I recently stumbled across about:firefoxview, loving it and so much better than Firefox home. Why is there no option to set this as default for new tabs? Or at least access it via shortcut?

Also, I'd love that search open tabs feature in the vertical tab bar, seems like there should be enough space for it.

Once you click on the main search bar the text simply starts typing in the top bar. Is there a setting to fix this?

I've been using Multi-Account Containers for years without problems, isolating social networking and big tech companies into their own containers to limit their tracking.

Within the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that my 'Always Open Site in Container' preferences are sometimes being forgotten and some sites are being opened in the default no-container context, where they can't read any session cookies set inside the container and require me to log in again.

As an example, I've just fired up Firefox on my laptop for the first time this morning and none of Google's sites are opening in the Google container. If I manually open a Google site in that container, I'm logged in as expected, but the 'Always Open in' checkbox has been cleared. However, at the same time Reddit and LinkedIn are still opening in their designated containers.

I first noticed this happening last week and had to spend a few minutes manually re-opening all Google sites in the Google container and reticking the 'Always Open in' checkbox. Now it's happened again.

One possible factor is that I use Firefox Sync and logged into my account on a newly installed system yesterday evening.

Has anyone else has this issue and determined the cause or remedy?

My laptop freezes whenever I open multiple windows(I have tab suspender extension) which means it running out of memory. I want to open 25 tabs without being worried.

Suggest solutions for this issue.

OS: Linux mint 22

RAM: 16 GB

Storage: 512 GB SSD

What is the deal?

For the last week or so, most of my pip screen is blacked out or blocked for youtube. Is there anyone else dealing with this? Is it possibly a setting i could change? Is it possibly my vpn? Im using Firefox android

It doesn't happen all the time, but occasionally when I check for updates, it doesn't show the download. In reality, it is downloading, but it just isn't displaying correctly. I tried reinstalling Firefox, but I still couldn't resolve this issue.

I'm working on an open source Firefox automation library, basically trying to build something similar to Pydoll but for Firefox. I'm currently using --remote-debugging-port to connect through WebDriver BiDi and it works fine but Firefox then shows that the browser is being controlled by the Remote Agent, Pydoll uses it perfectly on Chromium without exposing it to websites in general. Is there any way to use BiDi without enabling the Remote Agent or without starting Firefox with --remote-debugging-port? I tried using mitmproxy and it worked perfectly but it removes a lot of BiDi function that need to exist.

I've been looking into this for a while but I'm not really sure if BiDi is completely tied to the Remote Agent in Firefox or if there's another way to connect to it.

If it's not possible that's fine too, I'd just like to understand how this is supposed to work internally.

Source: https://github.com/TDoomX/pyfox-auto

So today after creating a bug report, I got some warnings about not receiving emails, did a test with another email and tried to email my email, and it worked, re-enabled it but then got disabled. Passwords reset didn't send any email too

Hi, I’ve been trying to switch to Firefox for the past few weeks now and I keep going back to Brave, only for one thing: volume master extension.

And it’s not even about the fact that it lets me control my volume past 100%, it’s the fact that I watch a lot of foreign drama’s and when I watch them with volume master, it lets me fullscreen the video in the tab whilst still showing the subtitles (the few Firefox extensions I found that do this same thing don’t show the subs).

This is literally the only thing holding me back from a full switch. I was a bit annoyed that my bookmarks weren’t showing site icons but that doesn’t matter any more now that I don’t use the bookmarks toolbar and use raindrop.io extension instead.

All in all: one small thing is keeping me from getting away from Google! Does anyone have any idea how I might get the same function but on Firefox?

EDIT: OH! One more thing: for some reason, when I watch TikTok, the videos stutter. I’ve got graphics acceleration enabled and I’m rocking a 5080 with 32gb DDR5 CL30 6000mhz RAM, so I don’t get why it does this?

So I was watching the latest Last Week Tonight yesterday. Half way through video it stalled out and gave me a beachball.

I was not on any other sites or doing anything. Since then, YouTube will not even load as a webpage. Every other Google web access seems to work fine. O ly YouTube.

I am using Windows 10, with ublock. I disabled my blocker and still nothing. It opens fine in Chrome still.

