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I started getting nonstop popup warnings yesterday about trackers and viruses. the warnings include Mcafee wanting to sell me something, I have not used Mcafee in years. I have Norton as my protection and when I do a full scan it does not show any viruses.

I was using Chrome because I have to. Today, I wanted some semblance of searching that isn't based on the profile Google has of me so I opened Firefox.

First thing Firefox did was not ask, but informed me that it was being update. I waited - unamused- and when it was done I had a page of more stuff about Firefox, but no browser. Just huge ads. Url said it was Firefox so ...

No access to it as a browser. No hints as to what just happened with the unrequested update.

This isn't about updates. This is about Firefox on my desktop so it won't show an abundance ads about Firefox. with an abundant amount of ads.

So, how do I get Firefox back and being a browser?

Mozilla doesn't have to sell me on Firefox. I was sold on Firefox when Mozilla was first getting it's browser online.

Your response is genuinely appreciated - really.

~r

On some sites, not all, my keyboard 'arrow/hand' will not respond to filling in the circle in front of questions asked like, 'how will you pay' or 'indicate your response'... In settings i saw it suggested 'enable Java Script' but i don't know how to accomplish that. thank you.

Please help... Within the last couple of FireFox (FF) updates — PDF's will no longer save to external drive. The drive is secure, not full... and have no problems saving files there — except when using print to PDF on FF.

Went into Download Subfile Under Settings:

Current Setting: Save Files to: Downloads / Ask Where to Save

Went further into subfiles: Changed Some to 'Always Ask' Is there a way to reset what the settings were? Concerned I may have changed some that should not have been changed. Changed to: 'Always Ask'

Content Set to ‘Always Ask’: AV1 Image File (AVIF) com.logitech.logioptionsplus irc ircs Microsoft Word MPEG Audio PNG Image Portable Document Format (PDF) tg WEBARCHIVE file webcal

Content Set to ‘Save File’: Extensible Markup Language (XML) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Content Set to ‘Open in FireFox’: JPEG XL Image File WebP Image

Set PDF to 'Always Ask' - Did Not Resolve the Printing Problem.

Thank you for your time & assistance. Appreciated.

Please quit changing my homepage short cuts. Everytime Firefox updates, they change and have useless shortcuts in their place causing me to redo my homepage constantly. I m about to swap browsers over this. please leave my homepage alone

I just opened Firefox and got a big splash screen that said your VPN would be free until January. However, there is nothing to indicate that it is active and when I click on the vpn button, nothing happens.

My system • Windows 11 on a Dell laptop. • Firefox Version 157, my default browser. • Norton 360 Standard. • Two Firefox profiles; the warning appears in both. • Firefox Troubleshooting Mode does not eliminate the warning https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sslkeylogfile-warning?utm_source=chatgpt.com

What I have observed The warning appears on Firefox network-error pages, including when the internet is disconnected or I enter an incorrect URL. A particularly reproducible example occurs after I successfully log in to Kotak Net Banking and select Help → Raise a Query. Firefox then displays a connection/privacy warning associated with the embedded page. I do not see the same behaviour in Chrome or Firefox Private Browsing when performing the equivalent Kotak steps. Troubleshooting already completed 1. Norton Safe Web HTTPS scanning was disabled and re-enabled without resolving the issue. 2. QUIC/HTTP3 scanning, WebSocket Protocol Scanning and DNS/DoH scanning were individually tested without resolving it. 3. Firefox Enterprise Policies are inactive. 4. I found no SSLKEYLOGFILE entry in either Windows User Variables or System Variables. 5. Norton and Dell malware scans found no malware. 6. The warning also occurs when I connect through a mobile phone hotspot rather than my usual BSNL connection. Questions for Mozilla's technical contributors 1. Does this warning establish that Firefox detects SSLKEYLOGFILE, or could another mechanism produce the same message? 2. Can the variable be inherited by Firefox from a parent process or injected into its running process even when it is absent from the Windows User and System Variables? 3. What is the safest way to identify which process or security product is setting it on Windows 11? 4. Is there a known interaction between Firefox 157 and Norton 360 Standard that could explain this behaviour? 5. What evidence should I collect to distinguish a Norton issue from a Firefox issue without disabling security protections or modifying Windows settings? I am not looking to disable security features indiscriminately. I want to identify the actual cause and, if Norton is responsible, determine the precise setting that needs attention. I would particularly appreciate a response from a contributor with Windows networking, Firefox TLS or security-software diagnostic experience. Thank you.

Updated to 160.0 a few days ago on my laptop. Went to view my History for reference today, only to find today's...and only today's...History, with NO previous dates. Hmmm and grrr. OK, am I logged in? Yes. Hmmm. OK, I share Sync with my mobile device; maybe they're "backed up" there. I use quotes because the unchecking of the History box in Sync could/will wipe them. So I looked at my mobile device, and the History check box was unchecked. Hmmm, possibly not good. History goes back at least 2 weeks, good. Last auto-sync 1-hour ago. I remember unchecking the box, for memory reasons, previously, some time ago. OK, let's check the box now, to Sync today's History from the laptop (still working on the mobile device...). The mobile device took a couple of minutes to Sync; the only device it was Syncing with, the laptop, only had 15 History pages in total! So what took so long? After that, I went to the laptop, and initiated Sync from that browser. At least a couple of minutes later, it was done, and the History was restored/recovered. QUESTION: Where was it restored from? Firefox account cloud backup storage via Sync? Local browser storage on my mobile device via Sync? Was this a glitch in vers. 160.0? release? Was there any instruction to re-Sync on the "What's New in Firefox 160.0" webpage? (Good thing I know a few things! But this is taking my time to diagnose!)