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Entering Unicode characters insets a row-break instead.

System: Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce Firefox web-browser: mint-001 - 1.0 _ 155.0.1 (64-bit) Hardware: Both on my Desktop and Laptop computers. Since the recent updates, 1-2 weeks… (read more)

System: Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce Firefox web-browser: mint-001 - 1.0 _ 155.0.1 (64-bit) Hardware: Both on my Desktop and Laptop computers.

Since the recent updates, 1-2 weeks, every time I try to enter a character via Unicode insertion, CTRL+ALT+U, the character does not insert but a row break. I made a video about it: https://youtu.be/OP9UCGpZdEc

This happens in every website I use; mostly likely on every website.

Is there anything I can do now?

Thank you for your time reading this. 🙇

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Stale croatian dictionary and further action request

Greetings! I have a few questions if you'd be willing to answer. There have been some changes and new additions to the croatian dictionary (https://github.com/krunose/hun… (read more)

Greetings!

I have a few questions if you'd be willing to answer.

There have been some changes and new additions to the croatian dictionary (https://github.com/krunose/hunspell-hr) and as such, the Firefox dictionary could be updated.

Can you confirm that the dictionaries and language packs are separate additions and that the dictionaries are used for spellchecking? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

When is the spellcheck dictionary installed, only when the user installs it or when the user installs a language pack?

In addition, the croatian dictionary has not been active for the past eight years. Maintainer of the current hunspell-hr dictionary has said that person behind the croatian dictionary extension has not responded for several years. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/croatian-dictionary/ https://github.com/akoncic/mozillacroatiandictionary

What are your suggestions how to handel the situation? There is already a fork of the extension that is used as a pull request but has not been merged for years. https://github.com/krunose/mozillacroatiandictionary

Thank you for your understanding.

Have a wonderful rest of the day.

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I'm an 61 year old man , and I don't like the thunderbird system, I will lke to continue with only Firefox.

I.m an 81 year old man , and It is very difficult for me to use the computer, and now you make it more difficult for me with this new addition of Thunderbird that makes … (read more)

I.m an 81 year old man , and It is very difficult for me to use the computer, and now you make it more difficult for me with this new addition of Thunderbird that makes it more complicated for me,My question is: can I continue using Firefox with out Thunderbird ( that I don't like it ) ?

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Can't add extension, just get a throbber that never stops

I'm on FF 154.0. The power went out here and when it came back and I booted the desktop computer something had changed in FF. I used to see the active tab as green in … (read more)

I'm on FF 154.0. The power went out here and when it came back and I booted the desktop computer something had changed in FF.

I used to see the active tab as green in the tab bar and yellow for the rest, but now they're all gray until I mouse over the bar and only then does it turn green/yellow.

I struggled with this for many hours trying many //active tab color// solutions I found in searches but nothing got it back to my old behavior.

So as a last resort I tried adding the Firefox Color extension, but when I click Add to Firefox it just turns into a throbber that never changes so it doesn't install. I'm stuck!

Frustrated!!

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Developer Tools: userContent.css Loads But Cannot Be Saved In-Situ ( CTRL+S ) | Debian 12 Gnome Wayland

Up until recently (apologies, I do not know which version) when editing userContent.css on Debian 12 in the ' Developer Tools ' I could just use CTRL+S to save my changes… (read more)

Up until recently (apologies, I do not know which version) when editing userContent.css on Debian 12 in the ' Developer Tools ' I could just use CTRL+S to save my changes and all was well.

Now it appears to have forgotten where it loaded in the first place, because (when using the shortcut or the 'save' link under the name on the left) it just opens the user's home folder at its root level or ' ~/ ' ...

Is this a bug that I should raise at bugzilla? Or has another bug fix messed this functionality up somewhat?

This is the ' mozilla-deb ' / ' Mozilla Firefox Debian Package ' currently at version 154.0 which is usually updated weekly.

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Firefox on Linux renders some ChatGPT emoji as monochrome outlines

I have reproduced a persistent Firefox/Linux emoji rendering issue in ChatGPT and found a small CSS workaround that fixes it. Environment Linux Firefox 155.0.1 The proble… (read more)

I have reproduced a persistent Firefox/Linux emoji rendering issue in ChatGPT and found a small CSS workaround that fixes it.

Environment

Linux Firefox 155.0.1 The problem also reproduces in a completely fresh Firefox profile Noto Color Emoji is installed

Symptoms

In normal ChatGPT conversation text, some common emoji such as:

😄 😂 😀 😁 🙂 😊 🤣 ✅

render as monochrome or outline glyphs.

Other emoji such as:

🚀 🔥 ❤

may render correctly in the same message.

A particularly useful clue is that the same affected emoji render correctly inside ChatGPT code/copy boxes, while failing in ordinary response body text.

Firefox DevTools Fonts inspection showed ordinary fallback fonts including DejaVu Sans, FreeSans and Nimbus Sans being used alongside Noto Color Emoji.

Updating Firefox from 155.0 to 155.0.1 did not fix it, and neither did creating a completely fresh Firefox profile.

Diagnostic test

Running this in Firefox DevTools Console on chatgpt.com immediately fixes the affected emoji throughout the page:

document.documentElement.style.setProperty(

 "font-variant-emoji",
 "emoji",
 "important"

)

Permanent workaround

Using the Stylus extension, scoped only to chatgpt.com:

html {

   font-variant-emoji: emoji !important;

}

This survives a complete Firefox restart.

This appears to be a font/emoji-presentation interaction where some emoji-capable Unicode characters are being satisfied by ordinary monochrome text fonts before the colour emoji font is selected.

Mozilla Bug 1971053 describes closely related glyph-selection behaviour and mentions font-variant-emoji: emoji as a remedy: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1971053

I am posting this both in case it helps other Linux/Firefox users and to ask whether this remaining behaviour on Firefox 155.0.1 is expected or should be tracked as a current Firefox/web-compatibility issue.

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I am trying to restore Firefox from a backup and have forgotten my Firefox password.

Well, I am in a real mess. Three days ago I lost the ability to access my favourite website. I CAN access the website in the Brave browser. The website owner has told me … (read more)

Well, I am in a real mess. Three days ago I lost the ability to access my favourite website. I CAN access the website in the Brave browser. The website owner has told me that it is not a problem with my account with them so it must be a Firefox issue. Before this happened I had been trying to move and delete files on my laptop and have got very confused about EVERYTHING. In that I had deleted my Firefox recovery folder(s). I have managed to move them back into my Home folder before they expire. Now I am being asked to enter my "password" to initiate the restore. But the several Firefox passwords in my laptop are not being accepted. How can I get a new password? If that is not possible do I have to delete my Firefox account? What is my best way to recover from this mess? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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强烈建议火狐修改默认的搜索引擎

中文语言,现在默认是百度,每次搜索百度都弹窗要求验证—— 体验太差的了,强烈建议修改为bing或别的。 每次用火狐都要修改一遍,有时在外面用的是空白系统让每次都要修改一遍太烦人了。 希望尽快修改,或者在安装包中或语言包中可以修改?

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Home Button Location

this old man cannot find the home button? I thought i had looked everywhere i could imagine but it must be right where i couldn`t imagine, I would certainly appreciate so… (read more)

this old man cannot find the home button? I thought i had looked everywhere i could imagine but it must be right where i couldn`t imagine, I would certainly appreciate some help. Thank you for your time and effort.

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