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Can't change prefs because the file can't be opened due to invalid character error code 800A03F6 User file can't be opened due to invalid character error code 800A138F

Using win 8 consumer preview- did re install synaptic driver and it worked for awhile. It does work in IE. I am talking about the up-down scroll on the right side of touch pad. HP DV6 laptop. Re installed drivers a second time but didn't make a difference. The little up-down symbol comes on when I use the scroll, but the page does not scroll. also works in thunderbird. Used to work when I first installed the driver. Thanks

I don't know what's going no. For no reason at all, out of the blue Firefox will have tabs about double the size, vertically (height) after a simple restart. No config changes or new add-ons.

Even tried safe mode with add-ons disabled and toolbar reset to default, same problem. Was fine before the restart. All I did was run CCleaner.

Running FF10 on Windows 8 CP 64 bit.

I have installed Firefox 10 and 11 in Windows 8 consumer preview.

It randomly presents unwanted artifacts especially on the tabs. E.g. when i right click on a tab, it may get the color of the firefox button (orange). If I click on sth in a page, some tab gets the color of the element I clicked. Other times, just maximizing and minimizing the window gets tabs colors mixed.

My graphics card is nVidia geforce 8200 GS

Firefox 9.0.1 freezes on a frequent basis when I use tabbed browsing. I click and drag links to the toolbar (as a new tab) and it freezes when I try to release it. Firefox becomes unresponsive at this point. If I wait, it can take, anywhere from 10 seconds to much longer for Firefox to return to a usable state. This problem happens frequently enough that it has become a nuisance. I have noticed this problem on both Windows 7 and 8 (64 bit). Is there a fix?

It told me after the fact that it was not compatible with Microsoft net framework and that when a fix came up, I'd be able to find it. I cannot access any programs nor anything in the control panel.

We recently moved from to an area where we can only get dial up. We purchased Propel Dial Up Accelerator and synchronized it with Firefox. Now Firefox fails to display our yahoo home page as it always did before. Once the page is finished loading we get just a blank page even though yahoo.com shows in the address bar. We cannot get to yahoo.com by any means. We have had to bookmark yahoo news page as only way to get any part of yahoo. We can access our email by going to mail.yahoo.com and signing in there. We have lost all access to our yahoo home page

URL of affected sites

http://www.yahoo.com/

After restart the list is empty. Windows is fresh installed at home (8) and new enough at work (7)/ Both systems have the same "feature"/ How to make FF save exclusions forever? coz it's very annoying

Peace be upon you and the mercy of God and His blessings!

I was using Firefox as my default browser for a long time and I love it! But at or after version 4 almost, I stopped using it and switched entirely to Chrome! I don't like the way of loading pages in Firefox 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Firefox is very slow loading web pages on my computer. I know that Mozilla still support version 3.6, and update it from time to time. But they don't add the new features/options in this version!

Take a look at this link: link text

In Firefox 3, there is no hardware acceleration, but after version 3, Firefox uses hardware acceleration by default since version 4. Firefox’s hardware acceleration interacts with a machine’s graphics hardware via DirectX or OpenGL (or webGL), depending on platform. These interactions tend to be very sensitive to the graphics environment on the system (e.g., the specific video card(s) on the system, how much VRAM is available, the version of the video driver, the OS version, etc). I tried to disable hardware acceleration, but it doesn't help. I also tried to enable Direct2D and DirectWrite, but Direct2D is still labled as false in about:support. When I use Firefox 7.0.1 on Ubuntu it is working great and fast, however on Windows it is amazingly slow. Firefox in Ubuntu is different, because they adjusted it and improved it enormously.

How can I fix this issue? Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I need to buy new graphics card? Thanks in advance!

filling this out repeatedly froze my screen, I have spent days trying to ask this question yet it freeze up on my last sentence EVERYTIME. I am giving up at this point. At least six hours lost to trying to use this and ask a simple question

I just started using Firefox a day or two ago. I didn't notice a problem with his browser while on Facebook until I attempted to change my profile pic. Now I can't even download a profile photo and none of the profile photos appear when I log on to Facebook.

It can't be a problem with my Security or Account Settings on FB because I share this PC with someone else in my household and they are having the same problem with their FB account.

Thanks.

Issue

I have another kind of problem with Firefox

Description

OK, we're all about Open Source. We're about non-profit.

Why then are we posting on Twitter and Facebook? I know Facebook is pretty big and "down with the kids" but Twitter is just hype; and commercial at that.

It's sending the WRONG message. Come on Mozilla, let's use a completely OPEN solution to micro-blogging and show the world that we support OPEN developers.

This happened

Not sure how often

I opened the Mozilla page

Troubleshooting information

None relevant

Firefox version

3.0.10

Operating system

Intel Mac OS X 10.6

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.0.10 Windows NT

Plugins installed

• -Gecko default plugin
• Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
• http://www.facebook.com/fbplugin/
• RealPlayer Plugin
• iPhoto6
• Contribute Plug-inInbrowser Editor Plug-in
• LogMeIn remote control components
• Java Plug-In 2 for NPAPI Browsers
• Unity Web Player lets you experience dazzling interactive 3D right in your browser. For more information, visit Unity .
• DivX Web Player version 2.0.0.263
• Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.6
• The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
• Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53