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Thanks to a Microsoft update my PC had to have Windows reinstalled causing me to lose all my apps. I have reinstalled Firefox on the PC but of course, all my bookmarks and passwords are missing. I had set up syncing between my PC and my Android mobile devices (phone and tablet). Can I restore or sync from the mobile device back to the PC? I have searched and found nothing. Even when signed into Firefox on the phone, it does not bring up "Sync" when I go to settings. I truly appreciate your help.

Hi All,

Few months ago I switched to an AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3D and since then I've been having rendering issues in firefox just as you can see in the attached image. Disabling hardware GPU acceleration seems to mitigate the issue however this is just a workaround. Modern browsers should work just fine with HW acceleration. The issue does not happen with Chrome or MS Edge so this is clearly something Firefox specific.

Is there a fix for it?

How to change main domain is not automatically shown in the search of Firefox browser but the desired URL?

I have always typed "https://www.youtube.com/feed/you" in the URL bar both in firefox desktop and mobile and other Gecko-based browsers such as Zen, Floorp, Midori, Iceraven, Waterfox, Librewolf but dont know why it always shows up "https://www.youtube.com" as soon as I type "y".

I have not seen same behaviour in Chrome or Chromium-based browsers such as Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, as Chrome knows if I have visited "youtube domain" several times but not through "https://www.youtube.com/" but through "https://www.youtube.com/feed/you", then it shows me the latter, thus helps me in avoiding my few seconds of this bug or inconsistency.

Not limited to "https://www.youtube.com/" but to every other site such as Google.com or social media like Instagram, where I don't visit the homepage but my saved bookmarks page.

Can anybody clarify on this, if this is a bug or a gifted feature by Firefox devs?

And can we change this as this causes issues esp., for working people (I have recently shifted my Chrome data to a new Firefox profile so this is causing issues in working after MV3 drama) who visited direct URL not the one given or promoted or shown by browser. I dont like this and want to change it as it doesn't help me in anyways.

The most unfortunate thing is that we cannot cancel or reject or cut it out like Chrome does with "X" in the URL bar when it detects something which we dont know it to proceed with but Firefox, nah.

The biggest benefit is that it saves your time, helps you focus and avoid you waste your time, if the site has too many things to distract you from actual work. Like YouTube has great courses and podcast interviews and I have saved them and want to direct go there (https://www.youtube.com/feed/you), then I am saved from going to main page which has unwanted videos that will only take my time, losing my productivity. Is Firefox not concerned about our productivity, is Chrome only cares?

Do check 3 screenshots attached for better understanding, the 3rd one is from chrome.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-to-change-main-domain-is-not-automatically-shown-in-the/td-p/74907

I have a few hours ago upgraded my Linux PC from Kubuntu 24.04 to 24.10, with it, it reinstalled firefox as a snap package. I have removed the snap and reinstalled it back as a native package.

Currently I see the font used in Tab Titles, Bookmarks and in the "Burger" menu is quite squished horizontally, as if it is using a Mono font.

I have tried changing fonts in the settings of Firefox, turning off HW Acceleration and changing font in my Plasma Settings and nothing worked.

Can you please help me? Clarification: The screenshots are weird since I didn't want to show private information.

I keep a lot of pinned tabs, and one of those is my gmail account. After I delete cookies, I go to that tab to sign back in, and it opens another tab, causing me to have to pin and move the second tab and then delete the original tab.

Sometimes I'm taken back to login even after I've just left gmail for checking messages. Sometimes I can click and hold the back button and reopen it on an already sign-in instance of gmail, but not when I clear cookies.

This doesn't happen for any other site, just gmail. How do I fix this, or is there no fix?

Hello,

can you explain me what is storage/archives folder for and when it is created? I observe major performance hit on Firefox startup when this folder exists, even if it is very small. The folder contains folder 0 in which another folders with dates are created. Those folders contain content similar to storage/default folder. The only solution for the performance problem is to delete the folder manually. Is there a possibility to convince firefox not to create the folder?

Thanks

Marek

For the past couple years, whenever I use the copy image feature the pasted outcome is always minimally brightened just enough that it's noticeable. Copying and pasting of the outcome brightens it again, and if I keep going the resulting image will be one big white square. This isn't the end of the world, more of an inconvenience as all I've had to do is switch to taking a screenshot of the image instead, but I do miss being able to just properly copy the image. The brightened effect is present no matter where I paste it, whether on another website or on a completely separate app, and other browsers I've tried on the same Mac don't have this problem. Is there a way for me to fix this? I already followed the support instructions for a different yet somewhat related pasting problem where I set gfx.color_management.mode to 0, and that had no effect. Is there anything else?

