Firefox using huge amounts of RAM/crashing

I am on a Mac desktop running Ventura 13.7.3 and running Firefox 135 with extension of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, Google Don't Track Me, Facebook Container, FoxClocks and … (funda kabanzi)

I am on a Mac desktop running Ventura 13.7.3 and running Firefox 135 with extension of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, Google Don't Track Me, Facebook Container, FoxClocks and SoftGreenLeaves theme. All of these extensions have been playing nicely with each other for a long time.

Recently I've been having trouble recently with Firefox doing that thing of suddenly freezing/producing multiple windows and I need to refresh in order to get it working properly again. This has happened three times in the last five days - so frequently that I now keep the refresh instructions on my desktop. Today I heard the CPU grinding and clicked open my Activity Monitor to see four listings of 'FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content' running all of them using in excess of 2Gb. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a screenshot of the Activity Monitor while this was going on as I had the Mac force quite Firefox and the moment I did, the activity stopped, but I've attached an example of the Activity Monitor showing still high CPU values for a few moments of browsing.

So what's up? How can I stop the CPU grab? How can I stop the frequent crashing?

Asked by skyreburn 2 izinyanga ezidlule

Recover a pack os history tab

Hello, There's a way to recover a pack of history that I left open, but I've put another station open together and closed the old one first, and now I've lost a lot of t… (funda kabanzi)

Hello,

There's a way to recover a pack of history that I left open, but I've put another station open together and closed the old one first, and now I've lost a lot of tabs that were open. I don't know if Mozilla has that function, but that will be great. Something like that saves me a lot of times in Chrome, but I want here. Mozilla is better

Asked by Bodevan 15 amahora adlule

Firefox 137.0.2 randomly moves tabs to the far right of window

I use Firefox for work and need to have a lot of tabs open, in a certain order, in a single window. Frequently, when I click on a tab, Firefox moves that tab all the wa… (funda kabanzi)

I use Firefox for work and need to have a lot of tabs open, in a certain order, in a single window.

Frequently, when I click on a tab, Firefox moves that tab all the way to the right and I have to scroll over and move it back to its proper place. It also sometimes happens when I type in a text field on a tab and hit return. The tab "disappears" and I find it all the way to the right. It never used to do this in older versions of Firefox.

I don't think I'm doing something different than usual to trigger it. It just seems to be at random.

I really need to figure out how to stop Firefox from doing this. It's frustrating, disruptive, and slows down my work.

Platform: MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 and Firefox 137.0.2

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Asked by patcat 2 ezinsukwini ezidlule

Duplicate Bookmark folders

Hello. Idk how this happened, but my bookmarks have quadrupled. Idk why I bookmark so much, but I had about 40 folders for bookmarks, until I now found I have 160. There'… (funda kabanzi)

Hello. Idk how this happened, but my bookmarks have quadrupled. Idk why I bookmark so much, but I had about 40 folders for bookmarks, until I now found I have 160. There's 4 of every folder. How do I clean this up? I know Edge has a "delete duplicate bookmarks" button. But in Firefox, I can only find add-on extensions that claim they can clean out duplicate bookmarks, but having tried 3, I've found none to work. Any suggestions?

Asked by wild_sound 3 emasontweni adlule

After updating Firefox, some small plugins and features became ineffective

After a recent update, the 'Reopen Closed Tab' button has disappeared from my browser. Additionally, the drag-and-drop functionality to open hyperlinks in new tabs has st… (funda kabanzi)

After a recent update, the 'Reopen Closed Tab' button has disappeared from my browser. Additionally, the drag-and-drop functionality to open hyperlinks in new tabs has stopped working. Is there a way to restore these features without reinstalling the browser?

Asked by 529665872 1 inyanga edlule

Fire Window: Definition, access, using

Good evening Apologies for any apparent bluntness, but 1) What is a Fire Window? 2) How/where do I access one? and 3) How do I use it? My utmost thanks in advance! … (funda kabanzi)

Good evening

Apologies for any apparent bluntness, but

1) What is a Fire Window? 2) How/where do I access one? and 3) How do I use it?

My utmost thanks in advance!

Regards,


Di.

