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Please 🙏 let start by saying Good Morning hello my name is Equaine Anthony Alley my cry's are falling on deaf ears so many numbers is being stolen from me so many SIM cards are being locked a PUK code were put on my last phone five phone's later and still the problems just keep coming May I go back in time because I see you have Data all the way back 2019 I didn't find out about I was a Bitcoin investment owner until February 27th 20024 March 4th cash app robot called me and told me I don't have to wait I can link my debit card but when I went to grab it my boyfriend name came up Theodore Williams with two debit cards with the last 4 digits and then My podcast was monetize and erased off my phone using my PayPal as usser account as well as my Facebook and Davis inventions I invented and e-sign contract with that phone came up missing I never receive any money I am hurt and tired of the situation I

I use a programme JOSM / TM4 from HOTOSM that creates digital maps.

TM 4 is a programme in which area is divided into pieces (tasks) where a task can be selected by participants (mappers). This task is assigned to JOSM. Within this programme, a ‘changeset’ can be called for processing in JOSM.

Message from JOSM ‘remote control has been asked to import data from the following URSL ( This is opened within JOSM https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/158340818/download (the number at the end can change) Normal situation is that this happens 1 time. Now the situation is, when in the browser the changeset is still open this is spontaneously sent to JOSM. And that several times, each time a page I visited earlier. Very annoying. The JOSM helpdesk gives this message. Quote:

comment:1 by frans Schutz <Frans.schutz@…>, 4 days ago

Since a week or so I see this behaviour. I use Firefox internet explorer and have often a OSMcha and changesets open. The Data layers which opens are always the same as the changesets I have opened. No idea if there is an interference with that. Thanks for looking into this comment:2 by stoecker, 4 days ago

Sounds like a "background load" to me. The Web browser tries loading the URL in background and each time you get a new layer. Closing the TABS in the browser may help or if possible disabling background fetches for the localhost URLs? comment:3 by taylor.smock, 4 days ago Owner: changed from team to Frans.schutz@… Status: new → needinfo

I agree with stoecker.

As a first step, I would turn off/disable Remote Control. If this fixes the issue, then you have a poorly behaving website that is continually calling JOSM remote control.

See wiki:Help/Preferences/RemoteControl. follow-up: 5 comment:4 by anonymous, 3 days ago

Hello I disabled the remote control, but than I have no access to JOSM when I want to open a task in TM4

Till last week, Firefox did not respond as what I now see.

I try to close open OSMcha and changesets to see if this solve the issue Bestregards in reply to: 4 comment:5 by taylor.smock, 3 days ago

Replying to anonymous:

   I disabled the remote control, but than I have no access to JOSM when I want to open a task in TM4

That was expected. The question is, did disabling remote control fix the issue. If so, then something is calling JOSM remote control in a loop, and it is not a bug in JOSM.

   I try to close open OSMcha and changesets to see if this solve the issue

Once you figure out what website is the problem, I would highly recommend filing a ticket with them. Absent that, put the website (preferably with the full URL -- most browsers let reopen the last closed tab) in this ticket and I'll look into the sites bug report procedure.

my past history, tabs and anothers dont synchronized and not recalled.After entering my account showing only so new account and clearly history, tabs, passwords my account monarx555@gmail.com

I have been using Linux Mint 21+ since May of 2023. At that time I set all the Firefox preferences settings to what I've always set them to in the past, and have run Firefox with them ever since then. Now, about 3-4 weeks ago, I started Firefox and it came up with ONLY blue lines of text (not graphically). My Firefox homepage is "isp.netscape.com". I've waited until now to report the problem, since I was hoping that later Firefox updates would fix itself, but this did not occur with the 3-5 Firefox recent updates.

Originally, I posted the problem to the Linux Mint forums with the following title under SOFTWARE & APPLICATIONS: Firefox browser no longer graphical but only lines of blue text

Somebody there advised me to start Firefox in safe mode, which I did with this command in the terminal: firefox -safe-mode

and to my surprise, Firefox then came up graphically once again. However, going through the Firefox preferences and setting them one at a time, I came to what is causing the problem. Setting PRIVACY & SECURITY -> BROWSER PRIVACY -> HISTORY: "Remember History" to "Never Remember History" forces Firefox to reboot and when it comes up it came up with only blue lines of text, and not graphically.

