Questions tagged [firefox]
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source Gecko-based web browser. It is the current default for the Ubuntu desktop.
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Adobe Flash Plugin is vulnerable/outdated in 14.04 but there is no update in Firefox
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. When I open a site which requires flash plugin (e.g. Youtube), Firefox says This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated.
However if I click Check for updates... there ...
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Where is Firefox's plugins directory?
I know that there are extensive, "proper" methods for installing Firefox plugins. However, I would like to know where the folder is for linking shared-object (.so) files, such as libnpjp2.so and ...
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Your native host connector do not support following APIs: v6
When I try to download extensions on https://extensions.gnome.org/, this message appears:
Your native host connector do not support following APIs: v6. Probably you should upgrade native host ...
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Can I view Firefox history with the terminal?
Is there a command to show Firefox history from the Terminal ?
without the need to Enter Firefox history graphically .
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How Do I Open Fixed Window In Firefox (like Chrome app mode)?
I'm essentially wanting to create a desktop shortcut to open a window of Firefox without tabs, locked address bar, no menu, etc.
Similar to what some pop ups look like or what Chromium Desktop Apps ...
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How can I get Firefox to recognize multitouch gestures on a touch screen?
Multitouch seems to be working fine on Chromium out of the box, but not on Firefox. On Chromium, dragging a finger up or down the screen scrolls the screen as expected, but on Firefox, that gesture ...
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How can I change the voice used by Firefox Reader View (Narrator) in Ubuntu?
The default voice as well as all alternative voices are very difficult to understand.
I cannot find any documentation about how this feature is wired up.
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Why does Firefox try to use Gedit to open .deb files
I am running Firefox 15 on Ubuntu 12.04.
If I go to a website with a .deb link, Firefox downloads the file, then tries to open it with gedit. If I use Nautilus to open the .deb file, it runs it in ...
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How to start firefox in fullscreen mode?
How do I start Firefox 4 in fullscreen mode (the one activated by pressing F11)?
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"Open containing folder" in Firefox does not use my default file manager
My system default is Nautilus. But when I right-click in Downloads and choose "open containing folder", it opens Thunar and not Nautilus.
How can I change that?
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"Shockwave Flash is known to be vulnerable" warning
Good evening!
Today, I turned off my computer without any problems and went out. When I came back and tried to surf the net, I saw that my firefox started giving me this problem:
"Shockwave Flash is ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Video Download Helper can't (ever) find its Companion App
The venerable Firefox Plugin "Video Download Helper" has been a mainstay of internet video downloading for years. However since I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 it can not ever find the "...
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How to use American English spelling dictionary in Firefox?
My Firefox spellchecker was complaining this morning that I spelled 'neighbor' in the American English style, not the British English style ('neighbour'). Same is true for color (colour), analyze (...
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Pressing backspace doesn't open previous page in Firefox
In Firefox on Windows when I press the Backspace key it goes to the previous web page I surfed to.
Why doesn't it work in Ubuntu and what can I change to make it work?
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How can I get Firefox to use Dolphin instead of Nautilus?
I am using dolphin as my file manager and when I download something via firefox, I right click the download dialog and choose "open folder", I always get nautilus.
Why doesn't firefox open the ...
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How can I install an older version of Firefox?
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04, which already has Firefox v31. I want to install an older version of Firefox. How can i do it?
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Is it possible to avoid Firefox as Snap installation and keep deb-version on Ubuntu 21.10 flavor?
I have just installed fresh Ubuntu MATE 21.10 system.
Then I ran update-manager manually to check and get some new updates.
It showed a surprise for me - it will remove Firefox deb-package as shown on ...
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How to create shortcuts to different Firefox profiles
I followed the instructions present here in order to use two Firefox profiles simultaneously. But I would like to make this process faster by starting each profile from its own shortcut. How do I ...
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Inconsistent Sound Volume Ubuntu 20.04
I upgraded from 18 to Ubuntu 20.04 a few days ago. I listen to music through Google Play Music's website which I load in Firefox. I noticed that now Ubuntu has app specific volumes (cool). Since I ...
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GNOME Shell extensions not working in Ubuntu 22.04
I followed the instructions on https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linux-desktop
to install GNOME Shell extensions, but I still get the error:
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How to get the URL from a Firefox tab to the terminal using command line?
Is there a way to get such URL using some sort of commands?
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Watching Netflix in Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 generates error F7355
I've just set up a laptop with brand new Ubuntu 20.04 and visited Netflix in Firefox.
There was a yellow toaster underneath the address bar stating
You must enable DRM to play some audio or video ...
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Moonlight extension not working with new Firefox versions
The web browser I use is Firefox (currently in version 8 in Oneiric).
According the Compatibility Check information the Moonlight extension is not compatible with FF8. Anyway, I enabled this extension ...
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How do you open Apt links in Ubuntu?
I'm trying to download an Apt file but I don't know how to. I'm using Firefox too.
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How do I export saved passwords from my firefox password manager?
I want to export my saved passwords in Firefox/Mozilla manager to an external password manager application with better encryption.
Where is the password file located and what is the file extension? ...
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Copy-Paste from Firefox 88.0.1 not working properly on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)
A few days ago I upgraded from 20.10 to 21.04. Since then Copy-paste sometimes(!) does not work.
