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Using Firefox 17.0.1 on MacOS Ventura 13.6 on my 2017 iMac I am unable to connect to the internet while using Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN. All was working normally until I installed MacOS Ventura 13.6 yesterday. The VPN works normally when using Chrome or Safari. I have tried changing my network proxy setting without any luck. The default setting is "Use System Settings", using No Proxy or Auto Detect Proxy doesn't help. I don't see a switch for Enable DNS over HTTPS. All works fine when the VPN is disabled. I tried deleting the VPN a couple of times then reinstalling but that didn't help.

What am I missing here? I have used this VPN for years without any issues & it worked on Firefox until I installed MacOS 13.6...... using 13.5 I had no problems. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks...... Brad

Carl from the Suppport team wrote that

This does not work with the update to SuperNova. Even the screenshot is out of date. Unfortunately the bot seems to think this answers the question I posted separately.

I am uncertain what you mean as

     1) I do not know what a SuperNova is, nor if I even have one;
     2) Screenshot may be our of date, but it can repair jumbled texts, and;
     3) I do not remember the question you posted earlier. Could ou be so kind as to repeat it?

I appreciate your help and that of your colleagues. As you know or may be obvious, I am not versed in computers.

Cheers, James R. Samec

My Firefox browser has been crashing for several weeks. I have been a Firefox user for quite some time now but never experienced anything like this. This happens at least a couple of times a day. I have refreshed the Firefox app on my computer, tried turning off the extensions for a while (I use 2 add blockers), but nothing seems to fix the issue. I'd hate to switch to another browser but this is getting very frustrating.

I'd appreciate any help you could provide.

I have a General Motors account that I can't login to. https://www.gmccanada.ca/en/ownercenter/service They recently changed to multi authentication using Microsoft. I can login to the first step but after I enter the sent password in the second step nothing happens. I have tried basic some trouble shooting like Firefox trouble mode, clearing cache and adding web site to exceptions in settings. GM Help Line told me to use a different browser!!!

Firefox taking aproximatly 10 seconds to start loading a link after pressing it, I have reinstalled the browser, reset to factory setting but the system remains even in safe mode. I recently formated the computer that's when the issue started to happen.

I can no longer open my inbox, I get a dialogue box saying that the summary file for inbox is too long or there is a problem with the disc. I can access my new emails on all mail but would prefer to be able to use the inbox. How can I resolve this?

I have the same issue as stated in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1390122?page=3

How does it come that it is still present in 117? Why is there no official guide or warning about this issue? I am forced to use Portable 101 where there are no such bugs. The solution in the thread is unclear and points to Microsoft, which is ridiculous. The question is how to solve that Mozilla's bug?

So, here's the story:

My browser crashed while watching a video and writing a particularly lengthy YouTube comment on it. Knowing that I have been able to recover in-progress Reddit comments after a crash from the sessionstore-backups so long as I was on the page at the time of the crash, I know that at least one site saves all in-progress comments to that, and I highly suspect that is where in-progress Wikipedia edits are kept, I (wanting as much data as possible for as good of a recovery chance as possible) immediately copied all my Profile files, totalling more than 1.6 GB, to a non-volatile folder.

As I had done before, I took the most recent sessionstore-backups file (dated to the exact minute of the crash), forced it through the Session History Scrounger to decompress it, and then mass-replaced the document's \ns with proper newlines in Notepad++, which used to make the file more readable.

This time, it didn't. They must have changed the json newline formatting used between at least late April and now. And more importantly, when I searched through the file for keywords I used in the comment, I couldn't find it. Simply, it appears that in-progress YouTube comments aren't stored in that file.

So, where are they stored? Are they in any vaguely human-readable file (or file that can with some ease be converted into something vaguely human-readable)? Can I somehow revive a "zombie session" using just archived Profile folder data to copy it out of? Or should I just give up and rewrite the comment from scratch?

NOTE 1: This is adapted from a previous post made with an associated account on Reddit. As I fear using Firefox until I get this problem resolved due to the possible loss in ability to recover other data if I do so, I figure that giving the problem more attention here would be beneficial in resolving it more quickly.

NOTE 2: Also, to clarify, I don't need to restore the session and have the comment re-appear; I'd be fine with locating it in a text editor or similar program so I could copy it back into the submission box once the session is restored.

Steps to reproduce : - go to YouTube - open a video - press the full screen button or tilt the phone sideways to trigger full screen - Firefox crashes and forces back to home screen - if opening Firefox again only half of the video component shows as in portrait mode, rest is black screen - if attempting to go side/full screen does properly show the video, but going back again to normal screen still shows the half black screen

I can reproduce this with a almost 100% rate, it only fixes itself by restarting Firefox, where it will work until phone is put to sleep mode.

I tried reinstalling Firefox from scratch, as well as deleting my browser cache and it didn't fix.

Hey,

I am trying to use a filter that runs periodically on an rss feed.

