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when opening firefox (i usually crash it to close under task-manager) it reloads all the tabs as it should. But when opening a new tab i get "The address isn't valid" i have tried all the option settings for start up blank homepage and last opened. i have tried all the suggestions in the other treads, reset..about:config i do wish there was a document giving detailed info for all those settings when in about:config and search newtab,,the only user setting(not defaut) is browser.newtabpage.storageVersion;1 and i have tried 0,1,2,3,4,5 no change even restarting in between. Have done re-intall, reset, safe mode, to no avail the tab operates normally after the error ,,i.e. i can start typing in address bar and even the auto complets works..i just restarted fz and it did an update to 27.0.1 that didnt fix it either.. i miss the fx default page that has recent thumbnails.

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I've been anticipating the new update I was told would be today, and it was. After I updated it to Version 28 I opened FF and it immediately crashed. I sent in a crash report, and did that three other times. So now, sadly, I'm back to version 27 that stinks as well.

Anyone have any ideas as to whats wrong with it?? I checked my addons for compatibility and said they were fine. I did nothing different except update to newest version. Not sure what else to do. I refuse to uninstall anything at this point, although that seems to be the basic "advice" given here.....it never solves my problems LOL

So, what next?? And thanks for any help.

I have Windows 7

Whenever I start Firefox, I see wmiprvse.exe load as a running process. I see this happen by using Sysinternal's Process Explorer. This has been happening since I updated to the current version of Firefox (32.0.1). It also happens whenever I start up the current version of Thunderbird (31.1.1). I have two questions:

1. Is this normal behavior? 2. If so, why is it necessary?

And just to clarify things, I have researched this for HOURS using "my friend" Google. I have also tried to get answers to these questions in various newsgroups to no avail. My copy of wmiprvse.exe is NOT infected (I ran it through Virustotal) and is only located where it is supposed to be on my hard drive.

Please help me by sticking to answers to the two questions I have, and bear in mind that I'm only talking about XP SP3.

Safe mode crash log. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/dd6d1ea6-8488-4e36-93e9-011012140206

It crashes in safe mode. A lot more in normal. I think the main cause is tradingview.com. But vertsion 26 was very stable could run days with never crashing.

If I can't fix this i'll need to go back to version 26.

I am setting up a new computer and have set preferences to save PW & UN when opening sites. This function does not work even though FF has asked if I want to save the PW and they show in the saved password folder.

I downloaded an ebook but turned out it was not what I expected so I deleted it. But after that, I noticed that my search engine and homepage changed. I tried to delete everything I found related to the download I did in the control panel, managed to changed my search engine and homepage back. But whenever I start up Firefox, Awesomeph is homepage though when I click on the homepage icon, Google (which IS my homepage) would start.

I installed a malware software as what's advised on sites dedicated to that problem. Scanned and deleted the 19 threats found, restarted my system but still, Awesomeph is there. What to do?

I first downloaded Firefox Syn to my iPhone a couple of years ago and now I have an iPad and I'm trying to set it up for that I remembered why I never managed to set it up on my phone. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I just go round and round in this idiotic circle for pairing a device. First it took a long time to just get my iPad to give me the option of entering the numbers from my laptop, for the longest time all I could get it to do was give me another set of numbers to enter on my laptop (useless since that same page on my laptop was giving me numbers to enter on my iPad. Huh?) After I finally managed to get my iPad to allow me to enter the pairing numbers from my laptop, it then asks for the recovery key. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND! I have no "manage account" option under preferences on my laptop. All I have on my Mac under Firefox/Preferences/Sync is set up or pair a device. When I set up it asks me "create an account" or "have an account". Every time I chose have an account it takes me back to pair a device. I tried "create an account" but when I entered my email address it tells me I already have an account (I have a password as well). I'm just going round and round in circles and this is just the MOST IDIOTIC SET UP EVER. And judging by the hours I've spent trawling all the help forums and myriad postings on this I'm not the only one in this position.

How the hell do I get my recovery key?

How on earth do I get to the "manage accounts" option?

FYI I have the same problem with my iPhone. The only option I have there is "send me instructions" or "I have a sync account". When I select that I have an account it just gives me the 3 sets of numbers to enter on my other device and tells me to select "add a device" on the other device. But on the other device (my Mac) I I can't get past pair a device. There is no add a device option. There is no manage accounts option. Nothing but this endless circular hell that has me wanting to smash something. I'm not dumb, I'm relatively tech savvy, but I'm stumped.

I'm on a Mac OS X, Firefox 27. Both iPhone and iPad are on iOS7. Using Firefox Virtual Browser on the iPad, Firefox Home on the iPhone.

I have 4 similar PCs running Win XP Home SP3 and firefox. On one the StarStableOnline plug-in never seemed to run properly, it always re-installed the whole game at every log-in. Runs fine then, after waiting 35 minutes to start, though. One other PC started the same mis-behaviour after a few days, and one ran OK for 2-3 weeks but stopped last Monday 17th Feb. The 4th and last one has run OK since 20th November, so far anyway.

The SSO coding team can't explain this problem, it's very rare, they say, but I have it 3 times now on 3 PCs. The plug-ins are the same version, 1.0.0.2, just different download/install dates, and I've cross-copied plug-in files and re-installed from scratch twice, all with no effect.

