt to open unexpected file /sys/fs/cgroup/schedtune/chrome [Child 448437, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7f36959274c0 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:285 [Child 448437, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7f3695a15200 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:4634

Hi,

I have a question to the Firefox Snap permissions. I want to give Firefox the minimum of permissions which you can grant via Settings => Apps => Firefox Web Browser, because of security reasons.

So, a lot of them are self-explanatory, but there are some where I can’t imagine what that means and whether Firefox really needs such permission to run correctly and save or not. These are the following:

- Run in Background - Detect network devices using mDNS/DNS-SD - system-files - gsettings - Access hardware information - Mount-control - login-session-observe - opengl - system-packages-doc - Read/write access to U2F devices exposed - Access energy usage data

So, my question is: Does Firefox really need one of these above permissions to run correctly and save (I am asking because I don’t know if some of the above permissions are for security reasons activated) or can I turn them off?

Thank you!

Adjusting the volume of any sound or video player in Firefox also affects the browser's overall volume in the operating system, making it difficult to raise the volume without a sudden increase in volume. I've set 'media.volume_scale' to 0.1 as a temporary fix, but adjusting it frequently is a hassle. I've tested this on my laptop with Linux Mint, and the issue is there as well. A user on Discord referred to this as intended behaviour, but I find it inconsistent and impractical for Firefox to be the only software that behaves this way and would like to change it.

Here's an example.

Hi everyone I have Firefox 110. My husband installed it on my laptop. He died 2 years ago :( It does not automatically update. I can't update because I don't have his administrator password. Or any other useful passwords :( And I have never done anything geekish before; I am only a user. Please can anyone explain in words my mother would understand what to do with the Firefox 136 .tar file. Or even better how to work around permissions so I can get automatic updates. Pete and I worked together well to set up www.pcurtis.com but I never learned the systems stuff - I never needed to when he was alive. I am a retired academic. Anyone in the Oxford UK area who could help would be really useful. As an emergency I have just started to use the Opera browser he installed but I have no passwords for that either.... Pauline

Thought only Ubuntu's linux firefox 136.0 was 'unstable' on my Gateway E-475M laptop - crashes, restores session then freezes only to log me out, then completely locking up requiring holding down power button and rebooting...

NOW, even firefox 136.0 on WIN7 is crashing, then restores session only to go to the 'blue screen of death' requiring holding down the power button and rebooting...

EVIDENTLY, the problem is NOT with Ubuntu or WIN7, but either: firefox (linux or win version); or, the Gateway E-475M laptop (2.0GHz CPU, 4Gb RAM, 8Gb swapfile, Harddrive at 61% usage, linux/win on separate booting partitions, LAN + usb & pci wifi's, etc.) - both OS's USED to work fine, but as upgrades to firefox have come along, they have steadily gotten more and more unstable...

Sometime, I'm only making a bookmark, and it starts this circus act... does it on differing websites, etc. Firefox is the only thing loaded - using two windows on two different monitors.

...at a loss as to what to do - firefox is supposed to be THE lightest-weight browser out there, and was for awhile...

- - - - - the only extension used on both systems is NoScript - could THAT be causing the disturbance in the force?!?

Reading the crash dumps when our systems crash, keeps showing this same result. Firefox's "web content" is crashing our systems.

dennis@sitaw1:/var/crash/202503151007$ sudo crash /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-6.8.0-54-generic dump.202503151007

crash 8.0.4 Copyright (C) 2002-2022 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011, 2020-2022 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. Copyright (C) 2015, 2021 VMware, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details.

GNU gdb (GDB) 10.2 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:

   <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.

For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...

crash: inconsistent active task indications for CPU 5:

          runqueue: ffff998d6a790000 "Web Content" (default)
      current_task: ffff998b317728c0 "conky" 

     KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-6.8.0-54-generic  [TAINTED]
   DUMPFILE: dump.202503151007  [PARTIAL DUMP]
       CPUS: 6
       DATE: Sat Mar 15 10:07:07 EDT 2025
     UPTIME: 04:53:51

LOAD AVERAGE: 1.30, 1.16, 0.93

      TASKS: 908
   NODENAME: sitaw1
    RELEASE: 6.8.0-54-generic
    VERSION: #56-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Feb  8 00:37:57 UTC 2025
    MACHINE: x86_64  (3292 Mhz)
     MEMORY: 32 GB
      PANIC: ""
        PID: 3337486
    COMMAND: "conky"
       TASK: ffff998b2a1ad180  [THREAD_INFO: ffff998b2a1ad180]
        CPU: 4
      STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

crash>

Hello, - Computer Nec Versa One P/N NNAN1700202 (32-bit) - XUbuntu 18.04.2LTS (i386), no upgrade possible to 19 LTS

- Message asking for an update of Firefox (expired root certificate, extensions disconnection) - Proposed download completed (Firefox 135.0)

- Firefox/ Help/ "About Firefox": 113.0.2 (32 bits), no update proposal - Launch the . exe file from previous download In the "About Firefox" window, version 135.0 appears well during installation When the computer is restarted, this panel has returned to version 113

The computer works normally and perfectly meets my needs (emails and internet searches), so it is out of the question to change it (it would be scandalous from an environmental point of view)

What should I do? Thank you for giving me the precise instructions on how to proceed. Sincerely, FC

Hi.

Very old/test system. centos6 - running ff ver78.3. really old, rarely used, for testing.

However, within the last few days, something has occurred that has removed the vertical up/down arrows in the browser window. The other test browsers -- chrome/sea-monkey have the up/down arrows for scrolling.

Looking through the about:config attributes, based on other past user posts haven't solved the issue.

thanks

Having succesfully updated to the latest version of Firefox on a Linux System, how can I make this version my default browser? When I click on the icon in the panel (bottom of screen) it launches the old version, but if I click on a link in an email it launches the new version.

Hello there, Firefox for Linux aarch64 has been supported for a while in nightly version. I wonder if that will move to beta or maybe stable release of Firefox? AARCH64 SBCs, comuter or laptops are becoming in current years. I just want to ask if there is a plan from Mozilla to add aarch64 architecture support in Linux for stable release?

Thank you

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?