I have 2 firefox sessions (windows) open on my macbook 10.14.4...is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between them? (I do not mean tabs!)
2 browser windows open...need to alternate between them quickly...is there a keyboard shortcut?
Firefox
I am having a problem with Gmail and its interface.
Hello, I am having a problem with Gmail and its interface. I am not able to click on any buttons and icons in Gmail because I dont see them or they are unclickable. I am … (tuilleadh eolais)
Hello,
I am having a problem with Gmail and its interface.
I am not able to click on any buttons and icons in Gmail because I dont see them or they are unclickable.
I am using Firefox, the latest version. I was trying to log in in Chrome and Explorer and I didnt have any problem wiht Gmail. I have tried to reinstall Firefox, twice and also deleted cache and cookies. It didnt work.
I have tried also look to other similiar topics: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1253059 and none of that helped.
How do I use my Firefox account on both my Windows 10 desktop and ASUSOR NAS without SYNC?
I can access all the Firefox "services" on my desktop but when I open Firefox in the NAS it keeps asking for my email and password. When I enter the password I establish… (tuilleadh eolais)
I can access all the Firefox "services" on my desktop but when I open Firefox in the NAS it keeps asking for my email and password. When I enter the password I established on the desktop it says "Incorrect Password" and turns the box red. Then a few seconds later the Firefox browser page opens but when I try to open a web page with a video the audio doesn't play.
Autohide taskbar issue.
I updated the recent ver. 68.0 (64 bit) but after the update my windows 7 (64 bit) auto hide taskbar went behind the firefox. as it used to be on top of firefox. now i'm … (tuilleadh eolais)
I updated the recent ver. 68.0 (64 bit) but after the update my windows 7 (64 bit) auto hide taskbar went behind the firefox. as it used to be on top of firefox. now i'm not be able to access task bar utilities until i press the window key. it pops up when i restore firefox on small window but when i restore it to normal size it is still there. i reinstalled the firefox but still having the issue.
Firefox does not play html5 videos after sleep
Hi! Firefox does not play videos after windows 10 computer returns from sleep. In fact, if I visit video url such as this one https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4 d… (tuilleadh eolais)
Hi!
Firefox does not play videos after windows 10 computer returns from sleep. In fact, if I visit video url such as this one https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4 directly it still does not play. I works fine until I put my computer to sleep. It is not connection problem because everything other than videos work. And with other browsers, videos also work. This problem started to happen recently for no good reason - no windows update or FF update that caused it. Does firefox play videos on it's own or does it depend on some external components? Tab icon shows me infinitely loading animation. However, when I open dev tools and network tab, it shows me that it's downloading 771kb, which is the correct size of that video. When I right click and choose view page source then I can also see the contents of mp4 file. So it looks like file itself is downloaded but there is some component that does not get notification.
Is there anyone who could explain how does video playing work in firefox internally?
Firefox not running js on local page but ok on internet
For some reason firefox has doesnt run a site how it supposed to on my local hard drive. Which is a pain when you are designing. The web site works fine live from the hos… (tuilleadh eolais)
For some reason firefox has doesnt run a site how it supposed to on my local hard drive. Which is a pain when you are designing. The web site works fine live from the hosting page. It seems to have stopped running js files.
I have even downloaded them from the server and i get exactly the same again. The local site works fine with the dreaded "edge" etc. I am pulling my hair out with this one.
The text in the Default Theme Tabs has disappeared leaving on an icon there. How can this be fixed?
Firefox comes with 3 default theme settings. I have been using the Default setting and it has been just fine. Now the loaded tabs lose their text and you are only left … (tuilleadh eolais)
Firefox comes with 3 default theme settings. I have been using the Default setting and it has been just fine. Now the loaded tabs lose their text and you are only left with an icon of that the tab represents, I.e. gmail, igHome, NOAA, weather. How may this be fixed so that the icon and the text are showing?
FireFox suddenly shows a "Update Ready to Install" pop-up for Firefox 68.0?
