Firefox Support Forum

Hello,

Relevant system referenced below:

MacBook Pro 2021 Mac OS 14.5 Firefox 126.0.1 (64-bit) Carbon Copy Cloner 6.1.11 (7673)

I have a case of vanishing bookmarks. I quit Firefox last evening with command-Q as I’ve done a thousand times before. When I launched it this morning I was greeted with Firefox with an empty Bookmarks Toolbar and “Getting started” message. I opened a Manage Bookmarks window and everything there was empty too. I found, as well, that all of my saved UIDs and passwords were gone except for three, two of which I haven’t used in months. Weird.

Next I opened Firefox Help and found information about Troubleshooting Mode; I restarted in troubleshooting mode but nothing had changed. After restarting in normal mode, I tried Restoring Bookmarks; I chose Manage Bookmarks from the dropdown and then clicked the button in the Library window. Restore showed only one file and it was created today with only 14 items. Selecting Choose File… showed Desktop with Old Firefox Data highlighted. In that folder was only w34y3u9y…628 folder. From there I selected bookmarkbackups and the only file there was bookmarks-2024-06-06_11…lz4, a file created at 3:33 today. I found the key4.db file and it was created at 3:33 today.

I have Carbon Copy Cloner and use it for a weekly backup to a remote SSD drive. There are a year's-worth or so of weekly backups on that device. I tried trashing Firefox and reinstalling it from last week’s backup. While this worked, it didn’t solve the issue; it was still like a fresh copy of Firefox with no bookmarks.

I’m hopeful that I can restore the bulk of the lost bookmarks from CCC but I have no clue as to which files/folders to restore and I don’t want to guess. If you think this is possible, please tell me which files or folders to replace. Should I delete the files to be replaced from the current system and if so where are they located? I’m comfortable using Terminal for basic purposes but need explicit directions for entering commands and navigating to locations or files.

Thanks for your time,

David

Im using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Intel cpu I7 9th gen NVIDIA gpu but i disabled it My problem is that the Picture in Picture mode isnt sticky if i press anything it vanishes from view.

After the last FF update, I can only connect to FF ... no other website! I did a system restore to an earlier date which seemed to make it worse. Absolutely zero content appears on any website I choose to go to. The tab shows the name of the website, however it doesn't "connect."

Please help me rectify this challenge. Thank you.

Below is the content-security-policy Firefox loads for chatGPT:

