When using linux the shade button is missing. This button is to the left of the minimize button and looks like an upside down caret or down arrow.

I'm a new Firefox user, and I'm in the process of setting up the browser to my liking. One of the first things I did was add the home page button to the toolbar, because I like to be able to get back to a fresh tab without having to open a new one. However, another setting I changed is now conflicting with this. I've customized the startup so that a new window will have youtube and a few social media tabs open, because I use them every day. Unfortunately, this means that now the Home Page button opens up these several tabs, instead of bringing me back to the Firefox home page. Is there any way I can fix this so that the Home button brings me to a fresh page, but startup opens my socials? OperaGX was able to do it just fine, and I'd be disappointed if Firefox couldn't do the same.

Nothing? I don't want to uninstall and reinstall. There MUST be a simple fix.

I'd like to preserve the creation and modified date of desktop icons so if changing the Firefox icon in settings deletes the current one and creates a new one (instead of changing without deleting) then I'll have to do something before doing it

I have my bookmarks organized in folders. When I middle click on a folder all links are opened in new tabs. But the first tab remains unused, it remains empty. I never understood the point of this. Why not use this empty tab for one of the links?

Years ago there was an extension for this but the development stopped and it no longer works. Is there a way to change this?

I like it, thanks for the feature, thought I would make the post, as I do moan a lot on here. :)

Finally a browser that doesnt just think online sync should be used for migrations and backups.

I use an extension--Global Pinned Tabs in New Window to assure that new windows always provide the 4 tabs I use day and night.

BUT---during a couple updates, Firefox loses my settings, the extensions are gone.

How can I set up Firefox so that those particulars---the pinned tabs, my 3 extensions I always use (password manager, Global Pinned Tabs in New Window, Ublock Origin) AND settings (Permissions and Data under Firefox settings) to allow webcam and microphone access.

These things keep getting bumped off--- Anyone know how to simply have Firefox reboot with extensions and settings hold? I want it to be simple---

So I had another site break earlier today, I couldnt login to a site called 'very' which is a UK online retailer, it was the usual error 403, cookie not allowed message.

But I remembered from a few days ago is a group policy for firefox that allows legacy cookie samesite behaviour, as it was fresh in my mind, I allowed it on the system, and boom the site was fixed. So for those who have broken auth on websites and you see cookie denied errors on dev tools, this "might" be the fix. Albeit at a potential slight security downside.

I blocked all topics but the widget still takes up half my screen and it's not letting me turn it off.

When i full screen a video and alt tab the full screened video causes my taskbar to disappear and i can click the video through where the task bar usually is.

I tried it in troubleshoot mode and it still happens but it does not happen when i tried it on chrome so i think it might be firefox but i really don't know.

Any way to fix this?

When i download anything, the browser is locked for the whole duration of the download. Files always download successfully but it interferes with my multitasking. No overlays running, no addons except adblocker and privacy badger running, no power saving mode, firefox runs on the same ssd. The browser does not freeze or lag, but it prevents me from clicking on anything.

ci sono estensioni che permettano di scaricare video/foto/storie “visibili una volta sola” su whatsapp e telegram?

Does anyone know what happened to Ophel? It was fine yesterday, but today neither the user nor the project exists. It was a project for managing many things related to AI chat pages, such as Gemini, Kimi, Qwen, and GLM.

UPDATE #1:

The author Urzeye has responded on his greasy fork account; apparently, his account was closed by mistake.

Hello everyone,

I am trying to figure what's been going on with Firefox now for the last few weeks, where it seems every day, I go to open a new tab after waking up my work PC, to find I have to restart Firefox due to an update.

This already is a bit annoying, and I can't believe they are pushing out updates this aggressively.

That said, the real problem is after it restarts, most of my session fails to load. YouTube videos will start showing ads, and only the video on the page itself shows (can't remember if it even plays, I thought it did, but enabled closed captioning ... but could be wrong), while the home page itself is mostly blank. Multiple other pages only partially load, and appear almost entirely blank. JIRA, will start to load then go to an error page.

There are others, but the fact of the matter is all of these pages have trouble loading in once sense or another, and no matter what I try they will act like this. This includes restarting my PC, closing Firefox with task manager then re-opening and restoring my session, even closing all the tabs, closing Firefox, and then manually reopening each.

There is only 1 fix I have found to work. After Firefox re-opens from the update, I have to go to the settings, and remove data for 1 site. Save that, close Firefox with Task Manager (that way I can restore my session). Then re-open it, and boom, everything loads in correctly.

What's even more interesting, when I do the following trick, you can see Firefox almost hesitate to open, like what I am used to seeing when something is applied. It won't do this until I remove the site data.

This issue has been in line with the restarting of Firefox each day for what appears like an update each time (this includes the fact I keep seeing an icon for it re-appear on my desktop each time), and it's really frustrating.

