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Tell me why google says this:

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to www.googleadservices.com.

   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

when I click on an advert for a product provided (I assume) by google at the top of search results. I have cleared the cache and cookies. Latest firefox on ubuntu 22.

After updating to the current version of my OS(listed below) I can no longer drag a tab to detach it from the firefox window. Doing so drags a preview of the tab, but it is never separated from the current window. I can drag it to an already existing window to move tabs from one window to another, but not to create a new window from a single tab.

OS: Manjaro Linux 24.0.0 Wynsdey Linux kernel version: 6.6.30-2-MANJARO (64-bit) Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6.0.4 KDE Framework version: 6.1.0 QT Version: 6.7.0 Display Server: Wayland Firefox version: 125.0.3 (64-bit)

Looking for a fix on a right-click issue that I keep having...

When using Linux Mint (Cinnamon), the right-click context menu occasionally becomes misaligned with the cursor position. Attached image shows a right click on the text box in the right browser window triggering a popup in the left browser window.

This most frequently happens when:

• Multiple windows are open AND
• The window being right-clicked on is "snapped" into place (by dragging to the side of the screen)

Error seems to occur most frequently on windows snapped to the right-hand-side of the screen.

Context menu placement is offset by an arbitrary amount determined at time of window-snapping. E.g., moving the cursor down 1 inch in the example image below will move the menu down 1 inch as well. Un-snapping the window, and re-snapping can adjust menu-cursor-offset distance.

When I open a locally downloaded pdf in firefox, the background is displayed as what was previously displayed on that portion of the screen, and scrolling simply overlays moved text over what was previously displayed. Does not appear in screenshots. One of the images shows what the pdf looks like prior to scrolling, and one after.

I get bad request from the official Mozilla repo: Err:8 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla/main all Packages

 400  Bad Request [IP: 34.160.78.70 443]

Did the URL change or smth?

After SUSE-15.6 updated FIREFOX to 115.11.0esr, all sites show choppy videos. I have no idea why or what I can do to resolve the issue. If someone has an idea, it would be greatly appreciated

