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The web site for my VOIP company lets me set phone numbers as "contacts" via a web form.

I started getting an error message along the lines of "Error Adding Contacts".

I restarted Firefox in --safe-mode, the site worked.

I restarted Firefox in normal mode. I then turned off each extension, one by one, refreshing the form. I ended up turning them all off and the contact form stayed broken.

What else does --safe-mode turn off besides the extensions?

Thanks.

This happens only when middle-clicking links, but not right-clicking and opening them in a new tab. It also doesn't happen when I middle-click a tab to close it.

I'm using Firefox 112 on a KDE plasma archlinux session using wayland, the system is all up to date.

I've recorded a profile of the ~10 seconds while the UI is frozen: https://share.firefox.dev/41wL4Na

While inspecting it it looks like it wait for exactly 9 seconds in a call to retrieve clipboard contents, but that's just what it looks like and I could be wrong, hope it helps!

I am running Firefox-112.0(64bit) on Debian Bullseye. When I pend Firefox I am presented with a blank page rather that my normal sign in page.

Opening a terminal window and starting Firefox with /opt/firefox/firefox generates the following errors:

comp@AbNormal:~$ /opt/firefox/firefox [GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: no supported VAAPI profile found. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. [ERROR glean_core] Error setting metrics feature config: Json(Error("EOF while parsing a value", line: 1, column: 0))

If I enter a URL the page opens and is usable.

How can this problem be fixed?

Thanks in advance.

<quote> Note that extensions do not work on mozilla.org pages for security reason as Mozilla websites have advanced privileges like accessing all files on your computer and running special JavaScript. </quote>

Why does Mozilla need to acess all files? Can we disable this 'feature'?

I am running firefox installed through flatpak in Debian 11. From the last update, 112.0 and 112.1, some websites for some reason do not show the text scripts as they should. I attach an example from a website, first with firefox 112.1 (where some text script does not appear) and next from firefox 102.10.0esr (where all text appears).

Dear Devs, /w all respect to your work, I know it can be hard, [redacted] it, I love all & enjoy the heavens of a free software world, but "I" miss some basic capabalitties of an old interent(s)... namely this video is not playing to me (pls help): I know you are doing your very bests against Adobe/evil/mac/[redacted]/coroprations/who/[redacted]/cares ... but please, could we as society, play online some small video like 320x240 (in form outdated) online? this instance: http://vasulka.org/Videomasters/pages_stills/index_126.html? RIP Nam June Paik, rip all good souls, tYvm kof

Edited to remove offensive language - we try to keep things family friendly around here.

My platform is Debian 11.6: My FireFox install is 102.10.0esr (64-bit)

I was assisting my wife in making an appointment at the US Embassy in Manila via the US Embassy website. It all worked correctly *until* I chose the appointment day and time and clicked to continue. Rather than confirm the appointment, it told me I needed an up-to-date browser that supported 128 bit encryption. Now I know FireFox does support that. The screen looked like it thought I was using Netscape!

I switched to Chrome (much to my annoyance) and the website worked. This is not the first time I have found that I have to abandon FireFox to do something when using it on Linux. I haven't been on Windows for a while, but I don't remember this problem on that platform. This is a real problem. Please fix it. There is no reason why a website should think FireFox is Netscape.

I attempted to load a video from Anaconda and got the following error: "Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 104153)" My search of the web was not fruitful. There was a rather broad suggestion to try another browser. For the first time in MANY years i downloaded Microsoft Edge. I could then open the video from Anaconda. A couple of years ago I went from Windows to Linux because I did not like the access that Microsoft had inside my computer. I would REALLY like to uninstall Edge and go back to Firefox. I feel much more secure that way. Thanks Mike Whitney

I can neither see it by logging into vpn client (because an expired sub won't let you access the UI for that) nor on my mozilla account page ? It really should be there at least. Please improve the usability.

e-mails to richard.purdy@ntlworld.com are also directed to an apparently ficticious account 'richardpurdy64@gmail.com' The sender then gets a 'failed to deliver' message although the message is received correctly . The failed to deliver report refers to the ficticious account. The sender then keeps resending believing that it has not been delivered

hELLO,

I'm facing issues accessing the Offensive security portal page .

When I try to login to the offensive security page using Firefox in Kali machine , I'm getting the error invalid captcha .

Could you please help me on this !!

Everytime I try to access myAir.resmed.com I get a blank screen. When I do it with google chrome it works. Something set wrong in settings but can't find it.

First came the Linux upgrade and with it the enforced new Firefox version. The new Firefox appeared "raw" with none of my previous settings. I am having trouble filling in the Firefox toolbar and recovering things like "most visited" sites listing and many others. There must be a common sense limit to the "happy developers'" ideas.

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and the current version of firefox is 112.0.1. The problem has occurred on two different machines.

My Friday routine normally involves updating my computers. Normally, I start firefox and get some preliminary work things out of the way before using sudo apt-get update/upgrade (sudo apt update) to update my system.

However, firefox has interjected and updated itself twice in the past month or so. When it says it has done the update and needs to be restarted, I click the button and it restarts. This would not be a problem since it was going to get updated anyway, however, when I go to start sudo apt-get upgrade to update the rest of my system, I get the following error:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

This lock traces back to firefox and persists for several hours. The first time I assumed something weird just happened resulting in the lock not being released when firefox restarted after its update. However, since this is the second time that it has happened there is something going on with your updater not releasing properly. Normally, the lock is released immediately after the updating software is finished updating, however, this is not the case with firefox right now.

Please fix this bug.

When I check for FireFox updates, the message states "Firefox is up to date" or similar. However, the currently installed browser version is 68.11.0esr. I've seen higher version numbers so, I don't think this is correct. I've read many help items, FAQ's, etc, including those by Firefox, and yet can not determine the process to remove the current browser version and install a later version.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 3) LMDE 3 Cindy Cinnamon Version 4.2.4 Linux Kernel 4.9.0-13-amd64

Thanks gb

I want to: - Delete cookies, logins and cache of all not specifically allowed websites when closing the browser - Automatically delete the browser history of anything thats older than 'n' days or entries - Preferably do this without having to use an addon

I have set places.history.expiration.max_pages, however even on a really low value it does not seem to delete any older items from the history.

For deleting cookies and cache I have a problem understanding how the 2 sections in the settings interact (Cookies and Site Data and History) and how I would manage to delete everything except the whitelisted cookies.

Most of my bookmark folders are listed chronologically based on when they were added. One folder changed to alphabetical.... How do I change it back to the way it was for the order of the folder contents?