default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'nonce-eec8ce04-1f27-4481-8ed6-b8f877eef280' 'wasm-unsafe-eval' chatgpt.com/ces https://*.chatgpt.com https://*.chatgpt.com/ https://*.oaistatic.com https://api.openai.com https://chat.openai.com https://chatgpt.com/ https://chatgpt.com/backend-anon https://chatgpt.com/backend-api https://chatgpt.com/graphql https://chatgpt.com/public-api https://chatgpt.com/voice https://jidori.g1.internal.services.openai.org https://oaistatic.com https://snc.apps.openai.com https://snc.chatgpt.com/backend/se https://tcr9i.chat.openai.com https://tcr9i.chatgpt.com/ wss://*.chatgpt.com wss://*.chatgpt.com/; script-src-elem 'self' 'nonce-eec8ce04-1f27-4481-8ed6-b8f877eef280' 'sha256-RvbVrdDS11FSnQaULCOgXPA5u0nMP2Im1d2pGiRBGC4=' 'sha256-eMuh8xiwcX72rRYNAGENurQBAcH7kLlAUQcoOri3BIo=' auth0.openai.com challenges.cloudflare.com chatgpt.com/ces https://*.chatgpt.com https://*.chatgpt.com/ https://*.oaistatic.com https://api.openai.com https://apis.google.com https://chat.openai.com https://chatgpt.com/ https://chatgpt.com/backend-anon https://chatgpt.com/backend-api https://chatgpt.com/graphql https://chatgpt.com/public-api https://chatgpt.com/voice https://docs.google.com https://jidori.g1.internal.services.openai.org https://js.live.net/v7.2/OneDrive.js https://oaistatic.com https://snc.apps.openai.com https://snc.chatgpt.com/backend/se https://tcr9i.chat.openai.com https://tcr9i.chatgpt.com/ https://www-onepick-opensocial.googleusercontent.com wss://*.chatgpt.com wss://*.chatgpt.com/; img-src * 'self' blob: data: https: https://docs.google.com https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com https://ssl.gstatic.com; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' chatgpt.com/ces https://*.chatgpt.com https://*.chatgpt.com/ https://*.oaistatic.com https://api.openai.com https://chat.openai.com https://chatgpt.com/ https://chatgpt.com/backend-anon https://chatgpt.com/backend-api https://chatgpt.com/graphql https://chatgpt.com/public-api https://chatgpt.com/voice https://jidori.g1.internal.services.openai.org https://oaistatic.com https://snc.apps.openai.com https://snc.chatgpt.com/backend/se https://tcr9i.chat.openai.com https://tcr9i.chatgpt.com/ wss://*.chatgpt.com wss://*.chatgpt.com/; font-src 'self' data: https://*.oaistatic.com https://fonts.gstatic.com; connect-src 'self' *.oaiusercontent.com api-iam.intercom.io api-js.mixpanel.com browser-intake-datadoghq.com chatgpt.com/ces fileserviceuploadsperm.blob.core.windows.net http://0.0.0.0:* http://localhost:* https://*.chatgpt.com https://*.chatgpt.com/ https://*.oaistatic.com https://api.onedrive.com https://api.openai.com https://chat.openai.com https://chatgpt.com/ https://chatgpt.com/backend-anon https://chatgpt.com/backend-api https://chatgpt.com/graphql https://chatgpt.com/public-api https://chatgpt.com/voice https://content.googleapis.com https://docs.google.com https://events.statsigapi.net https://featuregates.org https://graph.microsoft.com https://jidori.g1.internal.services.openai.org https://oaistatic.com https://snc.apps.openai.com https://snc.chatgpt.com/backend/se https://tcr9i.chat.openai.com https://tcr9i.chatgpt.com/ https://www.googleapis.com o33249.ingest.sentry.io statsigapi.net wss://*.chatgpt.com wss://*.chatgpt.com/ wss://*.intercom.io wss://*.webpubsub.azure.com; frame-src challenges.cloudflare.com https://*.sharepoint.com https://content.googleapis.com https://docs.google.com https://onedrive.live.com https://tcr9i.chat.openai.com https://tcr9i.chatgpt.com/ js.stripe.com; worker-src 'self' blob:; media-src blob: 'self' *.oaiusercontent.com fileserviceuploadsperm.blob.core.windows.net https://cdn.openai.com https://persistent.oaistatic.com; frame-ancestors chrome-extension://iaiigpefkbhgjcmcmffmfkpmhemdhdnj; report-to chatgpt-csp-new; report-uri https://browser-intake-datadoghq.com/api/v2/logs?dd-api-key=pub1f79f8ac903a5872ae5f53026d20a77c&dd-evp-origin=content-security-policy&ddsource=csp-report&ddtags=version%3Achatgpt-csp-new

Notice that it includes " frame-ancestors chrome-extension://iaiigpefkbhgjcmcmffmfkpmhemdhdnj"

Would this extension be installed in the computer, kind of like the extensions that are loaded from Chrome (i.e., C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\extensions_crx_cache)?

Thanx

I am using Firefox version 126.0.1 (64-bit) on MacOS Ventura 13.0. I cannot interact with any Nature journal webpages (https://www.nature.com/ , https://www.nature.com/neuro/ , etc). I can only scroll, no clicking on links, highlighting or anything else you might expect. Not sure if this is specific to my computer/browser/extensions or if others are experiencing this and what steps I might take to resolve?

I am writing to request assistance with recovering my deleted browsing history for my Firefox account. On June 18, 2024, I accidentally deleted my browsing history and I am hoping there is a way to restore it.

Firefox works only in troubleshoot mode, and will not copy and paste, I tried and deleted and re-installed, no change, is there a way to run a diagnostic? . other browsers are fine.

When I open a bookmark folder and right-click on the 7th item down I cannot select Open in New Tab because the context menu is jammed up against the top of the screen (I believe it is called the Title Bar where resides the date and some of the system menus,) and the Open in New Tab at the top of the context menu is present, will not highlight and cannot be selected with the mouse.

FF 126.0.1 Host: Laptop AB BIOS: INSYDE Corp. 3.19 (05/29/2023) OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64 DE: GNOME 42.9 (x11) Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic Shell: bash 5.1.16

When I try to view my pictures... Firefox has started to ask, every time... "how do I want to view this JPG file.

I must choose, Firefox, Internet explorer and so forth. I choose Firefox and it opens.

