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OS is Mint Mate 20.3, FF currently 125.0.2.  Normally leave 4 tabs on FF when shutting down or suspending computer.  Since the last two FF updates, it sometimes opens with one or more tab pages modified from originals, for example- email might display a random received email instead of home page, or NWS radar shows a different map from the one previously set.

These are all recent errors, and appear maybe 25% or less of the boot-up or wake-up cycles.  Anyone else seeing this?

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I haven’t seen that on any of my Mint machines (only one of which is running Mate and that’s on 21.1)

To me it sounds like it could be a website issue and that a couple of the websites are dynamic instead of static. AskWoody is static in that I have to hit the refresh button on a browser to see new threads/topics/changes to threador topics. I have a junk gmail account that refreshes automatically whenever a new message arrives in the inbox. Maybe the offending websites have made a change recently?

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Slowpoke47

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DrBonzo wrote:

…it sounds like it could be a website issue and that a couple of the websites are dynamic instead of static.

And a web-based email interface page along with the NWS’s radar page for any given area in the country sound like two such pages that are subject to randomly being updated/refreshed.

Since you say that it’s started happening since the last two FF updates, that makes me believe that Mozilla tweaked the code for FF to change the way it deals with these types of pages perhaps. Just a thought.

If anyone has concrete proof of these theories, please feel free to jump in! 

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latest version of Firefox is 125.0.3.

v125.0.3 of FF not yet available for your Linux Mint Mate OS version, Slowpoke47?
it already came out for most Windows, Mac OS & Linux OSes.

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FF 125.0.3 has NOT been offered to my Linux Mint computers. Latest is FF 125.0.2

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Slowpoke47

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FF 125.0.3 just today offered on Mint.  I usually wait a bit on FF updates due to their recent history of stumbles.

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Charlie

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Firefox 125.0.3 release notes page from the Mozilla web site:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.3/releasenotes/

first offered Monday April 29 to most Windows, macOS & some Linux distros

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FF releases first go through Canonical/Ubuntu and then on to Mint, so there is typically a lag time of a few days between the release date according to Mozilla and the date it first shows up in the Mint Update Manager. FF 125.0.3 first showed up on my Mint machines via Update Manager this morning (May 2).

Nothing would prevent me from downloading the latest version from the link you provided above, but it’s typically easier to just let the Update Manager handle things, particularly because the UM does its job flawlessly – as opposed to similar update programs associated with other non-Linux operating systems. I suspect Slowpoke47 follows a similar strategy.

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DrBonzo wrote:

I suspect Slowpoke47 follows a similar strategy.

You suspect correctly.  Perfectly happy with UM.  But I’m still prone to waiting a bit until any fallout settles.

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I always wait at least a few more days before installing FF updates unless there’s a dire security need to do so.  I’m still running FF 125.0.1 and I’m not experiencing any of the problems these updates are supposed to fix.  Using Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.

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