Firefox コミュニティフォーラム

I have organized my Win 11 start menu into logical groupings to avoid a long irrational lists of programs requiring me to sort-through each time I want to open another app. I use Firefox frequently enough that it has a 'permanent' place on my taskbar so it is easy to open it and proceed expeditiously.

However, Mozilla has recently decided it will overrule my process by repeatedly adding 'Firefox' as another choice on my start menu -- I delete it each time, only to find they have added it again each time I reboot. I find this to be quite obnoxious and arrogant.

Perhaps I need to consider moving to another browser and uninstall Firefox once an for all....

After updating Firefox to the latest version (154.0) a short while ago, Firefox now insists on adding a “Firefox” icon to my Start Menu every time I open it. I do not need or want this additional icon, as I already have all the Firefox icons I want in exactly the place(s) where I want them. I am not finding a toggle for this behavior anywhere in the Settings menu structure, although I might be overlooking it. Is there a way to stop this annoying behavior besides rolling back to version 153?

(I am running Windows 11 on a desktop PC with all updates installed, and Firefox is set as my default browser.)

On two different Windows machines, current Firefox (153.0.1), the alt-d shortcut stops working: it does nothing until I restart Firefox. Then it works again for a while. I've tried about:keyboard and it's not reset there. I tried all combinations: Clear, Reset, setting it to alt-d explicitly. None of those worked. But when I set it to alt-a, that worked--but then resetting back to alt-d again didn't work. That shortcut is muscle memory at this point, so it's quite distressing. Not sure what diagnostics might be available to help here, happy to try anything.

Full disclosure: Both machines are Windows 10 but since that's stable, I find it hard to believe that's related.

Create custom DNS providers list to "DNS over HTTPS" "Choose provider" menu (Settings > Privacy & Security - DNS over HTTPS) This can be applied to any Mozilla based browser.

1. Write about:config in url-bar and press [Enter].

2. In the "Search preference name" box Find the "doh-rollout.provider-list" value.

2.a. Create it if not exist by choosing: "String" value and press "+" (add). 2.b. On the right side of the value, Write the '*one string code'. - (if a code already exist, select all code [Ctrl+A] & copy [Ctrl+C] and paste [Ctrl+V] in a notepad and Save it so to keep backup with the previous setting.)

The '*one string code': [ { "UIName": "Cloudflare: Mozilla uri: (https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Cloudflare: No Filtering uri: (https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Quad9: No Malicious blocking uri: (https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "LibreDNS: No Filtering uri: (https://doh.libredns.gr/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://doh.libredns.gr/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Wikimedia: No Filtering uri: (https://wikimedia-dns.org/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://wikimedia-dns.org/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "DNS4All: No Filtering uri: (https://doh.dns4all.eu/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://doh.dns4all.eu/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Mullvad: No Filtering uri: (https://dns.mullvad.net/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://dns.mullvad.net/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "OpenDNS: No Filtering uri: (https://doh.opendns.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://doh.opendns.com/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------",

   "": ""  },   

{ "UIName": "Cloudflare: * Malware blocking uri: (https://security.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://security.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Cloudflare: * Malware & Adult content blocking uri: (https://family.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://family.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "Quad9: * Malware blocking uri: (https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query"  },    

{ "UIName": "LibreDNS: * Adblocking uri: (https://doh.libredns.gr/noads)",

   "uri": "https://doh.libredns.gr/noads"  },    

{ "UIName": "AdGuard: * Ad-Blocking uri: (https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query)",

   "uri": "https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query"  }    

]

You can modify the code based on your preferences to change the "Choose provider" menu list.

Hi everyone, I am using a MacBook Air M3 with 8GB of RAM. Due to my workflow, I heavily utilize multiple windows simultaneously across both Brave and Firefox. Unfortunately, this heavy usage has caused my CPU and RAM demand to go through the roof.After doing some research, I was advised to switch back to Safari as my default browser to conserve system resources, and to use other browsers only as secondary tools.

