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i am a new user of firefox and selected it to securely access some websites. I followed the instructions to set firefox as my default browser but the search bar still says" search with google or enter address " and it shows google as the web browser , When i click the dropdown menu firefox is not an option . How do i set this so firefox is the browser ? i am using windows 11 .Thanks in advance.

"Email masks are masked, or private, email addresses that forward messages to your true email address." Question: Does Relay simply consider my login email for my Mozilla account to be my "true email address"? I have more than one email address. Can I have messages to my email mask forwarded to a different address than that used for my Mozilla account?

I am experiencing a recurring issue with Firefox microphone permissions.

When I visit https://chatgpt.com and allow microphone access, it works for the current session. However, every time I open a new window or restart Firefox, I receive the same “Enable mic access” error from the site. I have to manually re-set the microphone permission through the lock icon each time.

Steps I have already tried:

Manually setting https://chatgpt.com to Allow in Firefox → Settings → Privacy & Security → Permissions → Microphone.

Adding https://chatgpt.com as an exception in Cookies and Site Data (set to Allow).

Clearing site data and resetting permissions.

Confirming microphone access is enabled in Windows settings.

Running Firefox in Safe Mode with all extensions disabled.

Creating a fresh Firefox profile and testing again.

The issue persists across profiles and with no extensions enabled. Other sites seem to remember microphone permissions correctly, but chatgpt.com does not.

System details:

Firefox version: [insert your version, e.g., 128.0.2 (64-bit)]

Operating System: [e.g., Windows 11 Pro 23H2]

Reproducible: Always

Expected result: Once I set the microphone permission to Allow for chatgpt.com, Firefox should persist this setting across sessions.

Actual result: The permission resets, and I have to manually toggle it on each new session.

Please advise if this is a known bug or provide a fix.

Thank you.

Hi everyone.

A few websites for the past month don't work for me on Firefox (WIn10), but work on Firefox Focus (iOS), Edge (Win10), Safari (iOS), etc.

I think maybe it's a configuration issue or a corrupted file or something. I don't have strict tracking protection on, and tried the troubleshooting mode. Or are some sites blocking Firefox Desktop in particular?

I also tried using a VPN to make sure it isn't geo-blocking. Example: https://wikidiff.com/assorted/assortment

Attached screenshot. Many thanks.

Yesterday, I set the audio source using a special screen that can only be accessed by right-clicking with the mouse in the browser, and now I can't undo it. I'm having trouble because the special screen doesn't appear even when I perform the same operation. (It's not a normal audio source settings screen that can be easily accessed, such as a site-specific screen.) The original text is in Japanese.

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Добрый день. Пару недель назад после очередного обновления браузера (использую ESR, на данный момент моя версия - 128.14.0esr (32-разрядный)) столкнулся с проблемой. Раньше, если я открывал через ссылку на любой странице новую вкладку, она сразу же грузилась через VPN-дополнение. Но сейчас любая ссылка при открытии новой вкладки будто бы открывает страницу по дефолту - и не грузит вообще ничего, может больше минуты пытаться загружать, а потом просто остановиться и повиснуть. Помогает только полное обновление страницы или скопировать ссылку в новую вкладку (можно в той же открывающейся и зависшей вкладке просто нажать "энтер" в адресной строке, тогда браузер всё обновит и загрузит как положено - через VPN). Проверил на нескольких VPN - везде такая фигня. При этом если заранее открыть новую вкладку и просто скопировать в неё ссылку - всё загрузится моментально. Однако это очень муторно делать, когда одновременно со страницы открывается по десять новых вкладок.

Это баг или какая-то новая поднастройка у вкладок, что они открываются по дефолтным настройкам?

The new update refuse to load youtube, MeWe etc. It says "Cannot do this offline".

managed to get here so I'm not offline. How do I uninstall the latest update?

Bookmarks always disappear whenever firefox decides to update. It's happened to me twice this month. Why does it HAVE to happen and where does the square bookmark icon go that was always in the upper right even after the bookmarks are found? So frustrating.

I have had this problem for many years now. When I complete a customer journey on some sites, usually with a payment involved, the final submit button doesn't work at all, and I have to redo the transaction on Chrome.

This happened yesterday on Ryanair's site and, by the time I gave up and redid the journey on Chrome, certain prices went up. So, now I'm losing money :-(

Firefox has been my default browser for a decade or more, despite my husband's teasing me about this issue, but I might have to give up and make the switch to Chrome or Edge. Please help!

Please note that Firefox clears my cookies every time I close my browser.

Thanks!

I have downloaded and installed the latest update for Firefox. v142.0 64 bit. It is not playing well with Facebook on my Windows 10 pro 64 bit machine. Slow or no response to mouse clicks. I have closed Firefox and reloaded after a reboot. No problem when using a different browser. I have not discovered issues with the several other platforms I visit.

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just recently my firefox just stopped using all the saved logins and passwords i had saved to my account. but the account is still logged in but says there is no passwords saved to the saved logins and passwords. i tried looking online for solutions but i couldn't find or figure out anything that matched what was happening to me or at a similar time. i have checked the login.json files and it is not corrupt, i tried to see if maybe the extensions i have may have deleted them somehow but they shouldnt be able to do that. i don't know or remember literally any of my passwords because firefox was holding them and would auto fill them and now it says they're gone and they don't have any saved in the browser. i was legitimately ready to try deciphering my passwords from my files to literally get anywhere near to what they could have been

for some reason netflix shows a black screen when watching movies. this just started happening. it works if i go into troubleshooting mode. i have no extensions running. i reinstalled the browser. i reset the browser settings. i tried everything that your web site suggests but i have no idea what is causing this to happen.

I started using Firefox a few months ago after the new Profile Manager was introduced. Created a bunch of profiles and setup everything the way that I want. Now I started using another PC and want to replicate my setup on it. I thought Sync would be able to do this but it just copied over one profile and it also didn't copy over my Shortcut configuration. Is there a way to duplicate the way Firefox is setup on one PC to another PC, down to every detail? Thanks!