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Why on God's green Earth is there a widget by default that has access to my location? I understand that it's just for weather but it is seriously unacceptable that a browser that claims to care so much about privacy plasters my location on my screen for all to see when I open a new tab. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea and how can I turn it off?

I saw a similar question, but it had been archived, and my question (above) got no results, so am hoping someone here can help me with an answer as to how to fix this issue.

I recently got seriously worried when I became aware about the new AI firewalls these days, which monitors or inspect SSL encrypted packets, before the packets reach to the main website. These new AI firewall systems are installed in some countries by their governments to suppress free speech, or just spy on its people. These firewalls, as you may already know, uses DPI-SSL system, which decrypts packets traveling from user to the main website. To decrypt the HTTPS packets, these firewalls uses its own self signed CA certificates. So I am asking the firefox developers, that why you guys allow this privacy issue? Does the packets sent from a firefoxe browser to other websites are also decrypted, by these firewalls? If yes, then why you guys allow this? Firefox must ONLY allow a specific CA certificate made for firefox browser only. Firefox browser must never let other third party softwares, or any software, to decrypt its encrypted packets. This is a serious privacy issue. With these firewalls, they can see what users write in chats, or posts, they can see witch content we are watching on a website, they can see who we follow on social media platforms, they can see which content or posts we like and etc. Even passwords are not safe anymore, which e use for any website of platform. When passwords are not safe, so does our accounts of various websites. This is a serious privacy breach.

These firewalls is a weapon for those countries which want to suppress free speech or suppress opposition sides in a government or spy on its own people.

Please let me know if I am mistaken or my concerns are genuine.

It won't save open tabs when I close Firefox. Each time I have to go to: Setting>>History>>Recently closed windows. In General settings it's ticked Open previous windows and tabs. I already tried to turn off all extensions.

I work at a university. More and more, when ever I need to log into a webpage for work, I am getting a

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Google Chrome works just fine. This is getting REALLY frustrating

Hi Guys, I'm having trouble logging into Firefox on any of my devices even though i can pass all the password & security steps. When logged in, it asks me if want to connect any other devices then immediately logs me out.

On my main laptop i have all my bookmarks & passwords working but am not logged in, but i want to replicate this on another laptop.

Any ideas?

Sam

I received a notice when trying to download : We can't connect to server at downloadzip.wolfgangsvault.com . It was suggested that I check that Firefox has permission to access the web ( I might be connected but behind a firewall). Please help . Thanks!

When I open my youTube home in Firefox browser is completely blank nothind is showing I don't have this problem in other browser. I have tried in the settings to turn the history on and off but nothing has changed.

New W11 computer. checked "always ask where to save files". Restarted Firefox. It's still automatically dumping downloads in Downloads rather than asking.

Why?

How can I remove extensions? I'm blocked from Google with the same screen no matter what I do. It says search.funsafetabsearch.com thanks

I am on a Windows 10 Pro PC 64 Bit OS with 16GB of memory, running Bit Defender Total Security. I have used Firefox for many years and have never had a problem The browser is version 128.0.2 (64-bit). A few days ago in the application menu told me there was an update and said to install it because it couldn't check for updates. I downloaded and installed it three times now, but the problem still persists. My Bit Defender also keeps popping up messages telling me "firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to aus5.mozilla.org. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one." I have had over 2000 of those messages in the past few days.

I have never had an issue like this before. Is there a glitch in the most recent update? What can I do to fix it outside of resetting my browser, which logs me out of my google accounts and causes me to not be able to get back into them.

If you open this website: https://www.zonnebloem.nl/ with the option Enhanced Tracking Protection the cookiebot popup banner is not shown as the third party tracking cookie from domain https://consent.cookiebot.com is protected and NOT loaded.

Does this mean Mozilla Firefox sees the https://consent.cookiebot.com cookie as a third party tracking cookie that needs to be blocked as nobody gave consent to load the cookiebot consent popup?

