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I wish FF would test and step through their instructions first. The instructions for Ad Blocker: " Settings > Browsing > Ad Blocker" It isn't as easy as they instruct: "How it works: Ad Blocker uses Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter list to determine what gets blocked. There’s no separate extension to install, and you can turn it on." Search settings unable to find Ad Blocker. Yes, FF browser is up to date.! FF expends a lot of verbiage to promote a new feature yet so slim on step by step instructions.

I always use C Cleaner to clear unneeded my unneeded data once a month. It does not usually affect my Firefox shortcuts on the Firefox homepage. It was also after Firefox had updated to version 158.0 . I did this on Wednesday (14th October) and all of my pinned Firefox shortcuts have gone missing. They have not come back, and no other shortcuts are being shown after I have since visited any websites. What has happened to them? Will this be corrected? Regards John

Firefox 158's announcement page tells me that Firefox 158 has an Ad Blocker. Nice. I'd like to try it. The announcement page tells me to go to "Settings > Browsing". When I open "Settings", there is no "Browsing" option.

Each time I power up my laptop I want my page to go straight to my Yahoo Mail. It does do that but it also tries to open another page that errors out. I think its because there's a 'c in the address and the file can't be found. I don't know how that filename got written into the Start Up Program and I can't find it to remove it. Please tell me like a First Grader how to remove this error message.

http://"c/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/firefox.exe%22%20-new-window%20https://mail.yahoo.com/

It says it cannot open the page.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

[redacted email from public]

At random times when opening the browser, all my tabs (except the first one) turn into about:blank. Relaunching the browser does not resolve the problem, and there is nothing in the history that allows me to restore them. It is extremely frustrating, as this is the third time I have lost all my tabs.

I have been trying for 2 days to change my account default email address. The system gets as far as me typing in the password sent to my current default email address. I then click on the submit button and nothing happens! This has happened 8 times now. After using Firefox as my browser for +-15years, I am very disappointed by the lack of access to a human voice. If I do not hear back from you I will change to Microsoft Edge as my browser.

I try ti start up the VPN and it asks me to sign in. I sign in and then it sats to go to the VPN which has no other option except for me to sign in. This keeps happening

How do I recover the normal additional toolbar in firefox that shows options for maps, images, videos etc. This toolbar is no longer shown on firefox - perhaps it's because firefox has recently been updated and no longer gives that facility?

I've been using firefox for a little while- maybe three months now. I'm no expert on any of the config options. I run firefox using the built in VPN that my friend showed me how to enable, and I've been using it since. But now, as of roughly today, whenever I enable the VPN, no websites will load. At all. When I turn it off, they load instantly. But whenever I turn it on, it just gets stuck loading forever and ever, never actually getting anywhere. I tried enabling network.dns.disableIPv6 in the config page, because that's what I saw on a mozilla support page- nothing. Didn't do anything. The browser.ipprotection.enabled is still on, and I didn't change anything in settings. There was a firefox update very recently, but everything still worked with the VPN on. I just updated my computer, but I don't think that's it either because it wasn't loading things earlier today either. Not sure how to fix this. Please help?

Currently I am trying to use the firefox built in VPN option. When I hit the turn on it turns on and goes green but I am unable to browse. I suspect this is due to the corporate firewall and content filters that are in place when I am in the office. The firewall team is looking for support as we are unable to find out what access is needed to be open for this service to work. What IP's does the service connect to for access? What ports are use for setting up that browser level VPN? Is their any application or urls that should be allowed? If documentation for what access is needed to be opened on a corporate firewall would be appreciated. We have searched extensively and cannot find the information other than this runs by Fastly. We cannot find ports/urls/ips that are needed.

Thanks Chris.

I'm on desktop. I clicked on what turned out to be a YouTube mobile link and now my Firefox desktop browser will only load the mobile version of YouTube. I tried several standard troubleshooting steps, including clearing history, cookies, and site data, disabling all extensions, and checking about:config for a user-agent override, none of which resolved the issue. YouTube has loaded correctly in a private window. It also loads correctly when I created a new firefox profile. I'm assuming the original profile is corrupted in some way. Is this the correct answer? Is there any way to fix it?

Firefox update and a pop up deleted my open tabs so that I couldn't easily restore history. I tried some of the suggested work arounds but was not allowed to copy (or open file) from profile folder, sessionsstorefile. What is needed for the required "permissions"?

When I resize a regular Firefox window (in Windows 11), I can resize it to have a quite a small width.

If I pin the same website to the taskbar to make it into a web app, now I can't resize it to the same width, and the windows appear locked to a much larger width.

This is annoying because specific web apps can be resized a lot smaller to fit that specific site's interface. If anything, I would want to make the windows smaller more often than I would with regular Firefox windows.

If there's a setting to turn off this width limit, I would really appreciate it!

Thank you so much!