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I've tried installing firefox on Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) but am having issues starting firefox. Steps I took to get the error (following [installation guide for local user] Local Firefox installation in user's account : 1. Download firefox tar file 2. Extract contents `tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2` 3. Add the new path to PATH 4. Run firefox I get the error "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

Steps I took to try to resolve this: 1. Move old ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_backup 2. Ensure appropriate permissions for all directories in ~/.mozilla 3. Play around with profiles.ini in the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. (created new .ini file with fake content and associated directories/files)

None of the above steps work. In fact, even commands like `firefox -P` give the same error. Any help will be appreciated please.

Hi. Just recently firefox, which has been faultless for a long time, is now occasionally giving me "hmm, cannot find this site" messages for Google and BBC. Duckduckgo and chrome are operating normally.

What is the cause of this aberation?

After the last Firefox update I was signed out of my Mozilla account. When I went to sign back in my password wouldn't work. So I Forgot Passworded it and when I signed back in none of my passwords or account info is there. Why did this happen and how do I access my previous account info.

Thanks!

I own a website (chendersceramics.com) that I created several years ago and have always been able to visit without a problem. Today I got the message Secure Connection Failed and the site won't open. The error is Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP. I haven't done anything to change the website recently, so why is this happening and how can it be fixed?

Thanks, Carol

Need to know how to get my profile data reloaded into new version after upgrading.

• New version does not support previous version profile data format
• App startup or firefox -P in windows 10 says "Old formats are corrupted when used, create a new profile or Exit".
• The profile data and folders and files are there from before the upgrade today, but Firefox does not read or support its own file formats. Examining SQLite places File format says SQLite 3 in header.

• Would have been good to know before upgrading, especially as often as it prompts to do so that the key data format for a profile is not supported after upgrading.

• The upgrade does not migrate, move, prompt or even warn. Just steam rolls and assumes you know Firefox's support-ability limitations and choices of its own products before running.

• No information on how to get around "Old profile scan corrupt, create a new one" message on browser startup and get back to or import all my browser info (Bookmarks, Passwords, Cookies). Just tips on how to export or backup before upgrading (See "a" above)

Hello sir/ ma, please help me resolve this issue of unable to reach a particular site called " nimc selfservice modification site" this i have been having access to before.

Can you add a configuration setting to Mozilla Firefox to disable Create New Profile, configurable in the policies.json file? (A second option but a much uglier one would be to disable being able to select a file location for a new profile. Then you could make the default profile directory write only, which would also accomplish the same thing.) (A third option would be to able to configure extensions by default upon installation in the ExtensionSettings policy.)

To explain, I use LeechblockNG on Firefox on Ubuntu. Very helpful. By placing a policies.json file (see at bottom) in /etc/firefox/policies/ directory, I can create a system wide policy. I can make the LeechblockNG extension mandatory and to be installed upon every new profile creation. That all works very well. HOWEVER, there is NO way to be able to set those options in the new profile. So LeechblockNG is installed with default options (which are no blocking at all), which effectively bypasses the addon.

I am also writing the author of the leechblock extension to see if there is any way to set the options for leechblock upon installation (the third option above).

But I know other people have this same question, and at present, if I am correct, there is no way to block new profile creation, or the Profile Manager window in Firefox.

So could you please add that option to the Firefox policies.json configuration? Something like "DisableNewProfiles": true would do it.

Thanks!

My current policies.json file in /etc/firefox/policies/ directory: { "policies": { "BlockAboutConfig": true, "BlockAboutProfiles": true, "PrivateBrowsingModeAvailability": 1, "DisableSafeMode": true, "ExtensionSettings":{ "*": { "installation_mode": "blocked", "blocked_install_message": "Prohibited install more extensions." }, "leechblockng@proginosko.com": { "installation_mode": "force_installed", "install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4374316/leechblock_ng-1.6.6.xpi" } } } }

I have two issues. One is on register.com. I can go their home page but when I select login, I get taken to a blank page; nothing. Yet, on my laptop, and with Firefox, I can login just fine as I can with MS Edge on this computer.

The other issue is with the Puzzle page of USA TODAY NEWSPAPER. I have included a page explaining the issue and with pictures.

turned on firefox today to find it had been updated. new page proudly p[roclaims that i can now edit pdf's in firefox, which is great because i want to be able to collate pdf files. i walked away from adobe years ago because they're just as evil as google-

but the 'try it now' link opens a page that is just an image of a form that looks like a joke [?] a letter to [fill out?] that seems dumb and a waste of time: https://assets.mozilla.net/wnp135-en/wnp-fx135-en.pdf

was i silly to expect seeing a privacy-assured web application to upload pdf's and edit them?

but this page does nothing, one can do nothing with it at all. was it supposed to be something one can actually type into the fields? if so, didn't anybody at mozilla test it first?

what is this?

I'm 70 years old and somehow yesterday I pushed a botton that closed out my dashlane password saver and I nned help getting normal settings back please. I can't get into emails etc. Please call me at [edited from community support forum]

I just set up my Laptop, and now I`m trying to bring my old Profile in, no chance The picture annected is the last, I see, then nothing more. Furthermore: look, please, on the second, no possibility to find my emails and so

OS: Windows 11 PRO and Windows 11 Home (both 64-bit) Firefox Version: 135.0

Recently set up a computer to use latest version of Firefox. Thought I could just copy and paste the files in the profile folder to the new computer. Found out that didn't work so deleted all the files in the profile folder on the new computer. Copied to a USB stick the Profiles folder on the old computer (according to instructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles). Pasted the folder to the Profiles folder on the new computer.

Attempted to start the Profile Manage without starting Firefox on the new computer in order to create a new profile and point it to the files just copied. This is where the problem occurs!

Regardless of what I type in the "Run" dialog box, Profile Manager will NOT open! After hitting Enter, it opens Firefox! I've tried typing all of the following in the "Run" space:

firefox.exe -P
firefox.exe -p
firefox.exe -ProfileManager

What am I doing wrong? Any help would certainly be appreciated1

Thanks.

For several weeks now, I have been unable to upload videos to a group in Facebook using Firefox. Previously, I posted a video almost daily. The loading wheel keeps spinning. This in Windows 11 Pro version 24H2 with Firefox 135.0 (64 bits).