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Hello,

I would like Firefox to offer the same usability as Chrome when it comes to pinned tabs and session restoration.

In Chrome, I keep about five tabs pinned and always open. When I start Chrome, all my tabs are there, and it shows the last tab I was using. This is smart and logical because it lets me continue exactly where I left off.

Firefox, on the other hand, always jumps to a new tab on startup, even if I was working on a different pinned tab when I closed the browser.

I can’t even begin to explain how frustrating this is. I often work on multiple screens with multiple browser instances, and this behavior constantly interrupts my workflow. It’s so disruptive that I felt compelled to write this complaint.

Please fix this and allow Firefox to behave in a normal, logical way. Stop forcing a new tab to open every single time on startup, or at least give us a proper option to disable this and restore the session exactly as it was.

You’ve made it easy to import everything from Chrome, but without offering this same basic functionality, Firefox feels incomplete.

Thanks

I filled out a registration form to attend an event. At completing the form I clicked on the "submit" button - nothing. Closed the window repeated filling out the form, clicked on "submit" nothing again, no error statement. I could see the "button" react but nothing.

Shifted to another browser, the one having to do with the end of something. Filled out the form, clicked "submit" got an acknowledgement right away.

Any clues?

Why can I not use a shortcut key to slow down or speed up speech. Some things are easy, and I want them to be read fast. Other things require some thought on hearing them, so slow down would be appropriate. And it is inconvenient to have to go inot the options for Read Aloud in order to do this. Besides which, when you go into options, you really don't know whether you have changed the speed the appropriate amount until you go back and listen to the text. As well, I listen to things in English and Spanish and need to switch speeds for these different languages."

Hi folks, I am new here. I wonder if someone could help me solve a new problem which may or may not have anything to do with Firefox itself. Let me explain: a month ago or so, I was running Firefox, and my HP laptop, 64-bit, running Win11, told me I needed to run a new update from Microsoft for my Windows. I forgot that I was running Firefox, and started the update. I live on the West coast of Florida, where there is a lot of lightning... So, right in the middle of the Windows update, lightning took out cable and internet, stopping (interrupting) the update download. The whole neighborhood was affected. Later, when internet service was restored, I re-started the Windows update. Now here's the weird thing: every minute or so, no matter what is or is not running, even before I log into my desktop with my PIN, all of a sudden an old image from a previous Firefox session, complete with tabs, pops up. It then cycles through more images, until I hit the enter button, or tap the pad, or hit escape, exiting the image. It even goes away temporarily if I move the cursor, so trying to X out does not work. A little later, it pops back up. I'm working on a novel, and it is frustrating, because this interruption derails my thought train, complete with caboose. Also, one of the images (static) is my bank page. This spooks me... Please help, someone -- anyone? Ahead of time, thank you!

i was able to download firefox. but now when i click on the icon to load up firefox it says couldn't load xpcom. what does that mean, what do i need to do to fix it?

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

Ive been within the past few days getting certain websites randomly popping up first with chrome and now with Firefox ...I've deleted ap0s browsing history to no avail. Even changed my VPN via McAfee please help

Additional information on the problem of not clearing history. It takes from the tool bar at least 5 attempts to clear the Cache, cookies and past pages. The last 15KB of the system cache will not clear. Tried from Setting; Privacy and Security, said there was still 6.9MB, Cleared, check also the past pages box. Came back to the Tool Bar, still has the 15KB in Cache, but settings said there was zero. Not a critical issue at this time. Going forward when you have a response. JJE

I have an ultrawide screen, yet my pinned tabs only occupy 1/3rd of my screen width before you have to scroll through them. How do I make this area wide and allow more than 27 pinned tabs to be visible.

Hello,

I just switched to Mozilla Firefox from Chrome, I went through the import process and while Password, Bookmarks have been imported the History however will not import at all. It says it will only import 180 days of history but it appears with a yellow triangle exclamation mark and does not even import a single day.

I successfully imported to Edge for example but again if I try to import the history from Edge to Firefox it fails.

I also tried other freshly installed Firefox based browsers and they all fail to import history from chromium browsers.

Please fix this issue.

I already did the restart, unnistal, reinstall process still not working.

I also went through threads on the internet stating to modify flags and other settings it simply fails when any Firefox Browser tried to import Chromium history.

Any guidance will be welcome.

Best regards,

FF 142.0.1. We have used FF fir many, many years, and NEVER, that is NEVER, been able to ad an extension to our toolbar. Yes, we have read myriad posts and sundry blogs where most of the advice we see is totally useless because the things we are supposed to do not exist in our FF. We can’t add in the customise palette, the extension manger Pin to Toolba, settings, et ceteras. So, how do we add an FF extension to the toolbar in FF 142.0.1? Thank you