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playing youtube videos 720p CPU goes up to 100˚C and 100% CPU on all cores it is since upgrade 88.0, before it was ok compared to chromium browser 720p ~ 20%

if I load 2-3 YT videos in tabs, the playback stops, changing tabs takes seconds, and also slows other applications down

i just upgraded my firefox to the newest version(89). when i type something in the google search bar in the home page, it just redirects to the address bar on top of the screen. i don't want this to happen. because i use the address bar to only type URLs and the google search bar to search random stuff on google, this was the case in my last version. please help me sort this. see this for clear understanding  : https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Y0bG64nhtymn--CCi3rOMEVLFAQ6zAI/view?usp=sharing

Since the latest update, Firefox shows a white space at the top of all web pages, covering almost half the screen. This includes customisation screens for addons, themes, and also the troubleshooting page. The only page that seems unaffected is Firefox's own settings.

The issue seems linked to the toolbar somehow, as entering fullscreen mode temporarily hides the issue. However, as soon as the cursor moves up far enough to show the tabs and search bar, the white space also reappears. Hiding either the menubar, the bookmarks toolbar, or both did not fix the issue.

Restarting Firefox in troubleshooting mode seemed to help, but I have not managed to find the root cause. These are the things I tried, first one by one and then all at once, with no result:

• Deactivating addons
• Switching to system default theme
• Deleting userChrome.css
• Clicking "Refresh Firefox..." on the troubleshooting page

So I am not sure what this is about. I know the search bar and URL are combined no matter what at this point, but the issue is that if I type any letter; it suggests a website that I have never visited, bookmarked, searched, etc.

Please see the screen shot I have attached. In this example, I typed the letter "y", although it can be done with any other letter, and an unwarranted site will pre-populate. I am assuming this is Mozilla is promoting/sponsoring certain websites when you start typing any letter, which I don't want a part of.

It can't be DuckDuckGo causing this (the search engine of this user's choice), because changing the Firefox settings from URL to Search bar only doesn't make this issue stop. Not sure what I can do to prevent unsolicited sites from showing up when I am typing into the URL field.

To replicate, you can start typing any letter into the URL/Search bar field and the first result directly underneath is a "random" website suggestion.

This is why I assume it is coming from Mozilla (not DuckDuckGo), because before the recent updates, there was never this issue. It is great that you guys want to promote your favorite sites, but from the user's end: it is forced upon us; which is not supposed to be Firefox-like.

I don't read the blogs and articles about Mozilla's vision, so perhaps this is a new feature and it works as expected; however, there should be an opt-out so that users can just search for a website name without a favored suggestion appearing directly below.

Newer release of Firefox auto-fill username and password when they should not. I have a web application that has a list of people. Optionally (form is even hidden requiring a click to see) a person can be a user (rare). My username and password are auto filled in ALWAYS now for the person (even when the form is not showing). Can I just change the field names (username, password) in the jsp and have Firefox NOT fill mine in automagically? Or if not, how do I tell the browser that these are normal fields - leave them alone PLEASE (do not auto-fill)?

If I right click on a webpage the context menu opens. If I then click outside the context menu it doesn't close, but stays open. If I move focus to the search bar (not the address bar), starts typing and select an item from the drop down list, the drop down list stay open. If I start typing in the address bar and select an item from the drop down lost, the drop down list stay open. If I click the Bookmark menu icon on the toolbar the drop down list with bookmarks open, but if I click outside the list, it doesn't close but stay open. The same thing happens with the program menu in Firefox. Even when I start a different program, the menus and drop down lists from Firefox stays open on top of the other program. The problem also happens when I run Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode.

Any ideas?

I use the session restore option, but when I open a new firefox window (by detaching a tab) and forget to close last the window with most tabs, the restored session is the single tab that I detached. This has happened a couple of times, but I can't remember exactly how to solve it, just that there was an action that would 'pop out' the previous session, like opening a new window and closing the last tab there. any tips?

Is there a way to change back the look of the tabs to the way they looked before the 89.0 update? I have a hard time to see what tab is active, it was so easy before the update.

/Stefan

Recently a problem appeared in certain websites (Wikipedia for example) since I updated Firefox. It would only show me a's or e's. See attached image. I have already tried to refresh Firefox, turning off extensions and themes, but to no avail. There is no such problem with Google Chrome. I have shared configuration info. Thank you for the help!

Search suggestions in address bar work fine, showing the list below the input field, but in Advanced search the suggestion list displays on top of the input field and hides the field completely as soon as you start typing ! Turning off "Provide search suggestions" in settings does not affect Advanced search. Is there any way to turn off this annoying feature ?

