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I've had this problem in Firefox for some time: Live traffic shows for a few seconds, then disappears. It will reappear if I refresh the page, but not if I move the location or zoom in or out. If I restart Firefox with all add-ons disabled, I do not have this issue.

The obvious next step is to selectively disable add-ons until I find the culprit. But I disabled every single add-on, and restarted Firefox: the problem persists! So there must be a difference between starting Firefox in Safe Mode vs. disabling all extensions. Firefox states "Safe Mode is a special Firefox mode that can be used to troubleshoot and fix problems. Safe Mode temporarily turns off hardware acceleration, resets some settings, and disables add-ons (extensions and themes) that might be causing problems." But I use the Standard Theme and turning Hardware Acceleration off does not solve the problem. Any ideas?

This is on a Dell E5410 laptop with 8GB RAM running Windows 7 Enterprise.

Here are the add-ons I use, but I'm guessing that it's a plug-in issue instead. Any recommendations how best to diagnose?

Name Version Adblock Plus 2.7 Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon 0.9.2.1-signed Autofill Forms 1.0.6.1-signed Dashlane 3.6.0 DownThemAll! 2.0.18.1-signed.1-let-fixed DownThemAll! AntiContainer 1.4 Forecastfox (fix version) 2.3.4 Print Friendly & PDF 2.0.2 Restart Button 0.1.5.1-signed The Addon Bar (restored) 3.2.1-signed Update Scanner 3.2.3 WOT 20151208

Thanks for any help!

I like to comment on several Blogger blogs and since an update on Firefox, I can no longer access google account to comment. I am OK on IE so it must be a Firefox problem -any suggestions please? it is a pain to have to go to IE every time I want to comment on a blog! janetannc.

So I just updated to Firefox 44, I was using Google maps and looking at a particular location using streetview. At first everything is going fine but after a few revolutions of the picture and going up and down the street the picture freezes and responds to my mouse clicks at a super slow rate. I have to keep refreshing the page to get it back to normal speed response. It is starting to get really annoying to have to refresh the page after every movement I make. I read something that privacy extensions could hinder Google streetview so I tried disabling them and it is still a problem. Anyone else had this issue? Knows how to fix it? If nothing else can someone tell me how I can downgrade back to Firefox 43, I had no problems with streetview on that.

i use firefox as a search engine. but when i go to certain sites like e bay, amazone, auto trader, or certain partstores. after a few seconds on that site i get automaticaly redirected to a blank site with from www.google.com/afs/ads?Q

if i hit the back button it goes back to the original site, then back to google after a few seconds.

how do I fix this? thanks

gert.

Recently I noticed that when I search on Google using FF 44.0, when I clink on a link nothing happens. But when I right click and select Opne in New Tab, it works. I tried restarting in Safe Mode, but the problem persists.

This only seems to be happening on one computer. My other two seem to be working fine. Both are running FF 44.0 as well. All computers are on Win10 with KIS 2015 for Internet Security.

You help is appreciated.

Gene ...

Hi, when I click on links they sometimes open in a new tab as my default search engine page. For example, if I have google set as my default search engine, if I click on a link it opens a new tab, the correct link address appears in the address bar, it starts to load then suddenly it switches to the google search engine home page:

Example 1: https://www.google.com.au/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=tfTPVtKzBsG7mgX-k4DQAw

Example 2: https://www.google.com.au/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=tPjPVs75H4PlmAXL-rfQCQ

Example 3: https://www.google.com.au/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=g_nPVsnkMuPMmAXU6bnoAg

Notice how in each example, after .com.au there is a huge string of data. The only part that always changes is after the cr&ei=

I've tried everything I can think of, system restores, downgrading, reinstalling flash, starting in safe mode, uninstalling and removing all firefox folders from PC, nothing fixes it and I can't find any mention of this issue on the web.

Is there anyone here who understands the mechanism of what is occurring that redirects the link to my default search engine? How would this be happening? It seams that this would have to be an issue with firefox because if I change the default search engine in the firefox settings then the issue starts happening with the new default search engine.

How do I troubleshoot this? How do I work out what is redirecting the links? I'd appreciate it so much if someone would help.

Every time I close my browser,it resets my search engine back to yahoo from google. I go in and delete all the default ones and only google is left,the once i close it,then they return. I have looked at my add ons and extensions,and they are all legit. Now,I have also scanned my computer with numerous malware/spyware programs. And scanned with my AV. If i revert back to an earlier version.then the problem is fixed. How do i fix it in the current version?

For the past 3 days I have been getting the error message: "The connection has timed out The server at www.google.com is taking too long to respond.

   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

Whenever I try to load google or gmail or any other google related website. I have had no problems loading any other website. No changes were made prior to this error starting, I have run updated antivirus and anti malware programs, cleared cookies cache and browser history, restarted several times, even restarted to last known good configuration, nothing has fixed the problem.

I've been away for a few days and have just checked Google Calendar on my PC but find it's totally unresponsive. Having searched the Google forum it looks as if folk are saying it's a Firefox issue. Don't know if this is correct, all I know is, I can access Calendar on Android but not using Firefox browser on my PC.

Hi, I'm Elaine from Malaysia. I'm looking for 'Fast Forward' symbol on google but seems something go wrong, firefox in my laptop doesn't display the symbol. How can I solve this problem?

Hello,

I have set my starting page (that opens when I open Firefox) to: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=nl How is it possible (and why?) that the URL from my start page changes? For example, it changes to: https://www.google.nl/webhp?complete=0&hl=nl&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=qLs1V5iAOIaosgHVpaPIAw

So why is this put behind it? ----> &gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=qLs1V5iAOIaosgHVpaPIAw And what does it mean?

For a year now I have trouble getting into my google account. I have been able to change the proxy server settings to a variety of options in the tool bar "options" tab by clicking the "Advanced" link and then selecting "Connections Settings". I have reset the options to "no proxy", "auto detect proxy settings for this network", and "use system settings", always having to change it in order to get into my Google account. Now, nothing works and I need access into my Google email!!!!!! This has been an ongoing problem and I see other people have had this problem and one person stated that they are having the same problem as me but he was told to start a new thread without an answer being provided!! Really? I can't locate that new thread or an answer to fix this problem since the new settings aren't working. I even clicked the box "Do not prompt for authentication if password is saved" since my password is saved, and that isn't making a difference either.

I use google as my search page, but keep getting " make google your home page " ????? ..... but this does not appear if I use Internet explorer ??? can anyone suggest a fix please.

Seems like since last update especially Google has problems with all the features: On normal Google page in the right upper corner there are 9 small blocks, normally you can left-click on them and you get a (javascript?) dropdown menu. Now not. Also in Google maps almost nothing works: only dragging and zooming is okay. Right-click does nothing (normally menu to see 'what is here' etc). Also no login is available in right upper corner. When left-click on menu (left upper) nothing happens.

I've tried Firefox in Safemode: nothing changes. I've tried updating Java script: no changes. I've tried ADWcleaner: found couple of minor things. Erased them. Nothing changes. I've looked at add-ons. Turned most of them of (all of them at one point) but they don't seem to be the problem. I've googled for answers and closed were some results from 2010 describing same. (Javascript seemed to be the problem back then). I've tried using Windows Internet Edge ($%^@&#): it works perfectly. Drop down menus and everything works fine. But I hate Edge, Chrome etc and want to use FireFox.

Hope someone knows what's going on.