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hi i have multiple bookmarks ( .json files) that i have saved in my pc. i want to merge them to a file? how can i do it? if i import one to one of them to Firefox, will the new imported bookmark omit the old ones ? thanks

How can I get rid of the annoying pop up message that began appearing on my search results page a few ays ago? I have attached a screen shot of the message. Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to perform the clean reinstall for Firefox on my computer. But, I see the instructions for the uninstall, Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:

   Windows: (Note: Check both folders.)
       C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
       C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox 

Being I'm not computer wizard I had trouble finding the location of such folder. But when I accessed my program list in my windows program list I see a program named Mozilla maintenance service. When I click on that I see a format/window to "uninstall C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Maintenance Service\." Is this the program/folder I need to uninstall to complete the proper instructions I need to perform a clean install? If so, when I delete it I then reinstall Firefox once again after the uninstall procedure? Is performing the uninstall procedure going to screw up my Firefox browser and my many bookmarks I have accumulated over the years? Can someone please help and explain? Thank you.

My router address with extensions is xx.xx.xx.xx/#/login. My previous router was xx.xx.xx.xx/cgi-bin/MANGA/index.cgi. When I type the IP address without anything after it, the URL entry changes from the new address to the old one every couple of seconds. I can't log into the router because it keeps changing. I disabled URL autocomplete, but it doesn't change it. Whenever I enter the address, it still completes with first the correct and then the incorrect URL.

How do I stop this? Thanks in advance.

I use ccleaner and somehow my setting got changed and it wiped out my history, except for the past 2 days.

I've got a backup places.sqlite from a couple weeks ago. Is there any way to add the two together?

Also, is there any way to import history without replacing the current bookmarks?

I need to capture & store "full page screenshots" using a Python program. This function is provided via the Web Developer Tool "Take a screenshot of the entire Page". Can I activate this tool from Python, perhaps with Selenium? Any other alternative would be OK too. Thanks.

hi

i have Firefox on mobile ( android Samsung a125f) and PC.

i wanted to transfer all open tabs from mobile to PC.after sync .

i can see open tabs below sing out in Firefox account window in my PC. i wanted to save them  but i only can select them  only one by one and i can not select all them together. 

also i did right click and left click on title: "Firefox on Samsung sm-A125f" but nothing occurred. can you guide me about this issue? i wanted to upload a image file( it is 20.2k) of it, but after 10 minutes it did not uploaded. i tried twice , but it was not successful. thanks

I received an email with the following heading - Firefox Monitor You have unresolved breaches You have unresolved breaches. Your email has been exposed. Fix

Does this look legitimate. Is it something I need to be concerned about. Is Firefox sending such emails?

Thank you, David [email address]

If I have the inspector open from Web Developer tools, I can see the HTML elements presented under that tab. Is there anyway in Firefox's configuration settings that we can change the font-family for the HTML view under this Inspector area? (not globally for all of Firefox). If so, where or how can we make the adjustment?

For a couple of week, my firefox browsing history always clean itself up either when I close and shutdown my computer or while I still browsing. This is really frustrated because I have to always search again and again. I have deleted every firefox sync account of my phone and tablet and the only account that still I use is in my pc. Can anybody help me?

Since the last Firefox update I'm not able to retrieve "Recently Closed Windows or Tabs" from history. Is this a coincidence or is there a systems issue? Is there something I can do to fix it? If I can't fix it what s/b my next action?

Thanks in advance for your knowledge sharing,

Paul

My desk top computer powered off yesterday (2/15). It came back on then got zapped again. Now I can not open or sing into my outlook account. I cannot enter a code if sent through Firefox. It will not open in email. I have been able to access my email through MSN. Or can respond to phone text.

My wife received a code on her phone last evening, but did not respond in time. We live in the sticks and have very poor service. Please help. I want my Firefox back.

On several sites, e.g. Lowes and Kroger, I receive the message: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.lowes.com/store/" on this server. Reference #18.56ed0117.1676583603.8ee0aa7. I have to clear cookies and cache each time I do a search within a particular site so this is not a solution. I don't have this problem using the Edge browser.

This is both a question, a rant, a theory of the problem, and a bunch of suggestions (yes, I AM a programmer).

Question first: Yesterday I lost all my tabs (session recovery not working) again for like the 6th time in the past decade. This is a personal disaster of almost suicidal gravity, which you guys at Mozilla don't seem to appreciate or care. Fortunately for me, perhaps, a day or two before I had managed to transfer my tabs to my laptop, so I should be able to recover them (fingers crossed) by copying the recovery.jasonlz4 file from my laptop back to my desktop. Unfortunately, at least for now, it is not working. I tried several times, copying just restore.jasonlz4, as well as copying the entire sessionrestore-backups folder, and the result is always the same: When I try to start Firefox, it "thinks" for a long time, maybe 30 seconds, and then just opens with one tab, and without a button for [Restore Previous Session]. So, my question is: Where else is it saving (bad) restore info that is defeating the info in the folder I'm copying over? My system, on both computers, is Lubuntu 22.04, and Firefox version is as per latest snap.

