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Why there is no animation or blur animation while opening the url bar? also the choice of zen modes having animation are not fulfilling the thing. so pls add this.

After a recent update to FireFox, every time I click the puzzle icon to try and Pin an extension to the Toolbar it takes me to `about:addons` instead. In `about:addons` I cannot click or right-click anything and select Pin To Toolbar as I was once able to.

I have downloaded FireFox Developer Edition and the puzzle icon does exactly what it suppoused to do which is to show a DropDown list of installed extensions I can Pin or Un-Pin.

Looks like a bug.

Why is this happening? Please tell me that's not intentional.

Hello,

I wanted to customize my Firefox new tab with a local HTML file, such as "/path/to/my/index.html". It was possible to use this workaround: https://github.com/Jangsoodlor/Firefox-New-Tab-Config/tree/main https://github.com/Jangsoodlor/Firefox-New-Tab-Config/tree/main

Which implied a configuration file (sometimes named "autoconfig.cfg", "firefox.cfg", "local-settings.cfg" depending on the guide since the name is arbitrary) with javascript code. In the new Firefox 136, this code fails to execute due to a new API being used.

If you want to customize your new tab, follow the previous guide, but on the configuration file write this code instead:

// My new tab
try {
  const ff = {};
  ChromeUtils.defineESModuleGetters(ff, {AboutNewTab: "resource:///modules/AboutNewTab.sys.mjs"});
  ff.AboutNewTab.newTabURL = 'file:///path/to/my/index.html';
} catch (e) {ChromeUtils.reportError(e);}

Note that the file must start with a comment

Adapting the "/path/to/my/index.html" to your needs.

Thanks to @mkaply (github) on this thread https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/discussions/1190 for the new API method.

I post this here in case someone has the same issue, because is quite recent and hard to find on the internet.

Under Customize Toolbar, I want to move the toolbar item "Extensions" off the top menu bar, and into the Overflow Menu, or another area, to make the address bar bigger. When I attempt to move it, there is a ban symbol across it and it will not move. Firefox 127.0.

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is a Firefox problem or not, but every time I try to go the Facebook website I get this error:

"Sorry! Something went wrong :("

And it has been going on for weeks. Sometimes it works in the evenings (UK time), which seems weird but it is rare. I tried troubleshooting mode and it made no difference. Facebook is my sole means of contact with some people, including one or two students (I'm a tutor). I also tried to install the newest version of Manjaro, but it made no difference.

Also, I cleared the whole history, and do that at the end of each day anyway, so that is not a fixer.

The reason why there is any doubt that it a is Firefox problem is that it also happens with Chromium but without the occasional successful connection.

Does anyone have any ideas? And is there any other information that it might be useful for me to provide?

(Firefox 131.0.3 and up to date version on 12/03/2025) (Manjaro 24.1.1 and up to date version on 12/03/2025)

Supplementary note: I won't be able to use Caprine as an alternative access as it has effectively been obsoleted due to it being dependent on Electron29, which won't build for some obscure reason. And no, I don't have a smartphone.

Thank you kindly,

Oliver.

I can only use firefox for 90 minutes at a time, before the entire system crashes.

Since the last couple of updates, the infamous memory leak issue has gotten significantly worse. Now 30 minutes of use with no add-ons sees the memory use swell to 13 GB, crashing the system. Sometimes windows 10 crashes, sometimes it just kills firefox.

The thing is, when I check about:memory, it says firefox is only using 1.5 GB. However task manager says 13 GB, and if I close the browser, suddenly 13 GB memory gets freed up.

Does anyone have any idea why there's such a discrepancy?

Hi there I've been using firefox for long time and I love that it utilizes gtk4 in gnome. To make it even more like other gnome apps I found I can remove the tab bar and combining everything in one bar. That way it looks like vanilla gnome application. But I don't like the extra clicks I have to do to get side bar or tab list open. I couldn't find any extension that will provide icons only tabs I can insert into the toolbar. So i can someone help A): implement the tab bar besides the url in the toolbar or the other way around the url besides the tab bar? B): display all opened tabs in a page that I can set for a new tab page? (this sounds a great idea can't believe I can't find extension that can do that!) C): at least have the sidebar with the vertical tabs to autohide? Does anybody know how to do any of these 3 or maybe have a better workaround?

I just purchased a year subscription for the Mozilla VPN. I want to be able to verify that the FireFox browser I'm using is accessing the web via the VPN. How do I verify that? I don't see any icon indicated that it's a VPN connection.

The Firefox short cuts does not display all of what I want to use and sometimes deletes my desired items. How can I customize my short cuts so I have what I want and need?

I would really appreciate some direction as I am not the fastest gazelle on the serengeti. I have Firefox setup as my home page on both my laptop and my desktop. My laptop, the bottom image, is just what I want but my desktop is not. There are 8 icons in the middle of the page and I would like to turnoff the automatic update for these icons and insert my preferred links there instead but I just cannot figure it out. And, as in the bottom image below, I cannot get the (+) sign to reappear for editing purposes.

There is an image of the current icons below.

Firefox has for quite some time always located the urlbar/address/megabar in the navbar level. One cannot move the urlbar to another location via *customize toolbar*.....one CAN move the *search bar* option..... Since this seems to never have been done what script is needed to be in place to move the urlbar? I've come across many other custom stylesheet scripts to alter the vertical height, width, icon, but nothing on relocating it.

I take it that the script would begin with #urlbar

thx