Links to local pages do not work anymore since I reinstalled firefox browser 74 last week. How can I fix this ?
For many years I have my own statpage with on it some links tot some local files on my windows 10 laptop. Worked always fine but since I einstalled firefox browser 74 las… (read more)
For many years I have my own statpage with on it some links tot some local files on my windows 10 laptop. Worked always fine but since I einstalled firefox browser 74 last week, the local links don't work anymore. It works ony when I opene them in an new tab and than put the cursor on the end of the address and do an enter. Very annoying. How can I fix this soit works again as it did ? thanks in advance for a solution. greetings
Firefox
Prefer:Safe - Have to use a Microsoft Account: doesn't that allow MS to track?
Hello all. With the advent of Covid-Home-Schooling-Online I need to secure the Windows laptop for an 8 yr old. I already use Firefox and am researching best methods of ma… (read more)
Hello all. With the advent of Covid-Home-Schooling-Online I need to secure the Windows laptop for an 8 yr old. I already use Firefox and am researching best methods of making safe for kids. Options so far are installing Parental Control Addins that I am warned is 'NOT A RECOMMENDED EXTENSION' and for which the website offers little in information about their provenance. Is there really not a Mozilla Firefox web blocker? I've considered switching Windows to Parental Controls mode but this requires using a MS family account - which leads to my subject question: does MS not then track and utilise an awful lot of usage and info about my child then? I find it hard to understand why a Firefox feature requires an MS account - as Prefer:Safe cannot be switched on without it - so I assume Mozilla has verified and passed the MS account system as non intrusive...?
Firefox not responding when using search function.
Everytime I try to use the search function (Ctrl+F) my firefox hangs for like 15 seconds, and then says "not responding", after the 15 seconds I can continue using firefo… (read more)
Everytime I try to use the search function (Ctrl+F) my firefox hangs for like 15 seconds, and then says "not responding", after the 15 seconds I can continue using firefox and even the search function, but having to wait 15 seconds everytime really is a pain. I already tried disabling hardware accel. with no luck. I already tried disabling ALL my extensions and addons/plugins manually, but didn't work either, first tried disabling them 1 by 1, and then disabling all at once, none worked.
With safe mode the problem is gone, so that suggest that it is something I cannot change manually, or a plugin that I cannot disable manually.
Any suggestions? Thanks beforehand
using Version 74 - very slow - 1/4 of Chrome same speedtest. Firefor refreshed, started in safe mode, new profile used - no change
Firefox is noticeably slow - it's not using much of CPU or memory and quite a few internet suggested fixes were tried - safe mode, new profile, refresh - no change whats… (read more)
Firefox is noticeably slow - it's not using much of CPU or memory and quite a few internet suggested fixes were tried - safe mode, new profile, refresh - no change whatsoever. Config settings for speed were changed back and forth without result
Why is Firefox remembering history in Private Window?
When I close a Private Window and then reopen a New Private Window, Firefox opens that last page I visited in Private Mode. What is the point of browsing in private if it… (read more)
When I close a Private Window and then reopen a New Private Window, Firefox opens that last page I visited in Private Mode. What is the point of browsing in private if it acts just like regular mode and remembers the history?
How do I turn off search history when searching on a private website?
How do I turn off search history when searching on a private website? I know how to delete them but I do not know how to turn it off completely
Firefox doesn't load websites in tabs
Since the new update firefox often doesn't load a website in a tab. I will open a few bookmarks in news tabs and most of the time they don't load. I will open in a new ta… (read more)
Since the new update firefox often doesn't load a website in a tab.
I will open a few bookmarks in news tabs and most of the time they don't load.
I will open in a new tab but the tab won't open the site.
I open my firefox and the saves tabs don't load the websites.
I have to either click in the web address section and press enter and sometimes it loads it but other times sites like twitter never load ...Chrome works find with all websites. Shall I uninstall Firefox?
I have refreshed Firefox and it hasn't fixed the issue. ...it's just the latest update that is super buggy.
Want to create all tabs just to the right of the active tab
Ive already set browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent => true and browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = true The behavior is ... the first tab (Tab-1) created is set to… (read more)
Ive already set browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent => true and browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = true The behavior is ... the first tab (Tab-1) created is set to the right of the active tab (Tab-A) but the 2nd tab (Tab-2) created is not. Its put to the right of Tab-1.
