How to prevent all bookmarks disappearing and not be retrievable?
Twice in the past couple of months I have lost all my bookmarks. I have tried everything Support suggested. No suggestions have been able to solve this bug. How can this … (read more)
Twice in the past couple of months I have lost all my bookmarks.
I have tried everything Support suggested. No suggestions have been able to solve this bug.
How can this be permanently prevented (other than daily backup)?
On a desktop using Windows 7.
Firefox
curious why when I re-install shockwave flash ( after unistalling everything related ) always adds current 31 PLUS 27 version
is a little annoying seeing in the add-ons manager that "you need to update" when I do have the latest version, because of a version that at first sight seems not to have… (read more)
is a little annoying seeing in the add-ons manager that "you need to update" when I do have the latest version, because of a version that at first sight seems not to have any purpose ( unless it is meant in case I go 32 bit? )
Problem: Some downloads like Vivaldi 2.1 for Windows released today are stuck at 0 bytes/sec in Firefox 63.0 Stable (October 25, 2018)
Sometimes stopping and then immediately restarting what I'm trying to download in Firefox three or four times gets Firefox to download the file to my OneDrive. But in thi… (read more)
Sometimes stopping and then immediately restarting what I'm trying to download in Firefox three or four times gets Firefox to download the file to my OneDrive. But in this case, it doesn't. I want to overwrite the old Vivaldi 2.0 installer file in my OneDrive programs folder with the new Vivaldi 2.1 installer file (.EXE) in my OneDrive "Programs" folder. I'm glad in addition to Firefox reaching version 63.0 Stable two days ago, Vivaldi has reached version 2.1 today. Firefox 63 Stable has many bugs that are easy to notice and need fixing sooner rather than later in my experiences and opinion.
How to stop videos from loading on metered connection?
I'm currently using nightly and, while videos with audio are muted by media.autoplay.ask-permission, and further they are paused if you also set allow-muted to false, the… (read more)
I'm currently using nightly and, while videos with audio are muted by media.autoplay.ask-permission, and further they are paused if you also set allow-muted to false, the problem is that they still load.
On a metered [or slow] connection, this is a big problem.
Viewing a news article on ABC [for example] pre-loads the entire video in the background.
To make matters worse; Even after the entire video has been cached, a steady stream of 200KB/s is still continually streamed from the CDN.
Example link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/noreaster-season-east-coast/story?id=58738494
If you monitor bandwidth with Firefox's network monitor, or a 3rd party tool [like jnettop for Linux], you'll see that the page continues to load video data.
Not only would I expect it to not load any if playback is disabled, but it certainly shouldn't continue to load data, perpetually, after the entire video has been buffered.
Youtube Slight Hiccup in Playback
Though YouTube videos play well, every 10-30 seconds or so, there's a frame or two where it goes back a quarter to half of a second. I've tried using the h246ify plugin a… (read more)
Though YouTube videos play well, every 10-30 seconds or so, there's a frame or two where it goes back a quarter to half of a second. I've tried using the h246ify plugin addon, but it changed nothing. I see problems with video and audio playback are quite common in Firefox, but I haven't seen too many in Quantum (especially something so little as a random stutter). Any help is greatly appreciated, though it's not a very game-breaking problem (I've had this issue since Quantum came out and I installed Windows).
my firefox doesn't sync the bookmarks
my firefox in my computer doesn't sync the bookmarks, and I typed :about:sync-log and I opened the last file: error-sync-1540522066731.txt it shows: 1540522066692 Sync.L… (read more)
my firefox in my computer doesn't sync the bookmarks, and I typed :about:sync-log and I opened the last file: error-sync-1540522066731.txt
it shows:
1540522066692 Sync.LogManager DEBUG Flushing file log 1540522066700 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Global Score threshold hit, triggering sync. 1540522066718 Sync.Service DEBUG User-Agent: Firefox/62.0.3 (Intel Mac OS X 10.13) FxSync/1.64.0.20181001155545.desktop 1540522066719 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2018-10-26 10:47:46 in browser session AUEU3F8W7hkZ 1540522066719 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login. 1540522066719 Sync.Service INFO User logged in successfully - verifying login. 1540522066723 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG unlockAndVerifyAuthState re-fetched credentials and is returning: error.login.reason.account 1540522066723 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: error.login.reason.account => error.login.reason.account 1540522066723 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => error.login.failed 1540522066724 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching unlocked auth state returned error.login.reason.account 1540522066724 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error 1540522066725 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1540522066728 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Error: Login failed: error.login.reason.account (resource://services-sync/service.js:868:15) JS Stack trace: onNotify@service.js:868:15 1540522066729 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false.
what should I do now?
