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Firefox crashes whenever I minimise it

I often need to have Firefox open on half my screen and another doc open on the other half. Every time I click the 'minimise' button on the top right of my Firefox scree… (read more)

I often need to have Firefox open on half my screen and another doc open on the other half.

Every time I click the 'minimise' button on the top right of my Firefox screen, it freezes then crashes. I have to close it, reopen it, and then it will minimise. This has been happening for months.

Any ideas?

Asked by rebecca_r_horn 8 months ago

Last reply by rebecca_r_horn 8 months ago

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Facebook login

When using Firefox, Facebook recently began insisting that I use a second device to obtain permission to log into my Facebook account. This is relatively new, and Edge s… (read more)

When using Firefox, Facebook recently began insisting that I use a second device to obtain permission to log into my Facebook account. This is relatively new, and Edge still lets me log in without issue. How can I make Firefox return to the easier login system?

Asked by ggfossen 9 months ago

Last reply by ggfossen 8 months ago

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How can I stop a piece of history from being shown in "Firefox Suggestions", which was made on an unapproachable device?

I just want to stop a piece of my own history from being shown on "Firefox Suggestion", which was made with a firefox browser on my previous device and is relatively priv… (read more)

I just want to stop a piece of my own history from being shown on "Firefox Suggestion", which was made with a firefox browser on my previous device and is relatively private.(I know I can do this by modifying "Search Suggestions->Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results", but I would like to preserve the function itself). That device is permanently unapproachable, and so is that browser. I tried "Clear recent history -> Everything", but it didn't work as expected and that is still shown. I think clear all my history(not only those made on this currently used device) may help, how can I do it?

Asked by cheng.cheng56 8 months ago

Answered by cheng.cheng56 8 months ago

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drag and drop

whenever i try to drag and drop it will not let me i am using latest Firefox version I went to about:con fig and selected launcher and put it to true and still c… (read more)

whenever i try to drag and drop it will not let me i am using latest Firefox version I went to about:con fig and selected launcher and put it to true and still can not drag and drop my version is 123.001 64bit

Asked by Mary 9 months ago

Last reply by Mary 9 months ago

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Recent "refresh firefox. Now auto login does not work

Firefox 123.0.1 W10 Pro. Recent refresh of Firefox, suggested by Mozilla, due to some HTTP conflict. Refresh created a new profile and backed up/saved old profile. No… (read more)

Firefox 123.0.1 W10 Pro.

Recent refresh of Firefox, suggested by Mozilla, due to some HTTP conflict.

Refresh created a new profile and backed up/saved old profile. Now can not get auto login or auto fill to work. Will not stay logged in when leaving a page.

Can I remove the new profile and use the old one?

Asked by alphonsobellinni 9 months ago

Answered by Infinity__ 9 months ago

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Copy and paste in Firefox on Window 11 stops working

I'm using Firefox on Windows 11. Frequently, copy-and-paste quits working. I restart the browser and refresh the browser; sometimes it starts working, but most of the t… (read more)

I'm using Firefox on Windows 11.

Frequently, copy-and-paste quits working.

I restart the browser and refresh the browser; sometimes it starts working, but most of the time it doesn't.

Restarting my computer seems to restore the functionality.

This has been going on for a few months now. Using version 123.0.1 (64-bit).

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Asked by Roberto 8 months ago

Last reply by Roberto 8 months ago

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Yahoo search opening new tabs

Just recently been getting yahoo search engine results to open in new tabs rather than the same tab. I have searched for other users that have the same problem and have d… (read more)

Just recently been getting yahoo search engine results to open in new tabs rather than the same tab. I have searched for other users that have the same problem and have done the tracking protection thing and deleted cookies, but nothing helped. Also tried Troubleshooting Mode and it still persists. Any other ideas that may help? I'd appreciate it.

Asked by Orlando Soto (DeviantWolf) 9 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 8 months ago

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This page isn't redirecting properly (at wits' end)

For a couple of months, I've been getting the error message "This page isn't redirecting properly" whenever I use Firefox. The problem doesn't seem to happen when I'm cli… (read more)

For a couple of months, I've been getting the error message "This page isn't redirecting properly" whenever I use Firefox. The problem doesn't seem to happen when I'm clicking on a bookmark, a saved link in Firefox's history, or a Google search result, but it happens almost every time when there is some sort of redirect involved (for example, from a link in an email newsletter to the linked website, or from a login/authentication page to the website's main page). This used to clear up after hitting "Try again" four or five times, but this week it's become stuck in an infinite loop, making some websites unusable.

I've tried the following: - Clearing cookies and cache for specific websites - Clearing cookies and cache for the entire browser - Starting Firefox in troubleshooting mode to see if the problem is with a specific extension - Deleting Firefox entirely and redownloading it - Deleting the cookies.sqlite, cookies.sqlite-shm and cookies.sqlite-wal files and restoring from a manual backup as per this answer (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1403719)

None of those have fixed the problem. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to do here? I am frustrated and out of ideas.