BUT.....

How do I get this message to STOP.... every blasted time I click on my pictures.

There's some stuff in the "about:config" that someone changed from true to false... I think...

What do I change back... so this annoying pop up.... stops....

Hi,

My computer was on during the week-end and when I came back home I noticed we had a couple of power outages. Computer restarted automatically (Win 10 22h2) and when I launched Firefox, it started as brand new with all my addons gone and none of the previous session restored (I had 4 Firefox browsers opened with each 20+ tabs opened).

I have tried looking at C:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles but found nothing of interest. Where is everything and how can I restore everything I had ?

I even tried Troubleshooting mode and downgrading to a former version of Firefox (126.0.1 64 bits).

Thanks,

Why is Firefox backing up my bookmarks in a json file, when Firefox itself doesn't recognise the file type when trying to restore said bookmarks? I WAS able to restore my bookmarks by converting the json file at https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/bookbackreader.html. But why can't Firefox just back up as an html file like it used to? I had to go off searching the internet for a solution, turning what should've been a 5 minute job into nearly an hour 😕

Firefox 126.0.1 displays a very long name of a container completely in the URL bar.

Firefox 127.0 truncates container names

AWS long account and role names make keeping the long name very convenient (works with the 'AWS SSO Containers' Add-On

Have used Firefox for decades and suddenly it is having problems. If I surf around and have a few tabs open, some of them might crash. Firefox tries to restore them and sometimes it works and sometimes they just crash again immediately. I can go to Amazon and the page won't load completely so I can't do anything. If I try and close Firefox it won't close, it is frozen. And often, pages just load very slowly even though my internet connection is strong. This just started about a month or so ago. I have refreshed Firefox, updated it, and checked the systems on my computer. All my internal diagnostics returned "no issues." So it has to be the program.

For a while now, I've been having recurring issues with Firefox desktop freezing and becoming totally unresponsive. If there's any pattern to what causes it, I haven't been able to notice it; sometimes it happens as soon as I open the browser, sometimes it happens after several hours, sometimes it happens twice in ten minutes, sometimes it happens twice in a few hours (however, I can count the number of days it's happened less than twice in one day in the past few weeks on the fingers of one hand). When the browser freezes, it becomes totally unresponsive - it doesn't fade or display "Not Responding", and Task Manager shows nothing abnormal, but it doesn't accept any input at all, any video or other animated material that may have been displaying freezes, and it can only be "fixed" by force quitting from the task manager and reopening. This is exclusively a firefox issue; other programs open at the same time as the browser freezes are not affected.

The only real lead I have as to what could be going on is that sometimes, things don't freeze all at once, but in a cascading effect. For example, tabs, bookmarks, etc. might not highlight when moused over, but still accept the clicks, or selecting another tab might causes the address bar to display the URL of the selected tab, but the screen displayed in the window will not change. Once these cascading changes start, they generally progress to total freeze before I have a chance to do much with that information (only a few seconds), but it's unusual enough behavior to be worth noticing.

Things I've already tried that haven't fixed the issue:

• Reducing the number of tabs used and otherwise reducing Firefox's system resource usage has not impacted the problem in any way.
• Running in Troubleshoot Mode has not had a consistent effect on the problem (the most recent time I did, the browser ran stably for longer than I could stand to use the internet without my ad blocker, but this is only one data point in an already inconsistent spread; prior instances of the problem have occurred in Troubleshoot Mode)
• Disabling hardware acceleration has not fixed the issue.
• The issue has persisted through multiple refreshes and at least one full uninstall and clean reinstall.
• The issue persisted after creating and switching to a new profile multiple times.
• The issue persisted after renaming places.sqlite
• The issue persisted after clearing cache and cookies multiple times.
• The issue persisted after clearing downloads and history.
• And very likely some other stuff that I'm forgetting, I've been trying to fix this on my own for a while now.

All of a sudden my web address bar at the top of the screen disappears when I open a web address and I have to push my mouse to the top of the screen to make it appear? Didn't used to do this.

I restarted my Windows 11 laptop and got error message about user profile. Restarted again and looks like it was corrupted so deleted my my user profile and Firefox config and bookmarks are gone!

Still have all the files just a new user profile and the old one is gone?

Any help how to get Firefox bookmarks back would be much appreciated

There is an 8 years old question about it - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1123903 How do I do it now with Firefox 125+ ?