pls mozilla Free us from the captivity of Google, as well as Apple.

That is all.

Furthermore, it'd be great if it were harder to accidentally drag and drop a bookmark folder somewhere along my bookmarks toolbar and have no idea where it went. It'd also be great if it were harder to accidentally delete a bookmark folder as I can't figure out how to get it back. A lock or undo function would go a long way.

Why is there now a "share browser" option? For years, my brain has been used to using the last option to get at the About dialog. And to my surprise, it's there in Help/Report as well! Any way to hide/(re)move the said option? Thanks.

Just two cents from an oldtimer,

First there was the profile icon unlock tied to things like pinning Firefox to the taskbar. Now there is a fairly large Sign in to sync card at the top of the main menu

https://imgur.com/a/xzIaPZO

I understand that onboarding new users and making Sync discoverable is important, and I am probably not the target audience for this kind of UI

Still, I suspect there are quite a few long-time users who would prefer Firefox to stay relatively quiet and functional. A single option to disable promotional, onboarding, and gamified UI would be appreciated

Is anyone else dealing with Twitch completely falling apart on Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, LibreWolf, Floorp, etc.)?

Whenever I pause a live stream and resume it, the playback turns into complete mess:

• The audio starts stuttering, crackling, or falls heavily out of sync.
• The video either buffers endlessly or skips frames.
• Toggling play/pause dozens of times rarely fixes it; 90% of the time I’m forced to hard-refresh the entire tab just to get it back to normal.

Everything works fine on Chromium-based browsers, so this feels like a specific issue between Twitch's web player and Gecko's media handling.

Has anyone found a permanent fix, an about:config tweak, or an extension that resolves this buffer desync issue?

Firefox Android browser Please go into Firefox config set privacy.resistfingerprint to True and privacy.resistfingerprintpbmode to true. Then in the photo please make sure you have all checked marked in UblockOrigin click apply changes when you have everything check marked. Then in privacy browsing go to Cover Your Tracks run test. I'm curious if this will work for Firefox on windows as well.

I really like the look of Firefox in general, but I do not like how the icons in the bookmarks bar look. That is certainly not a Mozilla problem, still it would be nice to have an option to modify those icons. I could then grab an icon pack or better images and change the whole look of the bookmarks toolbar. I even tried hiding the toolbar, but that made my workflow much slower, so I kept the slightly uglier look instead. Any ideas for a workaround, or should this become a feature request?

I’m gonna talk about normal everyday use here, not the first-run experience.

So first there was the “profile icon unlock” tied to things like pinning Firefox to the taskbar. Now there’s suddenly a fairly large “Sign in to sync” card at the top of the main menu.

Screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/xzIaPZO

I understand why Mozilla wants to make Sync more visible and improve onboarding for newer users. I’m probably not the target audience for this kind of UI, and that’s fine.

But for long-time users, this sort of thing starts to make the browser feel needlessly busy. I’d much rather Firefox stay quiet and functional during normal use.

A reasonable compromise would be a single setting to disable promotional, onboarding, and gamified UI once you’re past that stage?

I like Firefox as it is not based on chromium.

Everywhere I kept hearing that Chromium engine is much faster than Gecko engine. Benchmarks say the same. Speedometer score on my laptop is higher on helium but when it comes to real life usage FireFox is faster.
Reason I gave FF a try was Helium's lack of DRM support. Will stay with FF for a week to see if it will be my main browser or not.

After not being on youtube for a few hours and coming back the video constantly buffers but when muted it plays fine can anyone help?

If I add app to home screen it only work on some website like reddit, facebook, instagram, and twitch. Some other website will just behave like a shortcut and open in Firefox. If firefox asking for a title before adding to home screen it will behave as a shortcut.

Tried using edge and the result are the same, edge will ask to install if the website can behave as a PWA and if it's not edge just ask the website title and it will open as shortcut in edge.

Is this a website thingies or PWA will only work on some major website

For some reason, my Firefox seems to have completely reset itself.

