Delete all password, bookmarks and other information when Sign off from Firefox 71.0
On previous Firefox version, when I Sign Out my Sync account the browser ask if want to "Remove Firefox Sync Data" or " Remove Other Private Data" like in this page (ht… (funda kabanzi)
On previous Firefox version, when I Sign Out my Sync account the browser ask if want to "Remove Firefox Sync Data" or " Remove Other Private Data" like in this page (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-synced-device-firefox-accounts) but on the 71.0 don't ask me not...
I-Firefox
Firefox 70.0.1 HOSTS file being ignored
Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 In Preferences, DNS over HTTPS is Off. (I tried toggling that On then Off but nothing changed) In Privacy & Security I have Strict settings, t… (funda kabanzi)
Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 In Preferences, DNS over HTTPS is Off. (I tried toggling that On then Off but nothing changed) In Privacy & Security I have Strict settings, though when Standard is selected the behaviour does not change.
I know that with DNS over HTTPS set to On that HOSTS is ignored. Not ideal but there you go. But with that Off Firefox did respect the HOSTS entries I have.
Something has changed?
How do I get Firefox to always use my HOSTS file before looking elsewhere?
Thank you
Search engines keep changing
Hi, I keep deleting my search engine list in settings as I just want one, 'DuckDuckGo' to be used. But after a day or two Firefox keep adding others to my list and all of… (funda kabanzi)
Hi, I keep deleting my search engine list in settings as I just want one, 'DuckDuckGo' to be used. But after a day or two Firefox keep adding others to my list and all of a sudden I'm using Yahoo again. This is SO frustrating. Why won't it just stay as I need it to be?
Firefox Update Settings | Auto-update checking
Per Firefox guidance there is an option to toggle on an option that would not would not prompt to update. The option box though is not an option in preferences (See below… (funda kabanzi)
Per Firefox guidance there is an option to toggle on an option that would not would not prompt to update. The option box though is not an option in preferences (See below).
Did this option once exist, but it is no longer available and no one bothered to up date the trouble shoot guide?
If so, why does it not still exist?
Can it be brought back?
If not, is there some backdoor way to shut it off?
Thank you kindly
Firefox occasionally checks to see if any updates are available for itself and for your search engines. To disable these checks:
Click the menu button Fx57Menu and select Preferences. In the General panel, scroll down to the Firefox Updates section. Check Never check for updates (not recommended) and uncheck Automatically update search engines. Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.
Some websites such as boots.com or johnlewis.com work normally except unable view other customers product reviews?
Sorry not a technical person but as an example https://www.johnlewis.com/eaziglide-neverstick2-non-stick-milk-pan-16cm/p2185188 On other browsers if you click on an item … (funda kabanzi)
Sorry not a technical person but as an example https://www.johnlewis.com/eaziglide-neverstick2-non-stick-milk-pan-16cm/p2185188 On other browsers if you click on an item you will be able to then click on customers reviews which appear. In Firefox the option to look at customers reviews is not present. I am using an iMac late 2012 model running El Capitan 10.11.6 Hope this helps - Cheers Michael Fulford
Have had to reinstall Yahoo/Sky email with a new pw. Cannot get Firefox to remember my new pw. Have tried, but no joy...
Firefox won't remember my new Yahoo/Sky email pw. It always defaults to the old one, meaning I have to delete the old one and retype the new one every time. Have gone in … (funda kabanzi)
Firefox won't remember my new Yahoo/Sky email pw. It always defaults to the old one, meaning I have to delete the old one and retype the new one every time. Have gone in to FF preferences and tried various things. Nothing works. Seems deleting and reinstalling ff is the only answer...or is it?
Menu disappears when Firefox is active and not full screen (MacOS Catalina)
Running latest version of Catalina and Firefox for MacOS. The only thing I can see is the black apple and the word Firefox in the upper left hand corner. Menu is active i… (funda kabanzi)
Running latest version of Catalina and Firefox for MacOS. The only thing I can see is the black apple and the word Firefox in the upper left hand corner. Menu is active if I roll the cursor over it but I can only read a couple of dropdown items. Anyone else having this problem? Screenshot attached.
Update new SSL cert for internal site. Still using revoked cert.
