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Viewing streams on Twitch.tv quickly become corrupted (colorful static)

Hello, I am suffering from an odd issue when using twitch.tv. In short, when viewing peoples streams, my video feed will usually turn into colorful static (aka "clown vom… (read more)

Hello, I am suffering from an odd issue when using twitch.tv. In short, when viewing peoples streams, my video feed will usually turn into colorful static (aka "clown vomit"). I suspect that the issue is coming from Firefox, but I can't be certain. I am using a newly-bought laptop and the issue could be caused by a large number of things, theoretically. Here is what I know:

  • When viewing on twitch.tv with quality 360p or higher, the video feed will usually (95%) become colorful static within 1 minute or less. When this happens, the video feed does not ever recover until page is refreshed or quality is changed. (I know a bit about video encoding, so this seems extremely odd to me, if it were due to a networking thing that lost some packets, a full-image frame should come alone sooner or later and fix things, but that never seems to happen)
  • The video feed is far less likely to become corrupted when viewing at 160p, but can still happen.
  • The ads may become corrupted in the same way that the main video feed can.
  • When the feed is corrupted, the rest of the Twitch interface (pause/play, volume, quality select) is extremely laggy.
  • When the feed is corrupted, if I pause the stream, sometimes the paused corrupted image is not completely stationary! There will be flickering in small portions of the image, looking similar to texture fighting in 3d rendering, flickering between two equally-but-differently corrupted versions of the image
  • The issue never appears when using Chrome to watch twitch.tv. This is what makes me think Firefox is the culprit, not Twitch or networking or graphics drivers.
  • Disabling my browser addons does not help.
  • Private browsing window does not help.
  • Clearing my browser cache does not help.
  • I have had the issue happen on Youtube exactly once in 2 weeks, not sure if that's related or not, I think it was a normal "lost some network traffic but fixed itself the next time a full frame was received" thing.
  • Video live streams on Youtube don't get corrupted the way they do on Twitch.

Can someone please give me advice for how to fix this? Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there a way for me to get deeper under the hood of either Twitch or Firefox and more closely debug the video stream when it fails?

Asked by brian.henson1 3 weeks ago

Answered by brian.henson1 3 weeks ago

Firefox 135.0 cant reach google.com

With Firefox 135.0 i cant reach google.com but google.se i can. I make daily images of C: and today i managed to go back one day to 2025-02-06 but accidentally chooses 2… (read more)

With Firefox 135.0 i cant reach google.com but google.se i can.

I make daily images of C: and today i managed to go back one day to 2025-02-06 but accidentally chooses 2025-01-06 and with the older version of firefox i could reach google.com

I have tried to delete cookies. DNS over HTTPS off. No proxy in connection. Add-ons off but to no avail.

Asked by Lars-Ivar Carlsén 3 days ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 17 hours ago

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Can't Alt+Tab or otherwise use keyboard to switch between multiple Firefox windows

When a tab is opened or moved into a new window (image 2.png), the additional windows will disappear from the Windows taskbar after a few moments (image 3.png) and cannot… (read more)

When a tab is opened or moved into a new window (image 2.png), the additional windows will disappear from the Windows taskbar after a few moments (image 3.png) and cannot be accessed via Alt+Tab, the only way to reach that window is via dragging the windows around or with the Firefox View tab.

Asked by Bob Bobstien 1 week ago

Answered by Bob Bobstien 18 hours ago

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New Tab not showing Recent Activity anymore.

I have Firefox's New Tab set as my home page, since I'm choosing to divorce myself from political doomscrolling for the next four years. The New Tab page is perfect for h… (read more)

I have Firefox's New Tab set as my home page, since I'm choosing to divorce myself from political doomscrolling for the next four years. The New Tab page is perfect for having frequently visited sites at the top, Pocket stories I can curate in the middle, and what used to be a history of articles and sites I've read most recently in "Recent Activity" along the bottom. Within the last few days, "Recent Activity" has been blank, and will no longer keep track of articles I've recently read. I've tried clearing the browser history and cookies, and it came back for a moment, but quickly went back to being blank. And the major downside to clearing the browser is that my four rows of most frequently visited sites gets wiped clean also, and I have to spend time getting them back on the list. I do not have Firefox set to automatically clear history upon closing it. I've tried turning "Recent Activity" off and on with the page's Settings (cog in the bottom right corner). I'd really like to have this back, as it can help me find recently read content (especially Pocket content) easier than wading through the History log. Any help would be appreciated.