Rant now: I've seen you guys crying rivers over the fact that people keep abandoning Firefox as their browser. As someone seriously considering joining the crowd, I feel I should at least TRY to communicate with you; TRY to get through your layers of denial. I submit, the problem/question above is THE reason most people leave Firefox. Other people have been trying to tell you. Example: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1402085 But you just don't seem to listen. Every time someone posts with a desperate crisis about the tabs you repeat the same lie, namely that going to the menu and hitting History->RecoverPreviousSession should do the trick ... It does NOT do the trick; it does NOT work. The ONLY thing that has ever worked for me is the business of restoring the file recovery.jasonlz4 ... IF (ASSUMING) I have made a manual backup of it.

My theory of the problem: What I think causes these PERMANENT losses of tab data is (1) over-zealousness of backup, combined with (2) insufficient history. Over-zealousness of backup is a problem in any system that needs to make backups of its state. Needing to backup state is as common a prerogative in 8-bit embedded controller programming (my professional field) as it is in computer software (my hobby field), and I've had to deal with it numerous times. One of the most common errors in programming a backup system, to be aware of, is to do "too much of it", or to do it at the wrong times, or to do it unwisely, or carelessly. This is the biggest bug in Firefox, I believe (but nobody is reporting it because they don't see it like a programmer does). FF backs up session way too fast, way too often, and totally carelessly, thus readily overwriting a good backup with any garbage session. A simple comparison of file size should suffice for the backup engine to notice that it is about to overwrite a 200 tab backup file with a 2-tab session, and to realize that this is probably not right, and to ask the user for permission or opinion. Elementary, Watson. The way our tabs are lost, just so you know, is when, for example, we open Firefox, but instead of hitting Restore Previous Session, we change our minds and close it. Then Firefox stupidly saves this unrecovered session over the valuable one. The same happens if Firefox crashes again on opening, and before restoring the previous session. Then, a new, empty session is written to the backup file, overwriting the good one! Another way to make the backup system not so over-zealous would be to NOT make ANY backups during the first 5 minutes of opening Firefox. The moment of opening Firefox is the time when the backup file gets corrupted 99.9% of the time; so just have a policy of under NO circumstance write to the backup file until the session can be considered stable. Insufficient History is almost defined by your single backup system. Having only one backup state is ridiculous ... to put it in extremely mild words (4-letter words are highly called for here, but would not be enough, anyways). There could be, and should be, at least 4 backups; and maybe 10. It is simply ABSURD to have a single backup, that if anything happens to it, even through software error, the chance to recover anything at all is completely lost.

Suggestions: 1) As mentioned above, the backup command generation part of the code needs to grow in wisdom by, for instance, NEVER allowing a write to the backup files before at least 5 minutes, or better yet 15 minutes, of the user having a "normal session" with Firefox. Any attempt to recover session, or sync, should reset the clock of backup file writing prevention. 2) The backup command should check if the session it is about to write is too different from the existing one and ask the user for approval. Alternatively, if asking the user for approval is too complicated, interface-wise, simply do NOT write to the backups when a session with two tabs is about to overwrite a session of two hundred tabs. 3) Refuse to backup more than once per day, unless it is just to add a tab, or something trivial. 4) Each time you backup session data, do so to a new set of files, from the previous backup, in a new folder, named with date and time info; and once saved and validated, delete the oldest folder if the count of backup folders exceeds the maximum number of backups, which should never be less than four. However, when backing up the same day as the previous backup (only done when session differences are trivial), simply over-write the previous backup, so that at the end of the day (literally) there is only one backup for that day, as we wouldn't want all of our backups to span just minutes. Our four backup folders should span at least four days. 5) Rewrite Sync from scratch. This I mentioned nothing about before, but the way Sync works (I think) is a disaster: About an hour ago I did a Sync ... thoughtlessly hit the button, then realized that I did it on my desktop, whose tabs are currently wiped out, and that it could conceivably wipe out my tabs on my laptop as well, if my laptop decides to update itself to the Sync data on your server from my desktop. You guys have created a monster, with Sync, that is about to wipe out everyone, and then it will wipe you (Mozilla) out of existence. Sync is BAD PROGRAMMING of the type that comes from BAD SPECIFICATIONS, of the type that start with a naive interface dream of a great solution without an actual problem. The imaginary problem is that people need to sync devices (equalize them). They do not. Most of the time we need to transfer state from one machine to another; NOT equalize anything. We need a state transfer interface with direction buttons. If I have a machine at the office, and a personal laptop, I may need to transfer a bunch of bookmarks and tabs from my day job machine to my personal laptop, while transferring NOTHING the other way, as I want NOTHING personal ending up on my box at work... EXCEPT, I may want to transfer some login data from my personal laptop to the work box, to be able to check my stocks at work during lunch time; but without any logins being transferred from my work machine to my personal one. You see? And if I have 200 tabs open in my desktop, I may want less than 10 of them on my phone. I can't think of ANY situation where I'd want two machines equalized (sync'd). What you guys have done with Sync is coming up with a naive dream about what we want to do, and then ramming THAT stupid solution down our throats. On top of that, one has to read half the Internet to begin to understand exactly what Sync does. Sync is an undocumented MONSTER whose real operation nobody needs. Just get rid of it, and start fresh.

