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Hi All, Very fond of Firefox browser and would like to know what the Best Version for my Lap-Top is suggested. Currently running Win Vista Business, Dell Inspiron 6400, 2GB ram, Intel 2.00GHz, 32-bit. Due to the fact this system is older, I have not upgraded to the the most recent 21.0 Not to mention the ad-dons that may or may-not be affected. Current version is: 18.0.1 and seems to run very well. I have been getting notices of a New update available for 21.0 Not Sure why. As an average computer user I hope to inspire some assistance to determine my best course of action.

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Thanks... Jay stine139@hotmail.com

Profile Missing Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

^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!

Button appears in the right lower corner to the left of the scrollbar when scrolling down long-ish webpages. I find it tremendously annoying as it covers the information underneath and when I hit it accidentally it obviously makes the whole webpage jump back to the top. Any idea how I can get rid of it ? Thanks heaps for your help !

I am running mac os x version 10.7.4 and I was attempting to update from Firefox version 3.5.5 to the latest version. The Firefox icon in my doc still persists and leads me to the old version of Firefox. Is this supposed to happen?

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...

For the last few days my Firefox does not display the downloads window. I have tried to follow the suggestion set out in Firefox Help ie Tools --> Options --> General

But my General Tab doesn't show under Downloads the option to check the box "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file". Under Downloads, the only option shows "save files to Downloads" and "Always ask me where to save files".

Any suggestions on how I can get to --> Downloads the option to check the box "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file".

Thank you in anticipation

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

I'm using FireFox 20.0. I downloaded the add-in, installed it and re-started FireFox but LastPass doesn't show up in the add-ins nor does it fill in the login info on sites that I have in my LastPass vault.

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