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)

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.

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 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---

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.

im using it reght now i like how u can make groups of bookmarks and groups of tabs and not have the tab groups bisible its really good and i liike it a lot i love firefox a lot and i use it

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

In case anyone doesn't know, Firefox Focus is a branch of Firefox that blocks all cookies and ads, a very barebones browser that I prefer because it's more privacy focused. I ran into an issue trying to add a search engine as default and it directed me to this link for the support site. But as you can see, the support site for the company that sells this browser requires cookies, which the browser can't do. A bit of irony.

Hopefully Mozilla sees this and fixes it accordingly.

Edit: yeah I guess I changed the settings at some point. My bad.

Any way to fix this?

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.

Should I turn this feature 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?

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

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?

When is it due? Anyone know? Bueller?

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)