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how do I stop the continuous news feed in the upper right tool bar

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When firefox opens there is a band of options across the top fifth of the page. It consists of a display of five rows of things/options. The fourth "line" down contains, in order from left to right: search, ASK, facebook, listen to music, amazon, you tube, weather and then a bar that provides non-stop news headlines. I would like to eliminate the news feed. I would actually be happy to eliminate all of the above, but would settle for the news feed. Any info provided would be hugely welcome.

Thanks,

Sarah

When firefox opens there is a band of options across the top fifth of the page. It consists of a display of five rows of things/options. The fourth "line" down contains, in order from left to right: search, ASK, facebook, listen to music, amazon, you tube, weather and then a bar that provides non-stop news headlines. I would like to eliminate the news feed. I would actually be happy to eliminate all of the above, but would settle for the news feed. Any info provided would be hugely welcome. Thanks, Sarah

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cor-el
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You probably have a user agent that is corrupted and that identifies you as Firefox/3.5.19

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 AskTbARS/3.14.1.20007 Firefox/3.5.19 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

See:

For your problem:

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

If that isn't working the please attach a screenshot.

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed the maximum file size (1 MB).