Old wildcard cert was revoked. I got a new wildcard cert installed and Firefox is still holding on to the existing cert. Any ideas on how to get Firefox to recognize the … (funda kabanzi)
Old wildcard cert was revoked. I got a new wildcard cert installed and Firefox is still holding on to the existing cert. Any ideas on how to get Firefox to recognize the new cert instead of the old one?
interface language mixed between german and english
i have had this issue for a year now, with no end in sight. my interface language on my entire computer is english. everything english. the keyboard is a german keyboard … (funda kabanzi)
i have had this issue for a year now, with no end in sight. my interface language on my entire computer is english. everything english. the keyboard is a german keyboard because i bought my machine where i live, in austria. but my written language and all dictionaries are english. same with my preferences in firefox, english everywhere. but for some reason the language constantly switches back and forth between german and english. look at the video, it's insane. i've uninstalled and started over. i've wiped the entire computer and installed EVERYTHING fresh. no change. when i install and use firefox, it comes back. it only happens in firefox. argh. screen capture of the language switching: https://youtu.be/gq8hXs5pXm0
Why does Firefox 71 prefer an expired client certificate?
I have multiple client certificates in Firefox. When I go to a site which requires a client certificate it pops up the selector for the client certificate. With Firefox 7… (funda kabanzi)
I have multiple client certificates in Firefox. When I go to a site which requires a client certificate it pops up the selector for the client certificate. With Firefox 70 (I think) by default it chose a matching and valid client certificate. Now with Firefox 71 it seems to sort the client certificates by serial number and thus the one selected by default is the first one in the list, which is expired in my case. Thus, now each time I go to a site where I need a client cert I must manually pick the correct, valid certificate.
Doesn't looks like an improvement to me. Or is there a new config setting which I have missed?
DNS over HTTPs stopped working
Today Nov-26--2019 all my DNs over HTTPs devices which include linux , Mac OS and Android stopped working over DOH. the cloudflare settings are as follows. https://1.1.1.… (funda kabanzi)
Today Nov-26--2019 all my DNs over HTTPs devices which include linux , Mac OS and Android stopped working over DOH. the cloudflare settings are as follows.
https://1.1.1.1/help#eyJpc0NmIjoiTm8iLCJpc0RvdCI6Ik5vIiwiaXNEb2giOiJObyIsInJlc29sdmVySXAtMS4xLjEuMSI6IlllcyIsInJlc29sdmVySXAtMS4wLjAuMSI6IlllcyIsInJlc29sdmVySXAtMjYwNjo0NzAwOjQ3MDA6OjExMTEiOiJObyIsInJlc29sdmVySXAtMjYwNjo0NzAwOjQ3MDA6OjEwMDEiOiJObyIsImRhdGFjZW50ZXJMb2NhdGlvbiI6IllZWiIsImlzV2FycCI6Ik5vIiwiaXNwTmFtZSI6IkNsb3VkZmxhcmUiLCJpc3BBc24iOiIxMzMzNSJ9
The traceroute shows access to the 1.1.1.1 network 3 3.52.251.198.in-addr.arpa (198.251.52.3) 20.584 ms 81.945 ms 56.215 ms
4 198.251.49.89 (198.251.49.89) 21.406 ms 21.144 ms 22.069 ms 5 198.251.51.56 (198.251.51.56) 22.771 ms 22.709 ms 21.188 ms 6 198.251.50.16 (198.251.50.16) 22.807 ms 78.695 ms 96.269 ms 7 cloudflare.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.34.208) 106.362 ms 93.731 ms 95.215 ms 8 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 164.851 ms * 88.710 ms
My Firefox setting has DNS over hTTPS enabled no extensions and configured for cloudflare and my about:config settings network.trr.bootstrapAddress;1.1.1.1 network.trr.mode;3 network.trr.resolvers;[{ "name": "Cloudflare", "url": "https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query" }]
Network mode 3 means DOH should only resolve using DOH but I can still get to other sites instead of a message say "hmm where having trouble finding that site"
Does anyone have an idea as to what causes this issue?
What caused profiles to torque two days ago?
The main reason I wrote this post is to ask the question that comes at the end of this note. If you scroll to the end, you can see it marked as MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST… (funda kabanzi)
The main reason I wrote this post is to ask the question that comes at the end of this note. If you scroll to the end, you can see it marked as MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO ASK THE QUESTION BELOW.
