Restoring a session from the "Import and Backup" does nothing.
Hi, Today I accidentally closed Firefox right after I opened it, before having the chance to restore the previous session. And since then, I've been trying to restore it … (read more)
Hi,
Today I accidentally closed Firefox right after I opened it, before having the chance to restore the previous session. And since then, I've been trying to restore it to no avail. Clicking the "Import and Backup" button in the history, doesn't work at all. It shows the list of the previous sessions, but nothing happens when I click them. No error, no nothing.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Firefox
cannot open the folder tabs in firefox
clicking on any of the named tabs across the top of Firefox does not open anything. I am old and stupid and just want to work the way it always has.
links not opening in tabs
when i am on pinterest or in my thunderbird and clik on a link the tab opens but won't download the link please help..i have missed so many freebies and birthday stuff (… (read more)
when i am on pinterest or in my thunderbird and clik on a link the tab opens but won't download the link please help..i have missed so many freebies and birthday stuff (my 75th.)..ty
I have "restore previous session" and "remember history" checked in settings, but when I start up my computer, Firefox doesn't restore my previous session
This is sort of a saga, but I'd rather give too much information than too little. I just got a new Windows 10 computer (Dell Inspiron 15 15000) and transferred all my stu… (read more)
This is sort of a saga, but I'd rather give too much information than too little.
I just got a new Windows 10 computer (Dell Inspiron 15 15000) and transferred all my stuff including firefox with all the tabs I had open.
I usually have lots of tabs open, and I opened all the tabs on my new computer that I had had on the old one. For some reason I can't recall, I ended up with one window with one tab, and one window with all the tabs I'd had open on my old machine (including the one that was open by itself in the other window). I closed the window with the single tab, and continued using the window with many tabs. At the end of the day, I closed the window as usual and shut down the computer.
The next day, I turned on my computer, opened up firefox, and no tabs! I checked to make sure that "open previous session at startup" was checked in the main settings, did some searching through the help files here, and found that the problem was that I hadn't gone in to the privacy settings to tell it to remember history. I fixed that, and did some more digging to figure out how to restore history, I don't remember how. I restarted Firefox, and it restored a previous session ... but not the one I wanted. It restored the window with the single tab that I'd only had open for about ten minutes, not the window with all my tabs (including that one) that I'd had open all day. Some more searching through the support here and I figured out how to restore the session I ACTUALLY wanted. I can't find the post now, but it told me to go to Help - Troubleshooting Information (I think--it LOOKED like the Troubleshooting Information page, from what I remember, although today it doesn't seem to have the option I used yesterday, so it might have been a different page) and see if there were two sessions, and if so, to click the other one, and see if that fixed things. It did! I got the window with all the tabs back, and closed the window with just the single tab, and went on with my day. Problem solved, right?
No. I booted up my computer today, opened up Firefox, and what did I find? IT OPENED THE WINDOW WITH THE SINGLE TAB THAT I'D ONLY HAD OPEN BRIEFLY, INSTEAD OF THE WINDOW WITH ALL MY TABS IN IT THAT I'D HAD OPEN ALL DAY. First of all, I'd rather not have to deal with this again, so how can I make sure it doesn't? What is going on?
Second, I can't find the help page that told me how to restore the correct window. This is a problem, because although all of the tabs I had open yesterday are in my history, when I go to the little library icon and look at "history" both the "recently closed windows" and "recently closed tabs" are empty. As far as Firefox is concerned, I haven't closed any windows or tabs since the last time the history was deleted, despite having lots of pages in the Recent History list that I sure don't have open right now. Clicking the three horizontal lines to get the main menu, there is no "restore previous session" as an option. I can go through the history and manually click on all the tabs that should be open, but that is REALLY a pain and I would like not to have to do this again. I have added the "Tab Session Manager" addon, so hopefully even if this is a recurring problem I can use that to get around it. (The addons listed below are all the addons I had when the problem occurred.) What the heck is going on here?
Can you make Firefox open just with pinned tabs?
I have 9 pinned tabs in Firefox, including my Home page, BBC News. If I close Firefox with only pinned tabs open, next restart it will open a new Home tab (unpinned) auto… (read more)
I have 9 pinned tabs in Firefox, including my Home page, BBC News. If I close Firefox with only pinned tabs open, next restart it will open a new Home tab (unpinned) automatically which I don't want. I want it to open exactly as I closed it with the same pinned tab on top. Is this possible?
How do I make FF open items in History drop down menu in new tabs?