Whenever I search something on google from firefox, the displayed results such as (all,image,video)bar and wikipedia pages are in burmese. I have tried changing it from Settings/Preferences and even reinstalling but it still doesn't work. Is there any other solution you can think of? Thank you.

hello i play a browser game called Grail Online Era, but now firefox gave this error, can someone help me? the site is: era.graalonline.com

The error: An error occurred running the Unity content on this page. See your browser JavaScript console for more info. The error was: RuntimeError: index out of bounds @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[95957]:0x1c92b08 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[89543]:0x1a283dc @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[89840]:0x1a3a278 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[91097]:0x1aeb268 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[92522]:0x1bcc8f8 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[92481]:0x1bc567d @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[92434]:0x1bc2fd4 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[92219]:0x1b95f29 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[92214]:0x1b9533c @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[93416]:0x1c2d7ea @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[93413]:0x1c2d5a6 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[93407]:0x1c2cf24 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[95925]:0x1c8f11b @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[81308]:0x18671e1 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[67803]:0x164611a @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[64910]:0x15e8739 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[64193]:0x15c972c @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[6005]:0x2c3de4 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[6003]:0x2c3abc @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12576]:0x521b00 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12552]:0x5204ef @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[14895]:0x65b29c @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[14894]:0x65afb5 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12998]:0x551526 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12671]:0x52b755 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12671]:0x52b76a @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12666]:0x52b281 @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[12659]:0x5292de @blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877 line 8 > WebAssembly.instantiate:wasm-function[96370]:0x1ca86d7 unityFramework/Module.dynCall_v@blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877:8:556776 browserIterationFunc@blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877:8:197533 runIter@blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877:8:200606 Browser_mainLoop_runner@blob:https://era.graalonline.com/a8e18934-bce6-4e75-b705-eaceec840877:8:199068

On ubuntu 20.04, the snap version of firefox can't play some videos. Some youtube videos will play but streams won't, and then I get the message "to play video, you need to install the required video codecs". On telegram web and tweetdeck I also get this message while trying to play some video.

Since it's a snap, nothing I do on my system will solve the problem, I cannot install any codecs.

It's firefox 89.0

I use this workaround to fix tearing on my mediacenter powered by a intel baytrail hardware.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Tweaks#Enable_Legacy_OpenGL_compositor

until v88, it was working fine.

With v89, the setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true has no effect. The "about:support" page reports Compositing: webrender (software) whatever the value true or false.

I had to downgrade to v88.

Hi everyone!

When I browse the web with Firefox, it happens that the system becomes completely unresponsive. Some web pages seems to make Firefox using a lot of RAM and write a lot on the hard drive. I cannot actually say much more, because it not even possible to login in a console. The system is too slow and the console login times out... Firefox (or Web Content) writes wildly on the hard drive.

I used the Firefox provided by my Linux distribution (Linux Mint), but also the one downloaded from mozilla.org. The problem seems to be less frequent for the second, but it happend nevertheless.

The point is that this problem with Firefox happens sometimes, for example, when I forget the browser open on somehow demanding webpage (like in newspapers where there are a lot of media, graphics, and so on).

A point is also that I cannot replicate this "bug". If now I browsed the same pages that made the mess, nothing would probably happen.

I thought it had to do with the swap, but the system hanged both when the swap space was enabled and when it was disabled.

I saved a copy of the profile (and the cache) after the last crash, if they could be useful. The last time I had actually to force the shutdown of the computer, because there was no way to regain control over it.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your answers!

I have noticed that when I manually log in into accounts.google.com with no prior cookies in the browser and no association with a google account prior to that, it automatically logs me into sites like youtube.com, even with the strictest cookie policies (tried with Strict, custom+cross-site and custom+third-party). I do not particularly mind privacy wise since I'll log into them with the same account anyways, but as far as I understood, there should be absolutely no way this should happen. Cookies should be isolated by domain, I have uBlock Origin installed which prevents cookie sharing between domains by setting some CNAME records in subdomains (Uncloak canonical names), and afaik Firefox does not automatically read the google account cookies and share them around - if it did, that would be even more serious. So what is happening here and how can I change that? This seems to be a serious issue that I'm honestly not comfortable with out of principle since I chose the strictest settings.

After the latest update I've got this weird problem where all my websites open with a blank space which blocks a part of the content. I tried erasing cookies and it did nothing, also tried disabling all extensions. Can anyone help?

On page about:support I can see the following extensions marked as "active".

Modules complémentaires Nom Type Version Activé ID Amazon.co.uk extension 1.9 true amazon@search.mozilla.org Bing extension 1.3 true bing@search.mozilla.org eBay extension 1.3 true ebay@search.mozilla.org Google extension 1.1 true google@search.mozilla.org

I can't find where this information comes from. How can I completely remove these from my FIrefox install? Thanks