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So, i am having two issues. when i click on notification icon fiverr.com the tab freezes. Also i am not finding the refresh firefox option in troubleshooting. i am using ryzen 9 8945hx with 5070.

Hi everyone.

Basically when the browser is (I think) idle while watching YouTube, FF is constantly backing up (the timestamp in the backup file name keeps getting updated). From the settings page I thought it once every 24 hours. I noticed from higher than normal CPU usage impacting FF and the Windows search indexer. Which reverted to normal once I disabled the backup.

I checked the about config:

• browser.backup.scheduled.minimum-time-between-backups-seconds

Is set to 24 hours (86400 seconds)

But I also noticed:

• browser.backup.scheduled.idle-threshold-seconds

Is set to 15 seconds(!). Is that what I think it is? Back up whenever there's a 15 sec idle window, regardless of the minimum? Can I safely make that 86400 seconds too, or does it do something else entirely?

Many thanks in advance.

I'm changing computers. I want to upload my browser's bookmarks to a file. Then I can clear it for the next person to start from scratch. So far, I can't find a tab to make it happen. Please help. Thanks.

I used to have about 40 quick links, or bookmarks on my home page. I had pinned several. Others appeared according to how often I used them. The latest update deleted all but 3. I am very unhappy. How can I get rid of this update and bring back my quick links? I guess I will have to go back to Brave.

When I downloaded Firefox, I was able to add sites in a start page. There were sponsored sites like Amazon, Wikipedia, Reddit. I deleted those and added my own. Can you tell me where to find that page?

In the settings, I selected a custom url for the homepage. The only other choice was the Firefox default page (which doesn't have the sites that I selected)

Thanks.

Firefox has always had problems processing forms. Not every time, just once in a while and that can be so infrequent that I don't see the browser being the issue until I contact support at the company whose site I'm having issues with. This could be processing a checkout form on a site after purchasing an item. This latest incident involves me trying to fill out an open enrollment form for benefits at the 3rd party benefits administrator because I got fired in Nov [along with many others]. I tried to fill out the re enrollment form and it simply went in circles and never completed. The name of the benefits administrator is "bswift" if that makes any difference. You know what they told me when I called and said I was using Firefox? "Well... you should be using Chrome or Edge." Doesn't happen often, but companies know there is a problem with Firefox. In that case, why are there ZERO help articles on this site on the issues of forms? I tried phrasing the question 5 different ways. The last one gave "Found 52 results for ‘forms don't work’ for ‘All Products’ ". If the companies that I call know that Firefox is an issue, and this has been going on for a LONG time, years, then why has this not been addressed? Either by Mozilla, or by someone in the Forums? Not a single one of the 52 results were even close to my issue. I am simply at a lost to understand why I am the only one in the world forms don't work for. I have to stop, move to Chrome, and start whatever it was I was doing all over again. I have been using this product since Netscape 1.0, and was around long before windows or browsers existed. Any insights are appreciated. Thank you.

Had trouble getting Bookmarks to look like I had on the old disk. I reinstalled the old disk and went to FireFox and downloaded the Bookmarks in a HTML file on a memory stick. Shut system down. Reinstall the new SSD disk and tried to "install" bookmarks under Manage Bookmarks, but I could not get the Bookmarks to show up on the space below the main Search HTML box. And my most recent websites found are now ABOVE the main Search HTML box. And ABOVE that is: "Get Support | Mozilla Support...... " It just all looks/feels different. I think in the old Firefox days, the line below was called Bookmarks Toolbar ? I can live with this, but I've spent 45 minutes trying to get 'the old way'. Now on that line below the main Search HTML box is also "Other Bookmarks", where I used to keep any site that was not on Bookmark Toolbar. Now this "Other Bookmarks" contains only one Tab called "FireFox Privacy", not any of my old "Other Bookmarks", that I thought I "Imported". I wish that my saved file that I "Export Bookmarks to a HTML.." did, when imported, that I would have been asked "Do you want your Imported Bookmarks to be installed exactly the way you had them when they were Exported?" Also I was on Linux Mint 22.2 on the first disk and also on Linux Mint 22.2 on my new SSD disk.

Tim

Firefox 146.0.1 (aarch64) macOS 26.2 (25C56) on M2 Pro

Hello.

I'm dealing with a strange issue that began with Firefox 146.0 and continues with 146.0.1. I previously blocked categories I do not care about such as Parenting, Cooking, and others. When doing so, for some reason some of my followed topics including Sports, NFL and NHL no longer appear along with the rest of the topics I've followed. (Please notice only followed sports-related topics disappeared...)

Checking the settings for Firefox Home shows no blocked topics (even those I have explicitly blocked), and checking what I can think to think via about:config shows me nothing I can edit to get my desired topics back.

So, I'm not sure what to edit to get my missing topics back. If they were blocked because of some bug, i cannot see blocked topics in the Firefox Home settings, so I cannot unblock them if that's what would need to be done. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, were you able to resolve it or are you aware of some BugZilla or GitHub issue I can watch for this one?