Asked by Dave F 3 weeks ago

Answered by Dave F 1 week ago

Youtube at max 720p?

Do you know of a mod that won't allow Youtube to have a resolution higher than 720p, including when embedded? I almost-always have Youtube at 480p when watching through t… (read more)

Do you know of a mod that won't allow Youtube to have a resolution higher than 720p, including when embedded? I almost-always have Youtube at 480p when watching through their site. I noticed that when watching a video on another site and that it's embedding Youtube, that the resolution is higher > 480p and in those cases it's not rare to be > 720p.

I'd like a mod or setting so that when it's active that Youtube can't have a resolution higher than 720p, including when embedded. Any idea if there's something alike?

Thank you kindly for your help

Asked by DynV 2 days ago

Last reply by James 1 day ago

Updates and other

1)Why did my "thumbnails" to linked stories on my firefox homepage stop loading yesterday? Still not getting them. 2) I received a message a while ago that I need to upd… (read more)

1)Why did my "thumbnails" to linked stories on my firefox homepage stop loading yesterday? Still not getting them.

2) I received a message a while ago that I need to update firefox or ti will stop working properly. My questions are: - when do I have to update by? - when Microsoft sends me a required update (almost every 3 months or so) they have to restart my laptop ... that wipes out my bookmarks. Will that happen with a the firefox update? That's why I've been reluctant to update.

I do backup and re-enter my bookmarks from a USB drive and reload them after a restart ... but then I also have to reenter passwords for several regular sites and it's a pain in the ass.

Thank you in advance

Asked by prenticeehret 2 days ago

Last reply by James 1 day ago

"Your Firefox has been updated" message won't go away

Every time I start Firefox after closing it, I get a screen saying "Your Firefox has been updated" plus an announcement about editing PDFs in Firefox. My degault home sc… (read more)

Every time I start Firefox after closing it, I get a screen saying "Your Firefox has been updated" plus an announcement about editing PDFs in Firefox. My degault home screen does not appear unless I click the "home" icon. This is frustrating, because the update message just won't go away.

The URL for that irritating message is: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0/whatsnew/?oldversion=134.0.2&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_source=update&utm_campaign=135

I've attached a screenshot to show this, hoping you can suggest a way to fix the issue.

Asked by peithmans 3 days ago

Last reply by peithmans 1 day ago

Firefox crashes very often

hello, i have a huge issue with my firefox and i cant seem to fix it or somehow understand the cause why my tabs sometimes browser crashes unexpectedly and sometimes i ge… (read more)

hello, i have a huge issue with my firefox and i cant seem to fix it or somehow understand the cause why my tabs sometimes browser crashes unexpectedly and sometimes i get a blue screen on my laptop. maybe there is a problem with my pc but it doesnt change the fact why firefox tabs are crashing really often this is one of my latest crash reports: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/3721bbdd-5f3a-4b02-bd0d-60c1e0250208

Asked by johny dep1 2 days ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 day ago

FF on Mac: Control+Enter used to complete the address bar entry with .com

This does not work anymore and I get an edit drop down with copy, paste etc It works on Chrome and Safari. I checked the config for "browser.fixup.alternate.suffix" and i… (read more)

This does not work anymore and I get an edit drop down with copy, paste etc It works on Chrome and Safari. I checked the config for "browser.fixup.alternate.suffix" and it is set to .com.

Asked by I i 2 days ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 day ago

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Unable to sign in to Reddit

Recently I have been unable to log into Reddit. Firefox is up to date, cookies and cache has been cleared, ublock origin has been disabled, still doesn't work. I can clic… (read more)

Recently I have been unable to log into Reddit. Firefox is up to date, cookies and cache has been cleared, ublock origin has been disabled, still doesn't work. I can click 'Log In', enter my username and password, and then it is impossible for me to click the Log In button to advance. Left clicking the button, pressing enter, pressing tab until it is highlighted then pressing space, none of these work. I can open Edge and log in no problem. What do I need to do to fix this?