How do I prevent a popup after my own mouseclick (websites designed to cause this)
1. Where is the top level "community forum"? I've spent 10 or 15 minutes wandering around a maze of Mozilla support pages without ever getting to a top level "now you c… (read more)
1. Where is the top level "community forum"? I've spent 10 or 15 minutes wandering around a maze of Mozilla support pages without ever getting to a top level "now you can look at postings" page. So... I'm stuck posting to ask where I could've avoided posting.
2. And the actual question at last!! ;) One of my favorite websites for news, thehill.com, places annoying ads to partially obscure the text that you're trying to read. Sometimes (25%?) of the time when you click the "X" box, they then fire off a pop up. Now, this pop a) comes from an ad pretending to be a window and b) is a result of my mouse click. So the fact that I can find the setting menu and turn on the pop up blocker is not helpful, as discussed in the appropriate support page:
Is the pop-up shown after a mouse click or a key press?
Certain events, such as clicking or pressing a key, can spawn pop-ups regardless of if the pop-up blocker is on. This is intentional, so that Firefox doesn't block pop-ups that websites need to work.
Is it a true pop-up window?
Sometimes ads are designed to look like windows, but really aren't. Firefox's pop-up blocker can't stop these ads.
So what we have at last is a second-level question: now that we know the built-in pop up blocker is not the solution, is there one out there? A plug-in perhaps? Or perhaps soneone direct me to the forums and an appropriate discussion of (presumably NOT the popup blocker) the mechanism by which this is solved?
Thanks for any courteous replies in advance, Craig
PS: Amusing contradiction here... how am I going to find the answers... hmmm....
Extract JSON from IndexedDB files
Hello! I'm using Tab Session Manager to save opened tabs. It uses IndexedDB to store tab data as a JSON. Small JSONs are stored directly in SQLite DB, bigger ones - as a … (read more)
Hello! I'm using Tab Session Manager to save opened tabs. It uses IndexedDB to store tab data as a JSON. Small JSONs are stored directly in SQLite DB, bigger ones - as a files with integer numbers as names. It's IndexedDB functionality, it's transparent for addons. As far as I understand after the last update to v74 something went wrong with this addon DB. Addon showed "IndexedDB Error". I saved DB files, reinstalled the addon and it works fine again. So now I want to restore my old sessions. SQLite file opens normally using DB Browser, for ex. Separate JSON files seems to be OK also. The problem is that both separate JSON files and JSON data in SQLite DB are not plain text JSON, but kind of binary data containing JSON. How could I extract if from there?
How do i restore my history after suspect CCleaner action
Hi all, I have lost all my history and i would really like to get it back as it is 8 years worth of history. I'm not sure what happen but i suspect CCleaner as I tried it… (read more)
Hi all,
I have lost all my history and i would really like to get it back as it is 8 years worth of history. I'm not sure what happen but i suspect CCleaner as I tried it for the first time for cleaning of cookies, with careful untick of all category under history. Keyword being tried as I didnt see pop up for "complete". I did a system restore after this due to some other issue. Then after all is done i launch firefox and found out the history disappeared.
My firefox version is 75.0 and I had tried searching for places.sqlite or place.sqlite.corrupt. Only see one places.sqlite file, and there is no previous version to restore to.
What can I do to get the history back?
DNS over HTTPS stopped working (along with eSNI), in Chrome - it works fine
Tried with google dns too - same result, on cloudflare forum I discovered it was a browser problem cuz with Chrome DNS over HTTPS works just fine - see screens thread on … (read more)
Tried with google dns too - same result, on cloudflare forum I discovered it was a browser problem cuz with Chrome DNS over HTTPS works just fine - see screens
thread on cloudflare: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/help-me-debug-fix-dns-pass-security-check-test-in-firefox-sdns-esni-issue/161822/
Download progress no longer visible from taskbar buttons. How do I get it back?
Firefox by default would show the progress of downloads in each taskbar button. Something happened at some point that I can't determine (no change in add-ons or settings… (read more)
Firefox by default would show the progress of downloads in each taskbar button. Something happened at some point that I can't determine (no change in add-ons or settings) and now the download progress does not show.
I'd like to get this functionality back. Can anyone advise?
