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^This message comes up when I try to open Firefox on my MacBook Pro. I've been using it a long time but it crashed during an update. I've tried the other troubleshooting issues, and I do not seem to have any files in the Library or Application Support. I am NOT a techie and I have no idea what I am doing. Please help! ASAP!

I accidently hit "enlarge window," and now the Firefox window fills up the whole computer screen and I absolutely cannot resize it. Since I have a Mac, I first called Mac Support and they worked with me for an hour and a half trying absolutely everything they knew. Couldn't do it !

I have the 21.0 Firefox browser in a 10.6.8 Mac operating system.

I can slide the screen around, but I cannot make it be the smaller size it was before. How do I fix this ?

Please answer in kindergarten simple language as I am an "old" person and just don't understand so many of the technical computer terms

Thank You

As the description says, I am unable to turn on the password manager. I have tried disabling all of my add-ons/extensions, and turning off my firewall. After that, I tried restarting the browser, and still getting the same result. Here is a screen cap:

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/carbonblack/media/pwmanager_zpsae099e1c.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

The box is there, but it is shaded, and I am unable to check the box to activate it. I am running Firefox v21.0. I have two Addons: Adblock Plus, and Adblock Plus Popup Blocker. I simply use Windows Firewall and Microsoft Security Essentials. But, as I said before, I turned all of those things off and I am still getting this problem. Any help will be appreciated.

I've been using firefox for a really really long time, and I play quite a lot of facebook games. Yesterday morning, things were working perfectly fine, but later in the day, I suddenly started getting these shockwave errors. I can't recall downloading anything and I must have uninstalled and reinstalled the flash player at least 8 times. It's honestly starting to frustrate me. I love firefox, but if the browser refuses to work, I probably won't be using it for much longer.

This has happened 9 times in a row. I also restarted my computer overnight and that did not fix anything. I believe Firefox had updated just before this starting happening yesterday. I am posting this through Chrome... Starting in safe mode and resetting Firefox have both not helped. Here is the latest Crash ID: bp-0b3b806d-2c69-4749-a959-6dbdf2130525

while working with native console, i wish to view error logs, server response etc. but while doing so firefox crashes and also it crahses my compiz. i have recorded a video , here is the link http://youtu.be/B0PzbPmIsI4

Auto update this morning

Ever since, I'm experiencing the worst, slowest, excruciating experience ever

I've been using Firefox since the beginning - how many years is that? It is my preferred browser - err, was ...

I'm about to move to Chrome if I have to wait nearly 30 seconds for pages to load

Gmail keeps complaining about a stopped script

please, help!

I would like to be able to open firefox's buit in Inspector/Web Console through a toolbar, instead of right clicking and pressing q... Is there anyway to do this... There isn't an item for it in the customize toolbar dialog...

I have tried to reset Firefox, ran Malawarebytes and Super Anti Spyware, ran Norton, and even tried by downloading TDSKILLER. Nothing is picking up this virus or getting rid of it. When I rest Firefox, it appears to go away; however. my PC runs slow. I did not get the toolbar or any adverse effect running IE though. Should I uninstall Firefox or will this make it just find another home in my laptop? Please help!

I've gone through all the suggestions, troubleshooting listed here and nothing has worked in stopping this "hanging" business. It started earlier this week with FF16. So I tried uninstalling, clearing out any traces of it, profiles and all. R-installed with the previous extensions, plugins and scripts. Still did it. So I either disabled or uninstalled said add-ons. Still did it. Upgraded to 17, then 18. Same problem. "Not responding" every couple of minutes for just a few seconds, longer when I switched tabs. I'm a heavy tab user, but given the problem, I've gone down to no more than 3 open at the same time. Still hangs. So I decided to do a complete overhaul. Did a reset. I even thought it was my computer (Vista with SP2) which had been working fine and was slowing down around the same time FF was hanging and being a resource hog.

With FF uninstalled, with the help of Microsoft support, I worked on the laptop. Uninstalled my usual programs, including AV (which had avast). Moved all my files to an external hard drive. In essence leaving my computer with bare bones. Did a defrag and a system restore. I reinstalled av, then ran it. All clear. Ran malwarebytes. All clear. Ran registry clean. All fine. So I reinstalled FF18 and did not use any add-ons. Still hanged. Went up to FF19 beta thinking whatever but there is, would be cured. And it worked fine witn no add-ons. So I started installing my usuals, but leaving only the most important ones, ABP, No Script. Was ok so I added greasemonkey, smartest toolbar, download statusbar and unhide passwors. All which I've used for years with no problems. And FF19 worked fine with no hanging for like a day and a half. Today, (jan 24) not only is it haning and not responding again, but it's doing it more frequently and for longer.

FF never has crashed, it just hangs and freezes. My job is ALL online. I don't like Chrome (not user friendly to me). I'd rather avoid using IE. I'm a user of FF since day one, but this is stressing me out because I cannot do my job properly.

What can I do to make it stop? My only other option is to just forget FF and try and get used to Opera.

Now that I think about it, could this hanging problem be related to the Java issue that has come out publicly recently?

I don't know what else to do. I've tried everything that has been written here. Trust me, I've wasted 2 days on this issue. Time I'll never get back and I could've used to do work.

Thanks

I do have "Remember History" checked in Options -> Privacy -> Firefox Will:

This seems to happen usually within 24 hours. Sometimes it happens after the browser has been closed and reopened, and sometimes it happens spontaneously without the browser having been closed.

Now I was recently plagued with the searchnu browser hijacker which I have subsequently eliminated but I am wondering if it may have changed some Firefox preferences which are not obvious that need to be changed back to their default settings.

I have tried to find an add on for this protection against someone trying to access a porn site on my nexus. hope u have a suggestion. I did find one for our regular computers but not for the nexus 7. please help me

firefox 20 has been hanging constantly with a different script error depending on the site visited. "Script: https://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-watch-extra-vflEcdvg9.js:329" was encountered on youtube. I have tried safe mode with ad-ons disabled, reset firefox, rolled back versions of flash and java. nothing has worked. I am currently using google Chrome

This just started after I reinstalled Firefox after sending my laptop to Dell for repair. Of course, they reformatted the hard drive. :( I have tried various settings in the options sections for tabs, such as switching to new window immediately. It does do that but as I said, after a few seconds, FF brings back up my email page and I have to click on the thumbnail tab at the bottom. It's doing this with every link I click on in gmail.

sync keeps coming up with an error and when I click the appropriate help option it takes my to services.mozilla.org and gives me the "invalid security certificate" page. The technical details box says:

services.mozilla.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:

 www.mozilla.com , mozilla.com  

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

This started happening on both my syncd accounts at more or less the same time.

While I imagine it's more-or-less safe to allow this, I'd really prefer not to do this without some confirmation and/or some steps to take to just stop it happening without doing this.

First why does Firefox stop allowing me on the internet--it happens about every 4-6 weeks? Second I have to uninstall and reinstall the most current version to get it working again--why doesn't it update automatically? If I didn't have Internet Explorer I would be screwed because I couldn't even get to the internet to get the new download.

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