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I cannot open Firefox on my computer. Message reads: "item Firefox.exe that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved so this shortcut will no longer work properly". Can you please help me with this? Thanks

I accidentally downloaded firefox twice, and I can't find where to delete the one I don't need, it's not allowing me to use the start button to change users or anything else. I would like to know how to delete the one firefox browser, I can't get into the area where I can add or delete anything, without being able to use the start button to navigate anywhere. I think I just need to get rid of the second firefox, my troubles started when I downloaded the second one. thanks

I have two Mac systems, a 2018 Intel Mac Mini, and an M1 2020 MacBook Pro, both running Sonoma 14.7.6. On the Mac Mini, Firefox opens to the familar "Recommended Stories". On the MacBook Pro Firefox opens to a long list of items I'm not the least bit interested in. How do I get the MacBook Pro back to nothing but the "Recommended Stories"? I don't want/need NHL, NFL, NBA,Television, MLB, Pro Soccer, Education, Food, Health, Parenting, etc., etc., etc.

Just switched to Firefox. I made a work firefox profile and a home firefox profile. I'd like to have them both open simultaneously in different windows.

When I go to `about:profiles` I see both profiles there but I don't see the button to launch a profile in a new window or an option to open one. In Chrome it's really easy you click on your user icon on the top right and can toggle to whatever profile.

I can however make a new default profile, and launch that in a new window, and then log in to my home profile. But if I close that profile accidentally I have to make a whole new profile and do everything again. So already today I've accidentally closed my home profile 3 times and I've had to make 3 new profiles to sign in to home again.

It's really clunky. Is there an easier way to do this?

I don't know what happened, but I had to restart FireFox, and now I can no longer log into my TMRS (www.tmrs.org). I never had an issue before and this is the only website that I can't log into. Now I get a popup that states: Unable to connect, Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.tmrs.org. I ran all the troubleshoot modes available on FireFox, reported it as a broken site and nothing has helped. I have added the website IP address to my anti-virus program as a safe site and that hasn't helped either.

Last week I lost all of my bookmarks. It was suggested to log back in and that retrieved my bookmarks in the tool bar. When I click on the black star in browser to save a new bookmark none of my bookmarks show up? Why are they in my tool bar but missing from the save bookmark option? Marty

I want all tabs to work in the foreground, regardless of whether they are visible or not. Some websites will pause loading if you don't switch to them after opening them in the background. Switching to the background during loading will also pause the loading process.

With firefoxs new update, I decided to try using my own photos are the update advertises. I do personal photography on the side and have lots of high resolution images. When I upload my images to use as my homescreen picture, it is zoomed in 3x or so. I was wondering if there was an pixel count I should be adhearing to for optimally fitting images on the home screen? Or a settings tab somewhere to adjust the fit of the image.

V/R, Timothy

Hi everyone

I used Refresh Firefox option and it created "Old Firefox Data" folder on my desktop.

Awesome stuff. Sadly I cant get rid of it, here is why:

1. At first it said that the folder is used by another program and I cant delete it because of that. Cool, I decided to uninstall Firefox and make a clean install, so I have space to delete the folder too.

2. Long story short, it didnt work. I removed Firefox and tried to delete that folder, but wait for it, yeah I cant because I need permission from MYSELF. Awesome stuff.

3. I decided to use safe mode, so I used run command to run msconfig and I changed it to boot in to safe mode. But wait for it! YES! Its bugged and I cant login in safe mode, because pin is useless and it doesnt give me option to use password, so after hour of various things I got back to my normal mode via CMD commands. THANK YOU MICROSOFT.

4. So now Im stuck with the lovely "Old Firefox Data" folder, which cant be removed normally, neither in safe mode and wait for it! NEITHER WITH ADMIN CMD, not even the takeown /f "Old Firefox Data" /r command. THANK YOU MOZILLA!

So is there someone knowledgeable enough to help me to get rid of that folder pretty please? Like really a lot please.

I have logged into my account on three computers: personal linux, personal windows, and work. Previously, I could easily disable the extension on one computer and it continued to work on others. Now, when the "Plasma integrations" extension is disabled on Windows computers, it is also disabled on linux. If I disable some extensions on my work computer, it will also be disabled on my personal computers. If I disable extension synchronization on my work computer, it will also be disabled on others. That is, if I log in to my account on a new device, I will have to manually install extensions. Question: How can I return to the old behavior, when it was possible to disable installed extensions on only one device?

I recently installed Firefox for security reasons, but I now realize it might be not better than other browsers... I had a (good) number of tabs opened in 12 Simple Tab Groups, which were opening all right everytime I restarted my computer. But today, Firefox opened and oh, all my tabs have disappeared ! All 12 Simple Tab Groups are empty. In the Recently Closed Tabs in History, I only could find and reopen 26 tabs - a very small part of the tabs I had... Please, tell me if there is a solution to recover all my tabs. Is the problem with Firefox or with the Simple Tab extension?

After auto updating this morning, my entire profile was pretty much broken, no history, tabs, bookmarks, plus cookies and local storage seeminlyg disabled, strict browser privacy enabled.

I was able to restore the profile from my TimeMachine backup to before the update and recover history/bookmarks etc, but now it claims the various databases are readonly/not accessable.

My only viable solution has been to install Firefox 141 and copy my restored profile data into a new profile created by Firefox 141 (not Dev Edition). Firefox doesn't think the same DBs are read only.

Running Dev Edition 142b1 against the same fresh profile generates the errors attached. NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED suggests permissions, but I have double checked all those, but given Firefox runs these fine, this looks to be a bug in Dev Edition