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Today, while I was using my browser, I got notifications that several extensions I regularly use had been uninstalled - and that was only from the extensions which usually provide that info on being uninstalled!

Uninstalled were: - Tampermonkey - Browsec VPN (what I use when Mozilla VPN is unstable) - Stylus (which I use to make several sites usable/navigable) - Tumblr Outbox (wiping all saved outgoing ask messages I'd previously had saved!) and

Worst of all - ONETAB

Which had ~1000 tabs saved in it!

I couldn't find a way to recover OneTab as-was, so I was left with the option of reinstalling it which, according to the Devs, means that any recoverable data IS lost at that point.

So I want to know which bright spark's idea it was to randomly uninstall people's extensions for no given reason, especially when they're ones for which recovery is difficult to nigh-impossible.

I want to know who did this, why they did this, and what can be done to fix it, because a number of those saved tabs were for work. Others were for personal projects. Usually Firefox bundles this kind of thing in with an update and it usually fixes if you reload the browser - no dice today. So I want to know if I can just expect this kind of meddling going forwards or if I should start searching for a different browser entirely.

I came to Firefox to avoid Chrome nonsense. If I'm going to experience this, why would I continue to pay for the VPN or use the browser?

When I click to fill in a Credit Card field to pay for something, my correct card info appears momentarily, but then disappears. To execute a payment, I am forced to manually fill in all required information. I made sure the "save autofill" box was properly checked in the Settings, and it was. Names, addressed, etc. are all filled in properly; only credit card info is not.

Recently (Nov/26) there have been frequent popup windows advertising Firefox opt ions and services: come up as a 'new' window. Is this legit? I run adblock plus for years and ublock as of today Nov 11/26. How to block and/or disable these annoying ads. Thank you

Printing preview shows page I would like to print correctly. Printed copy has header but nothing else prints. Verified my printer is working correctly from other computers, browsers etc. It is something with Firefox specifically.

How can do get this very basic setup on my new PC??? I don't understand why this did not happen automatically when I imported my bookmarks. This has been very frustrating.

I recently did an update as I often see it's time for an update, but this time it made me enter my account and seems like now asking me to rejoin again. Did somehow my account get deleted as I don't want to rejoin again and keep paying. Not sure what happened as updates are usually easy and painless.

And, for some sites like some banks and some universities make me turn off VPN before I can login to their sites - what's the issue hear?

Half of the time, when I press the back button on a page, the forward button disappears as though I had never gone forward on that page. As someone who a) likes to read experimental web fiction and b) likes to use browsers to look at things on the web, this irritates the hell out of me. It would be really useful to be able to click back and forth between two pages in the same tab and compare them! Unfortunately Firefox seems to occasionally arbitrarily decide I don't want this, sometimes deleting many multiple pages forward that I! Was! Looking! At!

And I want to be clear this is not "I clicked back and then clicked on another page and now the page I was looking at is overwritten", this is "I clicked back and the forward arrow greyed out as though the next page I was looking at was no more than an appirition".

Surely I am not the only person who doesn't like when it does this. It provides no utility I can percieve and is massively inconveniencing.

How do I turn this off? I can't find any information on this, all I can find when I search is information about turning off the backspace button. This happens when I click the arrow in the tab bar.

Hello,

My Firefox dashboard looks very different. I like a darkview mode and it won't connect to dark view mode. Also, for each website I visit........it looks different and connection is questioning my access each time. I've compare this to my laptop and the same website looks different.

Please help. In fact, right now, this page won't allow me to select the option to email me when someone answers the thread. My email address is [redacted email from public community support forum]

Thank you in advance.

Margaret

I have done a clean install of firefox on my new pc and I cannot access the Rcgroup forums (very very slow to access if at all) it works fine in Google Chrome and brave browsers.

Firefox has stopped loading new tabs that I ask for especially when looking at CNN website.

Also it has stopped loading my ability for using my bank webpage. This is worrying as I have to use Google, which I dont want to do.

When I tried to watch a video, I got the following message:

"Video unavailable due to your privacy settings

Your browser has Global Privacy Control (GPC) enabled, which prevents video providers from receiving viewing data.

To watch this video you will need to disable GPC in your browser and reload the page."

How can I watch the video?