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FF ver 140. just loaded and now all my sidebar bookmark fonts are black on black. How do I change the sidebar bookmark font back to white? When I disabled all Themes the white color came back, but enabling any theme and they the font turns black again.

Recently (Jun 2025) When Firefox closes, an empty taskbar icon for Firefox remains. When click on it, it does not bring up anything. Nothing in the Task Manager to suggest that a copy of Firefox is still running.

Suddenly NY Times links think I am a bot, or there is a java problem, or I am clicking too fast (huh?), and I am being blocked. This started around the same time as the last update. Help! Thanks.....

I think this might be more of a Google issue, but it happens when using Firefox so I'll post it here. As of Jun 25, 2025, I have noticed dark black boxes appearing around my Google search results. I normally use a dark theme in Google, but the color is a muted grey/black. Today, however, dark black boxes have begun appearing around my search result. I really dislike the appearance as it is quite jarring. Interestingly enough, this issue only happens when signed into a Google account. Some Reddit users have reported having the same issue even in other browsers when using Google search. It seems to be something that Google has done on thier end but I was wondering if there was a potential workaround in the meantime.

When I opened Firefox today, all my bookmarks are gone and a message about a Firefox is opened by another application is showing. None of your online suggestions helped. Is there a hidden way to restore Firefox to another version?

I'm on Windows 10. When I try to open the browser, it loads for a second and attempts to open but then crashes and nothing happens. A message box does appear for a second, but it disappears before I can read what it says. I refreshed Firefox and uninstalled and reinstalled the browser, but it is still happening. Firefox works fine on my phone still, so I don't believe it is a problem with my account. I'm also currently doing a virus scan, but it hasn't finished at time of writing.

hello how do i recover firefox bookmarks and passwords from win 10 computer that failed motherboard hard drive ok . and put them on new win11 computer i did not have a firefox account on old drive or sync setup but i can access files on old drive.

Hello Hello sometimes websites redirect away from the requierd adress to something wrong.

Samples: https://www.writelatex.com/read/sjchktdtqwcm This redirects to https://www.overleaf.com/

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110765980098077923527/posts/JpSZhceCDXE this redirects to https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/new-community-features-for-google-chat-and-an-update-currents%20.html

How can i force such sites to stay at the link-address ans open that properly instead of even trying to redirect?

Best regards Maxi

I have a website that i used about a year ago without any problem. (I might have updated firefox between) Now when i want to log in I get a message that my browsers VPN is not allowing access.

how do i fix this?

I am definitely not interested in bells and whistles. Just want basic program. The new update ate my current settings and book marks. Did not create a backfile with my profile. Your help process sucks big time. Do you even do beta testing before you send them out?

On starting my laptop and going online I noticed that my sidbar bookmarks text has turned black, it was previously white as I use the dark mode for my browser, I have tried changeing my theme and the only way to revert this is to not use any themes and just have white background which I dont want, is there any way to change this and why has it happened, I have been thought both Firefox and Windows settings but cant find a way to change it?

Since the installation of the last 2 beta releases, the folder which I have selected downloads to be placed in is being completely ignored.

In FF settings, I have selected downloads to be saved to my desktop. FF ignores that and downloads all selected downloads to my Documents folder. This is not what I'm after and I didn't have this issue with the Beta versions before.

Are any other Beta users experiencing the same issue with the latset beta release?

I took a look today and I had 237 MB in cookies! This was after clearing the cache of all files. I've only had this (new) machine a couple months.

Short version: Sites have "cookies" from 200kb to as much as 34MB! For many of the sites over 3MB I have no account and have visited them only briefly.

To be clear, I don't care about the space being used. It's trivial. But what the heck is FFox storing and calling it "cookies"? Last I checked, a site was still limited to 4K size cookies and perhaps 50 per domain. So how are we getting to MB+ sized "cookies" per site? Again, the cache was cleared, so what's left aside from trivial cookie files of <4KB?

Desktop; Windows 11; Firefox 139.0.4 64 bit

AvailablePageFile: 9994584064 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 6990008320 AvailableVirtualMemory: 138533823639552 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20250616215311 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0x64 CrashTime: 1750858075 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1750788070 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Mozilla Corporation":["firefox.exe","xul.dll","gkcodecs.dll","nss3.dll","mozglue.dll","lgpllibs.dll"],"Microsoft Windows Software Compatibility Publisher":["msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll"],"Microsoft Windows":["MpDetours.dll","wsock32.dll","dbgcore.dll","ktmw32.dll","winmm.dll","version.dll","propsys.dll","DWrite.dll","uxtheme.dll","dbghelp.dll","windows.storage.dll","kernel.appcore.dll","ntmarta.dll","CRYPTBASE.dll","msasn1.dll","ntasn1.dll","ncrypt.dll","bcrypt.dll","ucrtbase.dll","crypt32.dll","msvcp_win.dll","win32u.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","gdi32full.dll","WinTypes.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","wintrust.dll","shell32.dll","shlwapi.dll","user32.dll","rpcrt4.dll","SHCore.dll","ole32.dll","psapi.dll","kernel32.dll","advapi32.dll","imm32.dll","oleaut32.dll","msvcrt.dll","gdi32.dll","ws2_32.dll","combase.dll","sechost.dll","ntdll.dll"]} ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 820 StartupCrash: 1 StartupTime: 1750858075 SubmittedFrom: Client SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 79 Throttleable: 1 TotalPageFile: 65870069760 TotalPhysicalMemory: 34067255296 TotalVirtualMemory: 140737488224256 UptimeTS: 8.00534 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 140.0 This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.