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I am new to Mozilla Firefox and would like to learn how to use it properly. Please explain the basic features such as opening tabs, managing bookmarks, downloading files, using extensions, and changing settings. I would also like tips for improving privacy and browsing speed.

i keep having to sign in to every website. bbc sounds, iplayer, amazon prime ITVX etc as if i using it for first time, have had many laptops and browsers inc firefox and this is first time i have had to sign in again and again and again..........can i fix this or do i have to get google chrome cos its annoying and unnecessary. thanks for your time

I just updated Firefox to version 151.0. The release notes say:

"Private Browsing Mode now allows you to instantly clear all data from your current session without closing the entire window. When you select the End Private Session button (the fire icon) to the right of the URL bar, Firefox will ask you to confirm to clear your session. Once confirmed, it will wipe all of your private browsing data and open a fresh new Private Browsing Mode session for you."

There is no "fire icon" in my toolbar in private browsing windows. I have tried resetting my toolbar to defaults, but that didn't help. I re-installed Firefox 151.0, but that didn't help. I re-booted my system, but that didn't help. I have run out of ideas.

Can anyone tell me how to get this button to appear in the toolbar in private browsing sessions?

I'm using Windows 11 25H2 on a Dell XPS 9630 tower computer.

Thanks, Bill

I have posted the same question multiple times because it doesn't appear when I search or when I view my profile and my questions. There was no indication that the question wasn't ready to be posted. Where are my questions?

After successfully using an AI image generation site (OpenArt.ai) for numerous months, I suddenly stopped being able to successfully upload images from my local hard drive into its image editor. All attempts created an "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource (storage.googleapis.com)" error. I had made no changes to settings or permissions of any kind, but out of nowhere I cannot use function of that website through Firefox. Onlines searches suggested setting up a local network with Python, which is not something I'm familiar with, or that there were browser extensions identified as "Web Server for Chrome" the "Local File System" extensions, neither of which seemed to come up in browser extension searches through Firefox using those terms. Anybody got a fix easy enough to be walked through without learning new software?

WHY IS THERE NO FACILITY TO ATTACH A SCREENSHOT ???? As a FF user, I need to show exactly where & how I've encountered a failure in FF, or if the failure has been caused by the website I'm seeking to access!

I have no idea what is happening. Whenever I try to use youtube on firefox the site just freezes. I can still scroll up and down, but nothing that wasn't already loaded loads, I can't click on anything, and nothing except scrolling does anything.

The reload, home, and even screenshot buttons don't work in these frozen youtube tabs. The only way to do anything is to open a new tab and close the frozen youtube one.

Youtube is completely unusable because of this.

I turned off every single addon, I restarted firefox, I restarted the entire computer, I tried in a private tab. It still freezes every time.

I don't have a VPN, I do not have the problem on any other website (even other media-players), and I don't have a clue what is happening.

I do have youtube premium.

Any help would be appreciated. I need to watch stuff for my studies but I just can't

Operating system: Windows 11

How can I prevent firefox from DELETING all my bookmarks EVER AGAIN! FUCK!!!!! They did some kind of screwy update and reverted my bookmarks back by 6 months and I can't get them back. And yes, I saw all the backups they "stored" but they are not in there.

On my homepage dismissing suggestion after suggestion of random websites i've visited singular times. It's creepy as hell the way firefox chooses random shit from my history to suggest to me. Remember that wikipedia article you read last week? They'll suggest that page instead of suggesting wikipedia itself? It's not helpful, I'm not navigating the web quicker because of it, if i wanted to find something from my history I'd search through my fucking history, it's creepy firefox's homepage algorithm tries to do that for me. It's annoying that I can click "dismiss" on a page, and it'll just show up at the end of the list! I fucking hate it and I spent way too long dismissing page after page after page until it finally suggested non-creepy links that i could pin so I never get a fUCKING suggestion for a goddamn reddit discussion I read five months ago ever again. It'd be nice if there was just a way to choose the fucking links that go there, or to fucking tell firefox to stop suggestion certain things outright, but who at mozilla actually gives a shit about what the user wants? I saw what y'all did with the mobile app, ya'll hate your userbase and having a functioning product god damn.

I want to setup the VPN in firefox but the instructions refer to the VPN icon which is not visible to me. When I try to add it to the toolbar the instructions say to click more tools from the menu at the top right, but there isn't a selection called more tools.

Hello!

For few minutes it says "Performing a TLS handshake to youtube.com", then this message appears:

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Secure Connection Failed

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. What can you do about it?

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.

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What I did so far:

1. Deleted cache and site data for youtube.com. 2. Checked if date and time setting is set to auto and synced it just in case. 3. Tried restarting firefox in safe mode. 4. Tried turning off ocsp stapling. 5. Deleted ALL cache and site data. 6. Tried creating a new profile. 7. Set HTTPS-only mode to "don't enable" and added youtube.com to exceptions

I do use DoH. I can't not use it. YT won't work without it for sure. Provider is google: https://dns.google/dns-query

Everything works fine in Chrome (yes, I use DoH there too).