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This evening I tried to watch my NFL Thursday night football game on my DAZN account. I got a message above the screen that said that FireFox needs to install something for me to watch this program. Two hours later it is still saying the same thing. This has never happened before as I watch NFL football throughout the season. Never have had a problem with Firefox until now. What to do??

During what I assume are high bitrate sections of YouTube videos (e.g. lots of movement, high resolution) YouTube will constantly drop frames.

Video for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLuTLF3x9sA

I have tried: • Safe Mode • Installing the Flatpak and testing in that, which also has a fresh profile as I don't use the Flatpak version • Testing different related about:config settings – I can't remember them all now, but I tested every one I found googling that is related to the issue or hardware acceleration.

Hardware acceleration is for sure working. Turning it off makes the video drop to one or two FPS.

Chromium has no problem with the same video. However, you can see from the screenshots that both read the resolution/scaling of my screen differently, and it implies that Firefox is rendering something like 6314 x 3552 while Chromium is rendering at UHD, the resolution of the screen and my video. If I turn off all my Global Scaling, Firefox stops dropping frames (the same info box on YouTube states resolution is UHD), reinforcing my theory about scaling being the issue. Both are confirmed to be using native Wayland.

I had a computer crash. Restarted to restore point from earlier in day. FireFox would not start. Successfully restored FF on desktop; restored passwords; restored profile from saved profile. FF is working but the Win 11 list of apps shows both the current FF and a grayed-out FF. There is also a FF Private Browsing app. How do i get rid of the grayed-out FF. Pete

Tried to include a screenshot, but there doesn't seem to be that option.

firefox is overlaying file explorer with 'firefox upload' when i'm trying to insert a file i created in windows 10 word to be used data fie in a web site . Perry

I first mentioned this in r/Firefox, and was asked to re-post here.

My FF just updated to 127.0.1 even though I have "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" and told it to wait. This was on a Windows 11 box. Everything seemed fine, but then one of my tabs crashed. I selected the reload tab option, at which point it informed me it could not load the tab because a background update had happened and I was now required to restart Firefox.

I'm not certain what version of FF I was on, I believe it was either 126 or 126.0.1.

Now, to be completely fair, I cannot with 100% certainty say that I clicked on the update later option. That said, as I _did not want to update then_, and I have put off the update before, it seems unlikely I would have made the mistake, but I wasn't recording everything I did so I can't play it back and prove it. My initial reaction was to associate it with the tab crashing somehow, as everything was working as expected right up until that moment.

Thanks

When I try to login to some of my web accounts Firefox presents several user IDs for that site and some of them are the result of past typos. What do I need to do to delete those erroneous IDs?

After upgrading Firefox, i cannot connect to internet. My internet is working fine, but none of the websites can't connect. I restarted Firefox twice. I restarted my laptop (windows11) , can you help me? skippertim99@gmail.com

I just recently acquired a iMac computer from my brother. But, when I try to log into my twitter account I keep getting a authentication notice. When I successfully complete the authentication I get the message "something went wrong try again later". When try again later I just keep getting the same error message? And then after awhile, I get the message "I tried to many times". This issue has been going on now for over a week. I can't seem to get a hold of twitter for help. I tried to create a new account, but twitter won't allow that either?? So, I'm wondering with the new and different computer I'm now using, Apple iMac, is Firefox somehow the issue with Twitter? Sure would appreciate some help. Thank you.

I have 132.0.1 on windows 11. It is seriously messed up. For youtube videos, I get a blank video screen, and other parts of the web page don't get loaded (gifs/other jpegs, for starters). Gmail leads to a 400 error - with google saying it doesn't know why. Some of the fonts, in some headlings, are nothing I have seen before, in some web pages. Some html formatting is totally bonkers. Reddit, wellsfargo as examples, where you will see the elements in what looks like a text-based document, and nothing can be selected that otherwise would be selectable. Some of my bank urls just have spinning behavior that never times out.

All the foregoing works fine on Edge. And yes, I have restarted the browser many times, restarted the computer many times, even restarted the router. I have not messed with preferences for quite some time. javascript is enabled.

I might have seen some of this in the previous update, 131.x.

Oh, under Performance I do NOT see a possible selection for hardware acceleration. So that's out.

I have a lenovo ThinkPad, with AMD cpu, a few years old, with Windows 11 pro.

I have used firefox for years working on at this point over a dozen computers, and I have never seen anything like this, and so much going wrong at one time.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

But perhaps a different kind of problem, like "Passwords and login".

This has started a few months ago, after an update. I would go to a website, fill in my credential, and then NOTHING. No error message, no movement. There are now several websites where this happens (see below). On some I could fix the problem by putting the website on the ALLOW list of Malwarebytes Browser Guard, but not all. On some, it was enough to allow ads and tackers, on others I had to also allow scams and malware, but on some nothing helps. All of them work perfectly well in Chrome, where I did nothing to BrowserGuard.

The websites fixed:

rebel.ca wise.com

Not fixed:

https://www.bc.mycarecompass.lifelabs.com https://www.concourstdaeroplan.td.com/

Any ideas on what is going on? And how to fix things? Thanks

I am inputting something like https://192.168.xx.xx:yyyyy, which is 100% a working address that I navigate to fine from other devices on the same LAN including machines w/ firefox installed, but for some reason this one instance of Firefox absolutely refuses to navigate directly to any local IPs and will search instead.

I'm away from home, using Firefox on Windows 10, and every time I open the password manager, it defaults to "Alerts". I feel sure that when I use Firefox at home on Windows 11, it defaults to "Last Used". In this age of complex passwords, if I am opening the password manager, it's to copy a password I need frequently, so it would be very helpful if I could get Firefox to default to showing the "Last Used" passwords. Is there a way to do this?

Hi, whenever i open the instagram web's reels tab and start scrolling down a bit the audio breaks down, crackling/buzzing. ive contacted razer's support and then i tried the website on 2 different websites and it worked fine there and razer support told me that the issue isnt with my device but with mozilla. i thought it was because of my headphones at first as i tried it on 2 different computer, one being a desktop and other being laptop and only when i use instagram web's reels tab on mozilla. once i use it every other audio breaks down too including games/other browsers etc. . i tried to contact with meta support too but comes out they dont offer a support to those who dont have paid subscription and the issue only happens on mozilla firefox application

I'm trying to insert a document in a John Hopkins message but when i tap insert in message the screen showes up as firefox upload and not file explorer. The data shown is not the latest and is not complete. what is the firefox upload? Thanks Perry

I have been using container tabs to juggle my corporate and personal github accounts. Until very recently, clicking a link from another app (email, etc) would start to open a new tab and then pop up a dialog asking me to confirm which container to use (see first attachment).

Unfortunately, now when I click on links it just loads straight to my "OSS github" container, which naturally produces a 404 error because my personal github account doesn't have access to the corporate repo (see second attachment).

At first, I thought I had accidentally clicked the "remember my decision" box. But the confirmation dialog still works if I open a new tab and paste the link in the address bar. It just doesn't work when other apps try to open a link in Firefox.

Is the new behavior intentional? Or did something accidentally break?