One responder to my post on Linux Mint forums stated that it was also a problem with her on Windows 11. So, this is not a Linux Mint, or Windows 11 issue, but a Firefox issue. Mozilla made some change to Firefox back 4-5 weeks now that all of a sudden made Firefox come up in blue lines of text, and I changed nothing with Firefox since started with Linux Mint 21.3 1.5 years ago. I will add though, that ONLY my Firefox homepage (listed above) is the only page that is affected by this, every other website I visit comes up graphically.

What's UP?

Ron

Below I've listed all my Firefox preferences settings, in case you need to see them:

Set Firefox Preferences (May 22, 2023)

- General

   Startup
     Uncheck "Open previous windows and tabs"
     Check "Always check if firefox is your default browser"
   Tabs
     Uncheck "Ctrl-Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order"
     Check "Open links in tabs instead of new windows"
     Check "When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it
           immediately"
     Uncheck "Confirm before closing multiple tabs"
     Uncheck "Confirm before quitting with CTRL+Q"
   Language And Appearance
     Website Appearance
       Click Automatic
     Colors
       Do nothing
     Fonts
       Default Font: "Default (DeJaVu Serif)"
       Size: 16
     Zoom
       Default zoom: 100%
       Uncheck "Zoom text only"
     Language
       English (US)
       Check "Check your spelling as you type"
   Files And Applications
     Downloads
       Click "Save files to:" /media/Linux-BU-HD/Downloads
       Uncheck "Always ask you where to save files"
     Applications
       Change action to "Save File" for all listed under "Content Type"
       Click "Save files"
       Check "Play DRM-controlled content"
   Performance
     Check "Use recommended performance settings"
   Browsing
     Check "Use autoscrolling"
     Uncheck "Use smooth scrolling"    Network Settings
     Do nothing

- Home

   New Windows And Tabs
     Homepage & new windows: Custom URLs...
                             http://isp.netscape.com
     New tabs: Blank Page
   Firefox Home Content
     Uncheck "Web Search"
     Uncheck Shortcuts
     Uncheck "Recommended by Pocket"
     Uncheck "Recent activity"
     Uncheck "Snippets"

- Search

   Search Bar
     Click "Use the address bar for search and navigation"
   Default Search Engine
     Click Google
   Search Suggestions
     Uncheck "Provide search suggestions"
   Search Shortcuts
     NOTE: Click each item individually and then click remove, but not all
           items can be removed

- Privacy & Security

   Browser Privacy
     Click Standard
     Click Always to "Send websites a 'Do Not Track' signal that you don't
             want to be tracked"
   Cookies And Site Data
     Check "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"
   Logins And Passwords
     Uncheck "Ask to save logins and passwords for websites"
     Check "Show alerts about passwords for breached websites"
     Uncheck "Use a primary password"
   Forms And Autofill
     Uncheck "Autofill addresses"
     Uncheck "Autofill credit cards"
   History
     Fire Will: "Never remember history"
     NOTE: The above requires you to restart firefox
   Address Bar - Firefox Suggest
     Uncheck "Browsing history"
     Uncheck Bookmarks
     Uncheck "Open tabs"
     Uncheck Shortcuts
     Uncheck "Search engines
     Turn Off "Suggestions from the web"
     Turn Off "Suggestions from sponsors"
     Turn Off "Improve the firefox suggest experience"
   Permissions
     Check "Block pop-up windows"
     Check "Warn you when websites try to install add-ons"
   Firefox Data Collection And Use
     Uncheck "Allow Firefox to send technical & interaction data to Mozilla"
     Uncheck "Allow Firefox to install and run studies"
     Uncheck "Allow Firefox to send backlogged crash reports on your behalf"
   Security
     Deceptive Content And Dangerous Software Protection
       Check "Block dangerous and deceptive content"
       Check "Block dangerous downloads"
       Check "Warn you about unwanted and uncommon software"
     Certificates
       Check "Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity
             of certificates"
     HTTPS-ONLY Mode
       Click "Don't enable HTTPS-ONLY mode"

- Sync

   Do nothing

- More From Mozilla

   Do nothing
     Check "Always show scrollbars"
     Uncheck "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
     Uncheck "Search for text when you start typing"
     Uncheck "Enable picture-in-picture video controls"
     Uncheck "Control media via keyboard, headset or virtual interface"
     Uncheck "Recommend extensions as you browse"

Hello I've been trying to sync my Raspberry pi 5 TO my tablet and not the other way around but every time I try too instead it syncs my tablet to the pi 5, how do I prevent this, and if you can't why not? how are you suppose to move to a new device if FireFox will just delete everything on the old device to "sync" it with the new one you've got it backwards

While my laptop was "aseep" something happened to your service. I was kicked off and told to resign in. I did not remember my password. I was cautioned that my data might be lost. What the hell happened?

