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I'm setting up Firefox on a new computer. I haven't done this for a while and the interface has changed, so I'm not sure how it works.

I want to move my Firefox profile to a directory in the Documents library to simplify backup. Following the Mozilla instructions I found, I opened about:profiles and clicked the Create New Profile button. I deleted the contents of the directory that Create New Profile created and copied the contents of the default profile directory to it. The last step is to tell Firefox to use my new profile instead of its default.

But the about:profile page lists three profiles: default-release, default, and my new one. The first two have a Set as default profile button; the last does not. So it appears that I can tell Firefox to use the default-release profile or the default profile, but there's no way I can tell it to use my new profile. I can only Launch profile in new browser -- presumably something I'll have to do every time I run Firefox.

This makes no sense. How can I tell Firefox to use my new profile -- not to launch a new browser with it, but to use it, period? If I can't, why can't I? Every version of Firefox I've ever installed up to now allowed this.

Also, the default-release profile section of about:profiles has the note "This is the profile in use and it cannot be deleted." So it appears that Firefox uses the default-release profile instead of the default profile as its default profile. What is the default-release profile? Why isn't the default profile the default profile?

Can no longer use Google Voice in second half of a normal 8-5 work day, it appears. No amount of rebooting/restarting, closing browser, clearing caches, removing temp files, etc. appears to affect the issue. Turning off Enhanced Protection doesn't help. Issue is that I can dial a number, call connects, I can hang a call up, but the dial pad becomes unresponsive during the call. Using keyboard numbers vs. clicking the dial pad numbers makes no difference; no response either way. This happens with normal local calls, MS Teams calls from New York & other places for work, all of them. But, again, seems to happen after noon/lunch time. Very odd. The latter was why I thought it was more than 1 tab open, system resources, temp files, RAM allocation, etc. Happens whether I have only Google Voice open in 1 tab, have multiple tabs running alongside it, doesn't seem to matter.

Very perplexed. I shifted away from Brave to use FF for Google Voice & now the situation is reversed. Now, I can normally open Brave when this happens & get a responsive dial pad in Google Voice.

Using Windows 10 Professional, 64-bit on a big powerful workstation replacement category notebook.

When I open my iMac desk top using Firefox I don't see my msn.com page. Instead I see an apple screen with all my bookmarks listed again at the top of the screen shaking. Please help me. Thank you.

I cannot demonstrate the AI receptionist on your browser. It works on Safari. I wonder if there is something I have locked down, that is preventing it from functioning. I need help.

Long time user of Firefox and this issue of the Recaptcha Failed while never even opening the Recaptcha for selecting all the bikes, buses or whatever else it asks you to find in order to validate. This is a new install of the latest version of Firefox, I have no problem with Recaptcha using Chrome but prefer Firefox's privacy. I pay bills, work jobs from the internet which requires recaptcha to work in the browser I am using. I have not seen a answer anywhere to fix this problem which only happens in Firefox. Image of error message attached.

Ever since the latest Firefox upgrade to version 135.0, my Epson 3760 printer pauses between each page when more than one page is requested to print continuously. This pause before each page didn't happen before the upgrade. I now have to go into my printer queue and select each item in the queue to have it resume printing - one at a time. I'm on Windows 11 with an LG laptop.

Your browser needs immediate attention! I have windows 11. When I visit websites via Firefox and click on a link that takes me to a document, a large pop-up on the lower right side of the screen appears blocking half the page and preventing me from downloading or printing it. The pop-up depicts a cartoon-letter with a highlighter pen traversing its cartoon-text, below which is an enthusiastic missive stating (and I quote): "Now you can highlight your PDFs! With our new highlighter tool, you can read and edit PDFs in one place." Because of this infernal nuisance, I cannot print or download web pages. This has been going on for WEEKS! (That pop-up is USEFUL?! Who thinx up this stuff??!!) Apparently you're having trouble fixing this problem ... I understand--I'll just use Edge or Chrome from now on. Sorry if I woke you.

I'm using Firefox on Windows 10.

For a long time I've been experiencing freezing in downloads of all sorts of files sizes and different hosts. I start the download, sometimes they finish normally (if smaller sizes) but most of the time they freezes at random percentage and I have to restart from the start.

For downloading larger files are a pain, to have wait and need to keep restart if it freezes.

When I'm using others browser, such as LibreWolf and Zen Browser (forks of Firefox), it doesn't happen and all downloads work flawless.

I tried to go onto Weatherbell (www.weatherbell.com) and got the Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue. I had just been on the site 2 hours ago. Why all of a sudden is there a security issue? I cannot contact the website manager there, as I can't get on the site to email them.

Solution?

Recently, IDK exactly what happened, but the search bar in my Firefox homepage shrunk down to a size so small I can't see what I am typing in to search for. I would like to expand the search bar back to it's original size but I can't figure out a way to do that. Can you advise? Thank you.