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After updating to 35.01 and now to 36.0, the Google search results page now behaves differently between Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The issue is that the "search tools" used to ALWAYS show the web/country choice filter (drop-down), but now only shows 2 options, that is the anytime filter, and the all-results filter. Chrome still shows consistently, all four options (web/country, anytime, all-results, local-location).

After reading various articles on this, and checking likely options in about:config, I found that the ONLY way I could get this back to "normal" was to override the "browser.newtab.url" setting as follows: browser.newtab.url;https://www.google.com.au

NOTE: I have NO problem or blockage in changing my home page (it is set to www.google.com.au) and do NOT have any malware, or the Trovi/SearchProtect/Conduit add-in.

This can still occasionally get the missed options, but it is now 90% consistent. It would be good to get a permanent and proper fix for this. If anyone has a better more rbust method, please let me know. TD

it is irritating.this pop never goes. it comes back after few second. even i tried uninstall and install agai. in same pc in IE 8 or google chrome. it never appeared so it is mozilla firefox problem. but how toover come to it ?

I would like google in firefox ALWAYS stay in English language wherever I travel. Before I used Opera browser and there was no such question. I tried alot of web search with no definite solution. Do I have to go back to Opera again. I found out that there are so may people out there suffering from the same problem. Opera shouldn't be the only solution.

This morning my Firefox automatically upgraded to 36.0.1 and since then it's been crashing ever 2-3 seconds. I uninstalled and did a fresh install and I also disabled all of my add-ons, but this did not help. I even created a brand new empty profile and it immediately crashed. I have not been able to get a crash while in safe mode. (In fact, I had to open Firefox in safe mode in order to complete this form.) This is very frustrating and I've run out of ideas. The troubleshooting information should be attached.

Shockwave flash is causing hangs giving 'firefox is not responding' message and slows my internet experience. I know its the flash add-on because when i disable it, firefox performs much better. I've tried all the suggestions concerning flash problems on this site and nothing has worked. I am running win 7 64 bit (home premium). plus Firefox 36.0.1. All drivers appear to be up to date but i will double check.

my question is.... is there a way to easily disable/enable flash w/o going into the add-ons manager? Depending on what i'm doing, i'm in add-ons manager to either enable it when i need it or to disable it when firefox is slow and hangs.

I've gotten to the point where i just open add-ons manager in a tab and leave it open because i know i'll probably be in there turning flash on or off depending on how its effecting my machine.

Also, i tried running flash in 'ask to activate' mode, but you have to reload the page so it can find the add-on.

This problem has been ongoing for a couple of months now; Firefox performance used to be so much better but this problem doesn't seem to be getting resolved. I like firefox, I really don't want to go to another browser.

Thanks, Duke

Since updating to Firefox 36.0 (OS 10.9.5), PDFs no longer preview in Firefox: I'm prompted to download and save them -- even though in Firefox Preferences, the default selection reads: Preview in Firefox. Help, please.

I use one website extensively day to day in researching for my business. Move forward and bacj to original search in order to tweak the search criteria and Im constantly getting:

Document Expired

This document is no longer available.

The requested document is not available in Firefox's cache.

   As a security precaution, Firefox does not automatically re-request sensitive documents.
   Click Try Again to re-request the document from the website.

This has become a real pain in the neck and I need to find a work around. Ive researched to find check the box stating "override automatic cache" which is checked already and still have the issue.

ALSO everytime I shut down firefox I get a message stating it has crashed??

YouTube website looks completely different and won't play any videos. Asks me for an application to play videos which it shouldn't do.

I took a screenshot but your image upload feature is not working. Little wheel spun around endlessly and never uploaded). So I will have to describe it.

YouTube looks like a cheap website with little thumbnails of the videos in a column along the left side of the screen with horizontal lines separating them. If you try to play a video you get a little box that says "This link needs to be opened with an application". Adobe Media Player launches but will not play anything. QuickTime won't launch at all, says file not compatible. But this is irrelevant, it should not require another application to play YouTube videos.

iMac OS 10.9.5 Firefox 36.0.1

I just upgraded to 36.01. When I right click on a link the menu of options is long and confusing. When I select open in a new tab or new window, it does nothing. What can I do to reduce the options list and how to fix the open new tab or window option?