FIREFOX UPDATED AND NOW ALL MY SAVED PASSWORDS HAVE DISAPPEARED. I CANT GET IN FACEBOOK BECAUSE EVERY TIME I LOG OUT THEY SAY I HAVE THE WRONG PASSWORD SO I NEE
Firefox updated and lost all my saved passwords. I can not access my Facebook because Facebook is screwed up every time I log out of FB. and log back in Fb. tells me wron… (read more)
Firefox updated and lost all my saved passwords. I can not access my Facebook because Facebook is screwed up every time I log out of FB. and log back in Fb. tells me wrong password for 2 years it has been this way. I need my saved passwords because Firefox used to log me in Facebook every time i went there but after the update that is gone as well ????? I know nothing about computers and was lucky enough to only waste 2 hours trying to figure out how to do this ???? I have no freaking idea how I will ever get an answer to get help so I hope everyone enjoyed reading this amusing problem!!! Fuck computers and computer life I should have filed a law suit against Texas A&M for forcing me to use these demonic pieces of excrement!!!
More detailed info on tracking protection
I understand the basic concepts of tracking protection but I've been unable to find answers to a few specific questions. I found some documentation here in the questions … (read more)
I understand the basic concepts of tracking protection but I've been unable to find answers to a few specific questions. I found some documentation here in the questions / answers section but it didn't provide all the answers.
1. Do I need to clear existing cookies to remove the myriad of sites already tracking me before turning on tracking protection? Or, will turning it on do an immediate filter on my existing cookies?
2. Will turning off tracking stop sites that I want to retain login information for from retaining the "login" cookie infor i.e. are we close to a full "cookie block" with anti-tracking? Or does FFox have some creative algorithm (or list) that allows it to distinguish between tracking cookies and less offensive cookies? Concurrently, is there a way to allow a "tracking cookie" if I need it to retain information for a site I'm comfortable with?
3. One specific tracking question: Will eliminating tracking cookies stop (specifically) Google's cross site advertising, where you look at a product on site A (who shares that info via google) and then a little later google's advertising mechanism pops up those products when you're at site B?
After new update I lost all my bookmarks, I can't restore them and I can't even create new ones, how can I fix that?
The bar where all my bookmarks should be is empty and button for making bookmarks just doesn't react to anything. I tried restoring them, it said its can't be restored. … (read more)
The bar where all my bookmarks should be is empty and button for making bookmarks just doesn't react to anything. I tried restoring them, it said its can't be restored.
Embedded vimeo link incorrectly displays privacy notice
One of the sites I support now reports (incorrectly) that the video cannot be played due to privacy setting (see first uploaded image). This only happens in Firefox Chrom… (read more)
One of the sites I support now reports (incorrectly) that the video cannot be played due to privacy setting (see first uploaded image). This only happens in Firefox
Chrome doesn't have this issue; see second uploaded image.
All this worked ok in Firefox until recently Thanks
I cannot log=-in. My email and password are correct. The reset passwords are not reaching my email.
I put my username and password and it says one or both of them are incorrect. Then I ask for a reset and the email does not arrive in my email box?
I cannot install any add ons/extensions, I get a popup asking for permissions and it will not accept a button click. that tab will be frozen.
When I try to install an addon, A popup window appears asking for permission to access to some things on my computer. I cannot click the either the cancel or the allow … (read more)
When I try to install an addon, A popup window appears asking for permission to access to some things on my computer. I cannot click the either the cancel or the allow buttons on the popup window. That tab hangs up until I click on another tab.
updated from 57 to 63 No longer able to view live Youtube videos
I updated from 57 to 63 and am No longer able to view "live" Youtube videos. I can view older videos. your browser does not currently recognize any of the video format… (read more)
I updated from 57 to 63 and am No longer able to view "live" Youtube videos. I can view older videos. your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available
I blew away all addons. I turned off Use Hardware acceleration. I installed Flash Player.
