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For some reason the Firefox browser just keeps crashing over the last few days spontaneously and I'm looking for solutions on how to problem solve this. I'll open a few broswer tabs and anywhere from 1 to 60 mins later it'll just crash and ask me to restore. It probabaly does it 10-15x per hour now.

Here are some of the error codes created in troubleshooting mode by the browser if it helps: 5cc95f37-c709-4938-954f-75f17794d071 981e0664-d5c9-433f-9c6d-97627bbb68f5 a521637f-73ce-48fc-ae96-515391e4b19f

Please help...this is annoying the heck out of me.

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) no longer supports Firefox. Please contact them and try to get them to support it. Otherwise I will have to use a Chrome, which I don't want to.

Kaspersky has been changed to UltraAV so I need to add or change this extension in my settings. Also will Kaspersky need to be deleted? thx . THe reason for this is because Firefox will not restart after an updated has been downloaded.

Upon launching Firefox I noticed a notification from Macafee antivirus, I don't really care how to spell their "company" name. But when clicking on the popup it brought me to a firefox addon for macafee. I assume that this is a virus created by the aforementioned company and not a partnership between the two of you. Just wanted to create awareness of this virus as its targeting your browser.

Every time now I get asked additional info just to use FB, as in scoping what's happening. It seems that the info FB has for me to cont6act me is no longer correct, e.g. I want to check the mobile phone number that is on my record. Where can I check that (what is the link) ?

Last February, I installed an update that wasn't compatible with my macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra. As a result, my bookmarks disappeared. For a long time, I've been getting popups on a daily basis, and sometimes twice daily, telling me to update again. Based on my last experience, I not about to install any more updates. I want these messages to stop.

I repeatedly cannot access a couple of websites, receiving messages such as, "Server Not Found" and "We can’t connect to the server at companyname.org." Since this happens regularly with a couple of popular websites (e.g., Consumer Reports), I don't believe the problem is with the sites themselves. So, is there a setting on Firefox that will enable me to unblock access to specific sites?

Thanks!

Hello Mozilla Community,

I hope I am right with you guys to ask this question though it is a rather technical question. Please let me clarify that I am not a programmer myself or a network engineer but rather a hobbyist who is especially interested in privacy.

As I was reading about HTTP/3 and QUIC, I came across an academic paper called ""A QUIC Look at Web Tracking".

According to this paper QUIC gives web servers and third parties a good way to track users via the "source-address token" and the "server config" which are both stored on the client('s browser/machine). Now I know that this paper is from 2019 and concerns an older version of QUIC. However, in RFC 9000 "source address tokens" aka "address validation tokens" still exist and are especially used to establish future connections with 0-RTT instead of 1-RTT (see section 8.1 of RFC 9000). Though "server config" is not mentioned in RFC 9000, "transport parameters" is mentioned in section 7.4 and 18 of RFC 9000, which are also used for 0-RTT and are also stored on the client.

Neither RFC 9000 nor RFC 9114, which concerns HTTP3, address these privacy risks in more detail. Both seem to take only MITM attackers into account (see 9.5 in RFC 9000 and 10.11 in RC 9114) [as is done in a newer paper from 2022 Evaluating QUIC for Privacy Improvements Over Its Predecessors which however at least addresses the possibility of third party tracking under 5.1 3)].

I would also like to point towards RFC 9250 of May 2022, which concerns DNS over QUIC ("DoQ"). In Section 7 of RFC 9250 many privacy concerns regarding "0-RTT", "Session Resumption (Token)", "Address Validation Token" and "Long Duration Sessions due to QUIC's connection migration feature" are elaborated in more detail.

To sum up my understanding: - Using HTTP/3 or QUIC's "connection ID" for tracking should not be that viable, even if its function is to migrate connections in case of Layer-3/4 (IP address or Port) changes, because a connections life time is at least in firefox limited to 30 seconds (see Github neqo) so that a user should not be trackable for a longer period via the "connection ID". - However, longer tracking may be possible via "Session Resumption Tokens" and "Address Validation Tokens" (see Section 7.2 and 7.3 of RFC 9250; though I myself don't know the difference between these two) as well as via "transport parameters" (see "A QUIC Look at Web Tracking").

As mentioned in "A QUIC Look at Web Tracking", though a restart of the Browser seems to clear the cached state of prior QUIC connections (to my understanding the stored "tokens" and "transport parameters"), tracking via the above mentioned features of QUIC seems not unreasonable as many users today will not restart their browser, especially on mobile devices but also on desktops (3.7 and 5.1.2 of the paper).

As I was not able to find further information on this topic, I would be very happy to get some assurance that firefox is effectively preventing or at least impeding the tracking possibilities mentioned in RFC 9250 and the paper "A QUIC Look at Web Tracking".

Thank you very much for any reply or pointing me into the right direction (other sources on this topic or a more appropriate page to ask this question).

I have tested this with Chrome, Firefox (latest update 131.0.2). Firefox stopped showing select-able buttons a few weeks ago, while Chrome and the iPhone app on IOS 18.0.1 on my Phone display the items correctly.

CORRECT DISPLAY - See attached "Correct Display" JPG. INCORRECT DISPLAY - See attached "Incorrect Display" JPG

When I edit the original iCoud NOTE, and remove the selection buttons, then re-add them, I can see that Firefox FIRST picks up the correct radio buttons then VERY quickly changes them to black boxes which can neither be selected nor un-selected.  :-(

For some reason Firefox keeps telling me it won't install on Windows 8.x or lower. I have Windows 10 Home 64bit. What is the problem? What can I do to fix this. I have the latest updates for windows.

I would like to be able to see all my tabs at once without scrolling. I'm coming from Chrome, and my habits and preferences is built on the fact that this is standard behavior. I run many tabs at once, up to 100 tabs isn't uncommon, and having to scroll is slower than just being able to click the tab I want.

Anyone have any ideas?

PS: I have tried decreasing tabMinWidth, but upper limit of max tabs is still only 30

Firefox drops my connection. All of a sudden, it is working fine, then it becomes unresponsive. It is no longer connected to the WiFi. But the WiFi is up and running fine. The only thing that brings it back is to close down the browser, and restart it. Then it comes up connected. Or I can switch to Edge and that works fine. It is not my computer or connection, it is the Firefox browser doing this.

Second problem. More and more of the sites I visit, like Hulu, my doctors, and many others will not work on Firefox. Isn't there something you can do about this. It requires me to use the address I am on and paste it into Edge. Then it works fine. If this continues to grow, I will have to make my default browser Edge. Please see what you can do. No doubt this puts a smile on the Microsoft engineers faces.

Bob

Firefox 64-bit installed to a completely new installation, but did not update my existing 32-bit version.

How can this update to the 64-bit version be done and still retain all of the tabs, favorites and saved data already in the 32-bit version?

Please advise. Thank you.