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In previous versions, this feature supported background operation; however, since the latest update, opening an article in Reeder immediately triggers the browser to launch. Could you please check this in Firefox and restore the previous, more convenient behavior? Having the browser pop up every single time leads to unnecessary switching between tabs.

Firefox 158's announcement page tells me that Firefox 158 has an Ad Blocker. Nice. I'd like to try it. The announcement page tells me to go to "Settings > Browsing". When I open "Settings", there is no "Browsing" option.

i have a question for the muzilla VPN . until when is it going to be free ? this is really a great option for us and i love it . very useful . but i scare from that needs us to pay money from a specific time . is there and news about this ?

I am wondering if there is a setting somewhere in Firefox to automatically close tabs after a certain length of time or after there are a certain number of tabs open. I did not close Firefox. I was working on a text document in TextEdit and when I returned to Firefox, all of my tabs were gone! How can I deisable that if there is such a setting? This is a very vexing problem. Please advise. Please forward this to a supervisor for a quick and complete response. The representative I chatted with earlier forwarded my inquiry to Apple Support for an expensive subscription, which I do not want. Thank you.

Robert Beitz

Each time I power up my laptop I want my page to go straight to my Yahoo Mail. It does do that but it also tries to open another page that errors out. I think its because there's a 'c in the address and the file can't be found. I don't know how that filename got written into the Start Up Program and I can't find it to remove it. Please tell me like a First Grader how to remove this error message.

http://"c/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/firefox.exe%22%20-new-window%20https://mail.yahoo.com/

It says it cannot open the page.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

[redacted email from public]

At random times when opening the browser, all my tabs (except the first one) turn into about:blank. Relaunching the browser does not resolve the problem, and there is nothing in the history that allows me to restore them. It is extremely frustrating, as this is the third time I have lost all my tabs.

I have been trying for 2 days to change my account default email address. The system gets as far as me typing in the password sent to my current default email address. I then click on the submit button and nothing happens! This has happened 8 times now. After using Firefox as my browser for +-15years, I am very disappointed by the lack of access to a human voice. If I do not hear back from you I will change to Microsoft Edge as my browser.

Hello, I installed the Firefox 158.8 update on my iMac (macOS Sequoia 15.8.1) today. All websites are working as usual, except for Amazon Prime Video; it loads once and then freezes. I can't perform any actions on the page—everything remains unresponsive. I can't enter a different URL in the address bar or reload the page, either. The only thing I can do is close the page. I’ve cleared the cache and disabled ad blockers, but nothing changes. Strangely, this doesn't happen with Firefox on my MacBook. What could the problem be?

regards Burkhard

I try ti start up the VPN and it asks me to sign in. I sign in and then it sats to go to the VPN which has no other option except for me to sign in. This keeps happening

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Date/Time: 2026-10-15 16:40:02.8902 -0700 Launch Time: 2026-10-15 16:40:02.8144 -0700 Hardware Model: Mac15,14 OS Version: macOS 27.0.1 (26A434) Release Type: User

Crash Reporter Key: 99AF36FD-ABB0-6C7F-D431-8CB88902FCCB Incident Identifier: 8FFD7652-AEB8-449A-83CE-3DFCC27F451A

Time Awake Since Boot: 1500 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Triggered by Thread: 0 main, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6, Abort trap: 6 Terminating Process: crashreporter [1930]

Application Specific Information: abort() called

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Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit):

   x0: 0x0000000000000000   x1: 0x0000000000000000   x2: 0x0000000000000000   x3: 0x0000000000000000
   x4: 0xffffffff94e393c5   x5: 0x0000000000000005   x6: 0x000000000000000a   x7: 0x000000010240c02f
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  x12: 0x0000000000000000  x13: 0x0000000000000000  x14: 0x0000000000000000  x15: 0x0000000000000000
  x16: 0x0000000000000148  x17: 0x00000001ef53b518  x18: 0x0000000000000000  x19: 0x0000000000000006
  x20: 0x0000000000000103  x21: 0x00000001ed900060  x22: 0x000000010244f7d0  x23: 0x0000000102459000
  x24: 0x0000000000000002  x25: 0x0000000102b3f120  x26: 0x0000000102b3f0f0  x27: 0x0000000000000041
  x28: 0x0000000000000001   fp: 0x000000016dd06040   lr: 0x0000000187dd597c
   sp: 0x000000016dd06020   pc: 0x0000000187d99650 cpsr: 0x40001000
  far: 0x0000000000000000  esr: 0x56000080 (Syscall)

Binary Images:

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              0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???

External Modification Summary:

 Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
   task_for_pid: 0
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0
 Calls made by this process:
   task_for_pid: 0
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0
 Calls made by all processes on this machine:
   task_for_pid: 0
   thread_create: 0
   thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary: ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=1.9G resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=1.9G(100%) Writable regions: Total=90.2M written=336K(0%) resident=336K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=89.9M(100%)

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Deferred Reclaim 64.0M 1 Guard 385.0G 1 Malloc 17.8M 9 Malloc Guard Page 3280K 4 OS Alloc Once 32K 1 Stack 8160K 1 Stack Guard 56.0M 1 Untagged 32K 2 Untagged (reserved) 128K 1 reserved VM address space (unallocated) __AUTH 1988K 218 __AUTH_CONST 33.8M 396 __CTF 824 1 __DATA 6992K 403 __DATA_CONST 23.8M 394 __DATA_DIRTY 2141K 349 __FONT_DATA 2352 1 __LINKEDIT 1.6G 2 __OBJC_RO 118.0M 1 __OBJC_RW 2735K 1 __TEXT 380.0M 468 __TPRO_CONST 132K 4 page table in kernel 336K 1 shared memory 32K 1

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TOTAL 387.3G 2261 TOTAL, minus reserved VM space 387.3G 2261

Full Report

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How do I recover the normal additional toolbar in firefox that shows options for maps, images, videos etc. This toolbar is no longer shown on firefox - perhaps it's because firefox has recently been updated and no longer gives that facility?

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My Macbook Air (M1, 2020) has be moving slowly recently. I wondered if how I'm using Firefox could be contributing. I typically have two Firefox browser windows open, with 5 or 6 tab groups each with several tabs.

In addition and more specifically, I'm wondering if closing (collapsing) a tab group means those tabs won't be contributing to my computer's CPU load. Thank you.