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Firefox on Win10Pro-64 PC Desktop has started failing to resolve names of bank & other docs on download

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I've been using Firefox on my desktop pc for 15-20 years, and been very happy with it til this year.

I download a lot (for home use) of statements and other documents from banks & other financial companies. Starting several months ago, first one company, and now several, are failing to resolve their document names into humanly-readable names I would have seen a year ago. When I talked by phone with a tech from that first company, he blamed it on Firefox falling behind the tech curve. Not long after that, I read an article saying Firefox was down to 4% user share, and in danger of falling out of the "must support" group of browsers. Now, in these last two months, I'm having that same problem with at least three other companies I download statements from.

To clarify a little, each institution of course has its own naming scheme. But before this problem, the name attached to the pdf file that I received was easily understood and I had no problem revising the name to the naming-scheme that I use. Now, these non-cooperating companies send me files with an 8-12 character code that looks like it may have been a base-32 math number.

I have NO DESIRE to migrate to any other browser. But all the other stuff you're talking about means nothing if long-time industry standard processes like these start breaking. I'm not a 30-year-old semi-geek anymore. I'm on the far side of 70 and feeling it. (I've already tried MS Edge, and it gave me fits.)

PLEASE make sure that Firefox remains a stable and viable browser.

Sincerely, Tim Deaton tim@timdeaton.org

I've been using Firefox on my desktop pc for 15-20 years, and been very happy with it til this year. I download a lot (for home use) of statements and other documents from banks & other financial companies. Starting several months ago, first one company, and now several, are failing to resolve their document names into humanly-readable names I would have seen a year ago. When I talked by phone with a tech from that first company, he blamed it on Firefox falling behind the tech curve. Not long after that, I read an article saying Firefox was down to 4% user share, and in danger of falling out of the "must support" group of browsers. Now, in these last two months, I'm having that same problem with at least three other companies I download statements from. To clarify a little, each institution of course has its own naming scheme. But before this problem, the name attached to the pdf file that I received was easily understood and I had no problem revising the name to the naming-scheme that I use. Now, these non-cooperating companies send me files with an 8-12 character code that looks like it may have been a base-32 math number. I have NO DESIRE to migrate to any other browser. But all the other stuff you're talking about means nothing if long-time industry standard processes like these start breaking. I'm not a 30-year-old semi-geek anymore. I'm on the far side of 70 and feeling it. (I've already tried MS Edge, and it gave me fits.) PLEASE make sure that Firefox remains a stable and viable browser. Sincerely, Tim Deaton tim@timdeaton.org

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