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The 'light' font weight option in reader view doesn't seem to work for me. All the other options appear to, including swapping between bold and regular, but light just displays as regular regardless of font style. Main FF font settings are all default as well. Couldn't find any other posts with the same issue. Any ideas? Not a huge issue but it is annoying.

Has anyone else noticed that the memory leak issues have gotten way worse since last update?

I work on a potato. Most of the memory is in the windows paging file, on a mechanical hard drive. So freeing up used memory takes longer than it would on a machine with a metric tonne of quad-channel RAM. The past 6 months, Firefox has started having memory leak issues, where it just uses more & more memory until the paging file hits its hard limit and windows kills firefox.

But since last update (135.0 x64), the memory leak issue has worsened significantly.

If I open firefox, and then tab between all current tabs, I get maybe 5 GB of memory usage. So even if all tabs are marked as "active" and loaded into memory, this still isn't enough to cause issues.

But after 30 minutes, that memory usage has ballooned up to >20 GB, at which point windows decides that it needs to free up memory, and kills the process. Which is annoying, because then the browser reverts to the last saved state, meaning many tabs can be lost or reset to several clicks back.

I've tried shaving off extensions, with zero change. I've tried increasing paging file size, but that's just kicking the bucket down the road.

Anyone have a solution to this?

Firefox web browser when utilizing its online advertising is attempting to install malware(addons.browse-privately.net [URL:Malvertising]). [P.S. My antivirus is up-to-date!] My Avast Security software catches and stops it. In addition, whenever I start Firefox the session which was saved from previous use opens along with an additional instance briefly. ???

Hi. Mozilla has been my preferred browser since it first came out and up to 3 days ago my use of it has been awesome. But 3 days ago my location started showing as if I lived in Miami instead of Oakland where I actually live. The "problem" is every time I do a search it gives me responses as if I lived in Miami... and i don't.

At the bottom of the page, it says the responses are due to my IP address, so I contacted my internet provider (Comcast) and they tell me my IP address is identified as Oakland, and told me to look else where.

So I am now looking to you. Do you have any thoughts on what the problem might be?

Thanks for any help you might offer. Be well, Joseph

Some how my info is all gone and nothing works including any of help suggestions.

I don't think this is even firefox it is more like msn. I keep downloading Firefox and it crashes. I don't know how to fix any of this. I can't even get to see how firefox has looked since maybe 2001. My upper toolbar is all different. It is all wrong and I can't find my hundreds of book marks are all gone.

I can see maybe 10 bookmarks but not from firefox.

I recently had a computer crash - self inflicted - by mistakenly opting for a total reset when I did not understand what this would result in. A friend has helped me get back to being able to use my computer again, but I have lost all my Firefox browser passwords and my Thunderbird email contact list. Would Firefox have kept this information and be able to give me back my passwords somehow. I am a 87 year old Aussie and not a computer nerd !! Cheers Lozza

Just bought a new iMac. Firefox will not run on it. Any attempts to dump and reload have failed. Apparently the software does not ask for permission to access the network. Is this something that will be fixed soon, maybe it's something to do with Apple? Anyway, should I try to download an older version of Firefox? Firefox is my preferred browser. I don't want to be forced to use another.