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'''Please note that this is not the place to file your bug reports.''' To do this, first search the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/ Firefox Bugs forum] and post there, to ensure that your bug has not already been filed. If it hasn’t, you should then submit your bug to [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Mozilla's Bugzilla] but, again, only after intensely searching through it first. | '''Please note that this is not the place to file your bug reports.''' To do this, first search the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/ Firefox Bugs forum] and post there, to ensure that your bug has not already been filed. If it hasn’t, you should then submit your bug to [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Mozilla's Bugzilla] but, again, only after intensely searching through it first. | ||
===User interface=== | ===User interface=== | ||
* [[ | * [[Browser will not start up]] | ||
* [[Profile in use| Firefox says my profile is in use]] | * [[Profile in use| Firefox says my profile is in use]] | ||
* [[Lost bookmarks| I lost all my bookmarks and settings!]] | * [[Lost bookmarks| I lost all my bookmarks and settings!]] | ||
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* [[Alt Enter doesn't work | Alt-Enter to open a link a new tab won't work for Windows ME/98(SE)]] | * [[Alt Enter doesn't work | Alt-Enter to open a link a new tab won't work for Windows ME/98(SE)]] | ||
* [[Master password | Firefox asks for a nonexistent master password]] | * [[Master password | Firefox asks for a nonexistent master password]] | ||
* [[Open File dialog has the OK button grayed out]] | * [[Open File dialog has the OK button grayed out]] or other problems with the Open File dialog. | ||
* [[Resizing oversize window]] | * [[Resizing oversize window]] | ||
* [[Window shakes]] | * [[Window shakes]] | ||
* When using multiple windows and tabs the [[Old Input Focus | focus acts strangely]] | * When using multiple windows and tabs the [[Old Input Focus | focus acts strangely]] | ||
===Extensions=== | ===Extensions and themes=== | ||
* Problems with extensions and themes after [[Upgrading (Firefox) | upgrading Firefox]]. | |||
* [[Update compatible, but not installable extensions for a new Firefox version | Getting older extensions to work]] with updated Firefox versions. | * [[Update compatible, but not installable extensions for a new Firefox version | Getting older extensions to work]] with updated Firefox versions. | ||
* Problems with [[uninstalling extensions]]. | * Problems with [[uninstalling extensions]]. | ||
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* Problems with installing [[RealPlayer]]. | * Problems with installing [[RealPlayer]]. | ||
===Problems with | ===Problems with websites=== | ||
* [[ | * [[Error_loading_any_website | Errors connecting to any website]] such as "document contains no data" or "connection refused". | ||
* [[Filenames with spaces are truncated upon download | Filenames are truncated when you download a file]] | * [[Filenames with spaces are truncated upon download | Filenames are truncated when you download a file]] | ||
* [[Websites look wrong | A website looks wrong in Firefox but works in a different browser]] | * [[Websites look wrong | A website looks wrong in Firefox but works in a different browser]] | ||
Revision as of 02:25, 23 September 2005
Before checking the following issues, you might want to look at the official list of known issues for Firefox.
Please note that this is not the place to file your bug reports. To do this, first search the Firefox Bugs forum and post there, to ensure that your bug has not already been filed. If it hasn’t, you should then submit your bug to Mozilla's Bugzilla but, again, only after intensely searching through it first.
User interface
- Browser will not start up
- Firefox says my profile is in use
- I lost all my bookmarks and settings!
- Firefox used to work, but now looks or acts strangely
- Alt-Enter to open a link a new tab won't work for Windows ME/98(SE)
- Firefox asks for a nonexistent master password
- Open File dialog has the OK button grayed out or other problems with the Open File dialog.
- Resizing oversize window
- Window shakes
- When using multiple windows and tabs the focus acts strangely
Extensions and themes
- Problems with extensions and themes after upgrading Firefox.
- Getting older extensions to work with updated Firefox versions.
- Problems with uninstalling extensions.
Web features
- Problems with JavaScript.
- "Access to the port number given has been disabled for security reasons."
- "Firefox says always that I have x new mails but I don't!"
- "Firefox doesn't display ALT text! Why?" explanation Tools to alter standards compliance concerning ALT tabs: [1] [2]
- When I download a file Firefox launches a new blank window.
Plugins
- Problems with installing Java.
- Problems with installing Flash.
- Problems with viewing PDF files or using the Adobe Reader plugin.
- Problems with Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0.1 mousemove event on Linux .
- Problems with installing RealPlayer.
Problems with websites
- Errors connecting to any website such as "document contains no data" or "connection refused".
- Filenames are truncated when you download a file
- A website looks wrong in Firefox but works in a different browser
- Certain websites look like garbage
- Links to Local Pages Don't Work
- How to disable popups that pass internal blocker?
- How to disable bookmark this page popup?
- Your Linux distributor releases a patched FF but the FF website wants to force you to update
- You receive an error message going to an FTP site instead of a login
- You get a SSL is disabled error message.
- Cookies are Blocked or Objects are Blocked
Versions older than 1.0
- Oddities installing more than one extension at a time (Firefox 0.8 only)
- The installer ate my files
- Click on a link shortcut or Favorites in Windows displays an error or opens two windows/tabs.
