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On 9/29/2024 my sign in to icloud to use mail worked fine. Monday 9/30/2024 the mail loaded but didn't work correctly. Prior to Monday, I could right click and select a delete, move, or whatever. I could open the email and the options were available just above the mail. If I use other browsers, edge, chrome, opera, etc it works great. It doesn't with FF(my preferred browser) I do not think this is an Apple issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled icloud and reinstalled FF. Didn't uninstall it and lose all my data. I've added icloud.com to allowed list. Still doesn't work. I need help.

Hi I was wondering why Firefox uses so many instances just to run one tab? I keep lagging when I use this browser, and when I check Task Manager, it says its running up to 13 instances. I've had this happen when I've been actively using Firefox, watching videos on Firefox, and even just having one new tab open while I'm doing nothing else on my computer, and it still runs between 7 and 15 instances.

Before writing this question, I searched the already asked questions on Firefox and found someone having almost the same problem as me, only instead of all instances being grouped up (like mine), theirs wasn't. When I tried to follow someones fix to the problem, I soon found out that this was for an old version, and their instructions included an option that my up-to-date version didn't have anymore.

In conclusion, I'm having a problem where Firefox is running too many instances, and all of the answers to other peoples questions are out of date. Thanks!

Hi - Is there an updated bookmarks tutorial? just uploaded a new firefox version that seems to no longer have the recent bookmarks tab?

I'm older (and not computer savvy) and will admit that i find IE bookmarks convenient, easy to use with folders, one or two clicks, etc........ but firefox bookmarks? seems designed to be more difficult and security notwithstanding has forced me to use other browsers. Or am I just making it harder?

Thanks in advance for anyone taking time out their day to help, Bill

I would like to have different default search engines for the URL bar and the search bar. For example have a query typed in the URL bar use DuckDuckGo by default. But a query in the search bar use Google by default. I am aware that it's possible to use shortcut strings, use alt+arrows to cycle through the options, or select a different search engine from the icons. I'd like to be able to set them differently without any of that.

The only way I can use the Firefox browser is if I disconnect my Firewall on my Macbook with the macOS Sequoia 15.0 installed. On Oct 2 I received an update for my Firefox browser & it solved the problem, however today, Oct 3, the problem has occurred again where I have to disconnect my Firewall. The solution that I use at the moment is to change to another browser (Safari) which is not really what I want. How can I correct this problem or can you help?

Jack Pinsent (jackpinsent@gmail.com)

I have an eTrade account and for the past 3 or 4 weeks, I always have to clear cache in Firefox in order to be presented with the login window. The url that comes up when I launch eTrade is: https://us.etrade.com/home/welcome-back. Once I finish with that eTrade session, I log out but the next time I try to launch eTrade, it just spins. Down in the left corner of my screen I see "Read c.evidon.com" but the login screen never comes up and the tab that I launch on is just showing a spin and never seems to time out. Once I go into settings and clear cache, it works (have to close down firefox and relaunch it though). Did something change in the last firefox update that could have caused this. Never had this issue before and I've had firefox and the eTrade brokerage account for many years.

I am trying to re-enable sofascore notifications but in permission panel just seems cookies not notification permissions. I tried to forgot site and delete cookies but it didn't work. How can i solve this?

I have version 130.0.1. I keep getting popups prompting me to update. I'm skeptical at popups so I go to check what is the latest version at Mozilla.com. They don't display that; they only want to automate an update. I won't do that. I want to see what is being updated and to what version before I download and execute some unknown automated process. Mozilla should know better than try to cloak an update on us. We are the ones that use Mozilla because of all the "automated" trouble and hijacks out there.

I have 2 rows of Shortcuts selected & I can see the "Shortcut Icon or Favicon", however one of them is still showing an old one for a website & I know that the site actually have a new Favicon displayed. Why am I still seeing the old one? Is there a way to refresh my page so I see the new one? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stan

Please can you tell me how to stop Firefox opening multiple browser pages as I work. As in, when I go from one email address to another, Firefox just opens page after new page causing a lot of confusion.

Please, can you explain - in an easy way - how to stop this. Sometimes there are more than 10 browser pages open. I have a Dell Inspiron with Windows 11. Thank you for any help.

I want to stop the browser from auto refreshing in some website but it keep auto refresh despite the fact that accessibility.blockautorefresh is marked as "true". In the past it wasn't like that, but someone who used my computer visited the website and clicked on some note from the website and gave it a permission for auto refreshing. I tried to look in the "permissions" of the website but found nothing about auto refreshing. I don't know how to stop those auto refreshing.

Every time i update my bookmarks are removed and my extensions which I pin get unpined I can´t even open a tab without using settings. I need to reinstall my browser.

I need help.

Whenever I sign in to sync my browser it keeps asking me to sign in again to reconnect to sync.

I've tried reinstalling the browser, deleting the Mozilla directory in %APPDATA% and reinstalling, removing account and signing in again.

No matter what I do I keep getting asked to sign in again to reconnect even though the initial sign in was successful.

I am using latest firefox developer edition. After firefox updated automatically, I found that I lost toolbar customization settings. I reconfigured everything, but the next day when it updates I lost the settings again. It seems that there is a bug in Firefox. How can I fix this? If this is a bug, when will it be fixed?

I have reinstalled Firefox on my Mac many times, completely removed all files using app cleaner, and reset Firefox by holding shift and option on start. Despite this, the app is very slow to launch, and when it does no pages load or render. Opening a new tab freezes the entire app for 15-30 seconds, and when the tab opens it is completely blank. Attempting to browse to a URL does nothing, and the address bar just returns to being empty. Attempting to open settings does nothing, although parts of the app that open separate windows such as the about version info and bookmarks work fine. The only thing I haven't done at this point is completely reinstalling macOS, so maybe there is something wrong with my system config. I first noticed this issue when using the early macOS Sequoia betas, and assumed the app wasn't updated to support it yet. However after updating macOS and completely removing and reinstalling all traces of Firefox, it still doesn't work. I am currently using macOS 15.1 beta, however the issue also persisted on 15.0.

Good morning,

When I attempt to download the Firefox 115.16.0esr 32 bit download from the site it will only supply me with the Firefox Setup 128.3.0esr. I have tried several times with the same result. Given my PC is far from thr newest (funding prevents large outlays) I must continue with my older 32bit system but try to keep as current as possible with updates.

Please can you advise as to what is going wrong or where I can download the update I need?

Many thanks in anticipation,

John Andrews