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I turned off my HP computer with Windows 11 on August 1. Everything was working fine at that time. When I turned it on again on August 18, everything worked except email. I can get email on my iphone, but not on my computer. I spent over an hour trouble-shooting with someone representing my email server, tds.net, with no resolution. I tried to access my email thru Firefox, my usual browser, as well as thru Edge. The message I get when trying to access my tds email is: "The connection has timed out. The server at mail.tds.net is taking too long to respond." I then went to an IT specialist who tried everything he could, including disabling Bitdefender, and nothing worked. I then tried to open an email account with gmail.com and received this message: "The page isn’t redirecting properly. Firefox can’t connect to the server at accounts.google.com." I don't know what else to try. Everything I read said the it is likely a problem with my anti-virus software, but the problem still exists when that is turned off. Is there anything else I can try???

Hello

I have Firefox 154.0 on my 2 PCs that have Windows 11 and both computers are updated fully as of 22nd August 2026 with both Windows updates and Nvidia drivers.

Background: On my 2 PCs I have an "old" stationary PC with Geforce 1070 TI card, and I have a laptop Asus Vivobook 15 PRO with a Geforce GTX 4600 card. Both computers working fine and no issues so far.

Symptoms: I updated Firefox. Note! I always update Firefox on my computers, so it wasn't a clean install of the browser. And suddenly on both computers there were black artifacts all over screen and flickering when scrolling on Facebook or Youtube. Also even worse on sites were you drag a div and the browser turns into a 1-bit disco.

Workaround that seems to be working for me: I went to about:settings and searched for hardware on my laptop (the one with 4600 card) and searched for "hardware". Then I disabled the hardware acceleration thing, or whatever it was, but unchecking the result after search. Then I restarted my laptop not using hardware acceleration and it worked fine.

Then again I search about:settings for hardware and checked the bottom of the 2, not sure what the first one was. And restarted computer.

Now I don't have those black artifacts and flickering any more.

Not sure if that somehow triggered something that works for fresh installs or not.

Anyway... I can't submit a ticket since I can't reproduce the error it's no point submitting to Bugzilla. But hopefully this makes sense anyways... But I'm pretty sure you guys are aware of this issue already. But posting anyways in case it might help.

For some scrollables, v153 doesn't respect the Mac OS setting to hide scrollbars unless scrolling on page load. If that OS setting is adjusted after the page is loaded, then the page respects it again until refresh, so there's apparently some sort of race condition going on where it's not reading the setting in time before the page loads?

This is not a problem in v152. I downgraded back to v152 and it's working again.

All worked fine before I assidentally updated. Befire, I clicked rmb and then "Copy" and then I could click on a desctop or folder with rmb and "paste". Not the "paste" field id grey like it never been copied in the first place, even though I can paste the image into paint or messanger or anywhere else. I don't want any workarounds like "save as" every time I want to save something. How do I change it back Everything worked fine before I accidentally updated. Before that, I would right-click, hit "Copy" and then paste it on the desktop or in a folder. Now the "Paste" option is greyed out, as if nothing was ever copied, even though I can still paste the image into paint messenger or anywhere else. I don't want workarounds like using "Save As" every time. How do I change it back?

the original error was posted 2015 I had the same quite some times no in 2025/2026

"My Firefox is opening in Administrator mode, which prompts me to agree to allow Firefox to make changes to my PC every time I open it up. I read that I needed to go to Properties and deselect all my compatibility settings but this doesn't work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?"

I have a new mac air and I had to set up a new Firefox/Mozzila account. Since then, I keep getting a Google sign in request. I have a Google email for websites that I don't really use, so am effectively a Google customer, but I prefer to not have this pop up every time I go to a website that has a sign in. How to I get rid of these pop-ups? Thank you, Fi

I was going to look at a friend's website that has an SSL-certificate, has had it for years, which has been working all that time. Now Firefox informs me: "Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for www.wuwei-school.nl. The certificate is only valid for: wuwei-school.nl."

Really? I pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the certificate and I was taught that the "www" component is not important as a prefix for the domain name in a URL. It is just a shorthand code to show that the address is a URL. Can Mozilla fix this issue? Or, at least, explain?

Thanks

Firefox's full message: - - - Be careful. Something doesn’t look right.

Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with www.wuwei-school.nl. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails. Advanced What makes the site look dangerous?

The site is set up to allow only secure connections, but there’s a problem with the site’s certificate. It’s possible that a bad actor is trying to impersonate the site. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. Firefox doesn’t trust this site because its certificate isn’t valid for www.wuwei-school.nl. The certificate is only valid for: wuwei-school.nl. What can you do about it?

