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avant quand j'ouvrais firefox j'avais au dessus de ma barre d'adresse tous les modules pour corriger , imprimer, enregistrer, ou autres la je n'ai plus rien comment je peux faire pour retrouver mon firefox d'antan

2 days ago QR-codes stopped to show when I use Firefox, I still get the codes if I use Safari or other browsers. Please help me, because I love using Firefox... Regards Uffe

I am using an online site to view PDFs of books. One that I am looking at is written in Japanese. But the writing is in some cases hand written on the pages, and not recognized as text by the browser. Yes, I am aware that I can take a screenshot, or maybe even a few pages worth of pdfs and then use google translate, I haven't figured out how many pdfs make a file "too big" yet, and I will eventually go this route if I get invested enough. But isn't there a way to have the browser simply recognized the text written in the pdf image as japanese, and translate it as I view it? Or, failing that, I've heard about a magic window you can move around kinda like a zoom lense that translates all language of one sort into a language of your choosing as you move the window over that part of the page.... but after looking around a bit, I'm having trouble figuring that out. Does anyone know how to do that at least? Or I'm open to any helpful suggestions that might be useful in the scenario I described here. I can't be the only one interested in texts written in other languages. I mean, what about the manga community? That's exactly where this would be relevant. Personally I am probably the biggest manga reader I know, but my interest in this case stems from wanting to read the text in origami diagrams. I'm leaving this because my kitten is being a pain in the ass and swatting my hands whenever i try to type and I'm already bordering on TMI so what say you Firefox forum people? end transmission.

Every time I manually update firefox, it reinstalls the automatic update malware "Mozilla Maintenance Service". I can't stop this malware from being installed with my browser every time I update Firefox. I call it malware because its not wanted, and it behaves like malware by secretly downloading content without my consent and then shutting down my browser when it finishes by blocking access to all new tabs.

I've tried adding policies to stop auto updates, but Mozilla Maintenance Service ignores all policies. I'm going to see if I can contact AVG and explain to them that Mozilla Maintenance Service is malware and see if I can get it classified as such to see if that'll finally get through to someone because I'm sick of this crap constantly being installed and forcing things on me whenever they want and not when I want.

Now after this update, every google search forces open my location service trying to force me to give location rights. This update is even more malware than all the other updates before hand. Firefox is getting extremely dangerous.

Fixing recent UI mistakes

It started with that new button on the menu bar to the left of the arrows which IMO was just clutter. I don't even remember what it was supposed to do but at least it was easy to remove.

The next UI mistake IMO was adding the new "Profiles" menu as a main menu entry instead of as a submenu under "Files" or "Tools". This new entry renders dead last after the older menu bar is already onscreen (why?). Many times I am clicking "Tools" or "Help" only to have those pushed left just as clicked. Maybe I am too quick with the mouse, but this feels like a prank not a feature. I saw no way to move "Profiles" to a submenu so I had to disable the feature in about:config.

Now there is a new menu option "Help->Share Firefox" placed as the last submenu entry where "About Firefox" has always been, so out of habit I am hitting "Share" when I really want "About". Again this feels like a prank. Wouldn't "Share" make more sense under "Tools"?

These bad UI decisions could be alleviated with a way to edit the menu organization. Is this feature available? Maybe as a theme?

I don't know if "Accounts" is the right category, but none of the other categories seem right either...

I try to submit ideas or comment on other ideas, but my ideas and comments never get reviewed. It's been three years and all of my ideas are still awaiting approval. How many years does it usually take for them to review your ideas? I see other people whose ideas were definitely reviewed and approved much faster, as some of them are commenting on recent updates that are less than 3 years old. The top idea right now was very clearly posted within the last week or so because it addresses the new Nova update that just wet out a couple days ago,

How do I get my Ideas to be reviewed? Three years seems like a really long time to expect people to wait. The program has been updated so many times within the last three years... I wated my ideas to be considered within the time-frame when they were relevant. Obviously.

Hi I've used Firefox for decades. Now, since updating to Firefox 158.0 (aarch64) on my Mac Studio and a Macbook Pro, I’ve been unable to open my usual banking websites. They still work in Safari on the same Mac & Macbook Pro and through the banks’ iPhone apps.

Have any recent Firefox security or privacy changes affected banking websites? Which settings should I check, and how can I safely allow these sites without disabling protection for all websites?

Hello again.

In 2023, when I had Firefox v110.0.1, an unfortunate hiccup caused my handful of windows and their many tabs to not appear when I restarted Firefox. I asked for help here and jscher2000 was lovely and walked me through some things to do, which are discussed in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1408206 and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1396868.

Unfortunately, though I now have Firefox v158.0, this happened again a few days ago and I've been trying to retrace his steps the best I can with the newer version, but to no avail, unfortunately, partly because I don't now see a sessionstore.jsonlz4 file that jscher2000 referenced back in 2023.

(As I remember it, a system upgrade was taking place on my PC, and, also, a new version of Firefox {the v158.0 I mentioned} was also being installed, too.)

I found a Profiles folder (C:\Users\Bram\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\p9f543mv.Default User\) that seemed to be relevant, and found a sessionstore-backups subfolder there. However, while that subfolder did NOT have a sessionstore.jsonlz4 file, it DID have files named previous..., recovery..., and (possibly connected to one of those updates), an upgrade... file, too.

When I first found this subfolder (in that "Roaming" area...I looked also in the "Local" area but wasn't confident I found anything more relevant), I copied/renamed previous... (with a timestamp from around the time of that system update, and large filesize) to previousOLD..., and the MUCH smaller recovery... to recoveryOLD, similar to the instructions in those threads. However, even if I also copied that previous... file to sessionstore... (to match those earlier instructions), Firefox would launch but with only the most-recent tabs (i.e., the Advanced Preferences {about:config} tab along with about:support {to provide Troubleshooting Information}) showing, as I'd launched them as part of my efforts to restore the session, and nothing else.)

I have "healthily-sized" recovery... and upgrade... files with the same date/time-stamp and filesize, though my efforts to try to get Firefox to open correctly have removed a similarly-sized previous... from that folder unfortunately -- hopefully the fact that recovery... and that upgrade... file have similar sizes mean they might(?) be valid substitutes for previous... should one be needed.

I hope that this described my situation well, but am happy to answer any questions you might have about it to the best of my ability.

Clearly, Mozilla updated some Firefox characteristics in the intervening three (3) years but I'm not sure how to adapt the new set of filenames to those previous instructions although, as I wrote, maybe one of those larger files will end up being what Firefox uses to try to restore everything...I just don't know what to do with it (i.e., what to rename it and/or where to copy/paste it) in order to make that happen.

Can you please offer some advice in this regard?

Thank you very much, Bram Weiser

The Microsfot365 tab keeps opening up in my browser, multiple tabs will open there is no time frame between. Sometimes one will open, followed by a tab every few seconds. Sometimes it's a few mins between the tabs opening. Two have opened since I opened this window.

Recently, I have been experiencing this inconvenience where a google search shrinks to one side of the screen in a vertical format similar to the phone display. The 502 error usually also comes along when the google search utilizes Gemini. I've tried other browsers like Microsoft Edge with no problems.