Problems with Google taking over the browsing when I browse on Firefox's line

I have checked that the settings are as they should be as to your suggestion, and it doesn't solve the problem with Google taking over the browsing, I 'm afraid.

If I can I should like to remove Google permanently from my mac. I find it a bit difficult because I can't see the icon anywhere, which I find very strange. I have tried to seach in finder and elsewhere. I'll try to follow the instructions from a fellow on Youtube and see if I can manage. Can you help?

Hi, Firefox is great browser especially for those that care about freedom and privacy. I would like to know why it is not possible to specify custom search engine as you were able to do in the past version of Firefox. I would like to use google search engine together with https://search.disconnect.me/ that offers the possibility of anonymous searches. I know that exists a plug-in https://disconnect.me/search, but is not very comfortable with respect to standard search bar. Thank you

I read the proposed solution here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-search-bar-firefox-and-manage-search-engines#w_add-a-search-engine but in Firefox 36 does not work

I have a 25 inch wide HP - HD LCD monitor , since installing it , Firefox AND Google Chrome only show the page in the center of the screen all scrunched up , there is nothing on either side of the screen but the blank color of the webpage i am on (including this page) , this only happens in Firefox and Google Chrome , Internet Explorer (which i cant stand) shows the image across the screen the same way it would on a normal 19 inch monitor

I tried Full Screen , and this does not fix the issue at all , all it does is take away the address and menu bar , and the image is still in the middle of the screen all scrunched up , the attached image shows what most all web pages look like (the image shown is the page i am currently on to post my issue , as i just took a screen shot) , about the only page that looks normal is every page in Internet Explorer , every page i visit in Firefox and Google Chrome , including eBay ,Craigslist , and any forum i go to , looks like the attached image , again , this only happens in Firefox and Google Chrome , i just (last night) did a complete reformat and fresh install of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit , and SP1 , this is the same issue i had before the reformat and clean install , this is Firefox Version 36.0.1 and it says its up to date , i have tried every setting , including zoom and zoom text , with it doing nothing to spread the image across the screen as it SHOULD be

Any help would be appreciated ... Thanks ... Jim

I updated flash player 17NPAPI 3/20 and now no audio or videos will play. Have gone through all of the help on Odobe site, which shows the install but also shows my operating system as XP but I have windows 7. The previous version was still showing up in my programs as adobe flash player 16 Active X so I deleted the new one and thought the old one would then work okay. But still no audio or videos play.

My windows media player is working fine, it just when I get on line with firefox that I am having this issue..

Thanks in advance for any help

I did the Mozilla Refresh, the recommendation for which popped up today on my browser. It promised that I would get my bookmarks back - but they AND the top Toolbar are now gone. Tried Mozilla Help but can't see any detailed help on restoring the bookmarks and the top of the window browser tool-bar. (found notes on restoring bookmarks, but without the tool-bar they are not accessible). Need to get those back.

Hello everyone

I think that recently I had to update Flash version and it was all okay even after the update. But yesterday videos on YouTube all of a sudden stopped displaying. Just like that, in the morning they were okay and then around of noon, all of sudden blank. Didn't install anything new or something.. now I only get White screen with no any border, just an empty spot where the video should be. Beside that, any other flash content [i.e. videos on Facebook, vimeo are not displaying as well]. All I get on YouTube is constant "loading" indicator beside the cursor which keeps blipping.

Now the strange thing is first - I have no problems with this on other browsers like i.e. Google Chrome, and second.. IF I uninstall Flash from my PC, I can watch YouTube videos on Mozilla although the max resolution is 720p.. and vimeo/facebook videos will still not work. How da heck is that even possible? O.o

I've tried a lot of different things and nothing helped.. here are some of the them [I hope I won't forget something]

- Uninstalling Mozilla/Flash then installing them again - Uninstalling Flash, then letting Mozilla suggest me to add it - Disabling/Deleting all of my extensions - Turning off that hardware acceleration thingy - Deleting cookies from YouTube then adding them to exceptions - Clearing out whole history/cache or whatever - Right clicking on the "empty space" where video should be.. to see if any options will pop-up [Of course they don't, there is no video to start with] - Scanning for viruses [Nothing]

Can anyone please help me? Any suggestion, what can I do?