No luck. Help
Cognos Analytics: A web page is slowing down your browser
I'm running 64bit Win 7 Pro - Firefox 64 talking across my own network to a Linux server at a static IP running IBM Cognos Analytics 11.12 After every report execution… (read more)
I'm running 64bit Win 7 Pro - Firefox 64 talking across my own network to a Linux server at a static IP running IBM Cognos Analytics 11.12 After every report execution, Firefox hangs for then the yellow "A web page is slowing down your browser" Stop / Wait appear. I choose Stop and I can execute again.
It would be nice to identify the offending page / script so that I could fix it. I could be a part of Cognos Analytics and then I'd have to deal with IBM support. Note: I do NOT get this behavior doing the same tasks with GOOGLE CHROME. But since I really don't like Google Spyware, I'd rather have Firefox work correctly.
Firefox doesn't crash, it just hangs waiting for the page to finish (time out?) or me to select STOP.
Found an attack site. Thought of way to prevent successful attack. (Feature Suggestion)
I went to the site at this link (DO NOT CLICK!!!): http:// 134.249.116.78 /index.php The URL Google said the link would lead to is this: www. javcolor .com/ytvvo4l/npe… (read more)
I went to the site at this link (DO NOT CLICK!!!): http:// 134.249.116.78 /index.php The URL Google said the link would lead to is this: www. javcolor .com/ytvvo4l/npeeo6is.php?dtjfygku=embed...
It tried to brute force open dialogs to get me to download something and kept popping up all sorts of crap. It prevented me from closing the tab by opening up endless dialogs. I finally was able to close the tab by pressing ESC rapidly.
So my suggestion is to allow closing the current tab even if a dialog has focus in the application. This would not allow a website to pop up save dialogs and other dialogs preventing you from closing the tab. Honestly with the current architecture of applications I am not sure this is possible if the dialog is modal.
So I guess is there any kind of emergency mechanism to prevent this kind of thing already? I have pop ups blocked in Firefox settings. I just have never seen a someone abuse the save file dialog like this.
Perhaps I need some third party plugin to protect myself from this. I used to run Noscript, but ran into issues with usability of websites. I also got weary of having to enable servers all the time.
Firefox updates reset settings
Every time Firefox does an automatic update, it resets all of my options back to its defaults. This includes whether to restore last session as well as themes. How can I … (read more)
Every time Firefox does an automatic update, it resets all of my options back to its defaults. This includes whether to restore last session as well as themes. How can I stop Firefox updates from essentially resetting the browser when it updates?
why is my Firefox disappearing - even after I reinstall it?
Yesterday, the Firefox icon on the task bar turned into what looked like a blank sheet of paper. When I closed Firefox the icon disappeared. I have reinstalled Firefox … (read more)
Yesterday, the Firefox icon on the task bar turned into what looked like a blank sheet of paper. When I closed Firefox the icon disappeared. I have reinstalled Firefox multiple times and it works until I shut it down - then the icon on the task bar disappears. So I search for Firefox on my computer and click on it and then I get a message which says to install the latest version. Then I get a message to close the other version of Firefox which is running - but there isn't any.
Why does firefox continue to auto update when I have it set to let me decide when to do the update?
I have mozilla set to notify me when an update is ready but I just watched it update with no input from me. example: [no input] Double click on the Firefox icon on the de… (read more)
I have mozilla set to notify me when an update is ready but I just watched it update with no input from me.
example: [no input] Double click on the Firefox icon on the desktop and it says wait while we install the latest update. Then the little updater box with the progress bar opens showing update in progress. I DID NOT OK AN UPDATE!
How can I rely on software that does not follow settings? I am using Win 10 and the most current {NOW) firefox thanks to it updating without my permission. This is also why I now use Chrome as my default browser.
email with user name not received
Your system keeps telling me that you have sent an email but nothing turns up - and yes I have checked my junk file folder and there is nothing in there. [Personal inform… (read more)
Your system keeps telling me that you have sent an email but nothing turns up - and yes I have checked my junk file folder and there is nothing in there.
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cant deleting firefox on mac
i deleted firefox from mac. but i cant find my profiles folder. i want to deleter them all.
i just doesnt have firefox folder in applecation support?