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I'm using Mac OS 11.7.10. Firefox desktop no longer allows me to browse the internet. It just keeps spinning wheels. I've downloaded the newest version and it still crashes. What can I do?

Unfortunately, because of regular issues with a web site, I was forced to use FireFox as my main web browser. I say "unfortunately", because FireFox takes FOREVER to load, especially compared to Safari. But, more importantly, there was something about Safari that I really liked; that I apparently cannot get with FireFox. But this is odd, since FireFox seems to have so many more user preferences than Safari! And yet there appears to be no way to open FireFox in fullscreen.

If Safari is in full screen, when browser is closed, Safari remembers this, the next time Safari is opened in full screen. With firefox, I always have to go through long start up, and then I have to manually click zoom button, to go full screen.

Is this something you never considered or something FireFox cannot do? Again, I guess I am surprised at how many preferences are available for FireFox, but nothing like this, even though this is a feature in a competing browser!

I am not sure, but, even if this is more of a Mac feature than a Safari feature, since I am using Mac version of FireFox, seems like FireFox could or should work the same way as Safari! But, if not, why not??

What ever happened to Firefox?? I try to search for something and 75% of the time I get error messages! Here is what I constantly get:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com. 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.

Learn more…

What is the problem? I have written about this before and NEVER get a response. Is it really time to just switch browsers? I have noticed when Firefox won't work Microsoft Edge and Chrome works just fine. What is the deal here?

When I returned to the coputer I was unable to continue working. I am very thankful for those who enable this computer to allow me to work. Thank you'. Miles

Lately (for several weeks) I have been having trouble printing web pages with bold headings (Not Headers... Headings) in their pages. For example - recipes. The bold text which is usually also a larger font, is either missing completely, or just a series of dots.

It looks just fine in the print preview (I am on a mac, running High Sierra 10.13.6) and the problem exists whether I use the webpage print dialog or my operating system dialog.

I have tried both of my available printers and it happens on both printers, so it isn't a problem with my printers (I thought it might just be my old HP P1505)

I have also tried saving the page as a pdf through my print system dialog - the text problem exists there as well. If I use Safari (I prefer Firefox, but if this is going to continue, then I'll have to go back) everything is fine. (see the attached image - Firefox on the left, Safari on the right)

So there seems to be something in Firefox that has recently stopped allowing these fonts to make their way through from the screen into the print system.

new Date(1743623960000).toLocaleString(['en-ES'])

outputs "4/2/2025, 7:59:20 PM" in normal firefox and "2/4/2025, 7:59:20 PM" in Firefox Developer. Test on MacOS and Ubuntu.

My bookmarks have been removed from the bookmarks toolbar. I'm not sure how this happened or how to restore them. In the attached screenshot, you can see the bookmarks and their folders still exist under "Bookmarks Toolbar", yet they're gone from the toolbar itself. I'm not sure what to do next?

When I get this error: An error occurred during a connection to appliedmagnets.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

   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.

HOW am I supposed to contact the website to tell them about that problem if I cannot get on the website to get their contact information? (phone and/or email)

Hi, I can't login to a website with FF although it works with Brave and FF Klar on my smartphone. I cleared the cache, deleted the history, restarted FF and the laptop, tried private mode, and disabled privacy settings as much as possible. There are no extensions installed/loaded. The password and user name is correct ;). Pls help! Thank you!

This is the website in question: POST https://www.leady-family.com/en/login/ [HTTP/2 500 846ms]

POST

scheme https host www.leady-family.com filename /en/login/ Adresse 104.26.12.205:443 Status 500 VersionHTTP/2 Übertragen1,31 kB (145 B Größe) Referrer Policysame-origin Anfrage-PrioritätHighest DNS-AuflösungSystem

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   	DYNAMIC
   cf-ray
   	92b91469cb03e51f-TXL
   content-language
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   content-type
   	text/html
   date
   	Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:34:28 GMT
   nel
   	{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
   referrer-policy
   	same-origin
   report-to
   	{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=%2FxGYANnx1rV5W2R6M3i8x4WFowwdIc6dGUcVqnxQj%2BLRNqT8bG3oCqCV7jH8MdHr7fB6AWzQSiFpv%2BvKZemfgglhhriKEUbhMXWY9LtozQ1oirQrj7SG2lcXNxnOrfLa3VUpq9x6"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}
   server
   	cloudflare
   server-timing
   	cfL4;desc="?proto=TCP&rtt=13352&min_rtt=9631&rtt_var=2811&sent=5075&recv=474&lost=0&retrans=0&sent_bytes=7247625&recv_bytes=12743&delivery_rate=28594571&cwnd=707&unsent_bytes=0&cid=053e2183287a3681&ts=31706&x=0"
   set-cookie
   	csrftoken=ffXOtTqY5SKtJ9kTQZb4CG5UbizkiUaqvgLtWC9I2nbzFv0vTBzR0ICq5ikcBumz; expires=Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:34:28 GMT; Max-Age=86400; Path=/; SameSite=Lax
   set-cookie
   	recent_products=""; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Path=/
   set-cookie
   	store_user=admin_store; Path=/
   vary
   	Cookie, origin
   x-content-type-options
   	nosniff
   X-Firefox-Spdy
   	h2
   x-frame-options
   	SAMEORIGIN
   x-xss-protection
   	1; mode=block
   	
   Accept
   	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
   Accept-Encoding
   	gzip, deflate, br, zstd
   Accept-Language
   	en-US,de;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
   Connection
   	keep-alive
   Content-Length
   	143
   Content-Type
   	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   Cookie
   	subdomine=user; geo_code=de; csrftoken=ffXOtTqY5SKtJ9kTQZb4CG5UbizkiUaqvgLtWC9I2nbzFv0vTBzR0ICq5ikcBumz; sessionid=j20zdh8z99dht5yq8o0m9n7mbjhdkepz; store_user=admin_store; defult_store_slug=admin_store; _ga_GLTP32ZYF7=GS1.1.1743856440.1.1.1743856448.0.0.0; _ga=GA1.1.1790458326.1743856441; _gid=GA1.2.895920167.1743856441; _gat_gtag_UA_191969163_1=1
   Host
   	www.leady-family.com
   Origin
   	https://www.leady-family.com
   Priority
   	u=0, i
   Referer
   	https://www.leady-family.com/en/login/
   Sec-Fetch-Dest
   	document
   Sec-Fetch-Mode
   	navigate
   Sec-Fetch-Site
   	same-origin
   Sec-Fetch-User
   	?1
   TE
   	trailers
   Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
   	1
   User-Agent
   	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Why do I have to open 5 or 6 empty tabs before Firefox will load a URL page? If I try before I do this it says the page timed out. I've never had this problem before, but it is getting very frustrating.

Hi last night my web browser updated and when it opened back up all the websites and everything I had saved was completing missing I’ve never had this happen before with an update usually everything is there when it finishes updating. How can I fix this?

For years I have been able to watch a foreign TV website, despite having only a DSL connection (I allow only the scripts essential to make it work). Since I did the last update, to 137.0, I cannot watch either the live stream ("General source error") or old programs ("There is something wrong with your internet connection"). This is absolutely consistent; I've lost count of the times I've tried.

I never had problems like this before. At worst, if Windows was running a background process I might have to stop it to keep from having pauses in the program. All I can think of is that you did something in the new version of Firefox that has made video impossible on DSL.