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In Firefox, after a reboot, how can I re-open my previous sessions?

Originally I had quite a lot of open browsers & tabs. Then I needed to do a reboot, and now I've lost those previous sessions.

Usually I just open Firefox, and this opens one browser, and then all of my previous browser, and tabs reopen, but this time Firefox crashed, and its popup said it needed to restart, but it would re-open my previous browser and tabs, but it didn't.

After following the usual Firefox help guides, it still wouldn't re-open my previous sessions. Now if I ask it to open my previous sessions, it just opens the recent help guides, and not anything before the crash.

So is there a backup file of my missing sessions that I can roll back to?

I am using AOL as an email account. Many times I am looking at my email, clicking delete or spam, then maybe open one/two/three different emails, read them, delete or save, and my whole system freezes. I have to turn off the pc, then logon. I then open CC Cleaner to clear out the issues only to find that there could be 5000+ items in my browser history, a few hundred cookies all in that short period of time - 3 minutes all this stuff clogs up my computer. CC Cleaner will remove all this junk. I then open up Firefox, get into AOL, start another session. Could be I am able to continue to read my emails for a short period or a long period of time, just reading email, then the computer freezes up again. I have to turn off the machine, turn it back on, get into CC Cleaner and clear out the 5000+ browsing history items and cookies. There is no way that I can capture this CC Cleaner Screen information.

One thing that I thought about is that AOL is spamming me with thousands of junk ads, flashing in and out, on the right side of the screen as I read my email or even just open AOL. Since Yahoo took over AOL and redid AOL in the image of Yahoo, things are a horror. I made a formal complaint with the Ad Agency (forgot the name), opted out of all the ads that I am allowed to opt out and nothing gets better. The Ad Agency is of no help. Does anyone have an idea what is going on / what I can do to stop this?

When attempting to access gmail on my new (2023) iMac running Sonoma 14.5, Firefox 115.12.0esr freezes and must be force-quit. I've seen similar issues on this and the Apple forum, but not this particular problem. Any suggestions? Thank you.

I am finding more and more sites that I regularly go to are no longer working on firefox. One site was because HTML5 apparently does not work on firefox. But others I don't know about why are no longer working on firefox. I thought it might be streaming related but just today I could not access one of my banks on firefox, and I tried many times, but had no problem signing on using Chrome.

Hello,

Relevant system referenced below:

MacBook Pro 2021 Mac OS 14.5 Firefox 126.0.1 (64-bit) Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.11 (7673)

I have a case of vanishing bookmarks. I quit Firefox last evening with command-Q as I’ve done a thousand times before. When I launched it this morning I was greeted with Firefox with an empty Bookmarks Toolbar and “Getting started” message. I opened a Manage Bookmarks window and everything there was empty too. I found, as well, that all of my saved UIDs and passwords were gone except for three, two of which I haven’t used in months. Weird.

Next I opened Firefox Help and found information about Troubleshooting Mode; I restarted in troubleshooting mode but nothing had changed. After restarting in normal mode, I tried Restoring Bookmarks; I chose Manage Bookmarks from the dropdown and then clicked the button in the Library window. Restore showed only one file and it was created today with only 14 items. Selecting Choose File… showed Desktop with Old Firefox Data highlighted. In that folder was only w34y3u9y…628 folder. From there I selected bookmarkbackups and the only file there was bookmarks-2024-06-06_11…lz4, a file created at 3:33 today. I found the key4.db file and it was created at 3:33 today.

I have Carbon Copy Cloner and use it for a weekly backup to a remote SSD drive. There are a year's-worth or so of weekly backups on that device. I tried trashing Firefox and reinstalling it from last week’s backup. While this worked, it didn’t solve the issue; it was still like a fresh copy of Firefox with no bookmarks.

I’m hopeful that I can restore the bulk of the lost bookmarks from CCC but I have no clue as to which files/folders to restore and I don’t want to guess. If you think this is possible, please tell me which files or folders to replace. Should I delete the files to be replaced from the current system and if so where are they located? I’m comfortable using Terminal for basic purposes but need explicit directions for entering commands and navigating to locations or files.