Firefox normally updates automatically but yesterday evening when I powered up my MacBook Pro and then FireFox( vs 67.0.4) immediately upon launch a pop-up entitled, "Sof… (tuilleadh eolais)
Firefox normally updates automatically but yesterday evening when I powered up my MacBook Pro and then FireFox( vs 67.0.4) immediately upon launch a pop-up entitled, "Software Update" appeared and the body of the message reads, "Update Ready to install. A security and stability update for Firefox has been downloaded and is ready to be installed. Update: Firefox 68.0 Details (link) etc. Please see uploaded image below.
I did go to About FireFox, but it does not give me any way to update.
Question: Is this the new normal? Is it safe to click the links and update in the pop-up I received? Or how should I handle this?
Many thanks for your assistance in this matter. If you need more information, please let me know.
I am submitting this question from an iMac rather than the MacBook Pro, I'm a little leery of using it at the moment. However, I did run MacScan, Malwarebytes and ClamXAV and they all came out fine.
My new tab selection now produces a tab without my Page Actions but old tabs still open still show my Page Actions. How do I fix this?
Nothing has changed with my Firefox browser, v68.0 (64 bit) but starting this morning my new tab selection now produces a tab without my Page Actions but old tabs that I … (tuilleadh eolais)
Nothing has changed with my Firefox browser, v68.0 (64 bit) but starting this morning my new tab selection now produces a tab without my Page Actions but old tabs that I still have open show my Page Actions.
What exe is v68 trying to download under the hood?
After updating to v68, Firefox is stuck on a new tab and not doing anything. Its not possible to open any website. Its not possible to open a new tab (Have tried refresh,… (tuilleadh eolais)
After updating to v68, Firefox is stuck on a new tab and not doing anything. Its not possible to open any website. Its not possible to open a new tab (Have tried refresh,uninstall,etc). Upon investigating I found that we have a policy in Symantec Endpoint Protection that disables all exe downloads from all browsers. If I turn that policy off, Firefox works fine. But we can't do that for security reasons. So my question is what has changed in v68 (v67 works fine) that is trying to download an exe under the hood? We have no plugins, extensions, themes, addons installed whatsoever.
I put a streamable link to help identify the problem properly.
Firefox version 68 will only open if "Run As Administrator".
Several users within our company are unable to use Firefox after the last update to version 68. Firefox will only open if "Run as Administrator" is selected. No error com… (tuilleadh eolais)
Several users within our company are unable to use Firefox after the last update to version 68. Firefox will only open if "Run as Administrator" is selected. No error comes up. When clicking on it, nothing happens.
Below is what I have tried so far but have had no luck: 1. Uninstalling/reinstalling 2. Tried installing the ESR version. 3. Refreshed Firefox 4. Created a new profile.
None of the above solutions have worked. With that being said, each employee's laptop has 2 user accounts. There is an administrator account and the actual user account. The user's account does not have admin rights. Users that do have admin rights such as the IT staff, Firefox is working fine with version 68 (so far).
The users affected have either Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Facebook notifications, messages & friend requests not loading.
My Facebook notifications, messages, and friend requests don't load on Firefox. It just shows that spinning thing. But when I use Chrome, my Facebook works fine. So I'm p… (tuilleadh eolais)
My Facebook notifications, messages, and friend requests don't load on Firefox. It just shows that spinning thing. But when I use Chrome, my Facebook works fine. So I'm pretty sure the problem is with Firefox, not Facebook.
The star icon menu is clunky
I switched to Firefox a couple of years ago when Quantum came out. I'm satisfied with it but the main reason I keep using it is grounded on ethics rather than usability (… (tuilleadh eolais)
I switched to Firefox a couple of years ago when Quantum came out. I'm satisfied with it but the main reason I keep using it is grounded on ethics rather than usability (which is fine for me but won't win the stone hearts of more cynical users :-) ). I had this sort of superficial opinion: "Chrome is better, but I don't want to use it." Today I wanted to give Chromium another try. I thought about what it is that makes it better and figured out it almost completely boils down to the star icon functionality: I'm a heavy bookmarks user and Firefox makes me slow, compared to Chrome.