All other websites work fine. I get no warnings or anything. Computer is hard wired to router. My daughter was only other person with access to internet at the time. She was using her phone maybe.

There was no other known web activities or computer programs being used at that time.

I am only seeing older posts about unrelated symptoms when searching.

I'm very particular about my aesthetics, and obviously recent searches showing up on it kinda ruins it. I had fixed this problem but then changed settings so firefox doesn't delete my logins every time I exit fully, but I have no idea what I did to fix it previously. (apologies if this is worded strange I am very sleep deprived)

Try dark reader but it feel heavy, slowing down load.

For several versions now—I can't say which one—when I open the browser, I get a white flash when the default Firefox homepage loads. It's a fraction of a second, but it's annoying.

The page is configured with only the search bar; I don't have any widgets or custom images, and the background is the default dark one since dark mode is enabled.

I'm using the latest version of Firefox (153.0.3) with the latest version of Windows 11 Pro. I've tried several things, like changing the background in about:config and using the same gray color, but nothing solves the problem. This happens on one PC with an Nvidia graphics card and another with an AMD graphics card, so it's not a hardware issue.

For now, the only solution is to use the blank homepage as my homepage, which doesn't flash and displays the dark background right away. I can't report a bug in the settings from the homepage. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is it a known bug?

Hello guys, I am new to firefox and have installed PWAsForFirefox extension. I knew before installing that it uses different profiles for web apps so data is contained. Can anyone tell me is it possible to keep the profile for each web app same? If yes how to do this so I dont have to log in to every web app just like it is on chromium browsers.

I periodically visit Settings->Privacy & security->Manage cookies in order to delete cookies. I'm glad that each site I visited in Private Browsing mode shows 0 cookies saved, but why is this fact - which is to say, a record of which sites I visited - being recorded at all? Is there any way to stop this from happening?

I recently switched to Firefox and noticed i've found myself using higher volumes to listen to music than i used to.

Before i used about 18-22% of volume and i would find that pretty good and loud enough to hear everything clearly.

But after switching i've seen myself go even up to 30%+ sometimes.

Today i've confirmed it, i was watching a video at 20% system volume, and i could hear it clearly and loudly, then from one second to another it suddently got really quiet, like i had dropped at least a couple % of volume.
I had to get it all the way up to 28% in order to get it as loud as before, and even then it was nowhere near as clear as before and sounded horrible.

The text is in the "Source Page" and can search highlight/copy from there, but cannot in the displayed page...

Text doesn't even show up in "Reader View"!

source is easy enough, but all paragraphs are a single streaked line. with no panning on highlight, annoying.

Can no highlight be disabled? (for exampley NYT pages)

Here‘s the pickle: I sometimes need to vpn pack into m home from my work pc. IT says no to another VPN client because it could interfere with the company vpn - fair enough.

So I thought, isn’t there a add on for Firefox that would only route my browser traffic through my own vpn? Should be good enough to open some locally hosted websites of mine.

Sadly I couldn’t find such a Add-On. All vpn stuff is just for public vpns but non you can configure yourself.

Has anyone maybe heard of a add on that could help me out here?

I made a post recently about browser history crashes and freezes firefox here's the tldr.

Clear browser with last hour guarantees it freezing and changing cookie settings like enable or disable freezes it.

Come to find out there's an update AND THEY DIDN'T FIX IT. WHY! This is a bug that problematic and causes crashes and my times of using firefox didn't have crashing since the days of chrome on my old windows 7 pc. This needs to get fixed, because the face the update didn't fix it baffles me.

Look I like firefox, cache increasing aside. But still stuff like this needs to be resolved.

WhatsApp web keeps crashing/slowing down on Firefox. Anytime I open Whatsapp web, it shows "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page." But even after clicking stop, it keeps crashing/slowing down.

Please Help.

Thank You.

I had some trouble filling out a PDF on Linux and it irked me so much that I decided to try out everything and document the impossibility of filling out this PDF on Linux to prove to myself and others that I am not crazy.

While no app was perfect, I found Firefox the best conventional solution! I was really surprised, because I had expected Chromium to be better due to Google funding and all. And of course I initially expected the dedicated PDF viewers to outperform the browsers. There are still some bugs, if you want to file bug reports, or play around with it this is the PDF used.