Firefox

Apologies if this is a bit hard to understand.

Anytime I say anything against Firefox, I get called a lot of really bad things, including suggestion to kill myself, so don’t worry, I dont expect anything else this time. Thats not the reason Im posting this. This is supposed to be a constructive UX review from one user, thats me. I usually use Brave, but every now and then go test other browsers. Im wondering what kind of experience anyone has with the same situation. They are mentioned in the order I noticed them.

When using the built-in translation functionality I get horribly bad results for my use case (translate to German). So bad in fact that some texts become nearly unreadable gibberish. It feels like how machine translations were 20 years ago.

I unfortunately need to use Google Meet for work meetings. It generally works in Firefox, but I get constant random disconnects. Sometimes, it’ll only happen once in an hour long meeting, other times it’ll happen every few minutes.

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Let me start off by saying that I adore FF. I had a period in my life where I used Chromium, but moved back to Firefox a few years ago and love what it represents and what it contributes to the community and world.

(Edited) Context: https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756

https://github.com/drive4ik/simple-tab-groups

On desktop-firefox, there are profiles in about:profiles and now there is a new entry in the menu with profiles but these profiles don’t show up in about:profiles and the menu-profiles are like a sub profile of about:profiles-profile.

Hello I just noticed when I shared a link to a friend on WhatsApp from Fennec I got a little as message: “Shared with Fennec” and a link to Mozilla’s website. Has anybody had this too? I would to disable if possible.

Does anyone know Mozilla’s support email address? I’m locked out of my account and unable to sign in to support. Someone please help me. Thank you.

I have my default search engine set to noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s, but the search term in the address bar-function seems to be broken or unavailable. Is this a known issue or a bug?

I would like a simple way to download videos from the internet. For example, from YouTube, but also from social networks or, ideally, streams. Specific add-ons for YouTube exist, but I’m looking for something more general.

So I regularly see issues in Firefox where pages from certain websites (Hello amazon.ca!) shoot to 100% CPU utilization and just never stop.

It used to be https://mysearchengine.co/homepage, but that doesn’t seem to work anymore. It now redirects to https://hmsrchrdr.com/.

I have been using Zen-Browser as my main, but still use FF daily (both PC and Android). One thing that I have really liked with Zen is that I can move the window around by holding left-click just like the normal toolbar.

I'm using Firefox as my main browser and see a lot of websites which support passkeys but only with Safari and Chrome, but not Firefox.

I have already tried the official notes by Firefox (which is not maintained)

Last update force the logo on newtabpage (If I need to use CSS for basic change, where are we going?)

Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this but I couldn't find a Fennec-specific community and I don't know what I'd have to look up to find something related to troubleshooting browsers.

I'm doing my best to continue using Firefox, but it's becoming incredibly annoying, and I'm seriously at my wit's end and just about to give up on it permanently.

I'm working on a suite of scripts that will enable me to hop Linux distros and get back to business as usual w/ minimal fuss. When I hop distros, I tend to back up my important stuff and blow everything else away so I can start with a clean slate. I have some scripts for updating my backups before the wipe and updating the system after the base install:

I GENUINELY want to use Firefox, or at least give it another shot, but as a Microsoft Edge user as of 4 years ago when they really started refining features like vertical tabs and the overall experience, I jumped ship. Don’t get me wrong, I like Firefox and will use it…but until it gets these features, it’ll remain as a secondary platform. I just can’t make the switch as of now with the drop in usability it would bring. This is NOT a complaint against Mozilla or anything of the sort, more or less a “please notify me when Firefox gets these” or something like that.

In Firefox 141, a new experimental feature has appeared: browser.ipProtection.enabled. Bugzilla link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show/_bug.cgi?id=1971634

Hi everyone,

I know the title itself will result in a ban because also the people behind firefox are not alright but we know that.

Just received the notificaiton Jiffy Reader was disabled for a TOS breach by Mozilla, but what actually happened? I couldn't find news on it.

Hello all,

Oops, I clicked a random tab, now I can't find my previous tab.

Does Firefox have a good way to see how big a page is with all the images and other media that are embedded in it? I know about the Page Info button, but i think that only tells me the size of the page's HTML file and loaded media separately. As far as i can tell, it doesn't measure external CSS at all. And the numbers it does give me for my own site are different from the numbers i see from my computer's file browser on my local backup of my website. So is there a good way to know how big a page i visit is?

I've never heard of anyone using Thunderbird, but I hear about other Firefox users all the time.

There's three main things I've noticed. These things only started happening after Mozilla's change in leadership. While they have announced more features since then, I feel like the quality control has gone down a bit.

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Is anyone else having an issue of the back button being greyed out after clicking a link?

has anyone noticed pages that are just ai slop popping up recently? they have low quality information and serve no purpose but to waste time.

ff 138 added 'profiles'. What is the difference between the new profiles system and the old profile manager ones? It looks like the new profiles live inside a traditional profile.

I need fine grained, automated cookie controls I have tried these addons

I'm sorry to those that seen this from asklemmy comm. Didn't read the rules. Reposting here.

Latest update to LibreWolf changed it's user agent string and it's causing websites to freak out. For example amazon will default you to a mobile website and Youtube music is having issues. To make matters worse if you try to download an extension to change the user agent string, it won't let you and tell you to download Firefox. You'll need to manually override the user agent string by going into about:config. You'll need to add general.useragent.override string into config.