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Since total cookie protection was engaged after a recent browser update (about a week ago), my history logs have ceased functioning. I still have everything listed in those logs leading up to that date. This is rather distressing. I need to reverse this anomaly, yet cannot find a fix within your support topics.

Current browser version + 131.02 OS = Win 11

Please advise AEO (at earliest oppty!!)

Thanks – gnBo’en

I have appreciated Firefox for many years, so long in fact that I no longer have access to the email address that I signed up with. I have had no reason to access my account so I did not realise that it was out of date. I was accessing my account to check that I had two-factor protection and since I could not access the account I decided to create a new account and used the help pages to move my profile to the new account. I was able move my profile and access all my bookmarks and PASSWORDS! I simply uninstalled Firefox, moved my profile to another location, downloaded Firefox and copied the old profile over the newly created profile. I opened Firefox and could open the password manager and see all my passwords. I could not believe how easily I could access all the sensitive information. I needed no password - just access to the profile. This profile will be saved on any computer that I have used to log into Firefox. Anyone with access to those computers could easily repeat what I was able to do. This is a serious secuirty flaw and I simply can't believe I was able to do this!!!!!

While visiting website"https://yts.mx/" i get this error -

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to yts.mx. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

Error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

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But this same website can be accessed by another browser like brave and edge. NOTE: I'm using WINDOWS DEFENDER as security software.

After finding out Firefox was storing over a gigabyte of cookies, I figured it might be wise to set it up to clear them except for sites I used regularly. However, I've recently noticed that Youtube will clear regardless. I've tried entering the domain both as youtube.com as well as www.youtube.com, but my video display preferences aren't retained. This doesn't happen for other sites, like Reddit or Tumblr. What do I need to enter in the exception list to keep my settings?

I can not update my PC drivers using firefox online or even Google because your help links have been changed and looped around to return null, I have attempted to learn about this but I am just a guy in the country trying to get by on disability. Their has been unknown computers using my wife and I dont know why Mozilla would be interested in us and rerouting our attempts to receive help. So I have been attempting to reach out and get help, to only receave responces from your great help with distain and smart alak answers instead of helping us out with this unusual problem that even baffles Google and Microsoft support, who has been a witness to your web inspectors harrassment and abuse, not my words but the words of Ohio job and family services who I have been forced to file disability abuse charges, I even have the names of the suspected culprits and have been in contact with law enforcement, so before the snide comment is made. I have filed stalking charges for this unknown event. So it is not a funny story, its a serious criminal action. So please can anyone help me to explain why this platform has been targeting a private home and family is beyond me. Thank you for just listening.

filling out a claim form and when I click the SUBMIT tab at the bottom of the page I keep getting an error message: it basically states that the reCAPTCHA failed and I need to turn off my browser priacy settings that are blocking it. should I be leary of this and treat it as suspicious? I am not sure what button to uncheck in my browser settings.

Hey everyone,

So I'm trying to log into Firefox on a new PC and I got stuck in an infinite loop of logging in and getting my account disconnected.

1. I login and enter my credentials; 2. Enter authorization code; 3. Instantly get a warning sign on the account icon and I discover that "Account disconnected"; 4. I try to sign in, and there we go again.

Tried resetting and reinstalling, the problem remains. Please help!

If I search for what a session cookie is the common answer will be something like "It's a temporary cookie that's erased from your device once you close your web browser".

If I: 1. Open Firefox. 2. Navigate to website A. 3. Login 4. Close the browser(All windows) without loging out from the website. 5. Open Firefox. 6. Navigate to website A.

If the website has marked it's session cookie as a "session cookie" I will be logged out when I visit website A again. I can't retrieve my previous session, although It's alive on the server. The browser has seemingly, as it should, deleted my cookie since it was a session cookie.

However(!), If i repeat the steps above, but after step 5 hit ctrl+shift+t, the browser remembers my session cookie and I'm back in. Although Firefox was supposed to forget my session cookie.

I keep getting the Virginia Pilot news stories for another area of Virginia - I have unsubscribed and turned off pop-ups and I'm still getting it every time I open Firefox.

I have a brand new HP Spectre laptop. I have had Firefox running on it and it has been fine for about 6 months.

