Click on search result, window opens then immediately closed
Firefox on my desktop with windows 8.1 recently does notwork right. After I did a google search and clicked on the result found, Firefox opened a new window (this is the selected option), which then closed immediately. This only happens for some of the results. Others are o.k. Moreover, if I right click on the search result and let Firefox open a new window, it works fine. Firefox on my notebook works fine also. Not sure what had happened. I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it. The result is the same. Hope someone can help.
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FredMcD said
Disable AdBlock using the arrow next to it's icon. Load that web page. Click the arrow and select Disable On . . . . Then enable AdBlock. BTW, what is the web page? AB should only block ads.
I tried your method. It works. The funny thing is that if I unblock the Google search webpage, it solved the problem. The page had problem was: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=time+warner+cable&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
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You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.
Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
Your System Details shows;
Installed Plug-ins
CFCA CryptoKit 3.2 for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera
CFCA CryptoKit 3.0 for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera
Having more than one version of a program may cause issues.
You must remove the older programs. Then get the current full installer.
I found the problem based on what cor-el said. the issue is the AdBlock plus add-on. If I disable it the problem does not occur anymore. However, I still would like to use it and Chrome does not affect by it. So if Firefox does not fix this, I would have to use Chrome. On the other hand, on my notebook, I have adblock enabled and doesn't have this problem. Still not sure why.
You can ask advice at the Adblock Plus forum if there are problems with this extension or with a filter list or if you need help to create a filter rule to block content.
Disable AdBlock using the arrow next to it's icon. Load that web page. Click the arrow and select Disable On . . . . Then enable AdBlock.
BTW, what is the web page? AB should only block ads.
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FredMcD said
Disable AdBlock using the arrow next to it's icon. Load that web page. Click the arrow and select Disable On . . . . Then enable AdBlock. BTW, what is the web page? AB should only block ads.
I tried your method. It works. The funny thing is that if I unblock the Google search webpage, it solved the problem. The page had problem was: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=time+warner+cable&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001