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Drop Down Lists, and other Problems after upgrade

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dblatnik
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Noticed the problem on http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/?expandAllOptions=true&Log=0

Drop down lists do not respond they way they did last week - before 36.0.1 upgrade.

Choose a brand, and then you are supposed to be able to select from a list of models. Not happening.

I have several of the privacy add-ons (see below) but they have not changed with the upgrade (unless they too were upgraded automatically.)

FF is becoming less and less of a joy to use as the years go by.

Noticed the problem on http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/?expandAllOptions=true&Log=0 Drop down lists do not respond they way they did last week - before 36.0.1 upgrade. Choose a brand, and then you are supposed to be able to select from a list of models. Not happening. I have several of the privacy add-ons (see below) but they have not changed with the upgrade (unless they too were upgraded automatically.) FF is becoming less and less of a joy to use as the years go by.

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Hey dblatnik

Oh dear, lets get you back on the road again.

It sounds like it may be something to do with the websites interaction features. Try updateing your adobe flash and see where that gets you.

Good luck and let us know how you get on Brad

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Bradforth
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Hey dblatnik

Oh dear, lets get you back on the road again.

It sounds like it may be something to do with the websites interaction features. Try updateing your adobe flash and see where that gets you.

Good luck and let us know how you get on Brad

dblatnik
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Along the way of getting that done, the website launched a new version. I upgraded some things, and Microsoft added a few upgrades to confuse the issue, but it is fixed now....

I upgraded Flash, cleared cache and associated history, applied a dozen MS updates (the usual security etc.). Between that and the relaunch of the site, everything works now.

Thanx

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that your System Details list shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize prefs each time Firefox starts. The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created this file and normally it wouldn't be there.

You can check its content with a plain text editor (right-click: "Open with"; do not double-click). The user.js file is read each time Firefox is started and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so preferences set via user.js can only be changed temporarily for the current session.

You can delete the user.js file if you didn't create this file yourself.

You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:

Windows hides some file extensions by default. Among them are .html and .ini and .js and .txt, so you may only see file name without file extension. You can see the real file type (file extension) in the properties of the file via the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer.

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Bradforth
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Hello again

Glad everythingis working now don't forget to get in touch if Firefox misbehaves

Brad