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Youtube Starts Loading randomly

I have recently encountered this issue with Youtube where a video playing perfectly normally will just stop at a random point and start loading endlessly. If I skip 5 sec… (funda kabanzi)

I have recently encountered this issue with Youtube where a video playing perfectly normally will just stop at a random point and start loading endlessly. If I skip 5 seconds, it plays again without any issues until it reaches the same problem again. There isn't a pattern to this and I have not made any new changes to cause this issue. Additionally I have tested it on Chrome and Brave and this issue doesn't arise there. Any suggestion for a fix?

Asked by maoudplaylist 1 inyanga edlule

AI Chatbots

I am just writing to tell you that you can go stick your latest "new and improved" feature (note extreme sarcasm) in AI chatbots where the Sun don't shine. Someone tell … (funda kabanzi)

I am just writing to tell you that you can go stick your latest "new and improved" feature (note extreme sarcasm) in AI chatbots where the Sun don't shine.

Someone tell me is Mozilla trying to destroy Firefox?

Are they trying to get people to move to Edge, Chrome, Safari or Opera?

If they are they are going the right way about it!

I am getting sick to the back teeth of Mozilla forcing their crap down our throats.

I have lost count the number of times I have had to go into about:config to turn off the latest crap FX has forced down our throats over the years.

None of us asked for AI Chatbots which is one of the worst ideas ever invented.

I already had to delete Microsoft CoPilot from my PC last September now I had to do it with FX.

Everybody do this and it works:

Goto address bar and type in about:config, goto the search bar and type chat and where it says browser.ml.chat.enabled change from true to false and you will be rid of those garbage chatbots.

I have done that for every forced you you feature FX has added over the years like Pockets and Screengrab and all the other garbage they have added over the years.

Asked by hoggys2much1 1 isonto elidlule

Please split the Vertical Tabs and Sidebar

Please give the option to have vertical tabs and sidebar functionality split into two seperate things. Much like with Edge and Vivaldi, we should be able to have vertical… (funda kabanzi)

Please give the option to have vertical tabs and sidebar functionality split into two seperate things. Much like with Edge and Vivaldi, we should be able to have vertical tabs on the left of the browser, with the sidebar on the right.

We should also be able to open any website in mobile view with the sidebar, again replicating the functionality of Edge and Vivaldi

Asked by social35 1 isonto elidlule

sidebar.verticalTabs resetting to false when reopening the browser

I always shut down my PC (Windows 11) while Firefox is open, and it reopens automatically when I turn it back on. However, the settings and the layout are reset. I tried… (funda kabanzi)

I always shut down my PC (Windows 11) while Firefox is open, and it reopens automatically when I turn it back on. However, the settings and the layout are reset.

I tried closing the browser normally via the Close button, but the issue persists.

I tried killing the process via Task Manager, but the issue persists.

I'm not opted into Firefox Studies.

I use quite a few extensions and also Container Tabs. I tried disabling all extensions, but the issue persists.

I just can't disable Container Tabs to test because I would lose too many tabs. Could Container Tabs be the issue?

Asked by Sizzin 1 inyanga edlule

Xero - pdf no longer views in software

I use Xero accounting software and used to be able to view pdf within the software up until the recent update. Now it just sits with a spinning wheel. I've found that if … (funda kabanzi)

I use Xero accounting software and used to be able to view pdf within the software up until the recent update. Now it just sits with a spinning wheel. I've found that if I change the setting within Firefox to open the pdf within Firefox the issue is fixed in Xero. But then all pdf's open in Firefox instead of the usual Adobe. This breaks other workflows within my organisation as I need to email the pdf straight away when I download it, so my Windows was set with Adobe as the default for opening pdf's but now Firefox has taken that over. There does not appear to be any way to email the pdf from Firefox other than to save it and then find the file and email it from there which is very time consuming. I don't know what has changed in Firefox, but please can you fix it. I see I'm not the only person with this issue.

Asked by diane43 1 inyanga edlule

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 inyanga edlule

SXM Sign in

Greetings, When I try to sign in to SXM, firefox is now asking for a passkey. I don't have a passkey for this account. I'm unable to get past the passkey window. I call… (funda kabanzi)

Greetings, When I try to sign in to SXM, firefox is now asking for a passkey. I don't have a passkey for this account. I'm unable to get past the passkey window. I called SXM support. They have no answers. Any thoughts? Best, Steve

Asked by Steve482 1 inyanga edlule