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I'm unable to lock the toolbars so that disabled toolbars remain disabled. HELP!

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Mizharmony
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I want to be able to disable toolbars; enable as needed, e.g., Yahoo toolbar. However, every time I open Firefox in a new window, there are the toolbars I just disabled in a previous window. What am I doing wrong/not doing? I'm also not able to control Panel uninstall certain toolbars, e.g., Absolutist Games Customized Web search..which i feel like using a bomb on to get it off of my toolbar group! Please help. Do I have to completely uninstall Foxfire, reinstall? Mizharmony

I want to be able to disable toolbars; enable as needed, e.g., Yahoo toolbar. However, every time I open Firefox in a new window, there are the toolbars I just disabled in a previous window. What am I doing wrong/not doing? I'm also not able to control Panel uninstall certain toolbars, e.g., Absolutist Games Customized Web search..which i feel like using a bomb on to get it off of my toolbar group! Please help. Do I have to completely uninstall Foxfire, reinstall? Mizharmony

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Some extensions may have a setting to make them appear automatically in a new window. So check the option in Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Extensions

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

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cor-el
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Some extensions may have a setting to make them appear automatically in a new window. So check the option in Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Extensions

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

See:

Mizharmony
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ya Baby! Thank you for the walk through that allowed me to tweak with add ons and extensions at a level that apparently made all the differnece....seemingly, problem/issue is resolved. Much appreciate you taking the time to share the info.

best Regards, MizHarmony

JohnTruman
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Do you think people can't read? I know where extensions and add-ons and plug-ins are, and where the options are, but what I don't know is why Firefox 4 was released with so much that doesn't work. How about some advice that's not screamingly obvious? And why does Hotmail looks so good on Chrome and so dire on Firefox? Why do icons keep moving and disappearing? And why does yahoo keep taking over as the search engine? And why does the yahoo toolbar keep coming back no matter how many times I get rid of it? Why is Firefox still so slow opening? How could Mozilla release this monstrosity? IE9 (I can't believe I'm saying this) is better.

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