It seemed random, but after some experimentation I think it is when I try to copy from Firefox to some ...
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How do I close a new Firefox window from the Terminal?
I have multiple instances of Firefox running in Ubuntu 14.04. How can I close the most recently opened window/instance from the Terminal?
I tried using the cfct alias defined in an answer to a ...
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Ubuntu Touch: no onscreen keyboard in Firefox?
How can I open an on-screen keyboard in Firefox on Ubuntu Touch (bq M10, OTA10.1)? I've tried in both tablet and desktop mode, and no keyboard pops up. I tried some other things, such as dragging from ...
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Why is Firefox so slow?
After updrading to ubuntu 12.04 LTS (on a DELL Studio XPS) firefox is not working like it should. It takes a lot of time before launching (> 20 seconds) and the application is abnormally slow, not to ...
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Should I use No-Script?
I hear that web-browsing is the most likely origin of malware on a computer these days. I also hear that one doesn't need to worry about viruses on Linux. So, should I use a browser extension that ...
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How to open Zoom meeting link in Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04?
Zoom supposedly installed.
I click on the meeting link in an e-mail, Firefox opens and asks for an application to open the link.
Now, what?
It's odd that no file/link association exists, having just ...
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Firefox keeps resetting Pulse volume to 0
Been running Ubuntu 17.10 since beta 2. Suddenly today, every time firefox closes an audio stream, the application volume in Pulse is set to zero. This happens, for example, when switching from one ...
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No file preview while opening an image in 22.04
In 21.10, when I try open a file, I could see a thumbnail preview on the right. This was true with Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape.
Sadly, after upgrading to 22.04, all I got are file names and an image ...
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Why does removing Firefox install another browser?
I want to remove Firefox (with sudo apt-get purge firefox*) but without installing the Epiphany browser. How can I do this?
I want to remove Firefox because I want to use Google Chrome as my default ...
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How to make Firefox use the newest Java version, which is already installed?
Apparently, I have OpenJDK 6 JRE (openjdk-6-jre 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) and 7 JRE (openjdk-7-jre 7u25-2.3.10-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) installed in parallel – I don't know why I have both of them, I can'...
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Make Firefox user agent appear as Windows?
Is it possible to make Firefox or any other browser user agent appear like it would be Windows?
Because my online-banking refuses access due to my operating system. The only accepted OS is Windows.
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How to install Microsoft Silverlight on Firefox on 12.04?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit on my system. I am using Mozilla Firefox 37.0 and Google Chrome 41.0 browsers.
I went to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/about in both browsers. In ...
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How to move between Nautilus panes?
I believe Nautilus is the file system in Ubuntu.
When I have two tabs open, in say my home directory, how do I move between them easily?
Is there a shortcut key?
For example:
In Firefox, Ctrl + Tab ...
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My browsers can not connect to the internet while my Ubuntu is connected
I am using Ubuntu 1604, and I am connected to a WiFi network.
My computer is connected, I can download and install updates, I can use skype, telegram desktop and everything but my google chrome ...
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Firefox profile cannot be loaded after upgrade
I upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04, now when I try to run Firefox from the icon it pops up this: "Missing Profile. Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missed or inaccessible." I already tried ...
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Regain control after opening firefox via terminal [duplicate]
I'm opening firefox via the terminal using
firefox
but I can not type any other command after this one since I don't regain control of the terminal after having typed that.
The only way to do so (...
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new Firefox 70.0 update breaks Firefox
I just performed a Software Update where Firefox was updated to version 70.0. Now various web sites don't load correctly... like Credit Karma and Netflix. Amongst other problems, clicking links on ...
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Firefox 84 Crashing
After upgrading to firefox ver 84.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 (from Ubuntu 20.04 repo), I've been getting a lot of crashes in firefox (rest of system is still functional). It usually happens more than ...
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My cursor theme not working inside Firefox in 21.10
I have my own cursor theme which works almost everywhere else inside 21.10. But inside Firefox, I see that the cursor falls back to default. Is there any method to make sure that the cursor remains ...
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How do I get pulseaudio to start automatically in Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10 for Firefox?
I am trying to get Firefox 56.0 on Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10 to play sound in videos in Facebook (not even sure it is specific to Facebook). I have isolated the problem down to pulseaudio not getting ...
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Running 32-bit Firefox with sun-jre in 64-bit Ubuntu [duplicate]
I am trying to run juniper networks connect program to vpn into work and it only works on 32bit sun jre. All the things I have found with google failed so far. I can't use any scripts, like ...
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Firefox starts in mute by default
Firefox always starts at 0 vol as if that is supposed to be the default or something.
Any time I adjust the volume in firefox, I have to open pulse audio and turn the volume back up for firefox.
Any ...
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Why is internet upload so high when I don't actually upload much?
Total Monthly Internet Bandwidth
I use vnstat to monitor internet usage:
$ vnstat
rx / tx / total / estimated
eth0:
Jul '17 210.70 GiB / 51....
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High contrast theme Firefox problem
I am using the high contrast inverse theme in 12.04 as I am visually impaired. This generally works great but causes a problem in Firefox as entered text e.g into a Google search is white. As the text ...
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Firefox doesn't launch in Ubuntu 13.04
Firefox starts when I use sudo in the terminal, but not from the launcher. All the other apps work like a charm, just not Firefox. How can I fix this?