when i wanna open a page on youtube, i got some errors like below in my console window:

``` Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://rr3---sn-p5qlsndd.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1716635853&ei=bXRRZsXhJonb6dsPr4S9gAo&ip=104.237.233.106&id=o-AAWbYs_c1wgN4MrU7OqKDoN_4E89qYQsMLYgu196ZLvi&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&mh=Wx&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-a5msenle%2Csn-p5qlsndd&ms=au%2Conr&mv=u&mvi=4&pl=25&spc=UWF9f9R71vLfm1F-HqlKYmIsTmmQ76vISxWKiaa8DnBJ1RFYdP1uqbuRYDqk&svpuc=1&ns=nZ43uaQFzt5gq9VgUw-rDA0Q&sabr=1&rqh=1&mt=1716613539&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&smc=1&n=DtTlBfhfTkjbJA&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cspc%2Csvpuc%2Cns%2Csabr%2Crqh&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgBpryxlELSlbPjito5Ju6_RfQzqVcw10u03ydIYI41lcCIQCgk-eJSUpHsjpfCC08Zif4lFJZY3GVMbfofGXPQsdZcw%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl&lsig=AHWaYeowRgIhAPqP6gckt5GXH-fLEv5Cg2vcg7upBxPU4Doh2zshdgCNAiEAqrP-9k3ySo7QyYhqQCESvz0lC8laHox06_kyE8r-oYo%3D&cpn=RZMRM0hX5vjkksRu&cver=2.20240524.00.00&fallback_count=1&rn=27. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://rr4---sn-a5msenle.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1716635853&ei=bXRRZsXhJonb6dsPr4S9gAo&ip=104.237.233.106&id=o-AAWbYs_c1wgN4MrU7OqKDoN_4E89qYQsMLYgu196ZLvi&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&mh=Wx&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-a5msenle%2Csn-p5qlsndd&ms=au%2Conr&mv=u&mvi=4&pl=25&spc=UWF9f9R71vLfm1F-HqlKYmIsTmmQ76vISxWKiaa8DnBJ1RFYdP1uqbuRYDqk&svpuc=1&ns=nZ43uaQFzt5gq9VgUw-rDA0Q&sabr=1&rqh=1&mt=1716613539&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&c=WEB&smc=1&n=DtTlBfhfTkjbJA&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cspc%2Csvpuc%2Cns%2Csabr%2Crqh&sig=AJfQdSswRQIgBpryxlELSlbPjito5Ju6_RfQzqVcw10u03ydIYI41lcCIQCgk-eJSUpHsjpfCC08Zif4lFJZY3GVMbfofGXPQsdZcw%3D%3D&lsparams=mh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl&lsig=AHWaYeowRgIhAPqP6gckt5GXH-fLEv5Cg2vcg7upBxPU4Doh2zshdgCNAiEAqrP-9k3ySo7QyYhqQCESvz0lC8laHox06_kyE8r-oYo%3D&cpn=RZMRM0hX5vjkksRu&cver=2.20240524.00.00&rn=1. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). ```

I got this messages on the logs and sometimes the session freezes when I'm using Firefox: mai 24 20:12:16 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 50331 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:12:16 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 50253 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:12:34 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 52142 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:13:28 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 51884 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:14:07 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 52087 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:14:13 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 50755 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 mai 24 20:14:19 glados firefox.desktop[9642]: [Parent 9642, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 50806 is a zombie: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:245 lines 8174-8233/8233 (END)

I am having problems playing a particularly demanding video from YouTube (https://youtu.be/-W_nFlIAWFM) which runs at 4K/30 fps. It is a video taken from a drone flying over the Matterhorn in Europe. Here is my configuration: 1. I have a 200Mb connection to the internet and bandwidth testing confirms that it runs at a consistent 195 - 202 Mb. 2. I am using Firefox 126.0 on a dual boot machine running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 10 (both OSes show similar stuttering and pausing). 3. My hardware is a Gigabyte Aorus Z690i motherboard with 32 GB of RAM and an Intel i5-12600K processor and an NVidia GeFroce RTX 2060 Super graphics card. I have tried disabling "Use hardware acceleration" in Firefox and also disabling all add-ons and rebooting. This hasn't resolved the problem. When I watch the same video in Google Chrome, it seems to display a much slower frame rate than 30fps but doesn't stutter. I have concluded that this video must be a super demanding one to render. There are many picture elements changing constantly. But is there a way to watch this at 4K/30fps with it playing smoothly and at the correct frame rate?

hi, when starting firefox, it makes some connections to

   firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com
   detectportal.firefox.com
   app.adjust.com
   o1069899.ingest.sentry.io
   assets.mozilla.net
   contile.services.mozilla.com
   firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
   incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org
   location.services.mozilla.org

without user-consent. so this is not gdpr-compliant. how can i tell firefox not to connect to these sites? thanks t.

I need to migrate the complete profile (all settings, bookmarks, passwords etc) from a snap install to an apt install on the same system. Currently I have both versions installed, but i want to remove the abomination that is snap..

I tried copying ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox files to ~/.mozilla/firefox but that doesnt seem to work. Since this is a multi-user system i dont want to rely on mozilla accounts to sync everything to the cloud.

What do i need to do in order to migrate all the data from one install to another?

I use DuckDuckGo for my basic search engine on both my laptop (Ubuntu system) and iPhone 8. It does not work today - saying "There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.", needless to say...I have tried a number of times and differed the searches to no avail. I also cleared recent cache/history. Still stuck. Searching on Chrome I see on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40451490 that others are also experiencing this problem and do not understand it either - just a few entries

The Sun (a rather populist newspaper in UK) has an article saying it is international and happening today, 23 May 2024, suggests no fixes. (Not exactly a reliable source in my thing)

Has anyone ideas or should I just wait and use an alternative search engine meanwhile? Thanks for any help

I've got my "homepage and new windows" setting set up with several "ext+container links so that my selected websites open in their respective containers : e.g. ext+container:name=Personal&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%3Fsk%3Dh_nor

I open facebook in 2 seperate containers so that I can maintain 2 seperate personalities under facebook - e.g. I am a group admin within one, just a group member in another.

I have 2 urls defined in my "homepage and new windows" setting for these :

ext+container:name=Personal&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%3Fsk%3Dh_nor ext+container:name=Facebook&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%3Fsk%3Dh_nor

This was working fine without any issues. My sites opened up when I started my web browser and everything.

Recently, firefox has started up but my container tabs do not load automatically, I am getting a confirmation (I will post a screen capture as a comment).

Is there a way to turn this off and just open the tabs without a confirmation?

Tab detachment was working fine until updating to Firefox 126. Now the tabs cannot be moved, detached or dragged to another window.

In about:config, browser.tabs.allowTabDetach is set to true

Suggestions?

Firefox's website appearance settings include a setting to force a light theme, force a dark theme, or to have sites automatically adapt to the theme of the browser. I feel that's not exactly what I want. I don't want the browser's theme to have anything to do with themes of the sites I'm viewing, nor to force light or dark. I think I'd rather just use the site's default, or if not that, set a theme on the site itself. Is there any way for Firefox to just not meddle in a site's theming at all?

I kinda just don't want any connection between the theme of my operating system, the theme of my browser, or either of those and the theme of websites, and none to force a theme on any of the others. I'm not sure why that seems so desirable nowadays, but I don't want it.