But it doesn't seem to want to run. (see image for filter settings)

When running it manually the filter works, so the matching criteria seem to be right. But it just doesn't execute the filter periodically. And the filter log doesn't indicate that the filter is even applied.

Running periodic filters on "normal" mail accounts is working fine.

So am I missing something in the settings or is this a bug or are periodic filters just not supposed to work with feeds?

thanks :)

Not only can I not load anything on Firefox, which I would love to be able to use because of the privacy settings, but it is so hard to navigate your help site. other browsers work fine. Yes, I've read the help page on this and none of it works. I just don't think it should be this hard to use ?? or am I missing something

As per subject. After i close FF - and it is no longer showing as an app in Task manager. When i try to restart it, it says it's still running and i have to ask it to close FF before it will open it again. AFAICS It happens randomly.

It may be relevant that when using CCleaner, it often (randomly) hangs when cleaning FF internet cache and says FF needs to be closed when it is already closed and does not appear in task manager. If i ask CCleaner to close FF, the application hangs.

Less likely perhaps to be relevant: i got a rogue change of Favicon on one site. I eventually deleted the relevant file hoping the Favicons would repopulate. Most have, but many haven't including hotmail and protonmail sites.

There seem to be many causes/solutions to FF hanging but i thought these specific circumstances might make it easier to suggest what the problem is exactly and how to fix it.

Thanks.

I have noticed that in the last 4-5 weeks message filters are not being correctly triggered as email comes in and manual execution of rules works in specific folders (to get rid of "junk/troll" email. This should have been auto run upon fetch of email.

This has resulted in slow updates of display (subject line) for email being previewed in IN BOX. I have emails in my IN Box that should have been put in specific folders. Each of these has a retention period. I have tried running the "Repair Folder" script(?), but that does not solve the slow update of the subject line to match the email being looked at in preview, or the rules running upon fetch of email.

Currently running TB 115.2.0 (64-bit).

Have updated to 115.2.0 (64-bit).

Randomly when getting email, in the select panel (where I can click on an email for it to display in the preview panel or become a new window) the subject line is for a prior email when the email selected shows in the preview. And this problem is pretty much repeatable.

I have run the Repair Folder script(?) and no joy. However, it seems to be some slowness in updating because I've noticed that it will correct itself in 1-3 minutes.

Also, I have auto delete for my inbox and it is showing 10039 emails, but apparently I'm getting lots of emails that the filters are not working on. This is another problem.....

In doing searches, I see where something like this was occurring last year (2022) before the current updates existed.

Let me know what captures you want run for this, if any.

Hello, I have recently (6 months ago) moved from Outlook IMAP to ThunderBird IMAP (993), My S/MIME certificate which is issued by sectigo is showing as invalid, image attached to this post.

Now this cert works fine in other email clients, however I have read that in past release this was an issue. Anyone know a fix to this?

Thank You Sean

Using Firefox 117.0.1 on Windows 10, whenever I try to download a file (eg right-clicking an image, 'Save image as...') or upload a file (eg a photo to Facebook or a PDF to Cloudconvert), Firefox completely freezes (greys out) and no matter how long I wait this doesn't resolve. In the end I have to click the red X icon at top right, completely shut down the programme, then re-open it. And it continues to be impossible to upload or download.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0

No crashes logged in about:crashes, but Windows reliability settings reveal the following:

Description A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

Problem signature Problem Event Name: AppHangB1 Application Name: firefox.exe Application Version: 117.0.1.8655 Application Timestamp: 64ffcf74 Hang Signature: e5ca Hang Type: 134217728 OS Version: 10.0.19045.2.0.0.768.101 Locale ID: 2057 Additional Hang Signature 1: e5ca377c485e7058fa97701f85aa4a08 Additional Hang Signature 2: d583 Additional Hang Signature 3: d5834214b853c6b8508f9d55b4f4e695 Additional Hang Signature 4: e5ca Additional Hang Signature 5: e5ca377c485e7058fa97701f85aa4a08 Additional Hang Signature 6: d583 Additional Hang Signature 7: d5834214b853c6b8508f9d55b4f4e695

Any advice?

Many thanks!

I had Thunderbird automatically upgraded to 115. Since then I only see the new emails, all folders and emails from September 12th, 2023 have disappeared. Unfortunately, the restore command doesn't help with MozBackup either; it is executed but with no result. Please describe to me step by step how I can restore the folders and emails.

In this folder: C:\Users\kschl\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird is just an old profile. Therefore, I wanted to use a backup via MozBackup to restore all data, unfortunately this doesn't work. An initial comparison of the newly created profile also shows the folders, but they are not displayed in Thunderbird - there is an incorrect setting.

Please describe this to me step by step, including in which directory I should store the backup in the future.

Firefox seems to crash repeatedly and generates no crash reports, just freezes up my pc. It works in troubleshooting mode but even after refreshing, the problem persists. Surprisingly, it will consistently crash if I go to `about:support` (except in troubleshooting mode). Any help would be appreciated!