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Lately when I reconnect to my Mac laptop after a period of sleep, the Firefox browser windows are unresponsive. It seems to be receiving input but does not update the display. I have to quit and reopen Firefox to get it to work again. The menu works, I am able to quit, so it's not like the whole app is frozen. Plus, if I clicked on the "new tab" icon while it was unresponsive, those new tabs show up open after I quit and reopen the browser.

Over the past six weeks I have had two failures of Firefox [running current version 146.0 (aarch64)] in completing CC payment processes -- at least one involved updating an expired car, I can't recall if the other involved such a change or just entering a card.

I am using Firefox on a mac mini M4 Pro running macOS Sequoia 15.7.2 (up to date, fully supported, but not Tahoe the recently released new version of macOS). I am running Firefox with 4 extensions -- 1 Password, Print Friendly, Raindrop.io, and Authenticator. None were being actively used during these incidents.

In both cases when I switched to Safari and opened the sites, I was able to successfully complete the CC changes and payments. So it does not appear to be related to a problem in my internet connection.

My questions are: a) has anyone had a similar experience with Firefox

     -- particularly incidents related to online financial transactions

b) if so, have you found a solution c) regardless, do you have any suggestions about the cause of the problem or changes to try

Otherwise, my experience with Firefox has been excellent and I am very happy with it, but this is obviously a frustrating and time-consuming problem.

I have reported it to Firefox -- the response was that they will look into it but that my next step should to ask "the community" here.

My thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Bob

Hello

As in the subject written, it is newly there again that when klicking on a URL-file (such as *.webloc) on the macOS desktop or somewhere in a folder, Firefox (actual 146.0.1 (aarch64)) is opening that URL and an empty browser-site behind. That one is absolutely not helpful and has always been klicked away…

Is there any adjustment possible or is it a mistake. The version before that did not happen and some years ago it did. In Safari does it work as it should (starting the browser itself opens an empty browser window; startin via a safed *.webloc opens only that URL)

Thank you for any help and all the best

Jürg

Firrst off, I find I must be learning disabled when it comes to Firefox! I already mentioned the topic above, and someone emailed 2x from the f.f "Team" and wrote helpful info on WHY I might have gotten this red flag-still ain't sure right now, and last n. I tried the question in terms of the white flower.

  I got an auto info reply which matches what appears to be two profiles..there's one ff. on left with white flower, and 2nd on r. in mac dock with a heart!
  The 2nd, newer profile on r MUST be the new one it forced me to creat....

to me, this is like the scene in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker looks up at the two moons of Endor...unlike him, I am terrified to delete 2nd/neweer/heart account (which I created Thurs. night "mac 13"...b/c when it was created, it didn't have my bookmarks and p/w and I could NOT get the p/w s. and STILL can't import them back to classic/original profiel!!!!!!

The profile issue is thus 1) fear to delete 2nd newer "forced" profile, and 2nd is again, NO bookmarks in original once it forced me to make a 2nd profile.

The steps to get bookmarks are incredibly complicated...I DON"T KNOW WHY they were pushed out of the original, BUT HAVEN'T GOT ANY IN ALL PROFILE/SETTINGS/SAVED P/W'S I wasted Apple support help x 1 hr., and they have limits b/c 3rd party. Mac inro'd a "passords" feature in apps but there is no file (three letter --- type to reimport, I guess b/c they weren't in icloud-am not sure)!

  Where oh where have my p/w's gone...am I forced to go to another of my four macs and see if they're gone there too..I think so..haven't even checked the phone...UB HOW TO TYPE IN ALL P/W'S AGAIN MANUALLY IS A DRAG-AND THE INSTRUCTION SETS ON FIREFOX ARE OVERWHEMINGLY DIFFICULT!

Firefox 146.0.1 (aarch64) macOS 26.2 (25C56) on M2 Pro

Hello.

I'm dealing with a strange issue that began with Firefox 146.0 and continues with 146.0.1. I previously blocked categories I do not care about such as Parenting, Cooking, and others. When doing so, for some reason some of my followed topics including Sports, NFL and NHL no longer appear along with the rest of the topics I've followed. (Please notice only followed sports-related topics disappeared...)