Asked by andy.tisdel 8 months ago

Last reply by andy.tisdel 8 months ago

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Favorite shortcuts in new tab randomly deleted

I have pinned various shortcuts in the New tab to link to websites I frequently use. I use two different laptops and both are configured the same. However the New tab r… (read more)

I have pinned various shortcuts in the New tab to link to websites I frequently use. I use two different laptops and both are configured the same. However the New tab randomly clears the pinned shortcuts. I have attached two screenshots illustrating the changes.

I'm not aware of anything I do that caused the shortcuts to be deleted. When they are pinned I think they should be there permanently.

Asked by rousea 9 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 8 months ago

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When are touchscreen gesture navigations going to be supported?

In Chromium you can go a page backward or forward by swiping one finger to the left or right. This works really well. I have been missing this feature in Firefox for year… (read more)

In Chromium you can go a page backward or forward by swiping one finger to the left or right. This works really well. I have been missing this feature in Firefox for years now. Without it navigation in the browser is tedious on Linux tablets or phones.

Is something similar ever going to be implemented?

Asked by jan.claussen10 8 months ago

Last reply by jan.claussen10 3 months ago

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Sentences randomly repeating in written text.

Hi there, I've been having an issue lately where random text I've written is being inserted into other areas of my paragraphs in online text blocks. This mainly happens… (read more)

Hi there,

I've been having an issue lately where random text I've written is being inserted into other areas of my paragraphs in online text blocks. This mainly happens when I hop between paragraphs and try to edit content.

IE: If I wrote this statement and went back to correct something above, this sentence would "somehow" get added into the spot where I'm editing. It makes NO sense and is only happening within Firefox. Is there a way to fix it? I've noticed this happening on both Facebook and Indeed now too...so, I think it could be more of an issue with Firefox than certain sites.

The image is an example of the text being added in and reinserted. Thanks in advance for the help!

Asked by renorris3 9 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 8 months ago

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Bookmarks are automatically saved to Bookmarks Menu not selected folder

In Windows 11 on a new laptop: I save bookmarks to a selected folder but then each one always saves automatically to the Bookmarks Menu, not the folder. Then I have to fi… (read more)

In Windows 11 on a new laptop: I save bookmarks to a selected folder but then each one always saves automatically to the Bookmarks Menu, not the folder. Then I have to find it and move it to the folder I selected in the first place. How do I save directly to a folder??

Asked by amklingen 8 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 8 months ago

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Disable extensions in Kaspersky's protected browser

Hello, Is there a way to disable extensions in Kaspersky's protected browser ? I use it for all banking operations, and sometimes they disrupt usage... … (read more)

Hello,

Is there a way to disable extensions in Kaspersky's protected browser ? I use it for all banking operations, and sometimes they disrupt usage...

Asked by duf666 9 months ago

Last reply by duf666 9 months ago

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freac.org and GitHub does not open... only via Google

As stated above: freac.org and GitHub does not open via Firefox (set as default browser)... (timeouts) Access is possible via Google, after signing in to old Google accou… (read more)

As stated above: freac.org and GitHub does not open via Firefox (set as default browser)... (timeouts) Access is possible via Google, after signing in to old Google account. If if "settings"/exceptions,etc. need to be made, how to??

Asked by MSRefugee 9 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 9 months ago

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This video can't be played

When attempting to play some videos with Firefox browser, mainly from X (Twitter) I receive "This video can't be played." However, I can't play them with Safari either. B… (read more)

When attempting to play some videos with Firefox browser, mainly from X (Twitter) I receive "This video can't be played." However, I can't play them with Safari either. But it will play on Safari on another computer. I don't know what is wrong. Could it be some settings on my computer? I'm not a computer ace but know some things. Thank You for any help/ advice.

Asked by Clay 8 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 8 months ago

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Syncing my Dead Computer to Another Desktop computer that I have

My Lenovo crashed we are getting ready to reinstall Windows and we have tried all the options to find the Hidden File in Notepad recovery. Our last step is to see if it w… (read more)

My Lenovo crashed we are getting ready to reinstall Windows and we have tried all the options to find the Hidden File in Notepad recovery. Our last step is to see if it will copy the drive and makeup a backup of the C drive and still keep the files. If not then I have lost my Lenovo bookmarks.

I am on my old HP Desktop and the bookmarks are older on that one as I have used the Lenovo for the last two years.

Both the Lenovo and the HP have the Sync option on. The last time the Lenovo was Synced was Feb 24 I think it was. I thought we could sync the Lenovo to the HP but that doesn't work. We have enough copies of the data from the HP and can reinstall those if need be.

We took FF off the computer and reinstalled like it was a new machine and was looking to see if we would sync with the Lenovo, but somehow it synced with some version and pulled up the Old HP info.

Questions: 1 - Is the anyway to find the file in the CMD Notepad version when you can't get a search or look for hidden files option. 2 - Is there any way to get the accounts to sync with the Lenovo if there is even a backup? 3 - Any other help or suggestions would be helpful!

Thank you sooo much!!

Steve

Asked by steve.truels 9 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 9 months ago