Firefox Support Forum

I use the closed captions (CC) in YouTube videos with FireFox. Lately I have been seeing videos that seem to misbehave. At the very start of the video, ALL the captions display at once, one after the other. Then, as play continues there are no more captions. Most videos still show captions normally, that is, captions appearing only when the dialog matches them. But a few videos misbehave by showing all the captions at once. Here is one such video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgqJ5wQF944

I noticed this misbehavior within the last month and assumed that the video was doing something peculiar with the timing of the captions. But when I use the YouTube Show Transcript option to display the captions and associated timing outside the video, the transcript looks quite reasonable.

One further oddity, if I take that same URL and load the video in a different browser, for example, Chrome, the captions are displayed normally.

I've included a screen shot of the video in YouTube showing all the captions displaying at once.

As many others have said (however those posts are locked so i cannot reply) Firefox seems to randomly lose the ability to save shortcuts, (by dragging from the address bar) to the desktop.

Restart a few times, wait, random things, and it comes back next time you try... been bugging me for years. Seems to occur when firefox has been running for some time with lots of tabs open. As others have said, it displays a little "NO" icon (circle with a line through it) when trying to drag the URL from the lock or favicon section of the address bar, to the desktop. Other times it works fine.

I searched a bit, but perhaps someone has another idea on how to fix this permanently, or how to recover from it without restarting the computer. Firefox version is 110.0.1.

PS. I would re think the idea of archiving posts. Because its nice to be able to reply to old posts, even if they are "solved". The original poster may have found a solution and never posted about it, for instance.

I use mozilla on two machines. They both have gotten to where they lock up when trying to access a second page. The normal place they lockup is "waiting nexusensighten.com". I talked with etrade and they had me try MS edge. It works without a problem. I've started having the same problem with yahoo mail.

I deleted cache and cookies numerous time. Etrade guy had me just type etrade.com to get started. It didn't help.

I update automatically. Thanks for your help.

Harmon Lowman

On start up this morning, Firefox was gone from taskbar. I found ff eventually but all my bookmarks and history are gone. Can I recover them? Why did this happen? Also missing home button

On the website page, it has top rating section of the products. When I scroll down to see the listing, there is a big empty space between the next item in the listing and it continues through every next item of the listing.

You can try this page that I'm experiencing with: https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/melatonin-supplements/melatonin/?anchor=toppicks&j=3234643&sfmc_sub=4104397&l=529_HTML&u=36370846&mid=7276525&jb=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_term=&utm_content=creatine_member_de_send#toppicks

So a few months ago I was having issues with Firefox so I deleted it. But today I redownloaded it, and it was working fine, but all of my data is gone my passwords bookmarks my history is there anyway to get this back.

I get these updates just to stop the annoying side popup/down. But what I get usually is no use to me and my browsing. What it seems to me is most update's "Fixes" are just for the dudes that keep playing with/building on the browser and screwing it up.

Plus I don't get to see WHAT the new update fixes are UNTIL I've downloaded the update.
 I sure wish that you...someone.... puts the option BACK IN where a person can stop/ignore updates....COMPLETELY! 
With the last 2 or 3 updates it seems... for my use of the browser... makes it a hell of a lot SLOWER. And a ton more pauses and crashes.  
Firefox was a great browser 10 years ago but with all these geeks playing with it and trying to make it ONLY to suit his/her needs is making it a pain.
 Thanks for anyone reading this.

HI

I am new to Firefox browser, my IT guy recommended it over Chrome.

My issue is that I use Gmail as my email client, now I am all setup and been working all day, I have found I have to download my customers attachments, I can't drag them from the email to a folder.

I can open Chrome and still drag them from there but not Firefox

Am I missing a setting to tick? or and extension to use?

I'm having an issue where PDF files I download are blurry when I zoom in on them in Firefox, but when I use, for example, Edge, it zooms in fine. I've tried reinstalling Firefox, but it didn't make any difference. It happens to all PDFs I've tried.

Hi When I'm watching videos on Firefox especially while on YouTube, the whole browser turns white for a few seconds. It sometimes pauses the whole video but almost every time the audio is still playing and I can't see the video. I looked at other similar problems but turning on and off hardware acceleration does nothing. I have the latest GPU drivers and I'm using a laptop.

Hi.. Last few upgrades, Firefox browser will not keep passwords to bookmark sites. Have to go thru a lot of trouble to sign in to any password sites that is not saved any longer in Fire fox browser.. Tried all kinds of setting in Firefox and disable our virus programs and win 10 items to find a way to save pass words. Google and other browser will save the pass words. Noel in ca. noelw at yahoo.com

[Yesterday 12:57 PM] Mills, Ed Our HTML for has this:

<input type='hidden' id='dir' name='dir' value='datasets/open/2023-06-07_09:54:40'> <input type='hidden' id='fileCount' name='fileCount' value='0'>

When posted , both IE and Chrome have: $vars{dir} = 'datasets/open/2023-06-07_09:54:40' $vars{fileCount}=0

BUT, Firefox 114.0 has only this: $vars{dir} = 0

Since it appeared that firefox was somehow "merging" the two tags into one, I reversed the order to this to see if the new first var would post. But instead, now this works 100% fine: <input type='hidden' id='fileCount' name='fileCount' value='0'> <input type='hidden' id='dir' name='dir' value='datasets/open/2023-06-07_09:54:40'>

The system is working again. chatAI suggested a few things like updating firefox (I did) , but nothing they suggested worked. Only my reversal worked.

Thoughts?

Why am I suddenly getting notifications with a tone appearing in the upper right corner of my screen from various entities like supermarkets, NextDoor, etc? This just started happening.

We had a power failure last night. Now i cannot post to Historum (although I can read it). Error message says "Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More error details may be in the browser console." I've been on this for 2+ hours, have restarted and cannot understand console message.

nearly all page wont load, it just spins. sometimes after a couple of refreshes the page will come up instantly. this happens to 80 percent of pages. I have reset, but didnt help.

This has happened twice. All my passwords were removed from the Fire Fox PW Manager. The first time, Google ended up with apparently this PW list created w/FF. I never knowingly gave permission for this. Second time my Primary PW will no longer work and I had entered the PW correctly.

Tried to set up a new PW file on FF, which I had since upgraded, but it will not accept my "last PW".

Please see changed email.