To make this transition work, I need to prevent Firefox from automatically launching every time I start up my laptop. I do not want Firefox to open until I explicitly choose to launch it myself. I have searched through every conceivable setting, option menu, and help file, but I cannot find a solution to this basic issue. If I cannot find a way to stop this auto-start behavior, I will be forced to uninstall Firefox altogether, which I would prefer to avoid.How can I definitively stop Firefox from opening automatically on system boot?

Thank you for your help.

the go back to previous page shortcut is annoying and it kept messing with my work and I want to disable it I use touchpad and accidentally goes back to previous page all the time and sometimes I have to redo my unsaved work because of this. Please disable this arrow in a blue circle thing

ive been using firefox for a long time now and i appreciate how compared to other browsers i have less ai jammed down my throat. i thought the crossword widget added recently was fun and ive been enjoying it every now and then. so i really do wonder, why would firefox put the ai-child-porn-lover who begged jeffrey epstein to let him come to his pedophile island on the crossword?

i really think you need to reconsider your editors or reconsider your morals.

sincerely, a very disappointed user of over a decade!

After recent update, The auto scroll feature will not stop working no matter what I do. I have unchecked the box and have set all auto scroll Items ti false but the auto scroll will not turn off. How can this be turned off or a new release / up date? I have gone from 32 bit to 64 bit after the last update as well.

I have no desire to interact with Google, Bing, or Perplexity, and as a rule I don't want outside parties (such as Firefox/Mozilla) deciding for me which search engines or other service providers I see advertising for. (And yes, seeing that "G" logo somewhere is advertising for Google.) I'm assuming that these companies are paying to be pre-loaded as search providers in Firefox, and I understand that Firefox needs this financial support if it's going to continue providing a browser.

After upgrading, I've always gone into the settings and removed these search providers - I don't want to see them offered as search options, and to be honest, I don't even want to see their names in the settings screens.

Now with Firefox 152, I find that I'm not able to delete these pre-loaded search providers anymore. I can turn off a switch to disable them, but there's no way to totally delete them from the list anymore. There's even a [in the documentation] which explicitly says that the pre-loaded search providers cannot be removed, only hidden.

'WHY can I not delete them?

Is there a technical reason, i.e. would the browser stop working if they were removed? Are some companies paying extra to not be delete-able, and it just happens that every one that's pre-loaded in Firefox 152 decided to pay the extra money? Or did Mozilla just make an arbitrary decision to reduce the level of control that users have over their own browsers?

When I press the middle button of mouse and move the mouse to the left (or right) firefox takes that as "back" button and moves to the previous page. This feature is really frustrating when using web based cad-programs that use that combination to move the view.

I have tried to disable all gestures from my firefox but can't get rid of this feature that is really awful.

I would really appreciate the possibility for simple operation without any functionalities like this.

I do not want Firefox to be my default browser, nor to I want it to start when the computer is started. I DO want it to use the same tabs & windows as the previous time I closed it.

But every time Firefox updates automatically, it resets those setting back to te default. How can I get it to keep those setting?

When a piece of text is drag-and-dropped onto FF, FF navigates to that text. So, when I am filling a form and accidentally drop the text outside a text field, FF navigates away from the page with the form I am trying to fill. I have been using FF for more than 10 years and never found this behavior to be useful. Only annoying and counter productive. If FF at least opened a new tab, I could close it and not lose the work done so far. But ideally there would be no navigation at all. Dropping a piece of text on a webpage should not trigger any navigation. I need a setting to disable that behavior completely. PLEASE!!! 🙏

I downloaded videos on a thumb drive. In order to open them, Mozilla asks me to sign into Firefox again and again to open the thumb drive even though I am in File Explorer on my computer, and want to see the videos to open up there. When I try to sign on to Firefox, its always wrong, even though I put in the correct signon.

Bottom line, I do not want to have to go to Firefox to look at videos, I want to see them only in my File Explorer.