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Profile Recovery

Recovered files and data from a failed M.2 SSD onto a USB. Did a clean install including reinstallation of Firefox on the failed machine. How do I recover the Firefox p… (read more)

Recovered files and data from a failed M.2 SSD onto a USB. Did a clean install including reinstallation of Firefox on the failed machine. How do I recover the Firefox profile from the recovery USB so it can be transferred onto the restored machine?

Asked by WhiteBimmer 2 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 2 months ago

Restoring profile after clean MacOS install

I had to do a clean reinstall of MacOS. I've copied my old profile info from Time Machine to /[user]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles, but when I open Firefox… (read more)

I had to do a clean reinstall of MacOS. I've copied my old profile info from Time Machine to /[user]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles, but when I open Firefox, it doesn't find the data. What am I doing wrong?

Asked by Barubiito 2 months ago

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My email got locked even when trying to create a profile in FF Nightly, even though I received the code in my email

I just tried creating a new profile in Nightly, and I received the "Approve sign-in to Firefox" email with a code, twice, but the profile page kept saying that my email b… (read more)

I just tried creating a new profile in Nightly, and I received the "Approve sign-in to Firefox" email with a code, twice, but the profile page kept saying that my email bounced or something. Now it's saying it's locked.

Asked by Nada 3 months ago

Answered by Nada 2 months ago

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Running two Firefox instances on the same computer, each one using a different account

Hi all, I used to run two Firefox instances on the same computer, each one using a different account (as I mentioned in the Subject), but I don't remember how I managed t… (read more)

Hi all, I used to run two Firefox instances on the same computer, each one using a different account (as I mentioned in the Subject), but I don't remember how I managed this, so now that I moved to a new computer I can't reproduce it! Thanks for helping, if anyone knows. Regards, Mike

Asked by saitas 2 months ago

Answered by Martin Lester 2 months ago

It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it. Back

Why am I getting this message, when trying to save to pockets: It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from usin… (read more)

Why am I getting this message, when trying to save to pockets: It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it. Back

Asked by pdaniiel1 3 months ago

Last reply by pdaniiel1 3 months ago

Firefox Keeps sending me notification to create a new profile

I am tired of this bullshit. So i was using the beta branch of the firefox and beta version stopped working with a site for some time. so i tried to come back to the sta… (read more)

I am tired of this bullshit.

So i was using the beta branch of the firefox and beta version stopped working with a site for some time. so i tried to come back to the stable version.

After i do that and fix my config. In every couple of hours there would be a notification window pop up with sound saying this

"firefox this profile was last used with a newer version of this application. Please create a new profile"

So i did create a new profile BUT i copy pasted my own configuration.UI stuff from my old settings from "About:config"

This notification STILL comes up FFS what do i need to do then?

HOW COME MY UI CONFIGURATION TRIGGERS THE DAMN NOTIFICATION?

I will not re-do my fckng UI configuration by hand.

Asked by MBB 3 months ago

Last reply by jeff-g 3 months ago

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Managing Old Profiles.

So I have a bunch of Firefox profiles I want to set up a new profile and I want to set up the profile switching with in that profile perhaps by creating a bunch of profil… (read more)

So I have a bunch of Firefox profiles I want to set up a new profile and I want to set up the profile switching with in that profile perhaps by creating a bunch of profiles from the about profiles page and then replacing those profiles with the old ones as I don't see a way to just import old profiles in the UI. How do I go bout doing that like copy and move exactly what exactly where.

Asked by Migale Hanson 4 months ago

Answered by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 3 months ago

Profilename in Firefox

Since the new "feature" profiles came out, I now always have this "originalprofile" in the browser (in the title bar) and in the Windows taskbar... It's really annoying..… (read more)

Since the new "feature" profiles came out, I now always have this "originalprofile" in the browser (in the title bar) and in the Windows taskbar... It's really annoying.... Now my question is, how do I get rid of it again... on 3 more pictures, Firefox language is German...

Asked by Schorschi1981 4 months ago

Last reply by AliceWyman 4 months ago

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Fire Fox - New Profile

Fire Fox - This profile was last used with a newer version of this App - Create a new profile. After logging into my account, I saw a Fire Fox page showing new features… (read more)

Fire Fox - This profile was last used with a newer version of this App - Create a new profile.

After logging into my account, I saw a Fire Fox page showing new features. Upon downloading Fire Fox, I saw the the above message. I didn't want a new profile, but there wasn't an option to close the window and to just continue to use the newer version that was already installed ???

I tried Control / ALT / Delete . Upon restarting it showed the same message! I uninstalled Fire Fox, which surely has not helped things.

Am I able to restore the profile from the "newer version"? Otherwise, I will probably have to setup Fire Fox from scratch and have lost all bookmarks.

Thanks so much for your assistance. Myles

Asked by md81e2 4 months ago

Answered by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 4 months ago

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Default Profiles Folder

Hi, I take a look to forums and docs but didn't find answer to it : just found informations about the use of firefox -P Is there a way to change the defaults profi… (read more)

Hi,

I take a look to forums and docs but didn't find answer to it : just found informations about the use of firefox -P

Is there a way to change the defaults profile path.

For example, in the profiles.ini :

Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/be7er9lz.default Default=1

this is a relative path referring to %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\[PathVariableValue]

Is there a way to change a config file or config to customise the path for all users a windows computer ?

For example :

setting this variable to \\nameofserver\Firefox\

will made all relatives profiles looking for : \\nameofserver\Firefox\[PathVariableValue]

without this option, I should be obliged to edit all users profiles.ini to change path to absolute

Thanks for your help

ludovic

Asked by contact1166 4 months ago

Answered by TyDraniu 4 months ago

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Safety and privacy

For highly encrypted messages and sensitive information each time renewed or discovered for the first time cam be very intimidating for certain people. Based on the facts… (read more)

For highly encrypted messages and sensitive information each time renewed or discovered for the first time cam be very intimidating for certain people. Based on the facts and past experiences, this has become extremely important to discuss and share knowledge with true and trustworthy people only to ours and others peace of mind and safety.

Asked by Ahnaz 4 months ago

Answered by Ahnaz 4 months ago

Firefox requires a master password every time it starts up.

Good afternoon. Since recently (probably after the last Firefox update to version 136.0) I have a problem: every time I start Firefox it requires the main password set in… (read more)

Good afternoon. Since recently (probably after the last Firefox update to version 136.0) I have a problem: every time I start Firefox it requires the main password set in the settings. Before this problem did not occur, no settings were changed.

I read the official article on this topic, but the recommendations described there did not help me. I turned off the password, logged out of the browser, turned it back on, logged out again, and nothing. When I turned it back on, still at every startup it asked for the password.

I also noticed that every time I start it up, the loading circle next to the cursor spins, like something is happening. Can you tell me what it could be and how to get rid of this problem?

OS: Windows 11 24H2.

Asked by nik.dobshikov 4 months ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 4 months ago