A bit of psychoanalysis: Don't have to answer this question; it is for you guys (Mozilla team) to ponder and reflect on. FOSS projects featuring a perpetual problem that the team leaders refuse to understand and do anything about is not new. There was a time when Blender3D had an anti-feature: Hitting the [Q] key caused the program to quit. There were hundreds of complaints about it, but the powers at the top were refusing to listen. Eventually they did add a popup question for Are You Sure?, but this was not enough for most people; it was too disruptive to have this popup come up again and again; what I wanted was the ability to disable the [Q] = Quit shortcut. But years went by and they refused to please the users. One day I reported the problem again, and some people in the forum were telling me to desist, that it would never be listened to, but reported it in such a detailed way that finally I got through to them, and the problem was finally solved.

But why is it that so many FOSS projects feature a persistent problem?

My personal theory is that it is a transactional mind-game, where people feel that if they are working mostly for free, they should be able to at least get away with something to ... make them pay for the fact that they don't donate, or don't donate enough.

I'm not going to write a book on ethics and whatnot, here, but I just want you to introspect and wonder if some such thing is at play here, as I find it too incredible that you guys just don't see the horribleness of the implementation of your session backup algorithm without my outsider help; it would seem as if the inability to see the absurdities is rather intentional, at some level of consciousness. Be it as it may, just consider the fact that I have had enough problems with losing Firefox session restore data over the years that I'm almost desperately looking for an alternative browser to switch to, just hopefully not one of those mainstream ones that steal one's privacy. But I AM desperate to move away from Firefox, otherwise; too tired of living in fear of losing my tabs; I just can't take it anymore. So, you can play your little mind-games all day long, if you want, but at the end of the day, if you make too many of us your users unhappy you'll be left with neither money NOR victory NOR power... Bad Session Restore code and this Sync monster are simply unbearable, and they WILL destroy you; and where will the mind-games go, then?

4th or 5th EDIT: I have no words to describe the revulsion I feel with the whole Firefox Account interface. I just went in again with the idea of deleting all Sync data, as now I'm paranoid that the moment I connect my laptop to the Internet it is going to automatically Sync itself to my tab-less, destroyed Firefox on my desktop. With Synch being this uncontrollable two-way monstrosity, the safest thing to do is to disable it. Well, first of all, the moment I log into my account to Sync, it expects me to connect another device. It did not occur to your programmers that someone might not have a way to connect two machines at the same time; did it? So I replied Not Now, and it took me to my Firefox Account home-page, where I'm allowed to do everything I don't want, but nothing that I want. Why can't I just delete Sync data? I don't want to use Sync EVER AGAIN, but with Firefox, as always, anything good one wants to do is unsupported, and the only way to delete Sync data, apparently, is to delete my entire Firefox Account. Maybe I'll do just that, and put an end to this eternal pain.

It started with LastPass a few months ago. The extension would often, sometimes once per day, disappear from the toolbar and stop responding to login forms. To make it return, I would have to go into the extensions manager, disable it and re-enable right away. I thought it was just the LastPass extension and was gonna reach out to them. But then the hack was reported so I migrated to Dashlane. But now Dashlane is disappearing the same exact way. Every day. This happens with no other extensions, only LastPass a few months ago and Dashlane right now.

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me here. I use Google Fi to make and receive calls from my browser. I accidentally denied microphone permissions to Google Fi from the Firefox dropdown prompt and I cannot find how to get it back.

When I click the dropdown menu, I see no options to enable or disable permissions. I also do not see anything listed in the Security settings of the browser. When I check the google fi settings, I see it complaining about denied permissions though.

I've attached screenshots. Does anyone know where I can revoke the blocked permissions?

Thanks,

Win 10 - Firefox 109.0.1 On a website when I click on a TEL link in Firefox it offers me the option the link being opened in Firefox (which does not know what to do with it) or selecting an "other" application. Firefox can associate an app with a link type. How to do that is not the question. The question is: what app should I have firefox open for a "tel" link that will invoke magicJack and pass the TEL link data (the phone number) to it. Thanks, bill