Proxy links from OneSearch to ebscohost.com won't open in Firefox
The links generated by my academic library (OneSearch) to ebschost.com fail. Observation: A new tab is opened with no content, the destination URL is intact. The truncate… (funda kabanzi)
The links generated by my academic library (OneSearch) to ebschost.com fail. Observation: A new tab is opened with no content, the destination URL is intact. The truncated source link is https://lancaster.alma.exlibrisgroup.com and it resolves to http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lancs.ac.uk .
Chromium just works whereas Firefox fails on links to ebschost.com from OneSearch.
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Text Boxes not displaying correctly. Linux
Hello, I am having trouble with Firefox not wanting to display fonts or text boxes correctly in some situations. I am providing two screen shots from a client bridge conf… (funda kabanzi)
Hello, I am having trouble with Firefox not wanting to display fonts or text boxes correctly in some situations. I am providing two screen shots from a client bridge configuration page to illustrate the problem. One shot is of Firefox and the other is from the Chromium browser that came with Zorin. The boxes display perfectly in Chromium but, as you can see, there are issues in Firefox (font color is grey, font too big, box background transparent, box not large enough for text). I have tried playing with the font and color settings in preferences but all i managed to do was get the background of the text boxes to display white, unfortunately, this also caused many more appearance problems with other websites so i changed it back... I am using distro of Linux called Zorin OS 12.4. and a fresh install of Firefox 63.0.3.
I guess I could use the Chromium browser instead, but I'm a big fan of Firefox and would rather use it ;) ANy help would be much appreciate Thanks, Derek
I would like to have the old ctrl+tab behavior but at the same time use the new recentlyUsedOrder on a custom keybind
Hi. I was looking how to restore the old ctrl+tab behavior and found https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1241201#answer-1174594 . This answered my first half of … (funda kabanzi)
Hi.
I was looking how to restore the old ctrl+tab behavior and found https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1241201#answer-1174594 . This answered my first half of the question.
However, I do find the new ctrl+tab behavior useful, however not as a replacement of the old behavior, but as an additional feature.
Is there any way I can have ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab behave in the old way, while binding a custom keybinding to the new recently used order tab behavior? (say, e.g. binding it to win+tab)
Firefox 63.0 not creating logins.json, not showing saved logins
Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on a new SSD. I did not import anything into Firefox. I am currently using Firefox 63.0.3. I clicked Save in the save login dialog box on a … (funda kabanzi)
Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on a new SSD. I did not import anything into Firefox. I am currently using Firefox 63.0.3.
I clicked Save in the save login dialog box on a couple of sites. I then go to about:preferences -> Privacy & Security and click on Saved Logins and the box is empty.
The sites I saved logins from still auto log me in. I verified this by exiting Firefox, and re-starting about 6 times.
My research came up with perhaps a plugin or addon causing this issue, especially the Flash Player plugin. Since I didn't import anything into this new installation, there were none that could cause this.
First, I tried manually installing Flash player. No change. Problem still exists. Saved Logins is still empty.
Then, I saved another new password. Shutdown and re-started Firefox. I can automatically login to this new site. No change. Problem still exists. Saved Logins is still empty.
Then I ran across this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile and learned that logins.json and key4.db were where saved logins were.
Hmmm, I have no logins.json file, Why not? Apparently Firefox 63.0 didn't create one, but then, how could I auto logon to sites? This should not be possible
$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/5ve7p6yq.default/ $ ls addons.json cookies.sqlite-wal lock serviceworker.txt addonStartup.json.lz4 crashes minidumps sessionCheckpoints.json AlternateServices.txt datareporting permissions.sqlite sessionstore-backups blocklist.xml extensions pkcs11.txt shield-preference-experiments.json bookmarkbackups extensions.json places.sqlite SiteSecurityServiceState.txt broadcast-listeners.json favicons.sqlite places.sqlite-wal storage cert8.db favicons.sqlite-wal pluginreg.dat storage.sqlite cert9.db features prefs.js times.json cert_override.txt formhistory.sqlite revocations.txt TRRBlacklist.txt compatibility.ini gmp saved-telemetry-pings weave containers.json gmp-gmpopenh264 search.json.mozlz4 webappsstore.sqlite content-prefs.sqlite handlers.json secmod.db webappsstore.sqlite-wal cookies.sqlite key4.db SecurityPreloadState.txt xulstore.json
My resolution was to copy logins.json and key4.db from a working profile to this new profile.
Firefox (linux-Ubuntu) will not automatically fill in login username (but does fill in password) on website "safeway.com" login page - why?
I only have this problem with safeway.com. Firefox will not save the username (email address) for my login there. It does save my password, but I always have to manually … (funda kabanzi)
I only have this problem with safeway.com. Firefox will not save the username (email address) for my login there. It does save my password, but I always have to manually enter the username.
Recently I tried manually editing the saved passwords (under "Preferences") - the username was blank for the safeway.com entry, so I put it in. This had no effect and the username field still is not filled in for that site.
Does anyone else have this problem with the login page on Safeway.com? I am using Firefox 63.0.3 (64-bit) for Ubuntu, but this problem has been present for at least a couple of years.
After leaving Firefox running for a day or two, graphical problems appear.