Saw this question 2 years ago with unhelpful answers, like right clicking on an item - right clicking is not an option with a track pad, and none of the track pad options… (read more)
Saw this question 2 years ago with unhelpful answers, like right clicking on an item - right clicking is not an option with a track pad, and none of the track pad options like control-click or option-click worked to open any items in a new tab (and I don't see why people who answer questions don't think about the hundreds of millions of people who use track pads, or Magic Mouse which has no right-click ability). Chrome has this very convenient feature that keeps a history item from opening on top of your current page - often you want to compare or add what you saw in history to what you're seeing on the current page without making the current page disappear and having to backpage, thus losing the history page you want displayed at the same time. This seems like an easy enough feature to include that FF is ignoring, like it ignores the longtime request that Firefox enable cut & paste to retain website formatting and functions when pasting into an email (and screenshots don't retain functions like links). If there are enough inconveniences to using FF, people use another browser, and if Chrome and Safari can include such conveniences, so can Firefox.
When multiple tabs are open I sometimes cannot select or close certain tabs using the tab bar; happens both in Firefox and Firefox Nightly using Mac OS.
I'm running Mac OS 10.15.1. Whenever I have multiple tabs open there are instance when I cannot select a certain tab or close it by hitting the X in the tab bar. Sometime… (read more)
I'm running Mac OS 10.15.1. Whenever I have multiple tabs open there are instance when I cannot select a certain tab or close it by hitting the X in the tab bar. Sometimes, eventually, it will work and other times I have to jump around to other tabs before I can finally select the one I want. I have tried refreshing Firefox and running Firefox without add-ons enabled, both with no luck.
Firefox Options says "Tree Style Tab, requires Container Tabs" yet there is no add-on called "Container Tabs" so what does this mean?
Please, no code language, HTML or or 'inside baseball' responses that include terms not self-defined to non-experts as myself...pretend this is my first time using a brow… (read more)
Please, no code language, HTML or or 'inside baseball' responses that include terms not self-defined to non-experts as myself...pretend this is my first time using a browser. I just need to know what action I should be taking as the add-on (Tree Style Tab) seems to be working properly.
can't open a tab
No tabs will open except the support or the three lines. 45 tabs open and none accessible. DO I just have to change to Safari and erase everything made by mozilla? What i… (read more)
No tabs will open except the support or the three lines. 45 tabs open and none accessible. DO I just have to change to Safari and erase everything made by mozilla? What is the other name for the three lines? Do we really need the three lines, @ is easier to refer to, or * or £ or a thousand other characters all unused on all our keyboards. How should I create the three lines symbol? Has this been chosen so that no one can even talk about the three lines in a similar way that androod has the wank symbol for non-gay access to the root directory?
I just made a HUGE mistake. I clickED the "Refresh" button to speed up Firefox. It moved my TABs bar to the top. How do I get it back under the BOOKMARKs bar?
I am so angry with Firefox/Mozilla. I want my toolbars in the following order (top to bottom): Menu Bar Location/URL Bar Bookmarks Toolbar Tabs Bar You keep moving the TA… (read more)
I am so angry with Firefox/Mozilla. I want my toolbars in the following order (top to bottom): Menu Bar Location/URL Bar Bookmarks Toolbar Tabs Bar
You keep moving the TABs to the top, and I can find no way to move it back below the Bookmarks toolbar. I also have to request viewing the Menu bar which is not visible by default. Why do you make it so difficult for us? Should I look for a different browser? The only ones I have every had are Netscape and Firefox. I tried Chrome, but do not like it. Firefox used to be good, but it as become less responsive to the end-user. I see an opportunity for yet another browser company.
Problem with forcing windows to open as tabs
Hi , I have followed the following steps from here : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1190923. To have windows open as tabs , this always worked fine up till … (read more)
Hi , I have followed the following steps from here : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1190923.
To have windows open as tabs , this always worked fine up till today for some reason.
Now when i have this set i get the error ' a web page is slowing down your browser. What would you like to do ? "
When i refresh Firefox and disabled the modification the window pop up and load fine , its just when they are force to tabs is where they give the error.
I deleted the cache and cookies and done the processHang solution and few others and still no joy.
Just wondering is there any solution to this.
Thanks in advance.
if I "Open in New Tab", how (in that new tab) do I find the address of the 'opened from' tab - surely it's available somewher in History?
I often see an interesting article, that links onward to another article, and then another. I may accidentally close earlier tabs if they had little extra to say, other t… (read more)
I often see an interesting article, that links onward to another article, and then another. I may accidentally close earlier tabs if they had little extra to say, other than providing the further reference.