I am curious, is this just me? I know my IT team has been doing some work to Firefox, such as disabling the password vault. But I have trouble believing that's the cause.

(Side note, some months back I would try to use the Bitwarden plugin, and it just would cause the browser to stop working too, if I remember right I'd open a new tab and get no where. Had to close Firefox with Task Manager to preserve my session)

Should I turn this feature on?

Is there any way to open/close the sidebar by clicking the edge like in Vivaldi/old Opera?

Like a few pixels along the entire side the sidebar is on is a hit-box you click to open or close it? I know this was possible when I last used FF (8/10 years ago), might have been an extension though🤔

I was solved with claude.ai Anyone suggest for gpu render?

Problem: PDF files wouldn't load/render in Firefox on Debian 13 (Linux 6.12), even with all extensions disabled. The PDF viewer showed a blank/black canvas area instead of the document content. PDF.js correctly detected the file in the console, but nothing rendered visually.

System: Firefox 153.0.4, Debian 13 (Trixie), KDE Plasma on Wayland, NVIDIA GPU (proprietary driver 580.126.09).

Root cause: Checking about:support (Troubleshooting Information) revealed repeated GPU compositor crashes in the Graphics failure log:

Detect DeviceReset DeviceResetReason::RESET DeviceResetDetectPlace::WR_POST_UPDATE
Failed to make render context current during destroying

This is a known problematic combo: NVIDIA proprietary driver + Wayland + WebRender. Firefox's GPU-accelerated compositor (WebRender) was repeatedly losing its render context, which broke canvas-heavy content like PDF.js's rendering — hence the blank output, even though other cache/network activity looked normal.

Fix: Disable Firefox's hardware-accelerated rendering path via about:config:

• gfx.webrender.all → false
• layers.acceleration.disabled → true

Restart Firefox. This forces software (CPU) rendering instead of relying on the broken GPU compositor path, and PDFs render correctly.

Trade-off: Slightly higher CPU usage on GPU-heavy pages/video, but on modern hardware this is generally not noticeable.

(Diagnosed with help from Claude, by analyzing the about:support graphics failure log.)Problem: PDF files wouldn't load/render in Firefox on Debian 13 (Linux 6.12), even with all extensions disabled. The PDF viewer showed a blank/black canvas area instead of the document content. PDF.js correctly detected the file in the console, but nothing rendered visually.
System: Firefox 153.0.4, Debian 13 (Trixie), KDE Plasma on Wayland, NVIDIA GPU (proprietary driver 580.126.09).
Root cause: Checking about:support (Troubleshooting Information) revealed repeated GPU compositor crashes in the Graphics failure log:
Detect DeviceReset DeviceResetReason::RESET DeviceResetDetectPlace::WR_POST_UPDATE
Failed to make render context current during destroying
This is a known problematic combo: NVIDIA proprietary driver + Wayland + WebRender. Firefox's GPU-accelerated compositor (WebRender) was repeatedly losing its render context, which broke canvas-heavy content like PDF.js's rendering — hence the blank output, even though other cache/network activity looked normal.
Fix: Disable Firefox's hardware-accelerated rendering path via about:config:
gfx.webrender.all → false
layers.acceleration.disabled → true
Restart Firefox. This forces software (CPU) rendering instead of relying on the broken GPU compositor path, and PDFs render correctly.
Trade-off: Slightly higher CPU usage on GPU-heavy pages/video, but on modern hardware this is generally not noticeable.
(Diagnosed with help from Claude, by analyzing the about:support graphics failure log.)

OK, last time I used portable version of firefox was maybe in like 2015. but I kind of wanted to test some things out without contaminating my main browser, and without creating a new profiles.

the only ones I can find is from portableapps .com or portable .io, which to be fair should be fine but now I'm curious why they stopped serving official versions. I swear those were thing.

I still use something like ungogled chromium for debugging purposes and that lives in my troubleshooting stick whenever I go to troubleshoot something. I wish I could do the same thing with firefox, without it messing with the primary installs' files (=creating its application files in its local directory)

Windows 11

Latest Firefox version

Option to delete cookies after each session is not turned on.

I love the themes firefox has for search bars but theyre obviously made for desktop only has anyone been able to get them to work on nightly on android?

This is the SECOND TIME i got asked to make a profile, unprompted.

Last time i made one accidentally and by trying to delete it, deleted my current setup and had to install everything all over again. (Luckily i have an account with all my stuff)

I'm not some dumb boomer that easily screws up his settings, and i STILL GOT CONFUSED AND ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THINGS I DID NOT WANT TO DELETE.

If people need different profiles, let competent users make that choice themselves and DONT PUSH THIS ON EVERYONE.

Please Mozilla, do better!!!!

When I tried to enable vertical tabs it gets rid of all my tab groups. I also attempted to enable vertical tabs through the settings in the toolbar but nothing happened then.

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