Thanks for your time,

David

Im using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Intel cpu I7 9th gen NVIDIA gpu but i disabled it My problem is that the Picture in Picture mode isnt sticky if i press anything it vanishes from view.

I've removed firefox and reinstalled but for some reason my IOS continuity microphone and my Loopback (Rogue amoeba) virtual devices no longer show in firefox but they show up in firefox beta. Is there a setting that masks these devices off from the production branch?

Hi,

my firefox does not load any webpage no matter what Firefox profile I am using (created a new one for tests). I have a Win10 pc with Avast and Comodo installed, the system with the mentioned software and multiple different Firefox profiles was running since several years without problems.

A month ago I had the same issue with Firefox 126, which I guess was caused by a windows update, where I had trouble getting it installed. But after this (I had to increase the system reserved partition) Firefox was running without any problmes like before ...

Now no pages kan be load and always the crash monitor pops up.

AdapterDeviceID: 0x5916 AdapterDriverVersion: 30.0.100.9865 AdapterSubsysID: 224e17aa AdapterVendorID: 0x8086 Add-ons: formautofill%40mozilla.org:1.0.1,pictureinpicture%40mozilla.org:1.0.0,webcompat%40mozilla.org:125.1.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3,addons-search-detection%40mozilla.com:2.0.0,google%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,leo_ende_de%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,ecosia%40search.mozilla.org:1.2,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.3,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.6,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,ebay%40search.mozilla.org:1.4 AvailablePageFile: 28210671616 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 6727372800 AvailableVirtualMemory: 138531126534144 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20240606181944 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0xf4 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 6 ContentSandboxWin32kState: Win32k Lockdown enabled -- default value is true CrashTime: 1719121467 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true GPUProcessLaunchCount: 1 GPUProcessStatus: Running GpuSandboxLevel: 1 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1718671975 LastInteractionDuration: 76 LastStartupWasCrash: 0 LauncherProcessState: 0 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Avast Software s.r.o.":["aswJsFlt.dll","snxhk.dll","aswhook.dll","AavmRpch.dll","aswCmnIS.dll","aswCmnOS.dll","dll_loader.dll","aswCmnBS.dll"],"Comodo Security Solutions, Inc.":["guard64.dll"],"Microsoft Windows":["CryptoWinRT.dll","d3d9.dll","windows.internal.shell.broker.dll","TaskFlowDataEngine.dll","linkinfo.dll","ntshrui.dll","thumbcache.dll","wpnapps.dll","Windows.StateRepositoryPS.dll","cdp.dll","explorerframe.dll","dataexchange.dll","edputil.dll","oleacc.dll","tiptsf.dll","GdiPlus.dll","cscapi.dll","twinapi.dll","ondemandconnroutehelper.dll","MSAudDecMFT.dll","mfperfhelper.dll","msmpeg2vdec.dll","winrnr.dll","pnrpnsp.dll","NapiNSP.dll","wscapi.dll","winmm.dll","wininet.dll","wsock32.dll","windows.staterepositorycore.dll","msdmo.dll","RTWorkQ.dll","mfplat.dll","ktmw32.dll","FWPUCLNT.DLL","OneCoreCommonProxyStub.dll","Windows.Security.Integrity.dll","comctl32.dll","Windows.ApplicationModel.dll","npmproxy.dll","directmanipulation.dll","Windows.Globalization.dll","DWrite.dll","srvcli.dll","urlmon.dll","Windows.UI.Immersive.dll","iertutil.dll","BCP47mrm.dll","InputHost.dll","dbgcore.dll","TextInputFramework.dll","Windows.UI.dll","MrmCoreR.dll","Bcp47Langs.dll","dhcpcsvc6.DLL","dhcpcsvc.dll","DXCore.dll","AppXDeploymentClient.dll","winnsi.dll","MP3DMOD.DLL","OneCoreUAPCommonProxyStub.dll","rasadhlp.dll","UIAnimation.dll","MMDevAPI.dll","AudioSes.dll","twinapi.appcore.dll","WindowManagementAPI.dll","ninput.dll","avrt.dll","ColorAdapterClient.dll","mscms.dll","xmllite.dll","nlaapi.dll","wshbth.dll","wtsapi32.dll","dsreg.dll","d3dcompiler_47.dll","d3d11.dll","WinTypes.dll","dcomp.dll","CoreUIComponents.dll","CoreMessaging.dll","policymanager.dll","netprofm.dll","apphelp.dll","dbghelp.dll","WindowsCodecs.dll","uxtheme.dll","resourcepolicyclient.dll","dwmapi.dll","rmclient.dll","windows.storage.dll","winhttp.dll","propsys.dll","kernel.appcore.dll","dxgi.dll","fwbase.dll","firewallapi.dll","profext.dll","rsaenh.dll","msvcp110_win.dll","ntmarta.dll","IPHLPAPI.DLL","netutils.dll","dnsapi.dll","mswsock.dll","cryptsp.dll","cryptbase.dll","wldp.dll","ntasn1.dll","ncrypt.dll","winsta.dll","msasn1.dll","fltLib.dll","version.dll","devobj.dll","umpdc.dll","powrprof.dll","sspicli.dll","userenv.dll","profapi.dll","bcrypt.dll","ucrtbase.dll","wintrust.dll","crypt32.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","cfgmgr32.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","msvcp_win.dll","win32u.dll","gdi32full.dll","user32.dll","imagehlp.dll","oleaut32.dll","ole32.dll","combase.dll","clbcatq.dll","nsi.dll","sechost.dll","shlwapi.dll","SHCore.dll","kernel32.dll","msvcrt.dll","gdi32.dll","rpcrt4.dll","advapi32.dll","ws2_32.dll","psapi.dll","shell32.dll","msctf.dll","setupapi.dll","imm32.dll","ntdll.dll"],"Microsoft Windows Software Compatibility Publisher":["msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll","msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll"],"Mozilla Corporation":["firefox.exe","xul.dll","gkcodecs.dll","libGLESv2.dll","nss3.dll","freebl3.dll","osclientcerts.dll","mozglue.dll","nssckbi.dll","softokn3.dll","lgpllibs.dll","libEGL.dll"]} MozCrashReason: Shutdown hanging at step AppShutdownNetTeardown. Something is blocking the main-thread. Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000100-T00) DWrite? DWrite+ WR? WR+ WebGL? EGL? EGL- GL Context? GL Context- GL Context+ WebGL+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox QuotaManagerStorageIsNetworkResource: 0 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 1269 ShutdownProgress: profile-change-net-teardown ShutdownReason: AppClose StartupCacheValid: 1 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1719121150 SubmittedFrom: Client SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 60