I finally end up at a real nugget of information, but also want a 'call/tab trace' of how I got there.
My browser hasn't been closed so the trace info should be there 'somewhere', so any ideas on how to get the back trace.
e.g., just now I have https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf but can't find the start point as some of the intermediate tabs have been closed.
Any suggestions for a 'tab open backtrace'?
How can have multi-row tabs with Firefox 70?
Tab Mix + allowed old Firefox to support multi-row tabs. I need it absolutely to upgrade. I googled it, found plenty of solutions that changed at every release, none work… (read more)
Tab Mix + allowed old Firefox to support multi-row tabs. I need it absolutely to upgrade. I googled it, found plenty of solutions that changed at every release, none worked with 70. PS: I asking using Waterfox, but Waterfox 2019 killed most legacy add-ons, so I'm looking to to back to Firefox. I solved almost all my problems, except this one which is crucial. I often have 30 opened, having to scroll is unbearable.
how can i disable tab scrolling
i open too many tabs i can't use firefox with hidden tabs that wastes my time and i can't deal with it, and there is no way from firefox i found on the web explaing that … (read more)
i open too many tabs i can't use firefox with hidden tabs that wastes my time and i can't deal with it, and there is no way from firefox i found on the web explaing that ? is there anyway to disable that
How do I right-clic close a tab from the drop-down extended tabs bar/list ?
Hi I mean one of these (image below) ? The goal is to prevent reloading the tabs among ones that were openned in a previous session and I don't need anymore (and by the w… (read more)
Hi I mean one of these (image below) ? The goal is to prevent reloading the tabs among ones that were openned in a previous session and I don't need anymore (and by the way FF won't update my history as not needed) - Even if I'd didn't use "Startup/Restore last session", this would be a great feature to be able to close with right-click any tabs whose names in shown in the drop list when so many tabs are openned that the last ones can't fit in the width of the window (actually tabs "toolbar"). Thanks you for this great browser. I asked this 2 years ago if there's a way.
Previous session doesn't restore. 'Restore Session' tab grayed out.
Sometimes when I start firefox there is no option to restore the previous session, and the 'restore session' option in the menus is grayed out. This tends to happen after… (read more)
Sometimes when I start firefox there is no option to restore the previous session, and the 'restore session' option in the menus is grayed out.
This tends to happen after I've had Firefox closed for a longer than a day or two.
This is happening in Firefox version 70.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu.
Pages load off center. I have to use full screen to get full pages to show. Don't want full screen.
DO NOT WANT TO USE FULL SCREEN! Pages load off center and I have to scroll or go to full screen to see all content. Been using Firefox for years and never had this prob… (read more)
DO NOT WANT TO USE FULL SCREEN! Pages load off center and I have to scroll or go to full screen to see all content. Been using Firefox for years and never had this problem. Using same computer and Win10 - 64 bit. This occurred within the last few months. I have Firefox set to update automatically so no way to trace if it was a specific update.
New tab (+) invisible unless cursor over
The new tab (+) is not visible unless I cursor over the area. How may I set Firefox 70.0.1 such that the new tab is always visible, whether I cursor over the area, or not… (read more)
The new tab (+) is not visible unless I cursor over the area.
How may I set Firefox 70.0.1 such that the new tab is always visible, whether I cursor over the area, or not?
Tab space isn't removed on close
So I've made a few changes in userChrome.css to resize the tab sizes with some code that I've collected. In summary, I've changed the height and width as well as hid the … (read more)
So I've made a few changes in userChrome.css to resize the tab sizes with some code that I've collected. In summary, I've changed the height and width as well as hid the tab title.
The problem that I've run into is that the tabs will kinda glitch out and the extra space won't collapse when the tab is closed (as shown in one of the screenshots). It seems to have to do with setting the width of the tab, since when I comment out the css styles to make them normal size again, tabs close properly.
I'd appreciate any thoughts y'all have. Thanks
Firefox always sents me to http://d if I type d .. thats not what I want. how can I remove this autocompletion result
I type d or t or s or bla and I want it to open my default search engine with this Unfortnutaly FF sends me to http://d always (because I went there the first time and i… (read more)
I type d or t or s or bla and I want it to open my default search engine with this Unfortnutaly FF sends me to http://d always (because I went there the first time and it remembered)
I really want to forget this autocompletion result.
How can I make FF forget stored autocompletions?