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I just downloaded Firefox and designated it as my default browser. The purpose was to get away from using Google Chrome; however, when I go into Firefox, the only options are to search with google????? Please let me know if this can be corrected.

I received a notice when trying to download : We can't connect to server at downloadzip.wolfgangsvault.com . It was suggested that I check that Firefox has permission to access the web ( I might be connected but behind a firewall). Please help . Thanks!

Hello! I accidentally clicked to restore default setting in the customize toolbar menu, and now all of my tab/address bar/bookmark bar setting and locations are different and I don't like it at all. Previously, the address bar was above the tabs and the full length of the window. Now the tabs are at the top and the address bar is on the same bar as the bookmarks I have saved to the bookmark bar. The address bar goes full length if I remove the bookmark bar but I want to have both on the screen at the same time, on their own bar, as I did before. I have looked through the all of the settings and customize options, and can't find anything that will move my address bar to the top above the tabs, or a way to keep the address bar and bookmark bar open and available separately. Help! Thanks. :)

Seemingly straightforward searches through the options like:

• "Reset firefox"
• "Clear cookies"
• "Empty cache"

None of these things pull up any results when searching the settings... Why?

Hello,

 An update or two (maybe more?) ago, the plus sign with which we add shortcuts to the Firefox browser home page/new tab page disappeared, so now we can no longer add shortcuts on the home page/new tab page.  Please help.  I am running Firefox Version 129.0.2 (64-bit) on a Windows 11 Pro 64-bit if that makes any difference.  Thanks.

Try as hard as I may from all the Help screens, I cannt find a solution to how to permanently pin the Bookmark Toolbar to the side of the screen in my version of Firefox which is 129.0.2 in Windows 11. The option to pin the toolbar where the user wants it to appear seems to have vanished. Am I correct?

The only options I can find in Firefox now are Show Toolbar and it will only appear across the top of the screen (unless I Ctrl+B); Show in new tab or Hide.

Ctrl+B will bring up the tool bar, say to the left, but when Firefox is closed and re-opened there is the need to Ctrl+B again to redisplay the toolbar. My experience of Windows 10 was that everytime I opened Firefox my side bar for Bookmarks automatically appeared because I had always been able to pin it there.

Please help to restore the function, if it hasn't been removed through updates.

Thank you.

Yesterday, I get a screen popup that says" Outlook(formerly Hotmail)" Saying Hotmail will now be Outlook.

I've had Hotmail for maybe 30+ years now? I've always had Firefox open to my inbox, which is Outlook and has been for a year or better.

Since yesterday it will not open up to my inbox. It opens to the MS website showing what I wrote up above and a picture of Outlook.

I've deleted cookies and cache. Also history. Even though I point it to my inbox it just goes to that advertisement. I have the stay signed in box checked and don't show this again. But it does show again and again. I hope there's a way to fix this, pretty sure it not a Firefox issue. Just hoping someone else has had and and found a way around it.

Thanks Daniel B

I just updated to version 128 of Firefox. Previously I used this user.js file as my profile:

//https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

user_pref("app.normandy.api_url", ""); user_pref("app.update.auto", false); user_pref("app.update.checkInstallTime", false); user_pref("app.update.disabledForTesting", true); user_pref("browser.dom.window.dump.enabled", true); user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/seluser/automated-tests/downloads"); user_pref("browser.download.folderList", 2); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.cfr", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.cfr-fxa", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.message-groups", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.messaging-experiments", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.snippets", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.whats-new-panel", "null"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.discoverystream.config", "[]"); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.snippets", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.system.topstories", false); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.fxaccounts.endpoint", ""); user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.tippyTop.service.endpoint", ""); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.blockedURIs.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.passwords.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", false); user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false); user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "ignore"); user_pref("browser.startup.page", 0); user_pref("browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", false); user_pref("browser.uitour.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.warnOnQuit", false); user_pref("browser.webapps.checkForUpdates", 0); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.documentServerURI", "http://%(server)s/dummy/healthreport/"); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.logging.consoleEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun", false); user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyBypassNotification", true); user_pref("devtools.console.stdout.chrome", true); user_pref("dom.ipc.reportProcessHangs", false); user_pref("extensions.autoDisableScopes", 0); user_pref("extensions.enabledScopes", 5); user_pref("extensions.installDistroAddons", false); user_pref("extensions.update.enabled", false); user_pref("extensions.update.notifyUser", false); user_pref("focusmanager.testmode", true); user_pref("general.useragent.updates.enabled", false); user_pref("geo.provider.testing", true); user_pref("geo.wifi.scan", false); user_pref("hangmonitor.timeout", 0); user_pref("idle.lastDailyNotification", -1); user_pref("marionette.log.level", "Info"); user_pref("marionette.port", 0); user_pref("media.gmp-manager.updateEnabled", false); user_pref("media.sanity-test.disabled", true); user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2); user_pref("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255); user_pref("network.manage-offline-status", false); user_pref("network.sntp.pools", "%(server)s"); user_pref("plugin.state.flash", 0); user_pref("remote.log.level", "Info"); user_pref("security.certerrors.mitm.priming.enabled", false); user_pref("services.settings.server", ""); user_pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url", "about:blank"); user_pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url.additional", ""); user_pref("toolkit.startup.max_resumed_crashes", -1); user_pref("widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled", false);

All worked fine. But now with this new version of Firefox if I use that profile I see a popup asking me for my Primary Password. I do not have a primary password. Why has Firefox started asking me for one? What can I change in my user.js file to stop this?

Up until the latest Firefox Nightly release, I could click on the '+' to open a new tab and immediately start typing the URL. Now, however, I am required to select a container type, something that is useless to me. Is there a way to disable this?

UPDATE: Never mind, I found the setting for Enable Container Tabs, which needs to be deselected. Why is this an opt-out?

If a moderator wants to delete this post, go for it.

No answers to how to do this, even googling. The best I get is to click on the 3-vertical-dots icon next to the intended address's url field. No such icon exists, nor it to be found in "Customize Tools"

Macbook Air, M1 — 12.6.8 Firefox 129.0.2

As I said in the title, the spellchecker add-on I use, LanguageTool, does not work on this site. I am not fine with that. What's the best way to get it working here? Any answers that amount to "you don't" are not acceptable.

How can I remove extensions? I'm blocked from Google with the same screen no matter what I do. It says search.funsafetabsearch.com thanks

Since a few days now my URL bar is too small. I can see where it used to be in light gray, but the text box is just a small part of it. I searched everywhere but I can not find anything to fix it. I even tried to reset the settings to default but it is still the same. Any idea what I can do?

Here is a screenshot of how it looks like when I click into the text box: (see attached)

I forgot my primary password and a double password system is a pain. I would like to eliminate the primary password, Can it be done w/o losing other data I hope.. Thanks for ANY help Email removed for privacy reasons

Hi, is there a way to disable, or even better, remove entirely, the Google translate bar that is shown on some pages? See attachment. The image is from the following page: https://support.plex.tv/articles/share-and-report/

I have tried to modify 'browser.translations' related settings in 'about:config' page, but no luck so far. If I open the same link in Edge, page is shown without the bar.

Using Win 11 + Firefox 129.0.1.

-k