I'm on windows 11 and firefox 131.0.2. I have been sent a couple of survey site recently asking for feedback, but they don't open using firefox. I initially thought the problem was with the site, but this morning when I had the problem with firefox I used MS Edge and it opened. The survey today was on https://survey2.medallia.eu, and it just sits there with the circle spinning and never gives an error message.

Any ideas on what's going on?

This issue is new and I have never experienced it before. Upon trying to open anything in a new tab, firefox gets completely stuck loading the site, and when refreshed, does the tab becomes "dead" and nothing can be entered or clicked on, even after minutes. I know it is not my internet connection, as other browsers such as opera and edge work, as well as my ability to download games from steam, and firefox is also up to date as shown by the settings page, but firefox does not allow anything to be opened or viewed other than the settings page, which I used to navigate to the support page. I could not even use "continue with google" as a method of signing in and needed to manually enter everything.

I have run Malwarebytes, a full virus scan of my whole PC, Uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and I can't figure out why. I have sent the same question to You Tube to see if they have any ideas. Any help would be great

Firefox's "restore previous session" feature on windows 11 automatically populates the windows back into the virtual desktops they were in on startup. This behavior seems to be absent or broken on firefox in KDE Plasma DE.

Every time I restart my laptop, Firefox loses all preferences and configurations whenever I reboot my laptop.

When I open Firefox after restarting my laptop, it acts as it's not connected to the internet, and won't load any pages, it just keeps loading indefinitely.

It's still connected to my Mozilla Account, but Sync is turned off, and all configurations and customization seem to be reset to default.

To fix the "connection" issue, I go to Menu > Help > More troubleshooting information and select the Refresh Firefox... button.

After that, I can go and activate the Sync option again, which will get all my bookmarks, extensions, etc.

Finally, I go to about:config and change the value of browser.uiCustomization.state to set my toolbar customization as I normally use.

I've tried reinstalling Firefox, removing all Mozilla-related files and folders, removed registry entries, but nothing worked...

I really enjoy Firefox, but this is too much of a headache... This is my last attempt to solve this issue, or I'll be forced to switch to another browser... At this point, even Internet Explorer will do

Firefox v131.0.3 running on a x64 Windows 11

Firefox crashes when trying to log in or add an account on Google services. It will also sometimes lag or not load when searching or trying to access Google Maps etc.

The first part happens whenever a website has a login with Google option, or if I attempt to go to accounts.google.com and do it there. As soon as I start typing in the input box it hangs after a letter or 2. I can reproduce this hang consistently. When it crashes, there is a URL in the bottom left indicating the browser is trying to access something.

I've cleared my cache and cookies and the problem remains. In addition, the Firefox crash reporter is empty and hasn't registered any crashes, even though it has clearly hanged and is visible in Windows Event Viewer (attached). This only happens on Google pages, so any help would be appreciated as obviously I switched from Chrome for better performance but I still need to access their services.

read the above. I can't get the pages to scroll up or down on our newspaper. the times say its a mozilla problem. Know anything that will help? Everything works fine on chrome.

Windows 11 FF 131.0.3 64-bit

This has been an intermittent problem since the update before this one. The screen freezes and nothing works, no mouse, no keypad, nothing. Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't even work. There is no way to shut it down except the power button. It happens at different times, and doesn't seen to have one trigger. I've run troubleshooter, but no change.

It was happening in the previous update, but it seems worse in this one. I asked about this on Reddit a few weeks ago, and someone else said he was having the same problem.

I now have windows 11 but this issue goes back to 10 as well. Every time Fire Fox updates it breaks all my sign ons to every page I have an account with. And Fire Fox updates a lot. I've had this issue for years and have seeked support before to no avail. Every single website sees it as a new browser. I can click on "trust this browser" but it sees it as a different browser after every update.

I went to Firefox settings are it said "Your browser is being managed by your organization." This is my own PC. I'm worried someone is able to see what I'm doing. When I clicked it, the policy name was "Certificates" with "ImportEnterpriseRoots" set to true.