Thank you so much. Best John

I have been having consistent issues with Youtube when played on Firefox. Opening the "Stats for Nerds", I see that I have decent connection speed. However, I get a burst of network activity, and then it stops. Therefore, i can't watch the video. Refreshing Youtube does not help at all.

Trying on other browsers, I do not have issue. While I sometimes get low network activity, most often than not, I can play Youtube videos fine.

I have done the following:

• Confirmed that I'm running the latest Firefox version (127.0.0)
• Cleared Firefox cache
• Confirmed having issue (sometimes worse as I get no network activity even on refresh) on Firefox Troubleshoot mode

I just started having an issue while watching Live Streams on Youtube with FireFox. I'll load the live stream and it will run for about a minute then it will switch to the streamers previous recorded stream. I opened Youtube on my iPad and on Edge browser and the Live stream keeps playing the live stream but on FireFox it only lets it run for about a minute before flipping the playback to the previous recorded video of that streamer. I tried clearing my cache for Youtube and I have no extensions running. I have Youtube Premium and run no adblockers. I have also tried safe mode but the problem persists.

Any idea what could be happening?

FireFox just updated itself to the latest version (127.0.1 (64 bit)) on my Windows 10 laptop. Now every time I try to close it, instead of closing, it starts a background process and then crashes after about 25 seconds.

I have a form with a date field. it should open the calendar downwards, and does so in a window with 5 tabs open. however in a window with 60 tabs it opens upwards - thus loosing it's head and the ability to change month and year. it's near the top of the form.

moving the tab from one window and back, without refresh etc, shows the calendar down wards (window with 5 tabs) or upwards (window with 60 tabs)

this is looking to me like a Firefox bug - I wondered if anyone has come across this interesting behaviour?

