r/firefox

I have multiple devices all using Firefox. Up to now, I had one Personal environment linked to a Firefox account and synced across all my personal devices, and a Work environment only locally stored in my work device.

I would like to connect my Work environment to my Firefox account as a separate Profile, in such a way that I can sync tabs across all my devices, but keep work-related bookmarks and add-ons separate.

This seemed exactly what the new Firefox Profiles introduced a few months ago are for. So on my work device, I renamed my default environment as a "Work" Profile, and logged-in to my Firefox account to sync it. My expectation was for it to sync as a different Profile, allowing me to switch to my default (Personal) Profile I have on my other devices.

To my surprise, the sync started merging my Personal and Work profiles together. I logged-off and deleted all my personal stuff. I was a bit bummed because wtf this should work, otherwise what are Profiles for?!

A solution to get what I want would be to re-create my Work environment as a separate Profile from the ground-up. But come on, there must be a better way?

(Also, if somebody could explain how the new Profiles interacts with about:profiles it would be helpful, as I understand they are two different things with the same name that adds to the confusion.)

I'll start: Opening new tabs all the way to the right or bottom, rather than next to the current tab. Its especially disorienting on vertical tabs, I lose track of which (I changed the setting but its still annoying on blank Firefox profiles).

For "reasons", I've to keep my profile at a particular directory. I had managed to do that when I created the profile originally. But now, for some reason, when I open about:profiles, Firefox isn't finding my previous profile.

So, how do I point Firefox at a custom profile location and use that instead?

Hello,

I am currently working with a website not written in any language that I understand. I was trying to use automatic translation (the one included in firefox but also several addons), but non of them translates any text. After searching for the problem for a while it turns out that the website has translation disabled via html ("translate=no" and other commands). Is there any addon / way which can ignore those settings and translate the website anyway?

Some additional infos:
- translation on other websites just works fine. So its not a problem with the extensions I've tried.
- I can copy paste the text from the website into any translation app and it works fine. So I guess it should be possible to translate it in general.

I have uBlock Origin installed, and Youtube is just horrid for me.

More often than not, when clicking anything I get about 3-10 secons of lag before anything happens. The playback is absolutely fine, but you can imagine how frustrating it can be for a video not to pause when you want it to. It feels like the whole tab freezes.

I've googled a ton, and this doesn't sound like most other issues people have with Firefox+Youtube.

Bonus question: Is it normal that Firefox only restores one of the open Windows when restarting? My second window doesn't even appear in the "Closed Windows" list, so those tabs are just gone.

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My Firefox won't load any Mozilla websites. It won't load the Add-ons page or anything else. I've already changed the DNS to Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 on my Windows 11 Wi-Fi, but it still doesn't work. I don't have a VPN installed.

Even the update isn't working, as shown in the image below

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All other websites load up fast, but youtube takes foreeeverr and a half to load up tabs, browse it's homepage, and check comments. Frustrating asf!

I have strict enhanced tracking protection set. I'm logged into youtube on one tab, and on a second tab I go to apnews.com.

If there's a youtube video embedded on the apnews site, and I play it, it shows up in my youtube history. And if I check the cookies on each page, there's one youtube cookie that's shared on both pages.

Shouldn't total cookie protection protect against this sort of thing?

That address bar is ridiculously big

Hi, so over the past few weeks, when I try to watch YT shorts, my entire browser locks up after a few; and I have to end task using task manager to fix it. And randomly, my firefox will suddenly just lag my PC to where my cursor itself is lagging; until I close it.

Only using uBlock. Anyone know what to do here?

I feel like I'm the only one having this issue. Youtube is simply not loading for me most of the time anymore. At first I thought it was me being throttled because of uBlock Origin, but disabling it barely helps if at all.

I'll click on a video, my watch later, or my subscriptions and there's a 70% chance that the page will just be blank from not loading anything, or not even get to that page at all as the red loading bar at the top gets stuck about 3/4 through. I'll close the tab and try to reopen Youtube and not even that will take me back to the home page. I have to completely close Firefox for it to start "working" again.

I'm not sure what to do. I've cleared my cookies for Youtube and have uBlock disabled for the site as well.

Hello, is there any native settings on firefox to remove cookies per website upon closing? There is ctrl+I permission to allow per session but it doesn't seem like working!

earlier today the power went out and when my computer turned back on after a blue screen, my Firefox seemingly reset itself (everything else on my computer seems to be fine for now). I logged into my Firefox account and got my extenrsions and bookmarks back, but the other profile I used for work was apparently nuked. This wouldn't be too much of a problem because I could just add the bookmarks and log ins back, but it seems that I also can no longer switch profiles without having to log off and log in again with another account, when usually I would just click my profiles icon on the upper right corner and switch it there. the option to do that when launching Firefox also disappeared.

I looked up solutions online and all of them tell me to look for a folder called Old Firefox Data or look for old profiles on AppData. I can't find the former and none of the profiles files both in Local and Roaming arent the ones I'm looking for.

Is there any way I can still recover my profile, and if not, how can I go back to switching them the way I used to? It seems the only way to do so is to go to about:profiles which is very inconvenient and I still have to log in every time. I have no idea how this happened.

EDIT: there is also no recent crash report or update logs that could be responsible for this

One of my work web apps uses F9 as a common shortcut, but as of today F9 automatically switches the thing to reader view for no reason. The editor is not a readable view in any way, and it's eating my work. Is there a way in Settings to disable the key so I can use Reader View only with the menu option?

Is there any plans to add live caption like Chrome?

Do you know an extension that automatically generates subtitles?

(im on most recent firefox, linux)

thanks!