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Hi there, I recently received notice of being a part of the one billionth data breach and I am officially sick of it. I love and use firefox and beta, but I know my priv… (read more)

Hi there,

I recently received notice of being a part of the one billionth data breach and I am officially sick of it. I love and use firefox and beta, but I know my privacy is not that protected. I was looking through reviews and found Waterfox which is supposed to be built on the firefox platform, but has better privacy protections. I downloaded it and all seemed right. I imported from Firefox. Then I tried to download it to my iphone and the only thing that came up was "Water Fox". I downloaded it and couldn't even get through opening it without crazy ads and it looking like some game app. It wanted my saved data from firefox to import. But, no way. Either this was pretending to be WaterFox and a scam, or WaterFox IS a scam. So, I'm hoping maybe someone here would know and would also know if I just made a huge mistake by installing this. If it were just an app pretending to be WaterFox, why wasn't there an actual waterfox app? That was the only one even close. And, the reviews said that WaterFox was students working with Firefox or something like that, but couldn't find anything about them in Firefox forums. Any info would be greatly appreciated. And, if I did just make a huge mistake, is there a way to fix it? I didn't sign in with the squirrely iphone app, but I did with the desktop. Eeeep.

Asked by cmartis1 9 hours ago

Last reply by James 1 hour ago

Any possible way to reverse Manage Exceptions in the Cookies and Site Data?

Here's my question. I am well versed with, and frequently use the Manage Data tool in Cookies and Site Data to remove bothersome cookies, particularly from sites like ne… (read more)

Here's my question.

I am well versed with, and frequently use the Manage Data tool in Cookies and Site Data to remove bothersome cookies, particularly from sites like news sites that will throw you a few "bones" of articles without mandating a subscription before requiring one to continue to use view the site.

I took a hard look at the Manage Exceptions option next to the check box that will Delete Cookies and Site Data when Firefox is closed, but requires that I'd have to input a hundred sites that I want to retain the cookies for manually, in order to avoid potentially loosing any credentials or site data.

Which brings me to my question, kind of the reverse of the steps you use to both delete cookies and Manage Exceptions. Rather than going one by one with Manual entry of each site that you want to retain site data and cookies for, why not generate/provide a list, populated the way the Manage Data function works. And then, let the user just select the exceptions to auto cookie deletion when you close Firefox?

Asked by J Robinson 2 hours ago

Seems there is a new type of pop up notification

This lasts possibly 3 seconds. It has an email logo and a high pitched sound. It just flashes on, not long enough to read, just long enough to be annoying. The locatio… (read more)

This lasts possibly 3 seconds. It has an email logo and a high pitched sound. It just flashes on, not long enough to read, just long enough to be annoying. The location is always on the Top Right corner of the display. I have all notifications and web push blocked in Firefox preferences. System is Mac, OS 12.1

Asked by The Mavricks 13 hours ago

Last reply by Mark 9 hours ago

view-source:resource://nimbus/lib/RemoteSettingsExperimentLoader.sys.mjs

view-source:resource://nimbus/lib/RemoteSettingsExperimentLoader.sys.mjs This is making multiple "WARNING"s to appear. I believe that it is causing my DELL to shut down … (read more)

view-source:resource://nimbus/lib/RemoteSettingsExperimentLoader.sys.mjs

This is making multiple "WARNING"s to appear. I believe that it is causing my DELL to shut down arbitrarily. How do I delete this ?

Asked by Armby 10 hours ago

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school VPN free

I'm using Firefox on my school computer and I'm trying to use VPN but all the ones that I try to use it blocked and i was thinking if y'all can tell me a vpn that's free … (read more)

I'm using Firefox on my school computer and I'm trying to use VPN but all the ones that I try to use it blocked and i was thinking if y'all can tell me a vpn that's free in Henry county 5/14/25 that they didn't block and Google told me y'all can help me find a VPN that work in 2025 for free that make me get on anything thats inotinappropriate but good for any normal person so please anwser fast not trying to rush you or anything but I would hope y'all can help me if you cant help me because you don't trust me its cool no sweat about it but yeah also when I was in dekalb county some stuff I used to use is blocked in Henry county so yeah my name is Iman Givens so think you may fingers are hurting doing this so yes please help me soon bye.