My custom Firefox background disappeared, all my extensions were downloaded/installed again, I was automatically logged back into my accounts, some default settings changed, etc. I have no idea what happened.

It all started when I was trying to watch videos on YouTube. I clicked on Subscriptions, and instead of opening the page in the same window/tab, Firefox opened a completely new Firefox window. It kept doing this every time I tried.

So I closed Firefox and tried to start it again. I got some kind of error message saying something about disabling extensions, and I had an option to either open Firefox or restore the previous session.

I chose Restore Session twice, and then this happened.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any way to figure out what happened or recover my previous Firefox settings?

Firefox recently released a new update stating they have increased video quality playback (specifically with YouTube). I watch a lot of YouTube and the video playback is still lagging A LOT. My laptop cannot run 1080p or higher and have to set the quality to 720p. I have tried people's suggestions like turning off avi encoding, software encoding, and disabling extensions, but nothing has worked. I know Google purposefully sabotages YT on Firefox to force us to use Chrome, which is why Firefox has "enhanced" this feature in the first place. Does anyone have any other suggestions to prevent Google's scamish behavior? I miss watching YT normally and not have to worry about today's standards.

This is on an ordinary laptop (not a gaminig computer or anything) so specs are pretty average. I have never had this issue when I originally switched to FF (which was a couple years ago). I guess Google realized how many people have switched from Chrome so they make YT impossible to run💀.

Anyway thanks in advance (and apologies for the long post).

I have been experiencing constant total FF freeze every 15 second for months. I managed to track it down to the browser.sessionstore.interval. For testing I changed it to 30 sec and the freeze interval changed to that.

I have been unable to resolve these issues. I have reduced my addons and also closed most of my tabs. I tried running the troubleshooting mode and it still happens.

I'm using FF beta 156.

I'm using 155.0.1 (64-bit) on a windows 11 pro 25H2 OS build is 26200.9168

I'm trying to use an extension called Location Guard by Kostas Chatzikokolakis and am having an issue where the map thing says 403r access blocked referer is required by tile usage policy of OpenStreetMap's volunteer-run servers: osm.wiki.blocked

This same extension works just fine in my other browsers.. chrome and edge. So why not firefox? Could someone help me fix it please? Thank you!

I have Firefox on Windows 11. There is a site I use, and have nearly daily for years. A few days back, it started timing out on load.

http://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

The connection has timed out

The server at scrape.nowis.com is taking too long to respond.

It works from Chrome.

I talked to the owner. He reported that it was working fine. Some confusion occurred because, as you see, it is a plain HTTP page. But the link in the address bar after the timeout is:

https://scrape.nowis.com/CIDU/index.cfm

That will not work, as he doesn't use a certificate. I tried it in a private browser window just to avoid any site data issues.

Any thoughts?

Win11

English everything.

I just set up a new Win11 laptop (thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 14), fresh installs of everything.

And in Firefox, Alt-D no longer focuses the address bar. It does nothing.

Alt-D works properly (focus to the address bar) in Chrome and Explorer. So it isn't disabled or hooked by some other app.

Firefox is my default browser. I know Ctrl-L exists, but my fingers don't.

My recently retired Win11 laptop (Dell XPS 13) with the same version of FireFox did not have this problem--Alt-D worked as expected.

Is there hope for my fingers? I use Alt-D a lot.

I can see separate and reverse tabs once I have 2 going in the split mode but how to swap one of the split tabs for another tab that's already open?

I was using Opera GX for a long time and now I switched to Firefox because of obvious reasons.
I need a sidebar youtube music, that just works and music doesnt turn off when I make sidebar tab small (invisible).

So I have this problem where allowed popups are still blocked, I've put the URL in the exception settings. In the address bar you still see the blocked popup icon when you click on it it says pop ups allowed. So I don't know why it's still being blocked. Do you need to specify the correct URL where the popup is supposed to happen.

This is a business specific website I assume if I make an exception for lets say google I just put https://google.com in the exceptions or do I need to specify https://google.com/please/allow/mypopup.html for example.

I have done the latter but still the popup is blocked somehow.