Question 1: Is according to Mozilla Firefox https://consent.cookiebot.com a third party tracking cookie that needs to be blocked if you as a user want to have guarantees over your privacy online?

Question 2: Is it not strange to see Firefox blocking a widely used cookie consent system to protect users by giving consent to select which cookies will be set yes/no?

This has been going on for a long time - I, and others, can't copy info from some web sites - - CAN do so with Edge.

Followed the instructions on google to fix but does not fix. And, yes, the box in my settings is checked.

Tks - jb

Why is it asking for progress from the script that will apply it works fine on chrome and no progress is visible on firefox

<div class="ossn-videos-add-button">
  <input type="file" name="ossnvideo[]" multiple class="hidden" id="add" accept="video/mp4" />
  <input type="hidden" id="mytext" name="mytext">
  <button type="button" id="ossn-videos-add-button-inner" class="btn btn-default"><i class="fa fa-copy"></i> <?php echo ossn_print('video:select'); ?></button>
  <div class="images"><i class="fa fa-video"></i> <span class="count">0</span></div>
</div>

<input type="submit" class="ossn-hidden" id="ossn-videos-submit" />

<img id="thumbnail" />
<div class="progress">
  <div class="progress-bar" role="progressbar" aria-valuenow="0" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" style="width: 0%;">
    0%
  </div>
</div>

<script>
  var input = document.getElementById('add');
  var submitButton = document.getElementById('ossn-videos-submit');
  var img = document.getElementById('thumbnail');
  var progressBar = document.querySelector('.progress-bar');

  input.addEventListener('change', function (event) {
    var file = this.files[0];
    var url = URL.createObjectURL(file);

    if (file.type === 'video/mp4') {
      createThumbnail(url, img, file);
    } else {
      // Unsupported file type
      img.src = '';
      progressBar.style.width = '0%';
      progressBar.setAttribute('aria-valuenow', '0');
      progressBar.textContent = '0%';
    }
  });

  submitButton.addEventListener('click', function () {
    // Create a new FormData object
    var formData = new FormData();
    formData.append('ossnvideo[]', input.files[0]);
    formData.append('thumbnail', img.src); // Add the thumbnail to the form data

    // Create a new XMLHttpRequest object
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

    // Set up the progress event listener
    xhr.upload.addEventListener('progress', function (event) {
      if (event.lengthComputable) {
        var percentComplete = (event.loaded / event.total) * 100;
        progressBar.style.width = percentComplete + '%';
        progressBar.setAttribute('aria-valuenow', Math.round(percentComplete));
        progressBar.textContent = Math.round(percentComplete) + '%';
      }
    });

    // Set up the load event listener
    xhr.addEventListener('load', function () {
      if (xhr.status === 200) {
        console.log('File uploaded successfully');
      } else {
        console.error('Error uploading file');
      }
    });

    // Open the request and send the form data
    xhr.open('POST', 'your-upload-script.php', true);
    xhr.send(formData);
  });

  function createThumbnail(videoUrl, targetImg, file) {
    var video = document.createElement('video');
    video.preload = 'metadata';
    video.src = videoUrl;

    video.addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function () {
      var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
      canvas.width = 150;
      canvas.height = 280;
      var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

      // Set the video's current time to the middle of the video
      video.currentTime = video.duration / 2;

      video.addEventListener('canplaythrough', function () {
        context.drawImage(video, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
        targetImg.src = canvas.toDataURL('image/png', 0.8);
        document.getElementById("mytext").value = targetImg.src;
      });
    });
  }
</script>

Hello community, I'm a lifelong Google Chrome user just now transferring to Mozilla Firefox and I was wondering if it's possible to tab-to-search with, for example, youtube? Here is an example of a person doing the exact same thing I'm trying to achieve. Thank you!

Hey, so I accidentally deleted a password on my pc in firefox, but on my phone its still "stored" but when I click on the password, it doesnt show it anymore.

is there a way to restore the password? without a backup or anything?