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Unfortunately, because of regular issues with a web site, I was forced to use FireFox as my main web browser. I say "unfortunately", because FireFox takes FOREVER to load, especially compared to Safari. But, more importantly, there was something about Safari that I really liked; that I apparently cannot get with FireFox. But this is odd, since FireFox seems to have so many more user preferences than Safari! And yet there appears to be no way to open FireFox in fullscreen.

If Safari is in full screen, when browser is closed, Safari remembers this, the next time Safari is opened in full screen. With firefox, I always have to go through long start up, and then I have to manually click zoom button, to go full screen.

Is this something you never considered or something FireFox cannot do? Again, I guess I am surprised at how many preferences are available for FireFox, but nothing like this, even though this is a feature in a competing browser!

I am not sure, but, even if this is more of a Mac feature than a Safari feature, since I am using Mac version of FireFox, seems like FireFox could or should work the same way as Safari! But, if not, why not??

Hi

When I use Firefox to act as a browser to search for topics I get the error message

EC_ERROR_REVOKED_CERTIFICATE

I am now having to use "Bing" to search

This has been going on for a long time

Thanks Gareth

In Firefox, recently I am unable to download pdf documents. I get the message "download failed". If I request the same download using Chrome, I get the download immediately. But Firefox is my default browser and it's a nuisance. This only started in the past month or so.

Hi. Populating stored credit card data used to be working fine, but has stopped working on my desktop PC several moths ago (at least). When I click on one of the stored credit cards on a payment page, nothing gets populated in the fields. That happens with all stored cards. On my laptop PC that has a fingerprint sensor the populating of credit card data still works, but now I'm being asked for a fingerprint. Before I didn't need to provide my fingerprint to use the stored credit card data. I assume by the different behaviors of the desktop and laptop machines that at some point some "security feature" has been added to Firefox that broke usage of the stored credit card data on my desktop PC. What is that and how can I disable it?

Hello. Idk how this happened, but my bookmarks have quadrupled. Idk why I bookmark so much, but I had about 40 folders for bookmarks, until I now found I have 160. There's 4 of every folder. How do I clean this up? I know Edge has a "delete duplicate bookmarks" button. But in Firefox, I can only find add-on extensions that claim they can clean out duplicate bookmarks, but having tried 3, I've found none to work. Any suggestions?

Hi. I have Windows 11. Firefox has been my default browser, and when I accessed a pdf document it opened Firefox, and displayed the pdf. I had to download Adobe to access a document, which didn't work, and I uninstalled it. However, now when I access a pdf it generates a new browser, and asks me whether I want to make Firefox my default browser. This doesn't work, so I now when I access my apps list on Windows settings I have 3 Firefox apps. Whatever I do to set defaults on only one of them, the other two don't go away, and every time I open a new pdf I get the dfeault message. It is really irritating. Have you any suggestions please?

Hello,

I inadvertently used the option Block Element to get rid of a horrible recurring spam post on FB. I thought I was just blocking that post but what it ended up blocking the options on my whole Facebook program, so now I can't edit/undo anything on my FB page. I know it's within Firefox as it doesn't happen on the other browsers when I am using FB.

I tried to look it up but can't find anything to help me. I was hoping I could end up talking to a real person as I know it can get confusing but perhaps you can give me step by step instructions?

I need to know how to UNDO blocking an element. I've attached an image but I'm not sure if it fully explains what I'm dealing with.

Thanks, Ellen Claxton

hi, i genuinely have no idea why this is happening because it started crashing all of a sudden and it doesnt happen mid-use, i cant use it at all and restarting firefox just results in another crash and so on. what am i supposed to do??

Is there a way to make the popup that opens when you click on 'Manage Bookmarks' open up to a different folder than 'Other Bookmarks'? There is nothing in that folder. ever. Why cannot we open it to 'Bookmarks Menu'? or whatever? thanks, terry

I've used FF for years. The last year, it does not function correctly on about 20% of sites. I suggest focusing on making it compatible, rather than requiring sites that are perfectly coded. I may have to drop FF soon.

Good afternoon! Why can't I set the Group Speed Dial tabs as the Home page? I have done everything correctly everywhere, but still opens the start page of Google. Help me to solve this problem, I use your default browser and it brings me some discomfort.