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Roughly every 2 weeks I backup important files to a external hard drive.

One of the things I always backup is my Firefox profile. I have been doing this for years without any problems.

I 7zip my profile and copy it to the hard drive.

I tried to do this yesterday (July 25 2025), and was getting access denied messages for files in the profile. So I tried to simply copy the profile. Same thing access denied.

I cleared the history, used wise disk cleaner, rebooted my machine and tried again. Same thing access denied when trying to backup or copy the profile.

I am assuming that this is happening since 141 because I updated Firefox since the last time I backed up my profile, and never had a problem previously.

Could anyone have an idea what the problem is? Thank you for your time.

Issue remains - see post [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1525355]

Is there a way to backup a profile?

I recently received a message from PayPal, that my foxfire operation system remains "Windows 10", and this is also the case for Chase's internet banking. and, some time ago, I've used Window's 11, detail steps from the foxfire "windows 11", update site, that appears to be a failed attempt to date.

Is there a clear solution to "Windows 11" update, currently an issue? your help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

With regards, Ollie Moore

Just noticed that Firefox only has translation for Chinese Simplified from Mainland China, but no Chinese Traditional from Hong Kong and Taiwan users. Any plans to get it going? I would hate to switch back to Chrome or Edge instead.

I am a user over at the Arcamax website I use it nightly to read the comics section for the last two days i keep getting an error message .

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

I went into my system cleared out the cookies for that website still cant get into the website I switch over to Chrome and it works fine but slow as molasses.

When I open Firefox for the first time or on a new window the cursor automatically is in the address bar. I prefer to have the cursor to default into the search box. I don't want to search with the address bar. It did not used to be this way on my old laptop.

Where are my bookmarks? Everything is gone with the update, and you didn't warn this could happen. Is there a way to recover the bookmark file? Profiles does not help for there is no new profile there. I NEED THE BOOKMARKS FOR WORK!!!

How to stop firefox from prompting me with this pop up (see attachment). I already removed the whatsapp app from firefox, it's still not working as it used to be which is to start whatsapp conversation directly in the web. It's annoying because the app is so easy to install but hard to remove. Firefox should do something about this.

I am using Firefox desktop on Windows 11. I have downloaded hundreds of articles from this website, with no problem until yesterday. I accessed the website using Edge, and it worked fine.

When trying to access a particular article to download it to Ancestry, the following message appears:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

I accessed the browser console for more information, which I'm sure someone can understand, but not this grandma. This is what I got:

The resource at “https://www.newspapers.com/static/js/consent/sourcepoint.js” preloaded with link preload was not used within a few seconds. Make sure all attributes of the preload tag are set correctly. ChunkLoadError: Loading chunk 3683 failed. (timeout: https://www.newspapers.com/_next/static/chunks/3683-ff579d469765b88f.js)

   NextJS 6

1528-4da4b08762a551e1.js:1:4065 Uncaught Error: Minified React error #423; visit https://react.dev/errors/423 for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.

   NextJS 17

1dd3208c-fc303f05ffab3b31.js:1:118350 Source map error: Error: request failed with status 403 Stack in the worker:networkRequest@resource://devtools/client/shared/source-map-loader/utils/network-request.js:43:9

Resource URL: https://www.newspapers.com/_next/static/chunks/1528-4da4b08762a551e1.js Source Map URL: 1528-4da4b08762a551e1.js.map Source map error: Error: request failed with status 403 Stack in the worker:networkRequest@resource://devtools/client/shared/source-map-loader/utils/network-request.js:43:9

Resource URL: https://www.newspapers.com/_next/static/chunks/webpack-b55f805a59a40ebd.js Source Map URL: webpack-b55f805a59a40ebd.js.map Source map error: Error: request failed with status 403 Stack in the worker:networkRequest@resource://devtools/client/shared/source-map-loader/utils/network-request.js:43:9

Resource URL: https://www.newspapers.com/_next/static/chunks/1dd3208c-fc303f05ffab3b31.js Source Map URL: 1dd3208c-fc303f05ffab3b31.js.map

I really don't want to stop using Firefox, but I need a usable browser. Can you help me?

recently the protections dashboard is not showing the same information as before, with much lower numbers of blocked trackers. why is that? color of bars is different also.