Probably nothing, since it’s likely there’s a problem with the site itself. Sites use certificates issued by a certificate authority to prove they’re really who they say they are. But if you’re on a corporate network, your support team may have more info. If you’re using antivirus software, try searching for potential conflicts or known issues.

View the site’s certificate

Learn more about secure connection failures

Error Code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

Aug 21, 2026 11:10:31 PM GMT+2 - - -

Just had occasion to use the word Backpfeifengesicht. Out of curiosity, I highlighted, right-clicked, and chose "Translate to English". Hilarious result: "Baking pipe face".

(The correct answer is "punch-me face".)

Translate is often quite good, but I think it would be nice to be able to report the occasional mistake. So, as I asked in the subject linke: is there a central place to do this?

Thanks.

I have a cmdfile to open specific news websites in a private window. The syntax of the cmdfile line is

start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -private-window %*

with a "timeout /t 2 /nobreak" call for a 2 secs pause between each to give things time to get going (firefox seems to trip up if I rush it with URLs using start command .. probably understandable).

This works, but all "windows" open in a new tab in the existing or initial private window instance. I want them to each open in their own instance of a private window. It seems to be behaving like the option -new-tab rather than a genuine new private window for each URL.

What option/s do I need to use to get a true new private window with just the specified URL open in a single tab for each URL I have coded?

После обновления начали намертво подвисать странички (на данный момент заметил на youtube и в google, при попытке войти в аккаунт кнопка просто не прожимается), как выяснилось причина в том, что новое обновление не совместимо с расширением absplayer, когда его отключаю всё работает исправно. Что делать в такой ситуации, и будет ли патч в ближайшее время? Расширение мне крайне необходимо, а с их стороны никаких обновлений также нет

Hi All,

I had several tab groups. I open and save and close them every day. but since yesterdayI cant find them at all. If I create a new tab group it appears but those old tab groups not! I've tested troubleshooting mode but noting.  

Firefox 154.0 (aarch64), macOS 26.6.2.

I'm encountering some UI errors with the last couple updates. With an update from a couple weeks ago, I noticed when viewing PDFs in the browser, random characters would be invisible, and in Google Sheets I'd notice some cells appeared blank, though selecting them showed that there was text inside. I also noticed disappearing text in a Google Doc I was working on. Now with the update that was just released today (154.0) all PDFs, and entire screens in Sheets and Docs, and other random graphic elements, are showing up as just flat black (see attached screenshot). My job involves working with spreadsheets and PDFs a lot so this is severely impacting my workflow, and I am reluctantly working in a different browser today.

I did a browser refresh, and then I uninstalled and re-installed, and that didn't help anything. What should I try next?

I should note I am using Firefox on Windows 11. I am not experiencing any issues with Firefox on iOS or Mac OS.

Edit: I was able to troubleshoot and fix this by disabling hardware acceleration under performance settings. Problem solved!

helloooo

i am experiencing an issue with firefox where backup (Firefox Backup) is not working since version 148.0

problem: - when I try to create a backup, i get the error: “Hmm, there was a problem with the backup. Please try again in a few minutes.”

what I have already tried: - enabled and disabled backup password - changed the backup folder/location - cleared browser cache - tested across multiple updates (issue persists)

- backup is enabled, but I cannot create one - the error occurs every time - restarting the browser and system did not help

Trying to read the news articles, find something interesting, only for it to be sub-walled or pay-walled.... Been reporting them for over a year, nothing seems to change. I'd imagine a simple script would be able to open these links one at a time and detect a pay/sub-wall immediately and 86 it from the line-up..... You'd think.... But I also think it's safe for us to assume the reason they don't bother fixing this consistent, widely-encountered issue, is because they acquire coinage for unique hits on those pages. It's disappointing AF, because we all know they could fix it with EASE. That is all.

Cannot reach extensions search from Firefox about:addons page. I keep getting the following when I search for any extension.

Error 503 Backend.max_conn reached Backend.max_conn reached Error 54113 Details: cache-bfi-krnt7300022-BFI 1787247272 698900040 Varnish cache server

Firefox lately seems to create problems every time it is updated. I am really leaning towards making MSEdge my default browser because I am tired of these problems cropping up at each major update. I spent several hours this morning making sure my bookmarks and my saved logins and passwords were up to date with what I have in Firefox plus making sure my privacy and security were at it's tightest and strongest there. Major updates for Firefox use to go smoothly and seamlessly but that is now questionable.

Respectfully