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To get a new search bar to come up I have to go to File, open a new window. If I select open a new tab, only a tab comes up, no search bar. I tried downloading current Firefox then reverted back to old ones trying to fix my problem.

In Firefox 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.0, when I type a single word like "word", instead of doing a Google search it opens http://word. How this can be corrected to do the Google search instead?

Ok so it started few days ago( when v 15 was new version), 1) firefox lasted at max a minute before crash saying firefox encountered unspecified error and will exit. Then the send crash report box would open. 2) When it was working; my muse kept hanging, like if you unplug it and then plug it in, no problem on other browsers with same sites but on fox it did.

Remedial steps taken: 1) I disabled all addons and extensions no dice. 2) re installed it using v 15 then 16 beta then 16 today no dice 3) Re installed windows and installed Firefox works fine but when i import my stuff from backup even without addons and extensions (using mozbackup) it starts the problems again. repeated step 2 but still zip.

I uninstall it and install version 4. import ALL settings even plugins extensions addons everything and it is working like a charm.

why on earth does newer versions have a problem with it.? they are supposed to be more resistant to crashes.

I "unknowingly" installed an extension/addon via Firefox created by brandthunder. I say "unknowingly" installed because somehow something an addon was installed called "Prestosavings." I use RoboForm and kept getting this popup message every time I tried to auto fill a form via RF:

The site domain does not Match URL of the passcard. Match URL:/https://savecdn.com/addon/coupontool2/iframe.php http://https://savecdn.com/addon/coupontool2/iframe.php* Site URL: https://savecdn.com/addon/coupontool2/iframe.php Do you still want RF to fill the form?

I was going nuts trying to figure out what was happening! A "coupontool2" addon? Whenever I see the word "addon" I automatically know it's a Firefox thing. I never installed that so where was it coming from? I opened up my Error Console from a few sites and found tons of entries referring to "prestosavings". It was as if my browser had been hijacked! I did a little research and found this: PrestoSavings :: Add-ons for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/prestosavings/ I had never installed that addon! I opened up my Profile folder and dug through the directories for any sign of the "PrestoSavings" monster! VOILA! Hidden away in the Chrome folder in btpersonas@brandthunder.com Extension folder. Hmmm....The PrestoSavings iframe.php was loading on every page I went to when I checked each page source! Hmmm...PrestoSavings bundled into my Personas? Not what I expected! Not what I requested! I quickly uninstalled the "btpersonas@brandthunder.com (took about 3 tries!) and another persona/skin (had the icon of the PrestoSavings) and NO more problems with RF. Again.....I did NOT install this PrestoSavings addon but it was installed - somehow Mysteriously - when I installed the btpersonas@brandthunder.com.

I just wanted to post this in case others are bombarded by the same problem. Do with it what you will.

Sincerely, Corona

I want to click on any link, without using any keys like shift, and always have it open in a new window, making that new window active. I know that shift clicking on a link opens it in a new, active window, but I want to do that just by left clicking, not bringing up a contextual menu. Firefox 4.0 Mac OS 10.5.8

Thanks for your help.

I am using Firefox v 13.0.1 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1.0) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Whenever my system resumes from standby I am not able to open/load any webpages in the Firefox session that was already running before the standby. I don't get any error message, but the page doesn't load at all. If I close the session and start a new one everything works fine.

I use Fx 4. and Fx 10 ESR on XP Pro on different machines. When I try to signup for Persona Account, I got a blank page with no button for signup. I then tried IE8 at the site and I got a signup button on IE. But when I clicked to go to the next page, so I could create a Persona account, I got a blank page with a red horizontal line running across the middle of the page.

I do not have Flash Player currently on either version of Fx. Flash Player has been causing problems on Fx 10 ESR for several versions now so I have chosen to no longer install it until Adobe fixes the problems (if I really need flash player, which is not likely, then I can use it fine on IE). I have never had Flash Player installed on Fx 4 which is on a different computer.

I think Persona Account must require Flash Player because I do have Flash Player installed on IE 8 on one computer and I can see the image to click on to signup, whereas,I see just a blank page on both versions of Fx. Persona Account manages your passwords/logins and should be accessible from ANY browser you use. I find it hard to believe that Mozilla would require Flash Player to be on all browsers that someone has who wishes to use Persona for password management. I use SeaMonkey, Opera, Iron (privacy version of Chrome), IE as well my Fx versions which are my default browsers on the two computers.

So, is not having Flash installed on either Fx version the reason I get a mostly blank page at persona.org with no signup button visible? And why can't I get a signup box on IE where I at least get a button to click to signup?

I have 2 versions of FF, latest 14.x and also 4.0.1 which I want to keep. I start both with different profiles using path_to_firefox.exe -P profile_name -no-remote With 14.x I have no problems, but can't install any add-on in 4.0.1 - I tried installing from web or from a .xpi file - in both cases the download progress bar fills to 100% and then stays there forever, without proceeding further. Is there a way to manually install an add-on? By this I don't mean from .xpi file, but really manually - if I extract .xpi contents, where should I place the files, and which other files I have to modify to have an add-on working?

OS is XP sp3 pro 32-bit US-English

Thanks

Was watching bbc olympics on internet of Andy Murray live, then I went back to see last 5 minutes again (which had worked before also with bbc olympics and same Live Linux Mint 11 running Firefox 4.0.1) and then problem started. Since then I have had same problem with other bbc olympics videos or with youtube. Even recurred after restarting computer again with same live dvd -r even though I've been using this for internet over last months without problem. I notice that my modem can start flickering since I start videos and carry on flickering for a while after I stop video - but I don't know if that's relevant. I had thought this was to do with the bbc, but was then having same problems with youtube videos. Another thing might have been that I had earlier in the evening added the 'https finder .85' but this was only applicable during that session - unless somehow I've suffered repurcussions from the ISP for doing that??? Any ideas?

uploading the excel document using silverlight application, excel should convert to xml and saved in database . Firefox is taking morethan a min to upload the document