So recently while watching videos on YT I've noticed that the video element itself seems to be overfilling its container and I get this effect : https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2024-10-25-20-39-55-c7e188.png

Conversely if I open up the Inspect element tool I get this view: https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2024-10-25-20-38-11-6c599e.png

So it looks like the video element itself is spilling outside the bounds. I've tried changing the zoom ratio to no avail. I've also tried viewing with and without VPN enabled both with and without Ublock and none of those seem to have any effect. I've also tried changing my desktop resolution size and that doesn't work either. Any ideas would be appreciated.

While I was troubleshooting other issues, I "refreshed" firefox (big mistake, I should have just uninstalled and reinstalled), and now all of my search suggestions are gone.

What I mean by this is, for example, if I just typed "w" into the search bar, it would immediately autofill to wikipedia, as well as show other recommendations for other sites I frequently visit that start with W, or bookmarked sites I have that start with W.

With the autofill, I could just type w + enter to immediately go to wikipedia. I assume this is because I visited the site extremely often. However, after the refresh, it only shows me previous searches I've done. This is really annoying because I've gotten used to the autofill shortcuts.

Is there some way to un-refresh my firefox? or do I need to like, just use sites again and again until it relearns recommendations?

In fact, how do the recommendations actually work? My bookmarks are still here and it doesn't recommend me them anymore, which is odd.

Note both before and now, I have all "Search Shortcuts" turned off

I know that typically mozilla does not put a low bound on advisories, and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-40/ is the advisory for vulnerabilities fixed in ESR 128.2. CVE-2024-8387 is listed here. yet the advisory for 115, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-41/ does not list this vulnerability. Was this something that was only impacting 128 (for the ESR builds) or is there a mistake that either 115.15 did patch it but it wasn't documented, or the patch has been missed and ESR 115 is still vulnerable?

I am an avid or rabid Firefox user for more than 20 years. It was Firebird when I began using it. Now, sadly it is no longer my default browser. Recently, when I click an email link it opens a new Firefox web page instead of a tab in the always running Firefox web browser. This new page has different extension(s) behaviors and is unusable to me! Opera is now my default. I have tried "Refresh, Troubleshoot Mode and Uninstall/Reinstall. None of these worked. Any suggestions? Woody Ogden https://www.linkedin.com/in/woodyogden/ https://bvcomputerclub.org/officers2024.php

Phoenix Firefox was originally named Phoenix but the name was changed to avoid trademark conflicts with Phoenix Technologies. The initially-announced replacement, Firebird, provoked objections from the Firebird project community. The current name, Firefox, was chosen on February 9, 2004.

Firefox, free open-source Web browser created by the American software company Mozilla Corporation.

In 1998 the American Internet services company Netscape Communications Corp. decided to designate its Navigator browser as open-source for users, who began the development of Mozilla Firefox. The Mozilla team, led by the American developers Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, sought to create a light fast-loading browser that would appeal to users in its efficiency. In 2002 they released their first browser, Phoenix, which soon included features such as bookmarking (for saving website addresses) and the ability to add extensions to modify or customize the browser.

Woody

Consistently we get a message box that says: "Oops something went wrong" with a red circle & x. Towbook states they can reproduce the error and we should just use Chrome or Edge. Is this something that could be fixed? We would prefer to stay on Firefox.

Firefox functions like an app of Edge--how on earth can I have Firefox back as it was in my Win 7 machine (before being forced to Win 11 after a monster lightning strike)?

How to switch accounts (change user) do not want to use the email address to log in to Firefox but my screen name--when I click the Firefox Icon automatically logs with my email address and shows my first and last name. How to bypass the auto and have a manual login for user name and password. At 81, I may not have enough years or brain power left to master this not-intuitive Windows 11, which appears to me, to be a bastard mix of Smartphone and Desktop put out by a company that wants total control or at a minimum to grant as little control as possible to the user of the operating system--we will teach you how to think our way or get a pencil and piece of paper.

Ah, "The Golden Years" is a misnomer, the color was golden as is all polished brass, however the Golden color has tarnished.