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On the add-ons screen, it says "Restart Firefox to complete your changes", so I click restart, but when the browser restarts it still says the same thing. No new add-ons can be installed or updated, or even removed because it keeps asking for it to be restarted. This only happened a few days ago as soon as I updated to the latest Firefox, but the problem remains if I try using the older browser version.

I get Ld-finde.com in response to any web page I try to load.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I first downloaded firefox

Whenever I hit the home button it opens duplicate tabs in Firefox 3.6, i.e. Welcome to Firefox tab. This is annoying. is there any way to stop this or disable tabs all together. there are no plug-in that work for this version the i know of.

Installed Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04. Firfeox will not access internet. Works fine in 9.04

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

I have purchased and downloaded some movie clips. They are in the Firefox Downloads folder. I can play them when the clips are downloaded but after about 24 hours, if I right click and look for Open Containing Folder, it is greyed out. I have noted that they are placed in my Temp folder in the C Drive when first downloaded. On one occasion I saved the file from the Temp folder to My Documents and have returned to it and been able to play it. It occurs to me I may have made a basic error when the download starts. I am asked if I would like to play on Windows Media Viewer and there is also the alternative of a Save option. I assumed that all downloaded files would be automatically saved to the Firefox Download file. Should I have selected the Save button instead? There appear to be no security issues because the file size and site details still appear below the file name.

This just cropped up today. My SOP is to type words and phrases into the main browser mini-window and get google search results. I have started getting BING searches. Horrors. I don't want to type in teh search bar mini-window. I want to permanently block anything but google searches. If I wanted BING for some reason, I would go to bing.com and search there. But I won't do that.

URL of affected sites

http://

next to the Mozilla symbol at the very top of the page, there are what appears to be Chinese characters instead of English. This is at the very top border.I believe it's supposed to say Mozilla

This happened

A few times a week

== I cannot put an exact starting time on this. It's been intermittent

Google toolbar is the only one that appears on my Firefox start page - no long shows "history", "most often opened web sites", "bookmarks", etc. No longer can click on "Bookmarks" as an example or other favorites and have listing opened. How do I restore full header info?

I am trying to set up yahoo as the default email in Firefox. I want it to auto open when i am in a program (like craigslist) to send an email. I use windows xp. the only reference to this i can find is in Netscape I use yahoo as a net based program.

In Firefox this question "ask this" dialog box in chinese: Program will not close properly, must "end Process" in tsk mgr. Will not open multiple browsers. Started after downloading "Java" update.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

This morning

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; WWTClient2)

Here is the transcript of a chat with Firefox community member zzxcon May 3/10

You are now chatting with Firefox community member zzxc zzxc: Hello zzxc: What happens when you attempt to download a .csv file? seegal: hello seegal: it doesn't copy zzxc: how are you trying to copy? seegal: pls bear with me I'm a slow typist. Just copy selected text Biolizard has joined the conversation. zzxc: ok - which text are you selecting? seegal: I reconcile my checkbook (spreadsheet this way). I copy the items in my online bank acc and paste it to the spreadsheet seegal: I'm using Firefox /2.0.0.19. Have no problem to do this. zzxc: Which version of OS X? seegal: In all newer version nothing happens when trying to paste- just doesn't paste zzxc: Firefox 2.0.0.x is no longer supported, and hasn't been supported in over a year zzxc: Paste into Excel, from Firefox? seegal: Sorry, I'm ahead... /2.0.0.19 seegal: Yes. I open my bank acc in Firefox zzxc: Which version of Excel? zzxc: It would really help if you could tell me step by step what you're doing. seegal: First re: your previous question: it's OS 10.4.11 seegal: About Excell: it'as 2004 version - the lasat one produced for Macs. The specific version is 11.3.7 seegal: So I open my bank acc online in Firfox (my primary browser). I copy the latest entry in the account and paste it into my Excel spreadsheet. zzxc: so, you copy direct from the web page without downloading a CSV file? seegal: What do you mean by downloading to CSV file? I could export from the https://chat-support.mozilla.com:9091/webchat/getimage?image=sendmessage&workgroup=support%40workgroup.chat-support.mozilla.comFirefox to the CSV file, but the other way around? zzxc: Are you copying your bank statement directly from the web site to Excel using the clipboard? seegal: sI don't use the clipboard. This is a mac. There is no need to do that. In PC it would be yes. zzxc: I need to know the exact steps you're taking to get them into excel zzxc: And I need to know what exactly goes wrong in the latest version of Firefox. seegal: Do you have a mac there with Firefox and Excel? It would be very easy to reproduce. Imagine you open an online bank acc, select some entries , click "copy", than proceed to your already open Excel spreadsheet and click' paste". That's it! zzxc: When this happens, do you get cryptic code pasted into Excel? seegal: As I said before: in all newer versions starting with 3.0 when I go to Excel to "paste" from my bank acc nothing happens. It does not paste. No, I don't get a cryptic code pasted, just NOTHING.

zzxc: what if you paste into MS Word instead? seegal: haven't tried that, the formatting most likely would be lost. Tried that with an other Exc el spreadsheet- it lost all the formating and pasted as continous text.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== Pls. see copy of the chat above. THIS A MAC OS X. In older versions, prior to 3.0 I could copy from CSV file on the website Ibank acc) and paste directly to my Excel spreadheet to reconcile my account.

Since two days, unable to make Google Maps working with Firefox. The page opens but no answer to my questions. A message says "Loading still in progress... Delay is too long? Look at trouble shooting guide or simplified HTML version." No problem with Safari.

URL of affected sites

http://maps.google.fr/

All of a sudden.....my download print size went to like, a size 4 !!! Microscopic...I need a magnifying glass to read anything, seriously...

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== Today

how do i reinstate the tool bar/menu bar that runs along top of web page, the one that has your bookmarks on it plus others if required , i unticked it in error and cannot get it back, help!

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)

can NOT remove password from site

URL of affected sites

http://www.groupracers.co.uk

I just got a computer that has a screen resolution of 1366 x ??? pixels. The screen is also 3 inches wider than my old computer. Anyway, websites show up much smaller than they used to on my old computer, and are hard to read because the text is small. I can zoom in and this makes the text bigger, but I have to zoom in on each individual page every time I look at a page, and this is too much work. I tried to set the default display text size, but that did not seem to work. It works on some pages but not on most of them. How can I set Firefox to always display pages zoomed in? Thanks.

When attempting to open media such as something from an email, Firefox always shows me the window asking me to verify what software program to use when opening the file even though I have checked what to use and the 'don't ask me again' box. I've also checked the 'always use this program' box. It's very annoying.

== always

I used to type a few letters in the location bar and history and suggestions would appear. Now I have to type in every web address I want to go to -- I don't know why the predictive typing and suggestions suddenly stopped working -- I haven't changed any settings. I've checked on Preferences/Privacy and it is set to Remember History and to suggest History and Bookmarks. I saw a similar question on here that suggested looking at the AVG add-on, but I don't have that. The predictive typing was very helpful -- I wish it hadn't disappeared!!! Can you please help?

When I go to login to my Hotmail the writing is so small I cannot read it.. I have tried removing it from my bookmark and also deleted browser history and updated my mozilla and nothing is helping. Yet I can go to internet explorer and it is normal but I hate internet explorer please help me get it back to normal so I can read it

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== About a month ago