Firefox Support Forum

Hello, I am still using windows 8.1 64bit & refuse windows 10, due to high risk privacy, yes predictable hollow words are said, BUT is Microsoft, a greedy un-scrupled money making, money hungry corporate entity, wants us to willing give it our private details voluntarily or under thin layer of extortion.

Hence my sticking to windows 8.1 as I have certain control, mainly updates.

Will Mozilla browsers be specifically supporting older operating systems like windows 8.1 into the coming years, not just months, e.g. until January 2023

Yes is a blunt question, but is eluded against in other responses, maybe is Microsoft buy out to sacrifice mozilla loyal users or similar, same query is for Brave browser. Mozilla I think is last Bastian for decency & morality, a leader in justice & honour.

I keep getting this message on a lot of sites I visit: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.competitivecyclist.com/?" on this server. Reference #18.94973017.1672583103.2817349

What is going on? How can I fix this?

I have just applied a firefox update, and I notice that I can no longer touch scroll the bookmarks dropdown menu with one finger, only with two. The single finger is set to select. Is there any way to change this and return to one finger scrolling of the dropdown menuu ? Thanks in Advance.

Latest update blocking website like indeed from loading in information about employers and other sites too. Every update makes firefox worse. I started using other browsers because now some video's don't work either. Last thing I saw was a QUICK pop-up that said something about bits of trackers now being blocked. Well lots of things are being blocked and making browsing a miserable experience. I tried using the standards system in options. Can't find anything to make it work. Allow lots of things and nothing is working except to probably make the web browser more vulnerable to creeps. Please undo your current update and stop making so many updates. I've had three in the last two weeks and every time they screw up the browser more and more. Just stop it!

My print preview is no longer available, and the new one is too small to see what's on the page. It's useless! Also, simplify page is gone (I understand "Reader View") is the work-around. Also, it's many extra clicks to get to my system print controls to print properly.

Solving the print preview too small would go a long way towards keeping Firefox usable. The other things could certainly use fixing, however.

Thanks in advance! L.

(I have restored the old functionality temporarily with print.tab_modal.enabled preference set to false. Thanks community for showing me to do so! See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1322623 if you want to know how.  However, usually Firefox takes these options away soon.  )

Bear with me there's a bit of a story.

One of the apps I most use is MightyText. It allows me to send texts from my desktop computer's web browser. When FireFox automatically updated to the newest version, something didn't work right and MightyText stopped being able to connect.

My workaround was to use System Restore to go back in time so to speak. But FireFox is pretty aggressive with their updates, and eventually that stopped being a work around.

I tried to install an older version of FireFox manually but I couldn't ever get my profile to work right.

So, I've landed somewhere where FireFox has updated to the latest version, AND MightyText works just fine.

But now the problem is I cannot use any of my add-ons. Actually, I can re-fresh FireFox, and start it without any add ons. I can add all my add ons and everything works great, but if I restart my computer, FireFox will not connect to the internet (the wheel just spins) until I refresh again and wipe out all the add-ons. After doing so, all my tabs are restored, all my saved passwords, etc--and I can add back the add-ons and they will work until FireFox Crashes or I restart the computer, but then FF won't connect to the internet and around and around we go.

What's up?

Lately almost every time I use Firefox, RAM usage goes up to 5 GB, CPU usage goes to 100%, and my PC becomes unusable until I kill Firefox processes and wait 5 - 10 minutes for virtual RAM to be cleared out of disk and disk usage to return to normal. This is much worse since the last update, basically making Firefox unusable. Is anyone working on fixes so Firefox doesn't need 5 GB of RAM to open one simple web article?

I unstalled my old Firefox version without saving my bookmarks. I then installed the current Firefox version and realized that all my bookmarks are gone. I tried already to restore them, it finds the file, but then I cannot import them. The c:\windows.old thing does not work for me. Any other ideas where to look for my old bookmarks? Thanks, Daniela

I am getting the message "Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www4.citizensbankonline.com/efs/servlet/efs/loginnew-wait.jsp" on this server. Reference #18.ad674d68.1618522318.738da43 " when I try to log on to my bank. I'm running Windows 8.1 with Windows Defender and have accessed this site for years. When I called the bank's tech support their response was "Why are you still using Firefox? Everybody uses Chrome now." I do not use Chrome, but Edge will access the web page with no problem. This has been occurring on and off for several weeks and I have tried all suggested solutions I've found here so far (clear cache, history, DNS prefetch.... ). I've also noticed numerous other posts with the same error message. Any ideas??