I apologise - ths was on my desk top - but i'm away so don't have many details. I can provide screen shots etc when I get back

many thanks

I woke up this morning to my home directory having been remounted as read-only (it has its own dedicated hard drive at /dev/sdd1). I ran e2fsck and things looked good, so I restarted and things were fine again.

However, whenever I open Firefox, it hangs for about 1 full minute before it goes haywire and renders the entire system essentially unusable since being able to access my home directory is vital. The following is visible in dmesg:

[ 2710.362946] Aborting journal on device sdd1-8. [ 2710.363000] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_end_bio:343: I/O error 5 writing to inode 10520593 starting block 44134769) [ 2710.363008] Buffer I/O error on device sdd1, logical block 44134513 [ 2710.363041] EXT4-fs error (device sdd1): ext4_journal_check_start:84: comm glean.dispatche: Detected aborted journal [ 2710.363048] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dx_find_entry:1795: inode #9718667: lblock 2: comm Renderer: error -5 reading directory block [ 2710.363076] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:1082: inode #9701223: lblock 1: comm Cache2 I/O: error -5 reading directory block [ 2710.800016] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9976467: comm BgIOThr~ool #12: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. [ 2710.812447] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9976467: comm Backgro~Pool #1: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. [ 2710.884557] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9976467: comm Backgro~Pool #1: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. [ 2710.980923] EXT4-fs (sdd1): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 2711.049635] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9701223: comm Cache2 I/O: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. [ 2711.152739] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9701223: comm Cache2 I/O: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. [ 2711.152757] EXT4-fs warning (device sdd1): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:405: inode #9701223: comm Cache2 I/O: No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D.

All other programs that I use daily do not cause this issue. No clue what to do here. LibreWolf works fine - that's what I'm using now that Firefox breaks everything and basically forces me to restart if I want to use my computer normally.

When I try to play a video on Firefox desktop, it takes it a long time to load. Once it has loaded, whenever I pause it for more than a few seconds, or if I try to skip around the video (either by clicking around in the loaded section of the progress bar or using +/- seconds buttons), the video begins buffering again before the video resumes. This makes it extremely difficult and frustrating to watch anything that requires me to pause, rewind, or fast forward. I've noticed this issue affect multiple video viewing sites, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Netflix. My roommate also uses Firefox, but doesn't have this issue, so I know it's not a problem with my internet. I thought it might be a problem with my computer, but I tried to replicate the issue in Chrome and everything worked fine there. The issue has persisted almost a week. I have:

• Rebooted my computer several times
• Deleted my history/cache
• Disabled my extensions
• Turned off Java scripts in firefox (this disabled my ability to load sites like YouTube completely, so I turned it back on)
• Updated my computer
• Updated my graphics drivers
• Refreshed firefox
• Uninstalled and reinstalled firefox (and rebooted my computer)
• Uninstalled and reinstalled firefox AND deleted all the data it stored on my computer (and rebooted my computer)

I am currently using version 123.0.1 of Firefox. My OS is Windows 10 22H2.

Why is Firefox refusing to display Instagram videos?

Windows 7 Home Firefox 115.12.0esr (64-bit) Some Instagram videos play, most don't. E.g. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8FM6cbOG7v/?mc_cid=e24e48195f

For a fraction of a second, the video shows what appears to be the initial display frame, then goes black. Audio plays. Displays OK on Chrome and Edge.

I've explored the following: Autoplay is allowed Turn off tracking protection Clear cache Clear cookies Digital Rights Management (DRM) is allowed Running in trouble shoot mode, i.e. no extensions Popups not blocked I do not have file user.js I tried hiding prefs.js. Hardware acceleration either on or off: no display

Is there a setting that tells Firefox to report why it makes its choices?

Hi Team,

Would love to know how in task manager there are 10+ firefox services running with only 4 tabs open and the usage is ridiculous. Closing one tab the next one that was using roughly 250mb shoots to over 600mb...what are you playing at????

See attached.