First, it doesn't use the latest location in which I saved a bookmark as a default (this was also requested, not by me, on http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&p=14770920). I often add a row of pages to a single bookmarks folder, but rather than selecting the tabs and adding all of them at once by dragging and dropping as Firefox allows, I prefer to check them on by one: add one, close it, take a look at the one that follows, either close it right away or add it, and so on. In Chrome it's done with a couple of shortcuts in quick succession, in Firefox its much clunkier because one needs to set the directory every time.
Then a really annoying and sort of antiquated-feeling characteristic of Firefox's star icon menu and bookmarks sidebar is that type-ahead motion in it (when I type the first letters of the name I want to move to) breaks on spaces. This kind of motion is the only one that is practical once one has a few hundred directories, but if I have a list of directories like ... "The Rolling Stones", "The Who"... I can only match up to "The" then I'm on my own.
These flaws slow down the menial job of adding bookmarks a lot. Other things that could bring an improvement in my opinion would be an "Open in folder" context menu item for bookmarks search results, and the possibility to restrict searches to defined folders. I think what I've described should be done natively and not by extensions.
Keep up the good work and thanks for what you do.
Andrea
Top sites not displaying in new tab, Settings wheel not present
I have (or had) several sites pinned so that they would always appear when I opened a new tab. I use them like bookmarks. Rather than add them to the bookmarks bar, I kee… (tuilleadh eolais)
I have (or had) several sites pinned so that they would always appear when I opened a new tab. I use them like bookmarks. Rather than add them to the bookmarks bar, I keep them there so I don't have to expand the tool bar menu and can see everything at once. Unfortunately, all the tiles on my new tab page are now missing, and there is also no cogwheel present where I can adjust the settings. I did not have Firefox sync before but recently turned it on. However, the tiles were still there initially after I signed in. They didn't disappear until the next day. Any ideas how I can fix this? Thank you!
I followed all the instructions in the article "Recovering important data from an old profile," but when I open FF, there are no bookmarks and no history.
At least, I think I followed all the instructions. After I created the new profile, I went to the section that reads: Important: Firefox must be closed down while copyin… (tuilleadh eolais)
At least, I think I followed all the instructions. After I created the new profile, I went to the section that reads:
Important: Firefox must be closed down while copying files between profile folders. Also, Step 1 refers to your "old" profile folder - the profile containing data you want to copy to a new profile. If you can't open a profile from within Firefox, see Finding your profile without opening Firefox.
I found this instruction a little irritating—if in step one "profile" means "old profile folder," then why not say so? But the big problem is that, with the warning that Firefox must be closed down, I closed FF.
Then I came across this:
Open your profile folder: From the Help menu, choose Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open. Under the Application Basics section, click on Show in Finder . A window will open that contains your profile folder.
Well, these instructions forced me to open Ff again—but to my dismay, when I went to the Application Basics section, and looked at Show in Finder, it wasn't my old profile that showed, but my new one. Since I only found my old profile picture in the first place by following the same instructions to go to Application Basics when I was told to make a copy of the old profile, which was at that time my current profile, I only got to that profile because it opened automatically—I didn't remember the path, so I don't know how to find it. But since I did make a copy of it to my external hard drive, I opened my Old Profile from there.
Then this: Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen, then click Quit Firefox.
So I quit FF.
Then this: Hold down the control key while you click on a file you want to copy and choose Copy. Open the new Firefox profile folder.
I found this confusing; why in the world would I be told to click on a file to copy before I was told to open the new profile? And where WAS the new profile?
So I opened FF again, went to Application Basics, and then opened the new profile, then closed FF again.
So I was once more at this step:
Hold down the control key while you click on a file you want to copy and choose Copy.
But it occurred to me that, rather than repeat this step for each individual item, why not just drag the first sub-folder from the Old Profile to the New One? I tried that, but got a message saying that the folder was invisible, so I selected everything in that folder and just dragged it into the new profile.
