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Until recently, in Firefox Nightly for Android, when visiting a web page in a Private Browsing tab the three-dot menu included an option to "Open in regular tab". In the past few versions, this option has been removed.

This option is especially handy for those of us who have the "Open links in a private tab" option enabled, which essentially makes Private Browsing the default. For example, if it is a page that normally requires a login, you can use "Open in regular tab" to easily open it in a regular session where you are automatically logged in. If your browser history is synced, "Open in regular tab" makes a page easily available on all devices (e. g. via Suggest) without having to bookmark it or actually send it to a different device.

This post on Bugzilla says "we will continue to keep this a Nightly-only feature" and the menu entry will be renamed to "Move to non-private tab". However, the menu entry does not appear on the redesigned menu.

1. Which exact version removed the option? Is there documentation about this in Bugzilla? 2. Is there a way to re-enable it, e. g. in about:config? 3. If not, are there any plans to bring it back?

Thanks.

I'm trying to setup tbsync to use with Google Contacts. I'm running 128.12.0 esr. I've installed tbsync and Google-4-tbsync.

I followed the instructions to create Google credentials, but where do I put them? And the account setup for tbsync asks for a "client secret" - what's that?

100% of my bookmarks have disappeared. I tried backing up to older version a month ago and still no bookmarks were found. I had over 2000 bookmarks. any suggestions?? Marty

Since the July 2025 update I can receive emails and forward and reply to emails but I can't create a new email. When I click on + New Message nothing happens, the write window doesn't open. Therefore I think my in and out servers are working fine but can't get the send new email window.

I am using Thunderbird 140.0.1 (64-bit) for Windows and with this update there is a new account windows sety up. When adding a new account it only asks me for the email address and when I press continue it I get a blue circle going round and round and no progress. In previous versions I would input the email and password and this would work.

I'm running Thunderbird 140.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows 10. The problem is Thunderbird is showing wrong format. My system's sets are: Short date: dd.MM.yyyy Long date: dd MMMM yyyy 'г.' Short time: HH:mm Long time: HH:mm:ss

Thunderbird's language is set to English (US). And it shows times as: 1:00 AM, 2:00 PM etc. Tried to change it to en_GB, did nothing at all. Changing it to ru_RU affects the time format, but interface goes Russian which is unwanted.

Please help to fix it. It's crucial for me to have 24h format as otherwise I cannot use mail/calendar because it's misleading.

I was finally forced to update my Firefox to the released version. I am increasingly unable to log in to various "secure" websites with Firefox 140...1 although Chrome 106 (old, but can't update) has no problem. There are also a number of captchas that are simply invisible to firefox. Why is this happening?

I have a few favorite folders. One of them has sub-folders. Is there a way to favorite a folder and have the sub-folders be available at the same time? I don't want to favorite each sub-folder separately because the context would be lost. What I'm asking is there a way to show the "expand" option of favorite folder?

20 years of emails apparently gone. I have been trying to add TB to a new laptop.

I used the export function in TB and was directed to create a zip file since it was over 2GB. I used 7Zip to view the file and it did not show up in the program. I did this a few times and it kept doing the same thing. When it actually worked I got about 2% of the emails. I believe that, as a result of doing this, that the profile was corrupted by the process of creating a zip file. The result? The original profile on the old laptop is no longer valid. Most of the time when I tried to unzip the file it displayed an error message. I have been through so much over the last few days I cannot remember the entire error but it had the word invalid in it. A red banner across the top of the screen.

I have scoured all my devices for profiles and have tried every one I could find. I was told that using old profiles without them going through the process of TB versions that unexpected results may happen. The latest result, which happens with every profile I use is what is in the attached image. Nothing in or under the inbox, and all this under the outbox.

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

The AI chatbot is back in my sidebar. I did not opt in to this. I would prefer not to roll back to whichever version of Firefox is before the AI it's-a-feature-not-a-bug got wedged in; what other options do I have for permanently disabling AI?

Going to sidebar settings to hide the AI chatbot does not suffice. Evidence: I did that already, it has been undone, and I cannot now find the toggle in question.

Personally I vote for yanking it out of the main browser altogether, so people have to actively choose to install the AI chatbot add-on. But my question is about actions I can take myself.

Been this way for quite a while now. Deleted messages do not show up in trash in 1 gmail account. Properties of the trash folder indicate that it contains 124 meg. In a different gmail account all is normal. Properties indicate the same in both gmail accounts. Asside from maybe deleteing/reinstalling the account, how can this be fixed?