Any help will be certainly be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Hi, I like to use the Inspector window to modify layouts for printing &/or save as pdf only portions of a page or a whole page that's not laid out in a printer friendly way. Lately in the "Rules" pane of the Inspector window, I've noticed something I've never seen before. Normally it shows a list of rules for properties, attributes, etc...(CSS) which I can select or locate and change/modify with virtually no problems. Lately in that pane I've been seeing an item with an italicized title "element attributes style" and a lock icon on the upper left next to that text and it doesn't show show a link to the CSS page on the right side, nor does it allow me to select anything within. Does anybody know about this ?...is it some new setting or something that's changed in the newer versions of the browser. A couple of months ago I updated FF, which I hadn't done for awhile, and also just by chance, since that update I hadn't really used the Inspector for one reason or another, so I'm wondering if it's just a coincidence, since I had never seen it before. I'd appreciate any info or opinions about this. Thanks and wish everyone all the best.

Sirs,

I have Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon in Swedish language/locale. I set up two users with Firefox 146. Then, I upgraded Firefox to 147.0, and set up a third user on the same machine.

For the two original users, the Firefox is in all-Swedish locale. Perfect. But, for my newly created user, some is in English. Examples in English; Onboarding, Search in Privacy, and New Tab/Shortcuts. Web pages is no problem. The problem is in Firefox proper.

Strangely, New Tab is in Swedish (Ny flik), if I do not use the shortcuts, i.e. chose Empty new page in Settings. How to fix? Minor annoyance, but I would like everything in Swedish, as in v. 146. Is it a bug that will be fixed by Mozilla, or do I have to do anything to fix it myself, or is it un-fixable? Or, is it maybe anything in Linux? I understand it is some changes between 146 and 147 regarding a couple of rather important things. Thanks. >>> System:

 Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
   Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

 Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ProDesk 600 G2 SFF v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
   Chassis: type: 4 serial: <superuser required>
 Mobo: HP model: 805D v: KBC Version 05.39 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: P1H12EA#UUW
   uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: HP v: N02 Ver. 02.60 date: 12/15/2022

CPU:

 Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Skylake-S
   rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 2600 high: 2602 min/max: 800/3200 cores: 1: 2602 2: 2600 3: 2600 4: 2600
   bogomips: 25599
 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

 Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports:
   active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912
   class-ID: 0300
 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
   unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
 Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 model: Dell U2311H serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
   dpi: 96 size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
   drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4
   direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) device-ID: 8086:1912
 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 3 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A
   device-ID: 8086:1912 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

Audio:

 Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
   driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
 API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-37-generic status: kernel-api
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
   2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Network:

 Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
   bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b7 class-ID: 0200
 IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:

 Local Storage: total: 473.23 GiB used: 26.22 GiB (5.5%)
 ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
   tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
 ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
   tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: MBR
 ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 7.45 GiB type: USB rev: 2.0
   spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2.01 scheme: MBR

Partition:

 ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 26.22 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

 ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

 Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
   chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
 Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Dell KB212-B Quiet Key Keyboard type: keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid
   interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 413c:2107 class-ID: 0301
 Device-2: 1-6:3 info: MosArt Wireless Keyboard/Mouse type: keyboard,mouse
   driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
   chip-ID: 062a:4101 class-ID: 0301
 Device-3: 1-9:4 info: SanDisk Cruzer Blade type: mass storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1
   rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 200mA chip-ID: 0781:5567 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
 Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
   class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

 System Temperatures: cpu: 27.0 C pch: 30.5 C mobo: N/A
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Repos:

 Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2006
 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
 Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
   1: deb https: //mirror.accum.se/mirror/linuxmint.com/packages zena main upstream import backport
   2: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
   3: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
   4: deb http: //ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse
   5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse

Info:

 Memory: total: 24 GiB available: 23.35 GiB used: 2.21 GiB (9.5%)
 Processes: 256 Power: uptime: 11h 28m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
   hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
 Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

<<< Sincerely. Ronny

Hi

I am looking to transfer apps and programs from an older desktop(running windows 10) to a new desktop(running windows 11)

i missed the deadline to change my primary email on firefox from cox.net when i try to add a secondary email, the verification code is being sent to the cox.net email account which is no longer active or accessible. The yahoo.com email which inherited the cox.net email accounts had a deadline which i missed as well The best solution would be a manual override to add another email as my primary email for my firefox account. this would be on the browser currently residing on the older(windows 10) computer...Please advise if this is possible alternatively, is there a way to open a new firefox account ? if so, would the cleaner install be a new firefox browser on the newer(windows 11) computer ?

The goal is to migrate bookmarks, set up a live primary email account and transfer saved passwords. manual entry can happen if needed but a file trasnfer of the firefox program in its entirety would be easier

Please advise and send email response to [edited from public] @gmail.com The current email, [edited from public] @cox.net is the disabled email now...

It would be easier to understand if there was actually a paper size setting, but there isn't. The alternative of changing settings on three different printers to get back to A4 seems ridiculous to me and I don't have 3 printers to circulate among. Why is Mozilla convinced everyone wants Letter size as default? Sorry about the grumps, but there you are.