I-Firefox Isithangami Sokwesekwa

When you start typing a URL and Firefox starts offering suggestions based on URLs you've visited before, normally you can use the down arrow to highlight one, then hold SHIFT and pres DEL, and it will remove that listing.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_removing-autocomplete-results

For some reason, that isn't working for me anymore. Even when I click the little "..." and select Remove From History...nothing happens.

Currently running Firefox 116.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 10 64-bit. Not sure what's going wrong here; this function worked in the past but now it doesn't for some reason.

Having the exact same issue as [this one] and [this one].

In Firefox, a virus warning is persistently being triggered by an old threat that was mitigated (deleted) long ago, but is still showing up in [Windows Defender Detection History].

I believe the problem would be solved if Firefox would ignore the detection history, for threats that have been mitigated.

One option would be to turn Firefox warnings off altogether, and leave everything to Windows Defender. I don't want to do that just yet.

I did try to clear that history, to no avail. Here's what I tried.

- [Clearing the event log] - [a support tip from Microsoft] - Is there some process holding on to that directory? ProcessExplorer nor Resource Manager find it, not by DetectionHistory nor by its handle, as per [this post] and [this one] - Navigating in Windows Explorer, I can't get any further than "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\scans". That is, I can't get to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service\DetectionHistoryhistory". - Trying [these tips] did not help either. Even when I'm user `nt authority\system` who owns that history file, I can't delete it. Access denied always. Running `chkdsk` with the `/sdcleanup` option did remove other, empty subdirectories in `...\DetectionHistory`, but not `.\13\68295B79-72DC-433F-88C7-42E23422F5D8`. - [this] limits the time to keep the detection history. I set it to 1 day, checked two days later, it was still there.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro v 22H2 build 19045.3324, with Firefox version 116.0.2 (64-bits).

Screenshot of warning and detection history attached.

(edited to fix the links - do not use the '|' but use a space) - c

I had about 100 tabs open but when I opened up my bowser they had disappeared from the 'Recently Closed Tabs' list and the vast majority don't appear in my History.

How do I recover the Tabs?

TIA

Ever since I switched to Firefox I've noticed many websites with embedded Google Maps don't work properly on Firefox. It got really annoying but I ended up opening those websites on Chrome. I tried troubleshooting by clearing cache, disabling themes, and trying private mode but no dice. After some searching I came across a suggestion to disable WebGL (set webgl.disabled to true in about:config). That fixed the map issue but wondering if there's a solution that allows me to use these websites without disabling WebGL.

Attaching screenshots of the map issue with WebGL enabled and the fix with WebGL disabled.

Hello,

Mozilla Firefox does not swap audio channels when changing it in Windows 11. Not after restart browser or restart pc. The audio is going through my headphones and not through the speakers. Other browsers swap fine and audio outside Firefox is fine. This problem is sinds the beginning of time and does not seem to fix itself through updates. Its the latest version of Firefox. I see no audio options? Super wierd why can I not chose the audio channel I want? How to fix this?

Greetz,

Hitman

While Firefox is loading long, list-type pages, the scrollbar naturally expands in length. I was used to grabbing the scrollbar thumb, pulling it to the bottom (out of browser focus,) triggering further page-loading, and being able to repeat this by merely jiggling the mouse after each load.

Since the latest release (116.0.?), my mouse loses focus on the thumb on each reload, and I have to re-click on the thumb in order to drag down to force the next reload.

This has radically slowed down some of my regular web activities.

Is it something that can be (re)configured on my end?

The latest version installed and is issuing many virus warning messages whenever I start Firefox. It keeps telling me to activate my virus software but it is already running and I have done scans to try to verify my system but all seems well. I have also booted my system from a virus recovery CD (created on a separate system) and scanned my hard disks, again all was clean. I have attached a screenshot of two of the messages for you to see. I have installed Chrome to try and see what is happening but, although it does not issue and messages, it seems to have problems too? Microsoft Edge seems to work OK but I hate it. Please help?

Kind regards, Chris Griffin

As above,

Attempting to attach any file crashes the browser - Version 116.0.2 (64-bit)

Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

Any website. File explorer window doesn't even appear. It just crashes instantly.

I have realized I am flooded by alien bookmarks coming into the browser. I have never used any sync options and I made my account within the browser on this very day. I am not using firefox on any other devices and I am 100% sure these are not my bookmarks, they have 0 visits and they appear to be added at one moment. It appears that someone else's bookmarks had been loaded into my collection. I don't know where to look for the source and the Sync option only shows one connected device.

It is absolutely unacceptable that Firefox does not offer the option of saving a file in its original file format. I well understand the advantages of WEBP and AVIF formats for bandwidth conservation, but the fact is that these files are not supported by many software packages, so I want the original file formats.

Setting "image.webp.enabled" to "false" breaks many websites, YouTube most prominently.

Being forced to download a potentially risky extension to the browser in order to do something the browser should support natively (and actually does, because it has to, even if it's disabled by the developers with no way for users to re-enable it) is not an acceptable solution, especially when that means the extension isn't actually saving the original file, be re-converting it back to the original format, which is most often potentially a triply lossy conversion. The original JPEG is a lossy conversion, the server converting it to WEBP on the fly can also be a lossy conversion, and then the extension reconverting it to JPEG is yet another lossy conversion. Just give me the original JPEG.

I'm fine with viewing WEBP images, but if I'm saving an image, I don't want WEBP, I want the original. Why is this issue being forced by the Firefox developers? What deal have they made with the Google devil that they are preventing users from having access to original files?

It can be extremely difficult to figure out what is the latest information on this subject, so I'd appreciate recommendations current to 2023-08 as to the best way to handle this problem.

I am trying to my account to authy but after I scan the QR and type the code, FireFox say wrong codes. Authy worked fine with many other accounts so what to do ?

I am forwarding a domain (Domain 1) to a page within a website (Domain 2). It works on other browsers but not Firefox.

I have done this successfully before, forwarding a domain (Domain 3) to a different page with the website (Domain 2).

I have tried clearing cache/cookies, refreshing Firefox, uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, using incognito mode on Firefox. Nothing works.

Why does the page load successfully in other browsers, but not Firefox?

Is there any way to limit the storage space in cache2 taken by a particular extension? The Ghostery extension has nearly a gigabyte of storage taken up there on my system and shows no signs of slowing down.

I already have an overall limit on firefox's cache storage allowance. The problem is it's being monopolized by this extension.

I am trying to log on to Walmart.com and Firefox requires me to sign into my Walmart account in order to access their web page. Is there a setting in Firefox that will enable me to go directly to their webpage without having to enter my Walmart account sign in/logon information each time I want to search for a product on their webpage? In the past, I was always able in the past to access walmart.com without a sign in but I suspect that a recent update to Firefox on my computer now makes me log on to my Walmart account rather than going directly to their webpage. A Tech Support person said that I will have to use Google Chrome rather than Firefox. Is there a way I can access walmart.com directly through Firefox? I really don't want to use Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

Thank you,

Ken Manning [removed email from public]

Ever since the last update this website after running for a few minutes gets choppy and slow then crashes. I have to restart my computer to clear the problem. Running Windows 10.