On my computer running Firefox 63 on Linux Mint 17.3, with Intel 945G graphics, there are graphical issues that crop up after leaving the browser running for a while. It … (funda kabanzi)
On my computer running Firefox 63 on Linux Mint 17.3, with Intel 945G graphics, there are graphical issues that crop up after leaving the browser running for a while. It sometimes leads to crashing of tabs. When the tabs are restored, the problem persists. It seems to be a problem that develops in the main process, as the child processes crashing, or being killed, doesn't fix the problem. Only stopping and restarting the browser fixes it, but only temporarily! Over months of crash reports, I thought it might be fixed for me, though my patience has worn thin. I'd like this problem to go away.
The problem appears primarily as an issue with scrolling. I'll scroll down a screen or two, and instead of the content further down the page appearing as expected, stuff from further up wraps around and shows again. Sometimes jumping down a whole screen with the pagedown key works, but that may fail also, occasionally even mixing strips of the content further down the page, with some from further up the page.
I have had other graphical problems in the past, many months ago, and I can't say I recall the exact settings I changed then, to prevent the sort of vertical pixelation issue I had before. Text was nearly unreadable.
Things have been a bit complicated.
While using ancestry.com I see a "wait while connecting to FaceBook..." and I'm getting errors after seeing this
I've have been to the "next to no support" with Ancestry.com and they don't seem to believe that ancestry connects to FaceBook, yet almost every time I click on any activ… (funda kabanzi)
I've have been to the "next to no support" with Ancestry.com and they don't seem to believe that ancestry connects to FaceBook, yet almost every time I click on any active feature inside the ancestry.com interface I see in my lower left corner of FF a small box telling me what FF is doing and it is indicating an attempt to connect to FB. I am having difficulties with saving data and posting data to ancestry.com and am thinking it's this attempt to connect to FB I have no FB account that uses any name associated with me and ancestry.com and I refuse to do so. FakeBook has no business knowing my real name and I refuse to give it to them willingly.
Is there a way to block this automatic "connect to FB". Ancestry.com seems to think it's not supposed to do this so how can I stop it?
thunderbird, delete key does not work
Running Lubuntu 18.04 on a macbook. The delete button works fine, but the delete key does not work.
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Lightning: Find Events not working
Have version 60.2.1 (64-bit) installed from Linux Mint 18.3 repos. Just discovered that clicking on the "Find Events" button in Lightning (or same for menu item) and NOTH… (funda kabanzi)
Have version 60.2.1 (64-bit) installed from Linux Mint 18.3 repos. Just discovered that clicking on the "Find Events" button in Lightning (or same for menu item) and NOTHING shows in the Find Events panel that appears. That's NOTHING with a BIG capital 'N'. So what happened? How can it be fixed.
FWIW, this is the WORST upgrade of Thunderbird for a l-o-n-g l-o-n-g time. The completely botched management of the add-on aspect was unbelievably incompetent. Lightning f**ked for an awful lot of people with little help until a few folk (outside of Mozilla) started posting "Uninstall add-on, install distrib xul-). Very bad. The sheer number of "Lighting broke" references when searching the web is testament to the appalling approach to pushing the upgrade. Then there are all those really helpful add-on developers out there that are totally p***ed off with the sudden incompatibility of there helpful work because of an unhelpful Add-on API team. Plus, I've got problems (that I didn't have before) with the Date & Time display aspects and they seem to be insurmountable given the wholly arrogant attitude of those developers involved -- just how *does* Thunderbird/Lightning work with locale? I'm genuinely convinced the developers don't know. And don't get me started on CalDav...
I'm thinking I might be better going back to a previous, stable and FUNCTIONAL version. If the next > v60 upgrade version actually fixes all/most of the problems, I might stick with it, but otherwise I think I'll have to find something else. Shame because this really was a f**king great product with a seriously promising future. Sad. Very sad.
kdeinit could not launch .../firefox/firefox/firefox
running 60.3.0esr on Kubuntu 18.04, trying to install Dropbox app. Fails with "could not launch" message pointing to a non-existent location "...bin/firefox/firefox/fire… (funda kabanzi)
running 60.3.0esr on Kubuntu 18.04, trying to install Dropbox app. Fails with "could not launch" message pointing to a non-existent location "...bin/firefox/firefox/firefox. firefox/firefox is an executable so can't create a dummy directory to hold yet another firefox executable.
Does firefox block sites that mine cryptocurrency
I often use https://thepiratebay.org for torrenting. I usually don't read the fine print. Today I did and I found the following in very small font: "By entering TPB you a… (funda kabanzi)
I often use https://thepiratebay.org for torrenting. I usually don't read the fine print. Today I did and I found the following in very small font: "By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker". Does Firefox's Content Blocking disable this or do we have to add an extension?
Financial tasks with Firefox: how to increase security?
Reading this post I understand that using FF extensions can be a security risk considering that many extensions require the permission "Access your data for all websites"… (funda kabanzi)
Reading this post I understand that using FF extensions can be a security risk considering that many extensions require the permission "Access your data for all websites" and with this permission an extension could take the data like username, password whether the form is populated by FF (saved login) or if the form is populated manually.
If an user has to browse on his bank website, the first idea that comes to mind is to use the Incognito mode but the problem is that with FF an incognito mode window has every installed extension (this unlike the Chrome Incognito mode).
So what can be the advice to protect your privacy, using Firefox as comfortably as possible?
In 63.03, ctrl c and ctrl v stopped working (I use linux)
In 63.03, ctrl c and ctrl v stopped working (I use linux) This happened when Firefox automatically upgraded to 63.03