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For months CNN articles are ruined by manipulated headlines (and more) to degrade Trump.

There is no such problem when browsing CNN with Safari.

EXAMPLE: Pond Scum’s ambition to retake the Panama Canal could have a heavy cost (January 21)

I resent my reading being compromised, and request that CNN remedy the situation.

Jim Craig jccraigs@hotmail.com 805 441 0504

For a while now, several months anyway, many of the sites I visit work in Chrome but no longer in Firefox. The sign in or login buttons do nothing, petition submit buttons do not work, etc. I can enter information in the required fields, but I the send/submit buttons do not work.

My test page is the log in for a course I have purchased. Here's what I have tried so far:

    Turned off enhanced protection 
    Paused AdBlock
    Ddisabled Privacy Badger
    Whitelisted the site on minerBlock.

Still no joy.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, --elizabeth

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to services.nidw.gov.bd. SSL peer was not expecting a handshake message it received.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_HANDSHAKE_UNEXPECTED_ALERT

   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Firefox on Ubuntu randomly drops characters from bardodes scanned by external USB barcode scanner. We are 100% sure that barcode scanner works properly - barcodes scanned into vi editor running in bash terminal windows works perfectly. Barcodes scanned into Google Chrome works perfectly too. It seems that the only application with this problem is Firefox. For example we can scan 1234567890 and get 124567890 or 123456890. Barcode scanner types characters extremely fast, probably this is a problem. The problem persists scanning into text fields in the Web pages and into the Firefox address bar too - so could not be a web-site problem. No addons installed.

How this problem could be fixed? We have the only option for now - switch to Google Chrome:-(

Ubuntu 21.04.1 LTS Firefox 134.0-1

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.8.0-51-generic x86_64)

>snap info firefox name: firefox summary: Mozilla Firefox web browser publisher: Mozilla** store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox contact: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla license: unset description: |

 Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application
 technologies.

commands:

 - firefox
 - firefox.geckodriver

snap-id: 3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk tracking: latest/stable/ubuntu-24.04 refresh-date: 12 days ago, at 22:54 MSK channels:

 latest/stable:    134.0.1-1    2025-01-14 (5600) 287MB -
 latest/candidate: 134.0.1-1    2025-01-15 (5616) 288MB -
 latest/beta:      135.0b6-1    2025-01-18 (5629) 271MB -
 latest/edge:      136.0a1      2025-01-21 (5640) 297MB -
 esr/stable:       128.6.0esr-1 2025-01-07 (5480) 283MB -
 esr/candidate:    128.6.0esr-1 2024-12-19 (5480) 283MB -
 esr/beta:         ^
 esr/edge:         ^

installed: 134.0-1 (5561) 288MB -

Steps to reproduce- (1) Enable 'accessibility.blockautorefresh' in 'about:config' (This is said to ask for permission before redirecting) (2) Go here (3) End up here without permission

Extensions I'm using- Privacy Badger, uBlock origin, clearURLs and Show/hide passwords

Another question, does enabling this setting also stop internal redirection?

Lost ability to drag and drop.

FF 134.0.1 Apple M1 Max Macbook Sequoia 15.0.1

GIVEN I download a file WHEN I drag from "recent downloads" in toolbar to g.drive THEN nothing is moved, nothing is under cursor

expected: file drops into g.drive from downloads

GIVEN I have a window up with many tabs WHEN I select a tab and pull it to make a new window THEN nothing is under cursor, and I don't get a new window

expected: new window created from open tab

Since installing Firefox on Ubuntu 24.04 from the mozillateam-ppa, I can't simply open normal files like .pdf with my preferred OS-application (evince) by clicking the link. Instead a "File Link" handler (see attached image) opens for any such file, be them .pdf, .odt or whatever, and this handler only knows one default and has to be told all possible applications by hand.

How can I configure to Firefox to open any file by the preferred OS-application.

Over the last 6 months, and increasing number of websites don't open on Firefox. I've noticed it most consistently on any of the wikipedia/wikimedia pages, but it's not just those. When I type in an address and press return, or click on a link, the browser just acts as if nothing has happened. There does not show me the loading symbole. If I ask it to open a new tab with the site, the address appears on the tab, but the page itself is just black. Other browsers have no problem loading the same sites. I am on a mac, and using a VPN. Restarting the browser doesn't help, though restarting the computer sometimes does.

Thank you,

On LinkedIn some ellipsis/see more buttons are not properly displayed, for instance in "About" sections. See attachment, I took the screenshot on both Firefox (133.0.3/Ubuntu) and Chromium.

The offending html code is this

    <button class="inline-show-more-text__button
               inline-show-more-text__button--light
               link" aria-expanded="false" role="button" type="button">
             …see more
    </button>

I have Firefox's New Tab set as my home page, since I'm choosing to divorce myself from political doomscrolling for the next four years. The New Tab page is perfect for having frequently visited sites at the top, Pocket stories I can curate in the middle, and what used to be a history of articles and sites I've read most recently in "Recent Activity" along the bottom. Within the last few days, "Recent Activity" has been blank, and will no longer keep track of articles I've recently read. I've tried clearing the browser history and cookies, and it came back for a moment, but quickly went back to being blank. And the major downside to clearing the browser is that my four rows of most frequently visited sites gets wiped clean also, and I have to spend time getting them back on the list. I do not have Firefox set to automatically clear history upon closing it. I've tried turning "Recent Activity" off and on with the page's Settings (cog in the bottom right corner). I'd really like to have this back, as it can help me find recently read content (especially Pocket content) easier than wading through the History log. Any help would be appreciated.