Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
Questions tagged [firefox]
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How to install a Mozilla Firefox addon for all users on RDP server?
We have Windows 2008 RDP server with Mozilla Firefox 57.0.1 64 bit installed. How to install an addon for all users?

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How to install GTK3 on Amazon Linux?
I cannot install Firefox on my amazon linux machine. All articles I can google tells about GTK2 but how can I Install GTK3? Thank you.

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how to validate dhparams in apache <=2.4.6
How can I validate that I've properly setup my Apache 2.4.6 server with a custom 2048-bit (or 4096-bit) dhparams config?
Following the weakdh.org sysadmin guide, I created my own dhparams.pem file with openssl dhparam -out dhparams.pem 2048. The…

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Problems with Firefox and roaming profiles
On our network, when the user is logged on a PC and then tries to login on his laptop he is getting this error: " Windows cannot copy "..\%username%\Application Data\firefox\profiles....\parent.lock file to the local C:..."
I have tried deleting the…
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Firefox instance on Remote Desktop Server (2012) takes up to 30gb RAM / user
I just set up 5 Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard servers running Remote Desktop Services in a Session Collection.
The latest server I put on has 96GB of RAM and hosts 80 - 160 users. All users are simply getting web access with Firefox for the most…

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Altering hostname-IP mapping within a browser
A common way to test an existing website on a new server before switching it to production by updating the DNS record is to change the hosts file on a development machine (/etc/hosts on *NIX systems, and %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on…

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SSL Error: ssl_error_bad_mac_read
I am having a very weird problem when browsing a HTTPS site we host with Firefox.
I have no problem with most of the pages (we are using PHP/FreeBSD), but a few of them, when accessed with latest versions of Firefox (3.0.x), are randomly (not…

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Selenium in virtual machine is slower than desktop
I've set up a kvm virtual machine, CentOS 6 on both guest and host. I'm using selenium on the guest in order to test a web site. However, it loads significantly slower than trying to hit the web site on my desktop. It is also pretty inconsistent.…

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Is the common use of 'Add-ons' (on Firefox) recommended for terminal server installs?
Is the use of 'Add-ons' on Firefox safe (stable) and secure on a terminal server?
The install of a few Firefox add-ons has been recently proposed to us for our Terminal Server users. Has anyone had experience with enabling some very user oriented…

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Disable File Browsing Chrome/Firefox
Want to publish Firefox or Chrome in a XenApp/RDS environment. However, I can't find any central way to disable file browsing (ie. type c:\ in address bar). In fact, I can't find any great way in general to do this at all with these browsers. This…

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Exception while running Selenium on AWS EC2 instance
I am facing this exception when I run a Selenium test case using the Firefox driver on the AWS EC2 instance which is the headless server. I installed Firefox and all the necessary changes for it
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:…

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Disable Full-Screen Browsing in Firefox - for eternity
We have moved from Internet Explorer (my internal codename Exploder) to Firefox within our company.
For some reason, with relative frequency, I get the very informative call from a user, "I can't see anything except [description of browser inserted…

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Firefox ESR: Permissions
I have recently setup a development 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Host Server to test Firefox ESR 10.0.3. I can set the options to not check for updates and that works correctly. However a standard user seems to be able to go to Help>about and the…

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Running Selenium RC Headless via init script: Can not start firefox
I am trying to start selenium and the headless Xvfb X server using a init script and the daemon tool.
But when I start my environment using this method, Firefox fails to launch. It looks like it can not find Firefox 2 and then stops. When I start…

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firefoxadm 0.5.9.3 for firefox9 does not work
I know that firefoxadm works for old versions of Firefox but it does not for the latest versions. what are people using now, how do you configure for newer versions of firefox?

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