Upgraded to a new Firefox version. Lost the ability to separate the Homepage from New Window behaviour. Is there no way to specify these two things separately? It seemed to be working fine when I first upgraded, but in the options it shows everything as "Blank Page", so if I want to change my homepage URLs, I have to set it to that and if I do that, it undoes the separation of the homepage and new windows and I have to go set it again in about:config...? One of my most used features was this separation of the Homepage with New Windows, gave me a lot of control.

Where can I find help for the Firefox Developer's menu which appears after pressing F12 ?

I have tried to download via it a YouTube music and save it as follows but it doesn't replay: What's wrong with this `curl` command ?

curl "https://r3---sn-2gb7sn7k.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1618934363&ei=-6V-YMyVKde0gQeAw42YDg&ip=94.112.85.61&id=o-AP6SpCFdGAWmLzhSgFAtZ3SlEFZ8Ia9CE6Zo6JS4tDTC&itag=397&aitags=133"%"2C134"%"2C135"%"2C136"%"2C160"%"2C242"%"2C243"%"2C244"%"2C247"%"2C278"%"2C394"%"2C395"%"2C396"%"2C397"%"2C398&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&mh=wS&mm=31"%"2C26&mn=sn-2gb7sn7k"%"2Csn-4g5ednsy&ms=au"%"2Conr&mv=m&mvi=3&pl=18&initcwndbps=1492500&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video"%"2Fmp4&ns=oGOAXGyOlcIjz_s85Q2pnIEF&gir=yes&clen=149420529&dur=18529.041&lmt=1562702145590600&mt=1618912361&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=24001373"%"2C24007246&c=WEB&txp=5532432&n=1YA_uOdo4b3FiA&sparams=expire"%"2Cei"%"2Cip"%"2Cid"%"2Caitags"%"2Csource"%"2Crequiressl"%"2Cvprv"%"2Csvpuc"%"2Cmime"%"2Cns"%"2Cgir"%"2Cclen"%"2Cdur"%"2Clmt&lsparams=mh"%"2Cmm"%"2Cmn"%"2Cms"%"2Cmv"%"2Cmvi"%"2Cpl"%"2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=AG3C_xAwRgIhANfqcvaLCOf7GyvgoJdpRa5Ao5FeICYE2tO48YQbNWudAiEA2fsHoGqkNrm95J4OZTLNnl7-uWKl2oFuDk_mtMxGgNM"%"3D&alr=yes&sig=AOq0QJ8wRAIga4VjSJrXvQQNqTv44Ek_BJrY3xqK-kFSEEIVRd-LuxkCIBSgG30TBv7HqsvzOWJ7JA319KcRe_Ff2RU5VrH7cf-k&cpn=1I6CI7Oh9Q3CxGi2&cver=2.20210418.07.00&range=0-27199999977014&rn=366&rbuf=119795" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0" -H "Accept: */*" -H "Accept-Language: cs,sk;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3" --compressed -H "Referer: https://www.youtube.com/" -H "Origin: https://www.youtube.com" -H "Connection: keep-alive" > J5.mpeg

While using HTTPS Only Mode, and following links from my GMail Account, I often get the "not available" Firefox landing page, when actually the "ultimate" link is HTTPS. When I select the option to "Continue" from the FF Landing Page, it will land on the https site.

It appears the initial link is a 3rd party intermediary (* see below) that manages for the sender.

Intermediary Link: http://click1.e.westernjournalism.com/hmvwhljsrclzhlwdzsnvlzlvlnznmpbjmjcfnwpvswmbwss_zdbbwmsmzskrlrdszpzzz.html

Ultimate Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/exclusive-mother-four-stopped-capitol-protesters-breaking-windows-raided-faces-55-years-prison/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

How do I get around this annoyance?

Thank you!

Kevin

When using Paypal to pay for a purchase, from EBAY, the login screen for Paypal hangs, is not displayed, It does work when using IE (last version). It did work properly up to a couple of weeks ago.

Hi,

I'd like to use keyboard media keys (play/pause, prev, next) to control Spotify web player and Youtube but they don't work. The option is enabled. I'm using Firefox 88.0 on Windows 8.1, so according to this article it should be supported. The keys work on other apps. I've tried in troubleshooting mode as well, no luck. Any ideas?