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For the last few weeks, I have had the following issue on macOS Monterey (version 12.7.5) on Apple M1:

When I choose the “Restart now” option in the “Update ready to install” dialog, Firefox closes and I type the password at the admin prompt, but then nothing else happens. The Mozilla Updater process won’t appear in the Activity Monitor, and if I click on the Firefox icon in the Dock, another admin prompt appears, then the updater actually does its thing but at the same time the old version of Firefox tries to launch during the updating process. Sometimes, the updated version of Firefox appears while the old version is also on the screen. It is a really janky process and I always fear that something gets severely broken.

This never happened on macOS Big Sur, the previous major version of macOS.

Auf immer mehr Webseiten erhalten wir mit Firefox (jeweils aktuellste Version) zunehmend falsche Textdarstellung! Es herrscht Durcheinander im Text, Worte fehlen, falsche Worte erscheinen (vermischte)

Dies ist ein reines Firefox-Problem. EDGE oder CHROME zeigen die entsprechenden Seiten fehlerfrei an. Insofern kann auch die Rechner-/Betriebssystem-Konfiguration nicht die Ursachen sein.

Es liegt auch offenbar nicht an den Sicherheitseinstellungen von Firefox, die wurden bereits aktiviert/deaktiviert wie in allen Hilfstexten vorgeschlagen.

I needed to add another user to our windows 10 computer. The user has their own windows login. They have their own Mozilla user account, but somehow are getting all bookmarks, etc from my account. I really need them to not be able to do that. I have searched the info here and haven't had any luck following the suggestions.

In the meantime, the other user is using MS edge, which makes me uncomfortable

Any thoughts?

Thanks

I've put up with this issue for about a year now. Every time FF updates, the "restart" fails. It reopens the browser, and if you had multiple tabs open all of them are also opened - all at the same time.

I've tried to go through the process with just 1 tab and it fails. I wait 2 or 3 minutes for the page to resolve and it never does. So I have to close FF manually and reopen FF before it will function normally again. It's not a huge issue, but it's very important when I'm in the midst of working with several tabs open in the middle of the day. I've learned to "not" close and allow FF to update when I'm working with a lot of tabs. I wait until the end of the day to close FF because it can be a 10 minute disruption to my work (which actually becomes 30 minutes by the time I can get back to what I was doing after opening all the tabs I needed open).

With every update I think, "this time" the FF restart will be fixed....but it's not. I just went through it this morning when I opened FF. I know it downloaded and updated yesterday at the end of my day, which means I shut down FF and my other windows, but I always leave my computer running 24/7, and then turn off my monitors.

When I opened FF today, it attempted to load the 1 tab I had open last night, and after several minutes I simply closed FF and started again. It's that "second" restart that gets everything functioning in FF.

Certainly others have complained about this. I can't be the only person with this issue. Is this just something that's not easy to figure out "why" it won't connect to the Net on restart? That's the issue, actually. FF loses the connection to the Net during the update process and when the restart happens FF can't connect to the Net. Only a manual restart fixes the issue.

Running Firefox ver. 128.0.3 (also happened on ver. 128.0.2) and on various websites, the screen goes black and Firefox is non-responsive/frozen. Able to close and restart Firefox, but lose any work in progress. Becoming more frequent. Other apps that are open continue to work fine. About:crashes returns "No crash reports have been submitted." HP laptop with 2nd screen, running Windows 10 Home ver. 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Just lost all my open/hidden tabs and there are many. Not happy. I assume that FF has had an update or crashed.

There needs to be a robust and transperent solution for this. One whoch allows users to do the following:

1. set session back up frequency and number of sessions to cycle 2. restores from a selectable list of back up sessions 3. remembers whch tabs are allocated to which tab group

The ability to have tab groups, means that users can easily have hundreds of tabs "hidden/open" at any point in time.

Finally, if all fails, some instructions on how to access stored session data from a C-drive (windows) backuup would help.

I can't get firefox to play amazon music web page or netflix because it claims to be installing an app which it never completes. I've tried to purge cache for the site in question, to no avail. What is the solution?

I have no idea but a pop up box keeps coming up even when logged in Password Required-Mozilla Firefox "please enter your primary password" No idea why hope its not a spammer scam

Greetings, a couple of weeks ago I started getting a black page with the message that is the title of this question, "We can’t connect to the server at www.googleadservices.com." when I click results from a web search and even clicking on links from within pages I already have open. This has happened in the past but only once in a while and isolated incidents. However right now my browsers are almost useless because of it. It started with Firefox as it is usually my default browser so I switched to Chrome and then Edge and now they are all doing it. I have posted a query in Windows forums and Microsoft help because it is with all my browsers but I am also posting in the individual browsers' help sections as well to get as much info on this as possible because it's really frustrating me and I want it fixed. I'm only able to visit 1 out of maybe every 25 pages I try to click on from any of my browsers!

I already occasionally run into sites that don't behave well with Firefox, forcing me to use another browser in some cases.

Will enabling these settings tend to contribute to exacerbating the problems?

When I open safeway.com with private window, the site always auto-reloads 3 times but the regular Firefox window doesn't do it. Also, I tried other browsers such as Chrome and Brave, they don't auto-reload either. I am only experiencing this with Firefox private window.

I found that suddenly, when I type in my search request, the screen flashes, but I end up with my home screen, and no search results. I can still connect to saved sites without any problems, but have found I cannot search for anything at all. Hoping full functionality can be restored.

I check the box for CrowdFare's Captcha affirming I am a human, but I still am unable to access powerlingblog.com.

I have no problems accessing that powerlineblog.com with Edge or Chrome.

Message: https://us-sea-avpc-redirect.trafficflowdiscovery.com/index.php?cid=&extclickid=cqfkcu8hubcc73a3m6q0&t1=6637497245906&t2=10&type=push&creativeId=1025266&creativeButton=0

Why am I getting this message? My PC has been scanned by both PCMATIC & MS Defender and all is well. This only happens when I use Firefox browser. Is this McAfee trying to sell their product?