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Usually I can click the "open a new tab" button to open a new tab but now, when I click the button, nothing happens. I even tried right clicking and choosing the option: "New Tab", but still no tab opens. However, new tabs do open if i click a link and it leads to a new window. I'm not sure why? How can I fix this??

We are running XP, and have 3 different user accounts on one desktop. We are very excited by the Firefox4 features, but one user has much less comfort with changes, and doesn't want to lose browsing comfort in 3 before he has a chance to get used to using 4. May take a while....

Is there any way to download Firefox 4, perhaps into a new location. Or a new user account. And use this as a 'teaching tool' while still retaining 3?

Or can we upgrade to 4, redownload a version of 3, and import that user's previous bookmarks to the new download of 3, until we get him comfortable.

The answer is probably no. But if there is a creative way to do this, without another computer available, that would be great. If not, we upgrade and deal with the frustration and whining here.... 4 is too good to pass up.

Ideas? Linda

I saw that new FF 4 came out so I wanted to upgrade to it. But wanted to know if my installed add-ons on 3.6 will be usable in FF 4. Also, should I make a back-up copy of bookmarks or will they be passed on to newer version? If add-ons don't transfer what is the average time in which people usually remake their add-ons to be usable in newer versions?

I loosed my firefox 3.6 while I loaded version 4.0 which does not run in my 10.4. PowerPC Mac G5.

Happily I was able to load version in Languadoc language which I do not yet understand so English or Finnish version would suit me better.

hi , FireFox had some updates to the IDM add-ons as usual , but after it the (new tap botton ) stopped working , even the new tap option from the right-click don't work , plz help

Downloaded upgrade to FF 4. Starts up fine but with blank tab for opening page. Reset homepage to my homepage (made sure that it was chosen in the options/general. Restarted FF. Still just a blank page. Tried customizing by showing menus. Restart. No menus, no home page. Opened second tab and went to Yahoo. Chose a story. Could not go back to Yahoo home page because back button inoperative.

Have reverted to FF 3.6.16, but would like to use FF 4 if possible.

When I click the plus sign to open a tab, and even when I go to "File" and then "New Tab" Nothing happens. The only way I can get a new tab to open is by right-clicking a link. I've tried closing and restarting the browser, and even restarting my computer. Nothing is helping. Firefox did do an update this morning, could it be a glitch from that?

I have FF 3.6.16,and when in full screen auto-hide mode,my menu bar is missing when I mouse over the top of the screen.It is present in non-full screen mode.I have checked the view>toolbars>menu bar,but this doesn't fix the problem. Other toolbars I have selected are visible when checked. Please advise,thanks!

I have faithfully updated Firefox on my Windows XP system and now use Firefox/3.6.16. I also run Photoshop Elements 6.0, which requires quite a bit of memory. It is currently getting slowed down because plugin-container.exe is consuming anywhere from 25% to 50% of my memory. If I use Task Mgr to shut down this task, things are much better. Is there a downloadable version of Firefox that does not include plugin-container.exe, and if so, can I replace my current version with that one?

After downloading 4.0,and dragging to the applications I get the following message " firefox.app already exists in this location...do you want to replace it with the older one you are moving" Do I do that? Seems i would want to replace with the newer one I just downloaded. Also is the 4.0 beta worth changing to as there seems to be a lot of problems on the forum???

Just a couple days ago all of a sudden the "Open a new tab" button wasn't working and even going into "file" and then "open new tab" it doesn't open a new tab. I have to go into my bookmarks and right click "open in new tab" for any new tab to open. I've checked my settings and nothing is there about it. Is there anything that I can do to fix it?

It might have said "Mozilla Security" but the address line wasn't Mozilla either. I think it might be a new virus, so I didn't click on it. Today is the first time I saw that. My antivirus software is up-to-date and was working.

In 3.6.16, the buttons are all over the place. In previous versions, the forward, back, refresh, stop and home buttons were all together. In this version, the refresh and stop buttons are between the address and search windows, and the home button to the far right.

I would love to have them all together as they used to be - much more user friendly that way. I have tried installing alternate themes, but the coding of this version over-rides the themes.

I like a minimalist toolbar with only two rows of small icons. after the last row with the Google toolbar, there's about an inch of blank space before the browser tabs. I'd prefer to have more space for the webpages.

I tried dragging and dropping and moving things around and it doesn't work. I feel that FF has a minimum height constraint and won't let me make the toolbar thinner. Is this true?

The topic tabs at the top of the page ("News", "Sport", "Life and Style" etc) are larger than they should be and make more than one row when there should be just one. Below that the whole page is squished to the far right, so most of the page is blank except for a thin colum where article headings, text and pictures truncated and unreadable. No problems with other websites, no problems with The Guardian website if I use Internet Explorer. Any ideas? Thanks. I am not sure what other information would be helpful. :(

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.6.16 on Windows XP. The buttons that used to be at the top of the browser that said "file" "view" "tools" "help" are gone. Pressing the "alt" key does nothing. Same thing happened when downloaded Firefox 4.

There's not much I can do with this browser if I can't access a fundamental button like "tools." Any help would be appreciated. TIA