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Hey, since yesterday ( 6/10/2024 ) my installation ( currently version 131.0 ) had a weird change. When opening the app it would create a new instance on my taskbar, while I thought unusual at the time it did also remove its ability to use the taskbar context menu, only having the pin to taskbar option.

Below are some images of this, the first two being the missing context menu from both Firefox installations, the original one is the one that has the frequents tab.

Macbook Air -

Payments methods are in place in firefox. When hover over payment method required can see payment options but when select does insert payment method in field. requires authentication is not activated

Hi,

when I watch 360 videos on youtube, the video glitches. Like it stutters, as if its going back and forth in frames constantly. Before, it did not use to do that. I could watch the 360 videos just fine. I even tried refreshing and reinstalling firefox. It did not work. Please help.

On 10/5/2024 I suddenly had no access to my saved passwords for websites, all my bookmarks were gone and no autofill works anymore. I have searched and searched for anything relating to these missing saves in password manager, I've used EaseUS, I've tried system restore. It's like my my saves were completely wiped! When I did a system restore, Firefox uninstalled itself completely when it shouldn't have. Now it's like I never had Firefox on this pc and there's no history or anything dated before today 10/6/2024. I've tried import from other browsers and there's nothing there. I'm a bit upset here, is my history, saved passwords, bookmarks and, autofill just gone and irretrievable?

My webmail is earthlink.net. Lately it has been unbearably slow. I complained online last week, and suddenly the problem was cleared up. It is way too slow again. (Moving around the internet is fast as always.) What do I do?

For months I've been living with an ongoing problem; when I watch some YouTube videos, the entire window will go black while the audio continues. I searched for solutions, which usually suggested the I turn off ad-blocking (which I don't recall turning on) and I was offered instructions to go to "OPTIONS" which doesn't exist on my version of FireFox, and no HELP articles offered a better solution. It seems that lots of people have this problem but MOZILLA ignores it or CANNOT fix it.

But I found a FIX. I no longer have this problem with YouTube. YouTube is a GOOGLE product, so I installed the CHROME browser. I think my FireFox related YouTube problems are now a thing of the past.

I would URGE MOZILLA to recognize the RUMBLE.com app and develope RUMBLE optimization tools similar to those that Mozilla developed for YouTube. RUMBLE is the free-speed answer to YouTube and is NOT owned by GOOGLE. It would be a no-brainer for MOZILLA to strongly support RUMBLE, but they act as though they've never heard of it. WAKE UP, HIPPIES!

I have followed various instructions I found (such as stopping all add-ons etc, starting firefox in safe mode etc etc), but still no joy.

When I click on a link in an email (outlook although not relevant I dont think), Firefox opens a new instance, starts in first tab with my default home page and then .... nothing. If I copy the selected hyperlink and put it in the search bar it works fine. More importantly, if I change *all* my defaults to say Chrome and try, it works fine.

Any suggestions on what I am missing from the various solutions? (Been happening for ages - maybe a year or more I think).

When I go to listen to my KQED passport films, I used to be able to hear the dialogue at less than 50%. Now I need to turn it up to 100% to even vaguely hear anything. I was wondering if there is any way I can make it louder. This happened only recently. Thanks for any suggestions.

Hello, i lost all my saved data in my account, When i logged in it seem like a new account, and i always used this account to store my passwords and websites.

Please help it's urgent

I just wasted 3 hours trying to figure out why my ComfyUI (local AI image generator) stopped working with Firefox. There were no error messages from ComfyUI, it just failed to load workflow files.

It turns out that it's because Firefox is installed as a snap package and wherever the snap configuration for Firefox lives thinks it knows better than I do what files and directories on my system I can access in Firefox.

I also had this problem with trying to open PDFs in my home directory where I kept getting access denied errors. I tried to solve the problems with the snap version and found several proposed solutions by google search which people claimed worked but did not.

I finally found a web page that described how to uninstall the snap package and install an alternate non-snap version of Firefox, and now everything works like I expect it to.

How do I make sure this snap version does not ever come back?

I find that I can not run or even access the macro function in google sheets. These functions work fine in all other browsers. The menu items are grayed out and just like the macro buttons, they do nothing when clicked. I find many other talking about this with no resolution. I do find it odd there there is nothing listed about this omission in the Firefox help forums.

My firefox installation failed to play any videos. It would load the video forever (longest time was 15 minutes) and never actually play; this persisted on all media sites I tried and was exclusive to firefox (other browsers worked fine). I reinstalled firefox entirely as a last resort. I now cannot sign in with my account to sync any of my browser data.

I use firefox on three places: macOS laptop, windows PC, and mobile phone (ios). When I try to sign in on the windows PC (the new installation), it lets me sign in and then says the sync failed and I need to sign in to sync data. It forces me to verify my sign in every single time. even if I just signed in and hit the sync option, it makes me sign in and verify my account again. It has been an hour of troubleshooting and I'm so goddamn frustrated with this. Never had any issues like this in the eight years I've used FF, but this mess makes me want to switch browsers entirely. IDK what to do.

Whenever i change Firefox window sizes(moving to second monitor) or full screen on other videos, random YouTube videos in the background will start unpausing and randomly playing.

a friend or roommate of mine is having issues successfully importing a backup of his passwords and bookmarks. he has a backup downloaded on another part of the hard drive. I've also read that firefox stores it's own back up during an update. any possible way that might work better?

Ever since Firefox upgraded to 128.3.0esr (Linux, 64-bit) a few days ago, ALL links are being underlined (this never used to be the case).

"Always underline links" is unchecked (settings -> general -> browsing)

"layout.css.always_underline_links" is set to "false" (about:config)

It seems that 128.3.0esr is ignoring the above settings.

I have Windows 11 on my computer, it is up to date, and I have downloaded Firefox several times and yet it keeps telling me it has a problem, shuts down and restarts . I have lost many downloads and emails because of it. I just made an e mail and just before I finished it to send, it told me there was a problem, it needed to restart and the email was lost. The same is with Windows 11. I have downloaded it many times, saved pages , news etc. and when I open the document or item, it tells me that I need to update my browser It is not my computer. I have even at times done Recovery and eventually have the same problem app

New browser opens everytime i click on a link.

I have a problem that has started in Firefox whereby a new browser opens up everytime I click on a link. I can end up with 10 Girefox browsers ope at ny one time. How can I stop this please?

Thank you