I clicked on everything in the second sub-folder in the Old Profile, but when I dropped the selection in the New Profile, I got a message saying that there were copies, so I stopped. Since I didn't know why there were two sub-folders in the Old Profile, I thought that, in order to make sure that everything from the Old Profile Folder was in the NPF, I created two sub-folders in the NPF, one entitled "0 untitled" and the other "O untitled 2." Then I selected and dragged everything that I had transferred from the first sub-folder of the OPF into the NPF *before* I had created sub-folders for the NPF, and I dragged them into "0 untitled." Then I revisited the second sub-folder of the OPF, selected its contents, then dragged and dropped them into the NPF sub-folder "0 untitled 2."
When I got to the section "Your important data and their files," I was a little confused, because at first I thought I had to transfer these manually because they were not in the OPF, so I searched for them, but when I selected the "places.sqlite" and tried to drag and drop it, I got a message asking whether I wished to delete the file from the Cloud—since I didn't, I didn't. Finally it occurred to me that perhaps they were in the OPF, so I looked, and they were.
The article ends without any instructions as to what to do once you have finished transferring files from the OPF to the NPF, so I simply clicked on FF, which opened without the data. I closed FF, then shut down and restarted my computer, but when I opened FF, still no data.
I thought perhaps that I had been wrong to drag and drop, so I opened the copy of my OPF on my external hard drive, then opened FF again t the Application Basics so that I could open the NPF in the finder. When the NPF opened, I was surprised to see that the two sub-folders no longer had the titles I gave them, but had rather the strange string of numbers and letters reminiscent of the names of the invisible folders in the OPF.
Should I create another new profile folder and then go through the laborious process of selecting one file, clicking copy, then going into the NPF, without the sub-folders, and then click "Paste"? If I do that for one sub-folder from the OPF, should I create a first sub-folder for the NPF, and then put all the laboriously transferred files from the first sub-folder of the OPF into the new first sub-folder of the NPF, and then repeat that process when I transfer the files laboriously one by one from the second sub-folder of the OPF into the NPF?
I am at a loss, and would appreciate help.
How can I set default upload path for all websites?
Can you tell me how to set default upload path for firefox? If I upload something to somesite.com, and I browse for example c:\uploads\something.txt, than firefox saves … (tuilleadh eolais)
Can you tell me how to set default upload path for firefox?
If I upload something to somesite.com, and I browse for example c:\uploads\something.txt, than firefox saves this, but for somesite.com only. If I has to upload to anothersite.com, firefox doesn't know the previous upload path on my computer. So how can I set default upload path for ALL sites?
Problem with online banking after update to version 68.0
Cannot send secure message to bank while logged in to my bank account. I get a title saying "undefined" and when I go to log off the two buttons for confirm or remain lo… (tuilleadh eolais)
Cannot send secure message to bank while logged in to my bank account. I get a title saying "undefined" and when I go to log off the two buttons for confirm or remain logged on have no text and the title "undefined" is there. However those buttons do actually work. I have logged on to banking using Microsoft Edge and everything worked just fine.
load only current tab, stop all others, especially on (re)start
Where in the settings or in the about:config can one set FireFox to load only the current tab, stop all others from any activity/loading, especially on (re)start?
link in bookmark not staying highlighted when clicked
When clicking a link in bookmarks it used to stay highlighted blue until another link is clicked.This problem occurs with every new upgrade/install.I think I have to chan… (tuilleadh eolais)
When clicking a link in bookmarks it used to stay highlighted blue until another link is clicked.This problem occurs with every new upgrade/install.I think I have to change the chrome css file, unfortunately I cannot find the answer again.
firefox is crashing and its not even open
I'll leave my PC alone and out of no where the firefox has crashed box will have pop up. This time I had TWO open and I havn't even use firefox in over 8 hours so how is … (tuilleadh eolais)
I'll leave my PC alone and out of no where the firefox has crashed box will have pop up. This time I had TWO open and I havn't even use firefox in over 8 hours so how is it crashing IF i don't have it open seem slike they have somthing running when it shouldn't