As I was posting the question, I took advantage of the moment to reflect on the fact that FireFox's perseverance over its long history of ups and downs today has made FireFox one of the real hopes for humanity. Long Live FireFox!
Back in the dark ages, before the ascendance of Google's Chrome browser, I learned to recover FireFox's guts, to cope with its gastric spasms of projectile digital vomiting, which seemed to occur every few weeks. Most software in those days contributed full shares to the unusable stew, made the accumulation of digital barf that needed cleanup as often as I needed to clean up after hangovers from over drinking when I was a stupid youth. Those were the days when running a computer all day without being forced to restart taught me to weild Windows Task Manager as weapon, which usually provided a side step around enough of the binary vomit top cut restarts from 4 a day to only one or two.
Years later, while Microsoft was recovering from the largest, most expensive public mistake in software history (Windows 8), Google got a handle on Chrome. After that, around 2014, Google either found Popeye's spinach factory, or aliens joined them in their Mountain View offices, because no human force can account for the rate and quality of significant upgrades to all their systems since then, for Chrome browser, underlying Chromium technology now used by everyone, not just for browsers, but all manor of application software to run on all kinds of platforms, Android for phones and apps, YouTube video processing that spots copyrighted sound and images in every video that has it, the world-leading advertising systems and dashboards, and their search engine so much better than anyone else's our choice is to use Google Search or be stupid and slow, or use Google Maps or be lost. Google pumps out new and better software features one hundred times faster than any other organization. If you missed the media reports explaining this, that is because Google's super productivity has not been celebrated in anything like the degree warranted.
Unfortunately, Google also has become so evil it probably cannot be prevented from destroying the system of human checks and balances invented in the United States 240 years ago. As simple and feeble as those checks and balances are, without them it is hard to see how any substantial part of the human population ever could have experienced and lived with Liberty and the productivity it makes possible. For example, without the Liberty growing throughout the world after taking its initial root in the United States and our written Constitution, one of the most ingenious and consequential documents ever written, the normal result of military conflict would have been one murderous, tyrannical, wholly self-serving dictatorship or another forcing 99% of the human population to live as serfs or slaves in the involuntary service of people like you know who. Google and the rest of the power players in commercial media are destroying that, through political bias they lie about. The problem with their lies is they have the power of their media platform to perpetrate them. Google is evil and needs to be neutralized. The main thing I can do about this is to stop using their products. The other thing I can do is tell people about what is happening. I was raised to see things this way, but for until recently, I did not see this is the way we have to look at things because this is the way that works. Until recently, I did not know society cannot stop functioning, but now I know that the functioning we all take for granted, including the people fighting against it, is rare as diamonds when viewed in the context of human history, Some of the people attacking our country want to break it down, because they want the United States to become like the places people now leave in order to come here. The sickness is the same that has affected all gluttons for power. They have learned that force of military arms tends to galvanize people like you and me. Instead, they lie to us. pretending to harbor the same loves for life you and I have, when in truth they see us is idiot patsies, making us deserve their the damages wrought by their treachery.
Therefore, I stopped using Chrome, returning to the FireFox way of browsing. I was with Chrome so long, I forgot all about recovering browser profiles. FireFox is a lot more reliable today than it was before Chome blew everybody out of the water, but its profile system still ha regular bouts with projectile digital vomiting.
Today, my FireFox is not blasting bile all over the house, but is being rather brave holding the contagion within itself. I noticed passwords not filling into web forms that used to be there. I am not sure of the timing. I probably was a long time ago, but I kept getting messages from FireFox babbling about their new security system.
Today, I needed to identify active profile (i.e., the one I use) from the half dozen profiles piled into my FireFox installation. I don't know why there is more than one. Unfortunately, I just could not glean the one I need to look at from their names:
b2uzr27w.default-release-1/ n34593ht.default-release/ n6gdm7r8.default-release-1/ q412vz1p.default/ uiaqaxwu.default/
The online guide provided the usual waste of time. I asked the computer how to know which profile is the active one. I immediately found thousands of articles which each spell out the same eight or ten reasons why a person might wish to know which profile is active. The people writing these articles know their articles are filled mostly with spam (information we already have or don't need), but their editors are evaluated on word count, needed for diluting the concentration of ads in their publication. It's been years since the ANSWERS were easy to pick out of spam portions of the articles they appear with. From this agony-inducing swill I found information that looked like it might tell me how to spot the active profile. "Look for ".default" as part of the profile name. So I looked again,
b2uzr27w.default-release-1/ n34593ht.default-release/ n6gdm7r8.default-release-1/ q412vz1p.default/ uiaqaxwu.default/
All of the profile names contain ".default."
MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO ASK THE QUESTION BELOW.
Then I noticed the dates
Months ago b2uzr27w.default-release-1/ Months ago n34593ht.default-release/ Two days ago n6gdm7r8.default-release-1/ Today q412vz1p.default/
Evidently, two days ago, FireFox ditched my profile and gave me a new one. This leads to my question, my reason for posting this thread:
Why?
In other words,
Why did FireFox ditch my profile and give me a new two days ago?
I understand, you probably don't know why in my particular case. I am hoping for reasonable guesses or possibilities.
Gmail all of a sudden stopped uploading attachments
Gmail all of a sudden stopped uploading attachments, does anybody else have this problem and/or know how to fix it? It's happening when I try to drag/drop an image into a… (funda kabanzi)
Gmail all of a sudden stopped uploading attachments, does anybody else have this problem and/or know how to fix it? It's happening when I try to drag/drop an image into an email, and even when I try to attach a file the traditional way via paperclip button. It doesn't show an error message, it just gets stuck in the midst of attaching.
1Password extension inoperative with 72.0b1
Extension appears in toolbar and extensions detail window, but clicking on the icon does nothing. New since latest beta installed.
Everytime I open Firefox, none of my bookmarks, passwords, or history are saved. How do I change this?
I recently had to wipe my MacBook Air clean thus prompting me to download Firefox - version 70.01 (64-bit). I set up all of my work websites, history, passwords, emails,… (funda kabanzi)
I recently had to wipe my MacBook Air clean thus prompting me to download Firefox - version 70.01 (64-bit). I set up all of my work websites, history, passwords, emails, etc., but every time I close the browser and try to open it again, nothing is saved. I've tried several times and I am at a loss. Yes, I have created a Firefox account, and even this won't leave me logged in if I close the browser. I have to start over every time. Any advice?
I've just downloaded 64 bit Firefox on my Mac with the Catalina OS and now I have to sign into Firefox everytime I open it. Is this the new normal?
I've just downloaded 64 bit Firefox on my Mac with the Catalina OS and now I have to sign into Firefox everytime I open it. Is this the new normal?
"Restore previous session" setting being ignored
In my preferences I have "Restore previous session" checkbox checked and "Warn you when quitting the browser" unchecked. However I get a warning when I quit the browser w… (funda kabanzi)
In my preferences I have "Restore previous session" checkbox checked and "Warn you when quitting the browser" unchecked. However I get a warning when I quit the browser with multiple tabs open, and my old tabs don't reopen when reopening Firefox.
I think this has started happening since updating to Catalina. Any ideas what might be going wrong?
MacOs VoiceOver does not work with Firefox 70.0.1
MacOs 10.14.5 VoiceOver does not recognize websites in Firefox. Try any website including https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ and use MacOS VoiceOver. The content is not read… (funda kabanzi)
MacOs 10.14.5 VoiceOver does not recognize websites in Firefox. Try any website including https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ and use MacOS VoiceOver. The content is not read by the screen reader at all. VoiceOver will only read the Firefox application window and nothing within it. VoiceOver is listed as available for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-features-firefox-make-firefox-and-we but not a single site is readable by VoiceOver.
Hot to set cursor animation style to solid instead of blink in Mac OS using Mozilla Firefox
I'm using Firefox 70.0.1 in a Mac.I like this browser than google Chrome, I want to know is there any way to set cursor style to solid instead of blinking in mac, in wind… (funda kabanzi)
I'm using Firefox 70.0.1 in a Mac.I like this browser than google Chrome, I want to know is there any way to set cursor style to solid instead of blinking in mac, in windows 10 , i can set cursor blink rate in control panel, and then it works both chrome and firefox,
but in mac, i cound set some stuff in terminal (https://superuser.com/questions/466660/how-to-disable-blinking-caret-when-editing-text-in-os-x)
then, in Chrome it works but in Firefox , cursor is still blinking , is there any way to make this? thanks.
This website always loads at bottom of page, why? https://www.theguardian.com
tried safe mode same issue, other sites not affected