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i reinstalled firefox to my desktop the previous one used to show my homepage google when i opened a new tab in my home page .but it doesnot open my homepage google now it is blank with some rectangular blocks

I use a Mac desktop version 10.6.8. On advice from my ISP and Apple advisers they said uninstall Firefox and then reinstall a new version and that should not have Alot as the opening page. Have tried this several times following online instructions but each time the new version opens with Alot!

Previous reports of this problem in this forum have had their threads closed. This is still a bug in FF 17.0.1, and has a bug report of 696566. One suggested solution of setting print scaling to 90% does not have any effect.

unfortunately I cannot paste a screen capture so I have to describe it: When I launch Firefox /17.01) a pup-up opens in the bottom right of the screen. It cannot be closed by its own [X] icon. Title: "Browser settings change" An unknown change was detected on your browser's search settings. Options: ° keep my current serttings ° I am aware of rthis change and approve it There is a [Yes] button. No matter what I do, this box does not go away with normal user gestures. It remains open when I close the main window, and I cannot open a new Firefox window as long as it's there. I can close the pop-up from the taskbar only (or from task manager of course).

I really get annoyed when software decides to stop what I'm doing and go update itself with out asking first. I've turned off the auto update on my Norton and all Microsoft Products. Before you say the updates are needed that's BS it is just away of making computers obsolete or by using up their memory with constant updates.

I came to Firefox to get away from that nonsense don't change it now.

If the option "Allow pages to choose their own colors...." is checked, my colors for font are not used. If that option is not selected, there are many "meaningful" colors used by the site that I cannot see.

It seems like "nothing-or-all" to me.

Can I use my font colors and the site/page uses its color for other elements (except the font) ?

Please, try that option to see this forum page.

THANK YOU.

Following Firefox update to 17.0.1 my Kaspersky P/M 6.0.1.54 was noted as being incompatible. I since downloaded a patch to upgrade the P/M to 6.0.1.55. This appears in my list of add-ons but when a password is required it is not filled in as it was before the Firefox update. Also P/M 6.0.1.54 appears on the Extensions tab as (disabled) but I can't get proper instruction from Help on how to get rid of it. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you. On the Installed plugins information in the box below I do not see the P/M 6.0.1.54 in the list. However it appears in the Plugins tab in the Add-ons Manager.

I am on a MAC PRO with OS 10.6.8. I have updated my quicktime plugin. It is enabled I am on Firefox 17.0.1 I used to be able to watch my videos on my website is www.Anneybonney.com using Firefox. Now nothing plays. They work fine on Safari and Chrome. I don't know what else to try.

Recently, FF has started opening my last tabs when I start a fresh session. I have already checked to make sure that none of the applicable settings are enabled, such as under Options->General: When FF starts "SHOW MY HOMEPAGE" is selected. But for some reason, it opens my last session. The only way I've been able to get it to stop doing this is by having it delete my browsing history after I close the session. I don't want this since I often use my history to re-find information I need for class research. I have made certain that all my settings are the same from before FF started doing this. It only started doing this after the computer was turned off for a long weekend.

I've already searched through the Mozilla help pages and all I can find is how to restore the previous session or similar. I don't want to restore my previous session, I want it to stop restoring my previous session without having to delete my browsing history each time.

My desktop is running Windows 8, which recently crashed. Since then, every time I start up, Firefox 17.1 (which is in the startuo folder) does not load, but brings up an error window saying (Couldn't load XPCOM). Dismissing the window then allows me to start Firefox myself. I have uninstalled Firefox (but not the personal stuff), downloaded a new copy of Firefox 17.1 and re-installed.... same thing happens.

Just to clarify ..... this only happens once, following the initial boot up of the desktop. I dismiss the error window and all is well after that.

Any bright ideas please?

What is XPCOM referring to? A missing dll file? can I find this file elsewhere and move it to the correct location?

Many regards.

As of late, my Firefox browser has been freezing my entire computer. It keeps saying that it is "not responding", my mouse turns into that blue circular loading screen, I can't exit anything, I can't even open task manager, I have to take the battery out just for my computer to turn off.

I scanned everything with Norton; didn't detect anything. I even did the Norton Power Eraser, still nothing. I set Firefox to run the program as an administrator and I thought it was fixed but it wasn't.

I even update my plug-ins and for some reason, your website keeps telling me I need to update the same ones, so I can't even rely on that.

I noticed that it does happen when I'm on a Youtube page. Like when I've paused a video.

It opens fast, it browses fast, it goes to certain websites fast. It's this annoyance that has really bothered me and has considered me switching to Google Chrome.

If you don't want me to, then tell me how to fix this issue.

I would enter various notes in the Properties Window of Bookmarks I have had for years. I would go to Bookmarks, find the bookmark, right click for Properties. the Properties Window s would appear, with the Name, the url, Tag, and a Description window. Now when I right click Bookmark, no Properties window appears. I am able to get to this Properties window via the Bookmark Toolbar, but not by using the Bookmark drop down.

I downloaded the latest version of Firefox and I noticed that I get re-directed to other sites sponsored by "Info Atoms".

I called myself removing it by looking up troubleshooting tips elsewhere. I was told to go into the registry editor ("regedit") and locate the files and delete them. I did that and I still get redirected to Info Atoms sites, and see pop-up menus under fields where I am to type in a key word search.

This only happened since I got Firefox. None of the other browsers on my PC had this.

I just want to know how to get rid of it once and for all.

It's not listed in my programs list, does not turn up on a search done from my START menu. It's buried somewhere in my registry settings.

I want successful downloads to be automatically removed from the download history.

Or at least removed when the window closes (it already closes automatically at end of download).

I can't do that from the Options menu, is there a way using the about:config ?

Whenever I post on my blog, this shows up at the bottom:

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How do I get rid of it?

I'm pretty certain that Google has also always been my default search engine when searching using the Address/Location bar, but it has been switched to Yahoo Search.

I attempted to follow the suggestion of opening the "Manage Search Engines" box and clicking on the "Restore Defaults" button, but that button is greyed-out and inactive. I then installed the SearchReset 0.2 Add-on, which was another recommended solution found in Firefox Help. This DID change my Home Page back to the defualt setting, and removed Yahoo as the search engine when using the Address Bar (although searching is now not possible at all there), but it didn't reset the Search Bar in any way, and Google and Wikipedia are still not listed as choices there. Also, Search Reset didn't uninstall itself, as it's still listed as an Add-on, even though the description on the SearchReset homepage says this will automatically occur.

I will also mention that at the same time the Search Bar difficulties began, the ForecastFox 2.2.2 add-on stopped working and disappeared from the Status Bar, but I was able to restore it by first disabling it, and then enabling it again. Also, before I was able to restore ForecastFox, Firefox would crash whenever I clicked on "Manage Search Engines", but this crashing has not happpened since ForecastFox was restored. Weird!

Chase Banking is always doing upgrades to their website. In their latest update the useable links on the account activity page simply don't appear under the "I'd like to" heading. Even the "I'd like to" heading is not appearing. That side of the page is empty, but if you use Internet Explorer all the links at there. Does anyone else have this problem using Chase Banking?

Found the issue to this problem, I had a software program running called Ad Blocker. When I disabled this program the links became visible. I will use the other suggestions posted to this message.

I have Firefox ESR 17.0.4. When I installed Firefox, it came with something called Web Developer. It's not an Addon, it's not an Extension, and it's not a Plugin. I've checked the Add-On page and it's not there. Also, I went to my profile folder within the %APPDATA% folder (%APPDATA%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles), and I can't find it in there anywhere.

I just want to get this program gone lol. Has anyone been successful in doing this?