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How can I prevent Firefox from automatically opening tabs and switching to the tab every time I download a file?

The obvious thing would be to uncheck the box that says "When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately"

Nice try, but U N F O R T U N A T E L Y, that method does NOT work! With the box unchecked, I still get a new tab that gets switched to.

I'm trying to download 10 years of bank statements. I do not want 120 tabs popping up!

All of a sudden (after a recent update I suppose) every time I start to type anything in the "search" in the middle of my "home" screen, the curser jumps to the address space in the toolbar. I hate that! I want to continue to use search in the middle of the screen as I have for years since I started using browsers. I've tried looking at the setting for "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar" and it is set to "false" as was recommended in another post some years ago. What do I have to do to revert back to the way it was before this change was forced on me?

Hi, I just started using Zorin 18 os and downloaded Firefox, signed in, but my bookmarks are not there. I've tried sync and that doesn't work. I've also tried the cmd prompt sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozzillateam/ppa and it says not found.

Thank you Bonnie McKelvy

How can I disable the hidden tabs feature, my tabs are being hidden in the upside down arrow whenever I'm not using them, I don't want that to happen, how can I stop it?

I am trying to ope the website: https://sumukeys.com/ however, upon opening, immediately closed. I did try all recommended settings from Firefox and also from Google. Nothing helps. Simultaneously the MS Edge browser does work with this site.

Hello. I love my Firefox but the latest Version 148 has removed Ai from providing any information when I search for anything in the search bar. I have went to my settings and enabled Ai to work and everything below says available, but no matter what I try to look for, Ai just says its 'thinking'. Please help! Thank you.

warum ist die obere zeile mit dem kreuz beim start nicht mehr da? Sieh die markierung im Bild! immer wenn ich firefox starte mus ich es erst nochmal minimieren und dann wieder öffnen. was soll der scheiss

und Könntet ihr eure hilfe auch mal auf deutsch machen dann könnte mann wenigstens was lesen ode alles extra übersetzen zu müssen

I am running Firefox 148.0 and Thunderbird 148.0. I am in the process of moving everything to a new (to me) computer that will run Windows 11. When I start Firefox from the start menu or the taskbar everything runs as expected. I have the Adblock Plus extension plus several others running. If I click on a Hyperlink in a email in Thunderbird instead of opening in a new tab into the currently open copy of Firefox as it did on my old computer running Windows 10 it opens in a new window with no extensions. I am assuming that I have something set incorrectly. Any help as to where I should look to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have always been able to delete unwanted cookies from Firefox at any time by opening "Manage browsing data" (in Settings - Privacy & Security - Cookies and Site Data). It shows me all of the cookies by site, and I could always select which ones to remove.

(I have my Settings at "Custom" for Enhanced Tracking Protection, with some permitted exceptions in Manage Exceptions, but do not want to delete all cookies on closing the browser, as I need some to stay permanently e.g. bank and gov't web site cookies.)

Since I updated from the last 147 version (it was 147.0.4) to 148.0 in the last day or so, I can no longer do so -- but only in one of my two work computers. On the main one, I can open the "Manage browsing data" pop-up box, but it will NOT scroll down to show me any of the sites. I know there is data there -- the "Clear Browsing Data and Cookies" pop-up window shows I have 46.9 MB of cookies & site data -- but the "Manage browsing data" pop-up box will not let me see any sites, unlike before.

The Manage Exceptions pop-up box ("Exceptions - Cookies and Site Data") still allows me to scroll down and see the permitted web sites and their status (e.g. allow for session) but the "Manage browsing data" pop-up box will not do so.

I have re-booted my laptop several times since this problem started (I use Windows 10) but it persists.

I use Custom Settings for History, with none of the 4 boxes there checked.

On the other work computer, I upgraded it today from 147.0.4 to 148.0, but the above-noted problems are not happening. I can still see the individual cookies in the "Manage browsing data" pop-up box. To me their settings look identical, but who knows?

Any ideas or suggestions?

Up until a few days ago I was able to preview yahoo mail attachments (e.g. PDFs) before downloading them. I don't know what may have changed, but I don't recall doing anything on my end. Any suggestions or advice on what settings I should consider changing greatly appreciated. M

On a dual-stack network, with Windows tcpip6 ‘disabledcomponents’ parameter set to prefer IPv6, Firefox ignores this setting whenever an endpoint resolves both an IPv4 and a NAT64 address.

While monitoring traffic captured while connecting to sites in Firefox, if the initial DNS request for the site comes back with an IPv6 address only, the connection attempts from client’s IPv6 address to destination IPv6. If DNS answers come back with IPv4 and IPv6, the connection attempts IPv6 to IPv6. If DNS answers come back with IPv4 and a NAT64 address, Firefox doesn’t even attempt to connect to the NAT64 address, it immediately defaults to IPv4. I’ve tried disabling the IPv4 fallback setting which doesn’t change the behavior.

We’re running version 140.8.0esr. Is this behavior intended for Firefox? Is there a way to configure Firefox so it doesn’t ignore NAT64 addresses in dual-stack environments? The only way I found to force this was to completely disable the IPv4 stack on the client system’s NIC.