Asked by Iman Givens 1 day ago

Answered by Iman Givens 1 day ago

Firefox doesn't fully erase the data on exit

Usually I login to my account on a public PC and when I finish my work, I log out and erase all data. From some build it doesn't fully erase the history, meaning it reloa… (read more)

Usually I login to my account on a public PC and when I finish my work, I log out and erase all data. From some build it doesn't fully erase the history, meaning it reloads my tabs when another person opens Firefox.

Asked by rgimadiyev 1 day ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 day ago

ad block

I purchased (got message from NetSpend saying 39.00 fraudulent material was trying to come out of my account) so I did as said OMG THEY CANCELLED MY CARD, ALTOGETHER) an… (read more)

I purchased (got message from NetSpend saying 39.00 fraudulent material was trying to come out of my account) so I did as said OMG THEY CANCELLED MY CARD, ALTOGETHER) and downloaded a ad blocker site that pop uped (because I have a a program called ad block installed site & I thought it was them). called ad blocker (no phone number showing) now what do I do IT WOULD NOT OPEN CAUSE MY SECURITY WOULD NOT ALLOW UNKNOWN SITES TO BE DOWNLOADED but I was still charged Saying I ordered it! What do I do now??

Asked by Teri Roberts 2 days ago

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Is there an alternative to the discontinued Firefox Translations add-on?

The Firefox Translations add-on has been discontinued and no longer works. As a foreign language learner, I found it very useful to open the Firefox Translations popup, e… (read more)

The Firefox Translations add-on has been discontinued and no longer works. As a foreign language learner, I found it very useful to open the Firefox Translations popup, enter some text, and have that text translated locally. Is there an alternative that has the same functionality?

Asked by D Hobbs 3 days ago

Answered by TyDraniu 3 days ago

Private session should not be stored and

Why is the sessionstore.jsonlz4 generated from a private firefox window ? It is not private anymore if the session is stored in place of the regular session, which b… (read more)

Why is the sessionstore.jsonlz4 generated from a private firefox window ? It is not private anymore if the session is stored in place of the regular session, which by the way happens not to be generated when the regular firefox window is closed while a private firefox window is still open. The private firefox window should have no effect on the regular session storage and should never be stored, all this is very confusing.

Asked by Lei12 2 days ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 2 days ago

Many extensions don't work on support.mozilla.org

Hi 🙂 Many extensions don't work on support.mozilla.org. For ex, Clippings and Unicodify – Text transformer are very useful to write text. It's annoying not to be able t… (read more)

Hi 🙂

Many extensions don't work on support.mozilla.org.

For ex, Clippings and Unicodify – Text transformer are very useful to write text. It's annoying not to be able to use them to write in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird/form.


Seeing https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/tyytcy/how_to_get_rid_of_this_extension_restriction/i3vke2p/,


1) Why is support.mozilla.org privileged and can pull out information about visitor's system, while connect.mozilla.org cannot?


2) I see that:

  • Copy Link Text works,
  • Unicodify – Text transformer is able to read selected text but not to write in forms,
  • Clippings is not able to read selected text.

Is there a doc which explains what are the limits of what's allowed for extensions in "internal restricted sites"?

Asked by Thomas 3 days ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 3 days ago

web camera not working in my mozila

I thought the webcam was not working but in another browser like Google Chrome Internet Explorer, the webcam works in all other browsers. If allowed camera site permiss… (read more)

I thought the webcam was not working but in another browser like Google Chrome Internet Explorer, the webcam works in all other browsers.

If allowed camera site permissions but not save change in browser

not working camera

please help me

Asked by mathurcomputer0000 3 days ago

Last reply by Catt0s 3 days ago

Restricted sites, sites restricted by Mozilla - what are they?

Hello What are the restricted sites in the Firefox extension details? What are the sites restricted by Mozilla, as referred to on the page https://support.mozilla.org/p… (read more)

Hello

What are the restricted sites in the Firefox extension details? What are the sites restricted by Mozilla, as referred to on the page https://support.mozilla.org/pl/kb/dlaczego-niektore-dodatki-nie-sa-dozwolne-na-stronach-ograniczonych-przez-mozille?as=u&utm_source=inproduct#firefox:win10:fx135 ?

Asked by BoSz Poznan 1 month ago

Last reply by Thomas 1 week ago