Thanks, B
Entering text in textarea does not work right on reddit and other sites
Replying to forum posts in multiline textboxes (textare) do not work properly. I have noticed this mostly on Reddit.com however it has happened in other sites as well. … (read more)
Replying to forum posts in multiline textboxes (textare) do not work properly. I have noticed this mostly on Reddit.com however it has happened in other sites as well. Especially when cutting and pasting text, text can't be deleted, text gets cut off , basically it just goes bonkers and acts strangely. I am usually forced to use Chrome when this happens and in Chrome it works fine.
Version 66.0.2
Firefox crashes tabs and program
I reinstalled Windows today along with Firefox as it has been my main browser for years. Today Firefox was working fine when I installed it this morning and it started ge… (read more)
I reinstalled Windows today along with Firefox as it has been my main browser for years. Today Firefox was working fine when I installed it this morning and it started getting progressively worse thru the day.
First when I opened up reddit.com the tab would crash right away giving me the option to restore. After a while I gave up and decided to go to other websites which were fine.
Then I decided to go to Twitch.tv and the browser just crashed outright when I moved the window to the second monitor. I then reopened the Firefox again and tried it again with the same result.
I've switched over to a different browser as I've tried refreshing my copy firefox to no avail. Reinstalling does not do anything either. I'm all out of ideas. My crash reports are as follows: bp-5366dec0-7122-488e-966b-378fc0200407 bp-e071bfe0-628a-4111-a9d8-3c26a0200407
downlod problems
Dear users. I do apologise for this question, but i can not find the solution how to fix my download problems. The thing is that after i reseted my Firefox, I set downlo… (read more)
Dear users. I do apologise for this question, but i can not find the solution how to fix my download problems. The thing is that after i reseted my Firefox, I set downlod folder as usual, but now if i download PDF it will be downloaded to this folder, a zip file will be downloaded to some unknow location, EPUB will be downloaded to another folder. So different file goes to diferent download location and i cant find the answer why?? Any ideas how to fix this?
Thank you kindly Matt
Problem Loading LinkedIn in Firefox
I have thoroughly searched and researched, but cannot get LinkedIn to load in Firefox. It will load in all other browsers from this computer (Opera, Chrome, Internet Expl… (read more)
I have thoroughly searched and researched, but cannot get LinkedIn to load in Firefox. It will load in all other browsers from this computer (Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge - but I prefer Firefox).
What happens: I go to https://www.linkedin.com/ and I get the LinkedIn logo (a blue box with the word 'In' in the center and a progress bar that reminds me of the old KIT car from Knight Rider.
The only exception to this is if I clear the history/cookies/cache. In this case I get the LinkedIn login screen. Once I log in I am prompted to enter the code texted to my phone, then I am back to KIT.
I have tried all of the suggestions posted on this site - from changing the MTU on my router (actually even replaced the router), changed prefetch options in about:config as well as the IPv6 settings.
I have also disabled all ForeFox extensions and plug-ins as well as switching Themes. I use AVG Internet Security, so I have disabled the firewalls, turned off my VPN (Tunnelbear) and run a deep system scan.
Through all of this the ONLY site I cannot seem to get into is LinkedIn.
Any other ideas? Thanks for your time and prompt replies.
my passwords doesnt sync after login
hi i have a account in firefox : [email address] i have many saved passwords in this account after changing windows on my laptop and install and login to firefox again, m… (read more)
hi i have a account in firefox : [email address] i have many saved passwords in this account after changing windows on my laptop and install and login to firefox again, my passwords dont load in options and sites. please solve my problem. thanks
Why does sync not preserve separate windows with their tabs, but instead has a jumble of the tabs all together?
I had a number of separate tabs in a few different windows (search subjects) and the machine I was working on would not boot any longer. To get this research back, I am … (read more)
I had a number of separate tabs in a few different windows (search subjects) and the machine I was working on would not boot any longer. To get this research back, I am using Sync - but none of the original windows was preserved. Instead there is just a long list of all of the tabs I had open across all the windows I had open. Why does Sync not preserve the separate windows? With well over a hundred tabs open, this makes recovering/accessing this information very tedious - as all the tabs have to be opened individually, and then sorted into separate windows again, to be bookmarked in their search subject categories/windows! Was this just an oversight, or is it technically not possible to preserve separate windows in Sync?
If it is technically not possible to preserver multiple windows of tabs in Sync, it would be much more workable if it were possible to mark these tabs in Sync to re-open them, rather than have to open them individually or all of the tabs at once from that other machine. Thanks!