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the metamask extension has quit working. The error message appears: MetaMask had trouble starting. This error could be intermittent, so try restarting the extension. Error details An unexpected error occurred.

This has been going on for a week now. There might be a bug in firefox?

I don't understand! I'm able to order merchandise on other websites, including Mary Kay's. Why is this any different? They are May Kay business cards for my Mary Kay business! (I'm also 93 and not very savvy about this.) Please help. Ellie

As of a two days ago, passkey functionality in Firefox is not working (v142.0.1 on MacOS 15.6.1). I have a passkey setup with Google, and when I sign in and the popup should appear for the passkey, it no longer does. This also causes Firefox to become unresponsive and must be force-quit. Any solutions?

A few things are going on since I put Firefox on this Mac, and I'm not sure if they're related:

• I can't import my logins.csv
• any time I try to save a new login, the little blue "password saved" notification pops up, but no passwords are saved
• when I try to pair with my mobile, Firefox won't display the QR code, and instead it's blurred out and says "Pairing unsuccessful. Try Again."
• more recently (last week or so, maybe?) the desktop browser logs me out of my account every day or two

Desktop and mobile are the most recent versions.

With the new profiles feature, is there a way to set a default profile when opening links? I have set up "work" and "personal" profiles but when I click on a link from another app (i.e. Slack) Firefox opens the link in (what seems like) the last profile I was using when I have a window open for each profile. Since I'm doing this on my work computer, I want all links to open in the "work" profile by default. Is this possible?

One of my permanent tabs, www.nytimes.com, automatically refreshes the page every so often (5-10 minutes) when using the Windows version. However, the page remains static in the MacOS version -- the only way to update the page is to do so manually. I've looked for a setting, thinking maybe I set up something differently on the two browsers, but can't find anything. If it's not me, it would be great if the Mac version auto-refreshed the page just like the Windows version does!

Over the past 2 versions, I am having issues accessing a Linux Webmin (port 10000) site while using a VPN. I have no issue accessing this site when not over the VPN (on site) and I have no issue accessing the site while over VPN using another browser. Very strange issue.

When viewing Kannada text in Firefox 142.0.1 (64-bit) on macOS [your version], conjunct letters (ottaksharas/ligatures) do not display correctly. Instead of showing combined forms like ಶ್ರೀ (shri), ತ್ವ (tva), ತ್ರ (tra), the characters appear split into individual glyphs.

This issue is browser-specific:

In Safari and Chrome, the same text renders properly with correct Kannada shaping.

In Firefox, the ligatures fail to render, making Kannada text appear broken and unreadable.

Apple Support confirmed that the system rendering is fine and advised reporting this to Firefox.

Example text (should be tested): ಚೊಕ್ಕಾಡಿ ಶ್ರೀರಾಮ ದೇವಾಲಯದ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ

''''bold text''''i m trynna use some fillable pdf file forms and am having issues with my information i enter in the required boxes provide in the form like my name my project name my address all the boxes remain where i ca see the form is completely frilled ouit by looking and reviewing the form before i submit it and everything is there i save the filled pdf form to a folder in my downloads igive it the proper name and it saves in my downloads folder with that name and the i go to submit that what i thought was a completed application comes back needing the stuff, the info i already enterred and when i double checkn i open the file to inspect it and there the entries i typed were .......................gone. vanished, fell out eaten by some really wierd something that can sneak in and snatch the entries away without nleaving so much as a puntuation mark no footprint no cache files not evidence of a malicious app thinking its funny tio watcjh me struggle with this all niote it s like my input field boxes are filled with bleach and just making invisible ink or therte is teflon anti stick surface letter repellant in my browserse settings that need to be flipped to something i mean they are 100% being visiuble when forms are filled out but when saving forms to store in downloads folder for transfer to a websites drag and drop box the boxes its like its not allowing scripts or theres a privacy blocker in the browsers background flipped to not allow pasted script or something you have got to have s-9-headssdriiusu\ing th

The "History" tab does not show recent history. I cannot recover recent internet locations because the history does not include them. It shows the same older history over and over. When I request "all history" the list ends in August. It is not reassuring that the history shown is multiple sites of my online use, of Vanguard the investment company.

Every time I am using Firefox to login to an app that requires a passkey (which is many now), it says I will be asked to provide my passkey and no window pops up.

The browser freezes and I have force quit it.

Judging from other comments and questions, this appears to be a bug. Please fix it as it renders Firefox unusable.

I'm using Firefox for Mac v142.0.1

I am on a MacBook Air using 142.0.1 (aarch64) and some websites like Amazon.com and Google News are displaying a mobile view, even though I am on desktop. A shift reload causes the desktop view to be displayed, but subsequent clicks lead to reverting to the mobile view.

Whenever I attempt to authenticate with Google using a passkey, Firefox (142.0.1) on macOS (15.6.1) hangs and freezes the process. In Activity Monitor, when I force kill a webauthn process for Firefox, the browser frees up, and I can proceed as long as I don't use a passkey.

This freezing is also described in this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/ee/questions/1498660, but they didn't look into running processes. I can also authenticate to Google using Safari, but that's not a solution.

I've deleted my passkeys in Google, and now everything works, but that's not a permanent solution. Is it Firefox, Mac, Google, or all three?

I'm trying to upgrade from FireFox 128.14.0esr to Firefox 142 on a Mac running Sonoma 14.6.1. Everything seemed to install except for bookmarks and history . When I've done previous upgrades the new FF has automagicaally peeked into the old FF and copied over the bookmarks, including the bookmark toolbar, history and previous autofill info, etc. This time it didn't and I didn't see anything that looked like an option during the install process. It did ask about getting something (I forget what) from chrome or safari; but nothing from the old firefox. The help articles I found didn't seem to tell me what to do. Any suggestions?

Dick Hendrickson