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As an older person, having to learn and relearn and constantly relearn how my browser functions is becoming more and more aggravating frustrating and put off ish.

Back in the day, these things didnt change automatically, another version was released instead for download with build notes.

It is starting to feel like having a computer and using it is becoming a troll. Im being serious.

One day the tabs are smaller on the left side, the next week the tabs are somehow grouping together and even though I didnt ask for it to happen, nor did I make it happen, its happening!. Now I have a mute button on the tab, even though my computer already 9 different mute buttons.

One day I had my grand daughter over and it took me 45 minutes to realize why there was no audio on netflix for her to watch. These constant feature changes are being a major part of my and everybodys lives. We are all becoming more impatient with these things.

The majority of new features seem to be unused, from my perspective, by the majority of comments I read on here, facebook, x, etc, they are just simply jammed down our collective throats seemingly at the whims of a designer thinking to themselves "I'm going to move this button over here!" This stuff is not making our worlds better. This stuff is not making our lives easier. This stuff is not making our lives simpler.

The effect is the exact opposite. I read a story last month about an autistic teenager that had a cell phone, because everyone else has a cell phone. When they couldn't get their phone to do whatever it was they wanted it do, they threw it in frustration. Turns out they broke a window at school that cost $5000 by throwing the phone. i don't know what app this person was using or attempted to use, and what caused the frustration, but I sure feel that pain sometimes. The parent posted that because the school sent them a bill for the window replacement.

Let me repeat that: The parent received a $5000 invoice for a window their child broke at school, because they were frustrated with phone.

Is there a way to limit the feature changes or stop them while maintaining security updates?

I literally find myself using the internet less and less, and I feel like this has a lot to do with it. As your product becomes more and frustrating to use, I am using it less and less. And I know thats not what anyone wants.

Why can't we have the best of both worlds??

How do I get rid of new, but stupid vertical sidebar? I do NOT NEED OR WANT even MORE junk taking up the screen space. Is Mozilla part of Microsoft now? How do I get rid of that junk?

Thank you for your help. I have two questions and concerns. 1. The title bar of Firefox displays "Original Profile". I've been using it as is, as there aren't any particular problems, but it bothers me, so I'm asking if there's a way to hide it. My second question is: 2. In Firefox settings → Search → Search Shortcuts, unnecessary search engines are displayed. Even if I delete them, they reappear when I change the language in the settings. Is this a Firefox specification? Is there any way to prevent them from being displayed again after deleting them?

Many sites are fine but bookmarks and links I used for Facebook, eBay and a few other sites stopped working 3 days ago - I have tried lots of things but all failed to fix the problem - does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?

Hi i have the following problem using business central, every time i want to paste something on a field, comes up an strange blank window on the left of the browser and is paste there but not on the field. somehow is only happening with business central.

Also my browser is on the last update, has any one had this problem? and know how to solve it? thanks :)

Starting the Windows 11 laptop again. Then Firefox. Result: No sites are starting. All history lost, many tabs: lost. Great work!!! Last update was already shit (many exception rules have to be set manual again. I love such updates! Useless). And now that. I think I will switch now to chrome. Sorry. Such experience is enough. It is my time - I need a reliable browser, not where I have to spend time to get the things like they have been before

After a Windows 11 update my Firefox browser no longer has any audio. The sound is turned all the way up in the Sound Mixer and I have no Bluetooth devices connected. After it initially happened I connected my Bluetooth earbuds and it worked for a few minutes before it too lost audio.

I have audio on all my other applications.

On 2026-04-15 from about 10:00 CDT on, I have not been able to update Nightly nor Firefox Developer Edition (Aurora). Both of them notify me that there is an update available, and when I click on Help -> About Firefox I get the usual panel that gives me the update ID to click on. Clicking on it tells me it's Downloading Update -- 0 bytes, and it never flashes the expected size of the update, never shows progress, and never completes. It seems to be acting as if the update server is out of commission.

My browser updated to 149.0.2 on Windows 11 early April 2026. I first noticed the browser asking me to select a profile when trying to open hyperlinks from emails, but since I had not closed the browser since the update, I still had all of my information. When I went to restart, I was forced to make a new profile as no other ones were recognized. This also happened during an update at the end of 2025 and I was able to fix it with advise from support articles., Unfortunately, none of those fixes seem to be applicable anymore. Does anyone have a current fix? I have lost so much saved info!

Downloading a file closes the source website. Once clicking on the download icon, the subject file appears and the source website closes. The file can be downloaded, but cannot return to the source website unless logging into the website again. The back arrow in upper left corner is not highlighted and cannot click on it. This is relatively new because it did not occur previously. Use to click on the download icon, the file would appear, download the file, hit back arrow and return to the website. Please help. Very time consuming and frustrating to have to keep logging into a website to get all needed downloads.

When I try to look up phone numbers (to see who is calling/texting me), all I get is repetitive results - almost all either googleapis.com or Amazon Web Services (whatever they are). No robokiller, no spokeo, no validnumber - nothing. Not helpful at all.

A windows update occurred this AM 04/15/26 and it has affected my browsing. Don't know if this update effected my G mail. My U tube profile changed form browsing to history. example: when I click on to my U tube profile it brings up the last view I was browsing. I cannot refresh Firefox like before from the help menu, of which would select the profile I desire.