On 16th Feb Firefox, at start-up, did an automatic plug-in check on the latest failed PC. That seemed to cause the problem. Nothing else on that PC had changed, no new S/W and no apps run for first time. The plug-in wasn't disabled or updated, as far as I can tell.

Is there any known problem with Firefox auto-update or Mozilla Maintenance Service and Win XP ?

I have found some firefox/crash reports/pending .. files dated the 17th Feb. These might explain more. But why are they pending? and where should I send them?

The web site http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/ will not open complely on Firefox; however, it opens easily on Explorer & Safari. What can I do to correct this?

how to remove avg search search from mozilla?

I have a problem with the addition of avg search search I can not remove it from your browser

the Plug-in does not appear to me withered installed on my computer

It appears to me only when I click on the Add New Tab Here Screenshot:

http://jpg.co.il/view/52f8b060cc7af.jpg/

I made this guide: http://malwaretips.com/blogs/avg-secure-search-virus-removal/

It does not work

I reset the browser, that does not work How can I delete it?

I have firefox set to automatically update. All of a sudden, perhaps after the most recent update, I cannot print anything. If I try to print, I just get an windows error sound and nothing more. I do not get the print dialog. I have tried to reset the printer configuration, and I have tried reinstalling Firefox all together. Neither sovled the problem. Please advice.

Thank you.

I saved my bookmarks before uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling tried to restore my bookmarks it says unsupported file type after Google checking everything said json so I thought it was json file then I just see on my bookmarks file that is FILE not json or html so how do I restore a bookmark file that is a FILE running Firefox 27.0.1 x86 us windows 8

Firefox crashes after a few minutes around an hour or so, and going through the matter through several system restores has erased all my browsing history. I've managed to test out updating my plugins, removing a virus successfully, and even resetting Firefox. The problem still persists. I have not yet tested out Safe Mode for sure yet, since I don't want to be dealing with ads often while doing so.

If I happen to try out memtest, I'm sadly not sure of which flash drives etc to proceed with the install.

Latest crash: bp-cbc14e34-3fda-4c4c-b885-82387d6474f3

Closing as duplicate please continue with open thread /questions/982984?page=2#answer-527488 ~J99

I'm not even sure why I'm bothering this, as I can already anticipate the answers (i.e. try safe mode, create a new profile, clear cache, etc...), but whenever I try to access a Facebook page, I almost always get a hang and then a script error. I've tried all the "fixes" above and then some including experimenting with add-ons/plugins to see if any of those were the problem, and to no avail. This also happens alot with ANY kind of page that has an embedded Facebook "like" button. That includes A LOT of sites, these days, so I'm constantly getting script errors during my Facebook sessions.

Anyone (regular users) else have this issue and have any creative solutions, or is Firefox simply sucky at properly rendering basically anything that has to do with Facebook? I see that this issues seems to be completely ignored in each "upgrade" of the browser. The only thing that even half-way works is QuickJava, but as I'm sure users of this extension know, that can completely render hyperlinks unusuable, so you're constantly having to switch it on and off during loading of pages.

I really just want this here for documentation purposes.

This is a new issue, as of today. I have not changed any of my settings for email defaults.

When clicking on the reply link on Craigslist, a window opens, giving options. I always choose the anonymizer. Today, when I clicked on it, Internet Explorer opened. When I right-clicked on IE to close the window, it rapidly opened up numerous tabs, each of which had the message "Navigation cancelled". I was unable to click on "close all tabs" for more than 30 seconds, by which time more than 50 tabs had opened. It took multiple attempts to close all those tabs.

Now, before you tell me to check IE settings, keep in mind that: 1) I NEVER use IE and 2) I have never had this problem in the past and 3) I have not changed any email default settings. Also, 4) I had no problems accomplishing my task on Chrome.

Something is haywire in Firefox 27.0.1 and I am at a loss as to what it might be or how to fix it. None of the online help pages has been of any use, up to this point. I have restarted Firefox and I have rebooted my computer.

Any ideas would be welcome

I have some sort of malware trying to send me to what MalwareBytes says are malicious sites. I'm working on that, but haven't been able to fix it. But my question is: a few days ago, after I load a webpage, the big download arrow moves up to the small arrow in the upper right, as if it is downloading something. Does that indicate that it has finished downloading that page, or is it something malicious?

I'm using the latest version for Firefox.

So, my most used action within Firefox was utilizing the middle mouse button in order to open a new tab on a link. Now suddenly after a format on my PC, the middle mouse button refuses to be acknowledged at all by Firefox; can't even hold it down to auto scroll or anything. I want to confirm that the button works on other programs and games with no issues. Using using ctrl/shift+click is not optimal but what I'm doing so far. I'm using the latest version, here's a list of the things I've already tried:

- Checking out all the related about:config's with "middle" as searching field.

- Made a new profile and reset Firefox numerous times

- Disabled/removed addons/extensions

- Wiped and installed Firefox completely - Tried with no addons

- Checked options

So far no luck at all, even tried some other browsers such as aurora & chrome with the same issue essentially.