Checking the settings for Firefox Home shows no blocked topics (even those I have explicitly blocked), and checking what I can think to think via about:config shows me nothing I can edit to get my desired topics back.

So, I'm not sure what to edit to get my missing topics back. If they were blocked because of some bug, i cannot see blocked topics in the Firefox Home settings, so I cannot unblock them if that's what would need to be done. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to resolve it or are you aware of some BugZilla or GitHub issue I can watch for this one?

Any help will be certainly be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I've been having an odd issue with my cursor for a few weeks, even after updating to the currently most recent version (146.0.1) running on MacOS Sonoma. After I play a video, on YouTube or a streaming service like HBOMax, the video information bar at the bottom of the screen disappears. Previously, the cursor would disappear with it. Now it doesn't. Once the video bar disappears, I have to move the non-disappeared cursor once again, which brings back the video bar, and the cursor then disappears with the video bar on the second effort.

It's a minor issue, but is quite annoying, particularly considering this did not used to be the case over the last 10+ years of my Firefox usage. I'm hoping someone has fix, and if not, dev team can take note of this to be addressed in future versions.

the theme i chose for firefox ("clear") is no longer here when i quit and reopen the next day - then it's "eye friendly" (brand new mac / tahoe) - i probably do something wrong but dont know what… thank you if you may help

Since the update of Dec. 9, many of my longtime accounts do not recognize me, and I don't currently have workarounds. I also keep getting nasty messages that I'm in mortal danger because I've lost contact with iCloud. I have a son-in-law and grandchildren with extensive computer expertise who will visiting during the holidays, but during the holidays, but I would much prefer to be partying with them than holding computer repair clinics.

Are there any measures that a complete amateur can take to solve the worst of this Gordian knot?

How do I resolve this issue? I get the message below anytime I try to view my organization's website or when I try to log in to access the back end.What do I do?

Whoops!

Your browser sent a request that we were unable to process, clearing the browser cache and cookies is a good first step to try to resolve the issue.

Instructions for clearing cache and cookies are different for each browser and version. Google has outlined the steps for all major browsers: Clearing cache and cookies

There’s no information on how to sign out of the AI bot itself. For example, if you use Copilot and sign in, then realize you used the wrong Copilot account, there’s no clear way to sign out and log in with a different account.

Emojis do not show on Firefox 146 on macOS. I downgraded to 145.0.2 and they do show, so it seems related to Firefox 146.

I have macOS 26.2 running in both test cases.

Emoji in question: 👨🏻‍💻

I am not too sure what exactly causes this (I suspect long periods of inactivity/not interacting with the browser) but when I switch back to one of my firefox windows on my laptop's display (I have my laptop open and connected to an external monitor - so I use the monitor as my main display and my laptop as my secondary display) I get this black border/padding on the side/around my broswer.

See attached images - (might be hard to spot, focus on the sides of the screen). First image is how the browser normally looks like. The 2nd image is with the random black border/padding.

How do I stop this from happening? I've tried looking online for someone else havig the same issue but cannot seem to find anything.

For the last two days, I have been ubable to access settings (X,). When I click the settings cog in th toolbar, thr toolbar grays out. I have also tried to access settings using the Hamburger Menu, clicking on settings, with the same result. I have clicked on Firefox in the menu tab, same result.

I have closed and restarted Firefox, with the same result.

Additionally, I can only close Firefox by force quitting. I don't know if the two are connected.

TIA. Keith

Hello,

How can I remove all my saved passwords from Firefox Sync? On my desktop, I went to Menu > Passwords > Three Dots > Remove all passwords, and they're gone. However, on my mobile phone, they're still there. So the sync functionality is borked. The question is, are the passwords still on Mozilla servers, or is just the sync to my mobile buggy?

Even if I were to delete my FF Sync account, for good measure I'd like to manually delete all passwords from it first though.

Any help welcome.

Dear Mozilla,

First of all I love the browser. 2nd I am trying to enable this setting "Secure Firefox passwords with device sign-in" for my Mac Os fleet.

I need to do this with the hepl of a phlist which i will upload on our MDM and that will be pushed to the Firefox browser.

I am writing to you because after many tries I could not find out wich settings on about:config directly implies this one. So i would kindly ask for some direction.

Thanks and best. Endrin