Now, all of a sudden, when I click on the desktop short cut, it does not open Firefox but, rather takes me to duck duck go which opens the following website

https://www.blogmuseupicassobcn.org/

I can not get rid of it, I can not by bypass it, and Firefox is no longer available to me on my laptop.

I think I know the answer to this question already, because all my searches come up empty, but is there a way to show the count of blocked elements on the shield icon? Obviously you can click on the shield itself and see, but I'd much prefer to display the info live similar to how uBO, AdGuard, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, Disconnect, et al do it.

If that ability isn't available yet, is there an official method to put in a feature request? I doubt I'd be the first one making the request, but perhaps I can add a vote for it to become a reality. ETP has to be about 10 years old at this point, it's surprising that option wasn't added a long time ago.

I recently went to a website I normally visit but accidentally misspelled the url which took me to a deceptive website. Luckily, Firefox was able to detect the site as a security threat and did not allow connection.

About 5 mins after, my windows defender caught a Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml in the \AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\0efjymat.default-release\cache2\entries\. I immediately quarantined and removed it.

I understand that it could be a false positive since I read that windows defender usually catches cache files that may look suspicious to it. I have to wonder though is it still possible for deceptive website cache files to get downloaded despite getting blocked by Firefox?

Note: I have ublock extension and my Firefox browser version is 131.0.2 64-bit

While I am in Firefox on my laptop with windows10 pro using it In dark mode how can I remove the yellow and white fill-in with something that I can read? Anything I looked up or tried does not change it back to where I can see the information without switching out of dark mode. Any help will be appreciated!

Hello! Icant read my mail in yahoo.fr using FIREFOX. I get a message La page n’est pas redirigée correctement

Firefox a détecté que le serveur redirige la demande pour cette adresse d’une manière qui n’aboutira pas.

   La cause de ce problème peut être la désactivation ou le refus des cookies.

With EDGE no problem. I would prefer to keep FIREFOX rather than others... Can you help me please?

Hi

I was just scrolling through passwords on my Firefox password manager and found 2 passwords that didn't belong to me I deleted them but am now concerned as to how they got there. One was for 'piano vx' (https://auth.piano.io/u/login identifierstate=hKFo2SAwOXdxTTVPWVcxU0tOc25oUWVWWTNnMTBHRFRiY2NCRaFur3VuaXZlcnNhbC1sb2dpbqN0aWTZIF9YUG5IRDNmaTFLRnJSd0hlTHpTNE9jWmJ3YzZucEE0o2NpZNkgTmJJZVZxMkJ6ZkpzSjlQR1RxZTdqTmRxeVRvaGUyWjQ) I have scrolled down through my Firefox history and the only 'Piano vx' entries are from today when I was checking what the password was for. I have never visited that site before so could not have saved a password.

I cannot remember the other spurious one I deleted (as have had a general tidy up whilst I was there) but it gave my user name as 'scottish' which is something I would not use as I am not!

Can anyone shed any light on how these passwords which have not been generated by me are showing in my Firefox password manager please? I have run Microsoft Defender and Eset but neither showing any issues.

I have changed my Firefox password.

Many thanks Gill

Does MacOS requires the version 131.0.2 Firefox update to address the recent zero-day active exploit?

The reason I ask is Tanium Deploy Software Gallery only includes updates to Windows Firefox versions to address this zero-day.

Description: Mozilla 0-day. CVE-2024-9680 is a use after free vulnerability in the Animation timelines component of Mozilla. Animation timelines are a part of Firefox’s Web Animations API, which controls and synchronizes animations on the web pages. An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to achieve code execution in the content process. Use-after-free vulnerability occurs when the memory that has been freed is still used by the program. The vulnerability may allow attackers to add their malicious data to the memory region for code execution. *Affected Versions* * Firefox versions before 131.0.2 * Firefox ESR versions before 128.3.1 * Firefox ESR versions before 115.16.1. *Mitigation* Customers can upgrade to the following versions to mitigate the vulnerability: * Firefox 131.0.2 * Firefox ESR 128.3.1 * Firefox ESR 115.16.1 For more information, please refer to the [Mozilla security advisory|https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/].

Hey all firefox doesnt save the preferences for long and every site I go back to I have to keep denying cookies etc. This started recently but my settings are as before whats up with this? I think its the total cookie protection but i cannot turn it off I'm fed up of denying over and over again. cheers