Asked by christopher.kalmin 6 days ago

Answered by jonzn4SUSE 6 days ago

After the update, the mouse wheel in the browser stopped working.

After the last update, the mouse wheel in the browser stopped working. This is very inconvenient, the pages do not scroll with the mouse wheel, only with the arrows on th… (read more)

After the last update, the mouse wheel in the browser stopped working. This is very inconvenient, the pages do not scroll with the mouse wheel, only with the arrows on the keyboard.

Asked by vega_90 2 days ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 day ago

STILL A BIG PROBLEM - History dissappeared and have to manually reinstall all add-ons after upgrade

Hello, I DREAD it when I'm FORCED to upgrade. When will the developers put a priority rush on this!! If you want people to love your product and READILY upgrade to new… (read more)

Hello,

I DREAD it when I'm FORCED to upgrade.

When will the developers put a priority rush on this!!

If you want people to love your product and READILY upgrade to newer versions PLEASE fix this.

Thx

Firefox user

Asked by FirefoxUser 4 days ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 2 days ago

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Firefox Nightly 137.0a1 bookmarks list of second level overrides 1st level

Click on bookmarks, the drop-down menu appears, click or move cursor on an entry in the list, the new drop-down-menu of 2nd level appears. If the list contains many entri… (read more)

Click on bookmarks, the drop-down menu appears, click or move cursor on an entry in the list, the new drop-down-menu of 2nd level appears. If the list contains many entries the 2nd level drop-down menu overrides 1st level. This does not happen with firefox preceding version. Note: attaching a picture because a webm video is not accepted.

Asked by corradoventu 2 days ago

Answered by corradoventu 2 days ago

Linux HomePage UI - shortcuts view much worse after recent update

Hello, I've been using Firefox as my main browser for work for a while and I've always been happy with it. However, a recent update (which happened a few days ago) seems … (read more)

Hello, I've been using Firefox as my main browser for work for a while and I've always been happy with it. However, a recent update (which happened a few days ago) seems to have messed up the UI when it comes to homepage shortcuts. They became much smaller and narrower, while the font seemingly became larger. Now only a few letters fit in the descriptions of every shortcut, which makes it frustratingly difficult to identify them. Please fix this! I've included a screenshot of what my homepage looks now at 100% zoom and with minimum font size 9 selected. There's so much unused space to the sides, while the shortcuts text gets cut after only a few symbols. Increasing the zoom doesn't help.

Asked by kzvc 2 days ago

Last reply by Agent virtuel 2 days ago

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Trying to diagnose Firefox issues.

Hi, I have been experiencing issues lately with Firefox. Attempting to install it often comes up with errors suggesting file corruption but I eventually got it to install… (read more)

Hi, I have been experiencing issues lately with Firefox. Attempting to install it often comes up with errors suggesting file corruption but I eventually got it to install. However, now it crashes as soon as I open it and in the past before a system reboot on my PC, Firefox tabs crashed very often. I'm trying to diagnose the issue. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox multiple times.

As my laptop is currently experiencing other issues, if there's a specific driver that is causing trouble, it'd be great to figure out what's wrong and what is causing Firefox to not function.

My specs are: Asus Rog Strix G614JIR - (GPU: 4070RTX, CPU: IntelCore i9, SSD 1TB, 32GB RAM).

I have attached the most recent crash. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

Asked by Collin Grey 5 days ago

Answered by TyDraniu 4 days ago

I can't scoll through ad pictures on ebay

i want to look through ad pictures on ebay but firefox keeps stopping me opening new pictures for the same ad, if i open an ad initially it lets me view each picture then… (read more)

i want to look through ad pictures on ebay but firefox keeps stopping me opening new pictures for the same ad, if i open an ad initially it lets me view each picture then it starts blocking them, so that i can only view the main picture, its really annoying and i'll have to stop using firefox if it continues because it makes buying on ebay impossible and it's also doing similar things on other sites, i've reset the advanced tracking to standard and added an exemption for ebay but its still doing it ?????

Asked by Roger Jones 2 days ago