Firefox is using hundreds of MBs of memory and causing my computer to run slowly

I only have a few tabs open at any one time, usually only one or two. I only have adblock plus and bitwarden as extensions. But when I open firefox desktop, even before I… (read more)

I only have a few tabs open at any one time, usually only one or two. I only have adblock plus and bitwarden as extensions. But when I open firefox desktop, even before I've navigated to any page, it is using a few hundred MB to almost a GB of memory.

Asked by Patrick Knowles 20 hours ago

Last reply by Patrick Knowles 20 hours ago

Unable to set Default search language

Not long ago all my search queries starting showing up in French instead of my default language English. Every time I click Change to English I get taken to Google's Sea… (read more)

Not long ago all my search queries starting showing up in French instead of my default language English.

Every time I click Change to English I get taken to Google's Search Settings with NO indication where to make English the Default language. When I click Parametre de langue I am taken to the Google Search Settings - Language and region. Here I change Language of display to English...., but when I close the window and start up again it jumps right back to French.

It's driving me nuts!

Hope someone can assist me :-)

Asked by steen.winther 20 hours ago

stop update popups

Every day I get a pop up regarding a new update. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH . HOW DO I STOP THIS PERMANENTLY AS I PREFER NOT TO GO BACK TO CHROME. IT SEEMS THAT YOU GET OFF BY … (read more)

Every day I get a pop up regarding a new update. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH .

HOW DO I STOP THIS PERMANENTLY AS I PREFER NOT TO GO BACK TO CHROME. IT SEEMS THAT YOU GET OFF BY SENDING OUT THESE UPDATE NOTICES, EVEN THOUGH I DO UP DATE JUST TO GET YOU OFF MY BACK!!

GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER

Asked by John Herman 20 hours ago

firefox not responding

every time I go on to a new site such as you tube or even to open my email or go to facebook I have to wait and wait and then at the top of my page it says firefox not re… (read more)

every time I go on to a new site such as you tube or even to open my email or go to facebook I have to wait and wait and then at the top of my page it says firefox not responding and then I have to wait and wait it is getting fustrating I have a laptop here at home and have internet but i always get inturupted when I go to open another page

Asked by llfred13 20 hours ago

Despite having turned off both filling Form History and Autofill and Save Addressess, Mozilla still asks to save addresses.

When using PowerSchool, there are lots of students with addresses listed, in the various forms. Every time we leave the page, if we edited anything, Mozilla asks if we wa… (read more)

When using PowerSchool, there are lots of students with addresses listed, in the various forms. Every time we leave the page, if we edited anything, Mozilla asks if we want to save the address. This is verified to be Mozilla when we click on the 3 dots for settings, and it takes us to the Autofill and Save Adresses box that is clearly unchecked.

In the Privacy and Security settings, we have unchecked the boxes for saving and filling addresses, as well as auto-filling form information.

What else do we need to disable to get it to stop asking to save addresses for every single student we need to modify in PowerSchool (and probably for other sites as well)?

Asked by James Holten IV 20 hours ago

Extension removal

When I start up Mozilla, my browser reads, "https://hp-search.com/?path=firefox/newtab&u=9dc0c90355bb6762&subid=11119&channel=default". I've gone to "Add-on… (read more)

When I start up Mozilla, my browser reads, "https://hp-search.com/?path=firefox/newtab&u=9dc0c90355bb6762&subid=11119&channel=default".

I've gone to "Add-on and themes"/"Extensions" and under "Enabled" I don't see anything related the "hp-search" extension. I've also gone to "Control Panel" / "Programs" / "Uninstall Programs" and the only HP related software on my computer is for a printer. Finally, I've gone to "Settings"/ "Programs" / "Installed Apps" (and also "Default Apps") and seen no reference to HP (again with the exception to my HP printer).

Any help on the above would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance for all your help. Jim.

Asked by james.d.cusack 20 hours ago

Credit Card Autofill

Although the tab for "Autofill Payment Methods" is checked within the Privacy and Security section in settings, when I click on one of my various saved credit cards, auto… (read more)

Although the tab for "Autofill Payment Methods" is checked within the Privacy and Security section in settings, when I click on one of my various saved credit cards, autofill doesn't seem to happen anymore when I'm trying to make a payment. That applies to all of my saved credit cards.

Why, and what can I do about it?

Asked by safesite7 21 hours ago

Move emails to new folder

Good mornin all; I've created a new local folder and can not move files (emails) into it. I have tried dragging and dropping and right click, move to.... Both of these a… (read more)

Good mornin all; I've created a new local folder and can not move files (emails) into it. I have tried dragging and dropping and right click, move to.... Both of these appear to work and I get no error messages, however, the files stay in my inbox and the new folder remains empty.

Thanks in advance for any help, Jim

Asked by jbfly111 22 hours ago

Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101102)

On the https://www.msnbc.com website, I cannot watch any videos. I get the message "Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101102)" The video player works … (read more)

On the https://www.msnbc.com website, I cannot watch any videos.

I get the message "Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101102)"

The video player works on Safari on this website.

Asked by robertmary 22 hours ago

How safe is this?

The makers of the Avada theme for WordPress adviced to set dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to true for the copy paste function between sites. A function they have added… (read more)

The makers of the Avada theme for WordPress adviced to set dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to true for the copy paste function between sites. A function they have added recently.

However, here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1411533 I saw this comment:

"Recommendations to flip dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to true are a fundamentally bad idea. This pref was meant for automated testing, and bypasses all security/permission checks on clipboard access.

If you toggle this pref, any site has full access to your clipboard all the time without asking you or you even noticing so we suggest that you do not touch that pref.

Had the same problem with firefox and outlook web.

My solution was:

  open "about:config" in firefox (type it in the webadress line and hit enter)
  accept the risk in the pop up
  type "clipboard" in the search line
  change the following settings (as shown in the image attachment) from false to true (klick on false)
  restart firefox (close it & open it again)"

The image attachment mentioned, showed that dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard WAS set to true. So now I am confused :-D.

Is it dangerous to set it true and why?

Asked by albruna 22 hours ago

Logged out of Firefox and other websites

Each time I close the firefox web browser I get logged out of my firefox account and out of all the different websites and emails I use. I have looked on the forum and tr… (read more)

Each time I close the firefox web browser I get logged out of my firefox account and out of all the different websites and emails I use. I have looked on the forum and tried the proposed solutions but it's not working: I disabled the "Clear history when Firefox closes" setting and I even did a refresh of firefox which also didn't solve the issue

Asked by potocki.benoit 22 hours ago

firefox will not load my school on desktop but works on laptop 403 forbidden msg

when trying to log into Arizona state school, it uses duo authentication after typing in password and login it starts to try to authenticate then says 403 forbidden. but … (read more)

when trying to log into Arizona state school, it uses duo authentication after typing in password and login it starts to try to authenticate then says 403 forbidden. but works fine on my laptop but it will not work on my desktop Ive looked through the forum done all the clear catch and enable site but still not having luck normally id continue on my laptop but i need multiple screens for the current class I'm doing and my laptop doesn't suffice.

Asked by Taylor Stephenson 23 hours ago