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When I click the subscribe to rss feed I don't get the subscribe using live bookmarks screen the tutorials shows. I get a loading message then nothing and no bookmark of any type is added and there is no live feed.

If I look at my bookmarks there are no live feed bookmarks and no category of "live feed" exists.

Certain websites are opened in mobile form, on my desktop, no matter how I try to get there, favorites web search, link from e-mail etc. PayPal and Sony are two that I can not open. I have to switch to IE to be able to use these sites. Going to PayPal takes me here, https://mobile.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/wapapp?cmd=_wapapp-homepage, Sony here, http://m.sony.com/, no matter how I try to get there or what I put into the address bar.

Foxfire regularly gives me the error message: Server not Found -- BUT if I hit refresh, the 'not found' server opens immediately 99.9% of the time. This is really annoying. Happens multiple times per session, but not every time I click a link.

I have the "Remember passwords for sites" and "Use a master password" boxes checked and a master password successfully set - but Firefox has stopped asking me whether I want to remember passwords or not and, of course, does not save them.

I have tried unchecking them, clearing the master password, clearing all remembered passwords then rechecking and setting a new master password but no luck.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.

Varton

Hi I love Firefox but one page won't load. I just see the word 'Done' at the bottom left of the page and a white, blank screen. The page loads perfectly using IE8 and Chrome. All browsers on auto update. It is exactly the same on another PC in the house, running Windows XP Pro.

The page is: http://business.ikea.com/sb/siteshell/startup.html#,en_UK;profile,join

It's behaving as if Flash isn't up to date. Or not installed. So I tried: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ Sure enough, it says Flash isn't up to date. I click on 'update' and I'm told Flash is up to date.

Any ideas?

Regards to all

When I first start Firefox everything is fine. And everything remains fine as long as I don't type into any web page's text boxes. I can type into the address or search bar all day long without any problems.

But, for example, just typing into the edit box to ask this question on this site will result in the problem after I type in over say 150 characters. After that typing ANYWHERE in Firefox will be painfully slow, even the address bar or the search bar. It doesn't seem to matter which site I use to type in text. All cause the problem to occur after typing in enough keystrokes.

Browsing & mouse clicking remains fast -- it's only typing that seems to be affected. In order to recover I have to restart Firefox.

If I look at the Firefox.exe cpu usage in Process Explorer I can see that once the problem occurs, the cpu usage starts spiking every time I type a key. In fact Firefox maxes out one of my dual cores so the cpu is at 50%! It drops down to 0% again once I stop typing.

As mentioned in the subject this is in Safe Mode with all extensions & plugins disabled. I am running on Windows XP SP3 with an old AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (1.81Ghz) with 2.00GB of RAM.

I think this started to noticeably happen with Firefox 3.6 (it's amazing how long I can browse without typing) but it used to happen occasionally with earlier versions. Now it is annoyingly repeatable.

I have to use "-no-remote -P ForTyping" to start up a separate Firefox session that I just use to type into text boxes so I can restart it at will. I also compose messages in an external editor and just paste them into Firefox to avoid typing as much as possible.

I was trying to go into "http://laparrillaonline.com/". Instead a window popped up stating " 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded and below it said: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.39 Server at laparrillaonline.com Port 80 Is it my computer or his server that exceeded it? Thank you

There are no security exceptions in the 3.5.13 version. If I add an exception to 3.6.11 I can then view the certificate but there is the message in the Certificate Viewer ' Could not verify this certificate for unknown reasons.'

When starting Mozilla Firefox 3.6, I get an error window which opens up additionally overtop my browser windows stating:

"Javascript Application"

followed with :

"Invalid username/password combination. If you continue to get this error, try entering your email address as your username."

Obviously it is happening with one of my email addresses/usernames & password combinations of which I know the username for (which I choose not to post here) and I'm not sure where to begin looking for a resolution to this problem.

After I was forced to update to 3.6.11 my bookmarks (about 610 of them) search from the sidebar very slow. It's painfully slow. Makes my blood heat up when I think of Firefox now :(

I've tried clear cache, create new profile and import bookmarks, running an add on to clear dns issue bookmarks and duplicates, removed all live bookmarks.

UPDATE

SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS USER AT BOTTOM

All other users follow Cor-el's link in main solution

Hello. I run Windows Vista on a Toshiba laptop and use Firefox 3.6.11 I am attempting to watch a movie via the NetFlix "instant watch" feature. I have noticed that both movies tend to be a bit dark. I cannot find any settings options to change the brightness or contrast within Firefox.

I am also looking into the NetFlix help site in case this is JUST with their movies. I am mostly just curious to know if it is possible to change these settings.

ALSO - changing the computer's settings does not affect the problem in any way either better or worse.

Firefox litters its working directories with ever bigger files ending in .sqlite. Right now it has a 40MB urlclassifier3.sqlite file. What are these files, and why do they need to be so big? How can I reduce their size or limit their growth? Presumably just deleting them will cause mayhem?

I have my browser open, working or reading email and BOOM, another tab opens and it is always the same web page. Why is Firefox opening a new tab without any input from me? I do not have the suspect web page saved as a "Favorite". Nothing is showing up on any bug/virus/spyware/...et.al. programs. WHERE is this pita hiding??? `

Okay. There are really two problems I've been having.

1. When I do the above-mentioned task, I have no history. when I click on History, it will give me 10 most recently visited websites, as well as the option to Show All History. When I click on Show All History, the box that pops up is completely blank. Other than my 10 most recent sites, I have no idea what websites I have been visiting.

2. If I try to bookmark a page, and then I click on the folder menu, and select 'Choose...', it goes blank. It does not show the dozens of bookmark folders that I have created for myself.

Both of these issues are extremely frustrating for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I purchased a song to download from Walmart.com and received the error message when I tried to download the song; "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (wmms) isn't associated with any program." I've never had a problem before. I paid for this download & I can't even access it.

About two weeks ago I started getting this error message every time I started up Firefox: xmlNode.getElementsByTagName("id")[0].firstChild is null - 2.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, but the error continues. Then I did a System restore to several months ago, but the error continues. It doesn't happen with any other program.

Does anyone know how to get rid of it. If it has anything to do with the registry, I'll just have to let it be and switch to a different browser.

I am trying to upgrade from Firefox 3.6.11 to 3.6.12.

Step 2 of the process says "Drag the Firefox icon into your applications icon.

First problem: I don't have an applications icon. Second problem, being creative I open Finder on my Mac and try to drag the Firefox icon into the applications folder. Won't work. Still shows I have Firefox 3.6.11 So I can't get beyond Step 2.

A second problem is that the download screen with the three steps continually fills the screen. So there is nowhere to show an Applications icon to drag the Firefox icon into. Every time I click on the Step 2 icon, the screen maximizes and covers anything underneath it.

Any suggestions?

I looked up the information regarding the password files for FireFox 3.6.x on the web... it is my understanding that everything is in the files signons3.txt and key3.db. However when I copied these files to a FireFox 3.6.x instance on a second PC and launched FireFox, the password list (under security) was empty. What other files or procedures are needed to export/import passwords from one PC to another? Also, it would be nice to have this feature added to the native FireFox user interface... I am not comfortable with using an add-in for this as you can never be sure that your passwords are not being compromised by the add-in program.