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Hi,

Using the most recent version of Firefox that will run on my old Mac's 10.12.6. All of a sudden, when I follow a link to a Linkedin job opening announcement, the contents of the entire page opens in a 3"X3" frame in the upper lefthand corner of the page, with the old bottom and right side scrollbars and everything. To lower right of the empty white page there's a Linkedin toolbar about 5" long. (See attached screen cap.)

Impossible to read or use the page as-is, and it can't be dragged larger. At a loss to explain; to the best of my knowledge I haven't changed any Firefox or Linkedin preferences.

Haven't seen frames in about 20 years. I'm remembering why I hated them.

Anyone?

I continue to receive (LATELY) 403 error. WHY??? NEVER had this issue until lately. ONLY in FIREFOX!! Image attached.

Would like you to work with me to get this resolved.

cc: files via screen shot

Facebook videos in Firefox stop playing when clicking the Windows 11 Start button or opening Solitaire (after recent update)

This issue has just started after a Windows 11 update and restart. It has never happened before. I usually watch Facebook Reels while playing Solitaire at the same time — yes, I know, I don’t have a life.

This morning, after the update and restart, I opened Facebook and started watching a Reel as normal. As soon as I clicked the Windows Start button to open the list of programs, the video stopped. I then selected Solitaire, which opened to the taskbar. I restarted the video, clicked Solitaire to open the game fully, and the video stopped again. As soon as I minimize Solitaire, the video resumes playing.

I’ve tried all the suggestions I could find via Google, but nothing has worked so far. Note that this only affects videos playing directly on Facebook — videos playing in the Windows Media Player Legacy video player itself are not affected.

Any help would be greatly appreciated… and yes, as mentioned, I clearly don’t have a life 😅 Link to video showing what happens when I select Solitaire in the Taskbar. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oKLIl3I4f9lfTZvbU-9pJ1gMbOU7h0zm/view?usp=sharing

Regards everyone.

More info... I run two monitors and it seem if I click on whatever I have open in the second monitor the FB video stops. So something has changed after I turned my computer on this morning and updated Windows. I even did a System Restore to a setting two days before this new update and nothing changed still have the problem.

I can run Firefox once after starting the computer. If I close Firefox, I cannot run it again. Any attempt to start says there is an instance of Firefox running so it cannot start. I did some research and for that running the following yielded some indication of a problem that I cannot seem to solve.

>taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe ERROR: The process "firefox.exe" with PID 10220 could not be terminated. Reason: There is no running instance of the task.

Something appears to have left this PID so that the computer thinks it is running when it appears that it isn't there.

Please advise. [edited email from community support forum]

My firefox tabs have been constantly crashing over the last couple days. When I tried to diagnose issues in troubleshoot mode, they still kept crashing. Here are the most recent report IDs for the crashes: bp-06b1b48f-9213-4497-8398-a11890260130 bp-726d0348-6100-41cb-a298-909550260130 bp-ce8a6448-fcb1-4543-9ed4-275b50260130 bp-2c16e522-cd5f-4b9d-bb1e-6f18e0260130 bp-80520225-49fd-4f46-8453-58b300260130 bp-6c4bd533-ac96-44f0-9593-81ddc0260130 bp-a9573328-6e28-41d5-bd1e-91cf30260130 bp-3992c4d8-2a09-4fc4-a426-016b50260130 bp-2c7e318f-e080-4e56-84ee-63a030260130 bp-986e724b-2356-4790-9dc9-3687f0260130 bp-ae6ac0bd-b096-4212-8252-d55440260130 bp-4c8705f9-4529-405a-9d09-967b70260130 bp-a90c5596-f9cd-4d63-8fd6-a55c70260130 bp-fdf29d55-6cd9-450c-a552-7cca80260130 bp-519e5b29-a47b-4c65-bfda-c1f970260130 bp-fad47bb5-3880-4090-bdb7-b754e0260130

Any help would be appreciated!

Youtube has two settings that must be turned on for captions to show and start automatically when watching a video. "Always Show Captions" and "Auto Play Captions" and not be forced to be signed in to YT. Both settings must be checked off/turned on for captions to work and "set" in the cookies, for captions to work when not signed into YT.

Previously, one could sign in to YT, re-select the settings, refresh browser and then sign out and the captions would work when signed out and viewing YT content.

Since your update today, YT's "auto play captions" option is now missing when using Firefox, but not when using chrome, meaning when using Firefox, it can't be selected while using that browser. The result is that persons who choose to use Firefox instead and don't want to be signed in to youtube, not wanting our information followed in a non anonymous manner, can't use firefox to watch YT and still have captions working without having to constantly turn them on for every single video watched (that's where "auto play captions" came in).

Bad, bad move. On both mozilla's part and YT's.

Recently for no reason my saved passwords have disappeared. it is also making me sign in which i never had to do. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Foxfire. I deleted my profile and re added it. I have imported my passwords from Edge both from the application and with a cvs file. I've done everything but stand on my head. Also I have windows 10 if that makes a difference.

While I like to have shortcuts for sites that I visit frequently (Amazon, eBay, bank, etc.), I don't like the fact that a recently visited site shows up among the four rows of my shortcuts every time I log in and go to my shortcuts. (My computer defaults to these shortcuts when I open up Firefox). Something new that wasn't previously there. I'm like, "okay, that's not something that I put there myself". Something that I didn't SAVE as a shortcut myself. It wasn't like this on my old computer. I had just the frequent sites that I WANTED to show on my shortcuts, not a new icon for a site I've visited recently. I unchecked the "Shortcuts" box in settings and sure enough, ALL my shortcuts disappeared. Had to recheck the box.

Am I missing something here? Why can't I have only the shortcuts that I want on those four rows and not have an icon for a recently visited site just add itself to my shortcuts? Just because I visit any particular site (whether one of my shortcuts or not) doesn't necessarily mean that once I leave that site, that I want it to show up in my shortcuts with a slightly different looking icon from my regular shortcuts, basically duplicating what I already have, but needlessly adding something that I didn't ask to save? For example, if I open up Yahoo to check mail, despite already having a shortcut with the Yahoo icon, the next time that I turn on my computer, I'll have a slightly different Yahoo icon that might now show "log in", as well. Ditto with other shortcut icons.

I hope all this makes sense. Can anyone explain to me how to fix this? Any help would be much appreciated.

For the past, about 9 months, every time any update is applied to my Firefox browser, I loose access to my Bookmarks (approx 10 years worth) and have to go through the tedious process of copying, renaming, moving, restarting etc. Is Mozilla going to fix this issue soon or should I just resign myself to having to check my bookmarks every couple of days or so to see if they still exist.

Firefox suddenly reset to a fresh install state: only default bookmarks, my custom ones are gone. No sync enabled. No manual reset/refresh/reinstall done. Tried: Restore from backups (none recent), about:profiles (only new profile), checked bookmarkbackups folder (empty/old). Please help recover bookmarks if possible. What could cause this? Any recovery steps?

Why have all my bookmarks disappeared? I wnt through several of th steps offered on the cautionary link and nothing changed. What Windows update defiled your security? Will I have to search for another browser? I've used Firefox for years ... don't make me search for a better browser.

On my Windows 11 IOT Enterprise LTSC system firefox does not entirely close. After I installed my professional tax software from Drake Software LLC the following happens repeatedly: I open Firefox, look at a page, close Firefox, the screen clears and when I try to REOPEN firefox a popup says that it is still running and offers close or cancel. Neither button opens,closes or cancels Firefox. I have to reboot to make Firefox (147.02 64bit) close. This happens every time I open Firefox.