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Hi Firefox Support , am using firefox and all okay ! until this slowness killing me

when i click " + " for new tap openning slowly like lag or delay even when i search in google and click on a picture , openning slowly but in browsing all fine , moving , showing picture fast , the problem is in bar's ! bar's when i click it . if i click 2 times in 1 second , firefox will hang for 1 second and twitter totally meaning of CRUSHED ! cause i can't see trends bar or suggesting following bar i can't replay or post a new tweet , it's click ! but nothing happened sometimes i close it and re-open it fix for a seconds then get back to this crush can you please fix this problem  ? i don't wanna use any another Browser except firefox :'c

i need twitter

Firefox keeps on opeing up where i left off instead of starting with my home page. I am using the lastest firefox with windows8. Dosen't happen with windows7. This has happened with the latest update.

Firefox Aurora 21.0a2 running on Windows 8 Pro x64.

Extensions & Addons installed: Adblock Edge 2.0.3 App Button Remove 1.0 Cleanest Addon Manager 7.0 Greasemonkey 1.8

Greasemonkey script installed: Youtube Center 1.31.3

Problem: Whenever I watch Youtube videos there is a chance that the videos will be cut short for seemingly no reason. I originally thought that the fault was with the addon Tweak Network which I removed. After doing some testing I believed this to have solved the problem but alas, it still remains although not to the same degree as before. I've tried to disable each addon one after another and none seems to solve the problem. FWIW my internet has been acting dodgy as of late but I haven't really lost the connection or experienced anything wrong except 50% slower speed than usual.

Hi guys,

I have enabled directwrite for my Firefox however I realised that the fonts that it is showing is different from those in IE10.

Is this due to a setting in Firefox? Is it possible to achieve the kind of directwrite rendering that IE10 is providing?

I know this is weird but I do like the blurry fonts in IE10.

Heres a screenshot comparison: http://i.imgur.com/L5Of59z.png

When is Firefox metro going to come to 32 bit windows 8 and can you improve flash and html 5 performance it cant play 1080p videos smoothly I love Firefox but I'm using IE 10 for browsing and video, then Firefox for developing but want to use it for everything!

Firefox has changed my eBay page. It no longer offers me a sold button. When I go in with IE or chrome the sold button is still there. How do I get it back on Firefox? I prefer Firefox because of the security and really do not want to use the others, but I need that button. Help, please! Thank you for your time, I really hope you have a fix for this! I thought it was an eBay thing but their help desk and several others I have spoken to still have the sold button. eBay told me to try using IE and there it was. So I went in with chrome and it was there. I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled and went back in and the button is missing. Then I tried re-setting Firefox to the default and went back in and it still is not there. I had been using Firefox since early Feb. and just last night discovered the sold button is gone. I use it often in research, several times a day!

My new windows8 computer came with norton 360 but I did not think it would get rid of virus' for me so I got AVG and now about once a day AVG tells me that I have a Js/phish virus and it says its from norton how do I get rid of norton to stop getting this virus?

Hi there,

I am the network administrator for an Australian K-12 school. We are cross platform, and support both Mac & Windows environments, based of an Active Directory Infrastructure.

We have local proxy server based on ISA 2006, using McAfee SmartFilter as the local filtering solution.

The issue I am having has been occuring since Firefox 12 was released. A number of websites retrieved through firefox started using the HTTPS connection by default, for example google.com, youtube.com, twitter.com, or carrying out a search using the search bar.

For example - If i search cat in the search bar, Firefox will automatically refer the search through this url - https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cat&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb.

With the majority of our Mac computers running Firefox 14 or later, this search is hampered and returns the message Proxy is refusing connection. To overcome this, I have trained staff and students to remove the 's' from http:// and to reattempt the connection. If it isn't a blocked term, ie porn, the proxy will ask for login details, and connect through.

In the case of a blocked website, such as YouTube, the same fix is applied to bring up the block page, which can allow the override. Further more, once the filtering is turn off. The issue doesn't rear again, until the filter cuts back in.

This also occurs, but less often with our Windows based computers running Firefox, as they support NTLM authentication straight through.

What makes it most curious, is that Safari versions 5 & 6, the current and many releases of Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9 work flawlessly.

I'm looking for an option or a fix that will allow us to set a preference the HTTP over HTTPS for these website so that Firefox can at least work straight out, prior to the release of this feature, or adjust so that if the connection is refused/unable to connect by the proxy at, it will try by HTTP before failing to connect.

If there is anything else I can try, please let me know.

I have a new PC with Windows8 installed. I would like to add Facebook. twitter and outlook mail etc to the Start Screen. I do not wish to use the Microsoft 'Apps' as they are all mobile versions and I do not like them. The only way to get these programs on the Start Screen is to add a link to the website direct. My preferred brower is Firefox but there is no option to add a website to the start screen in firefox, however there is one in Internet Explorer. Also, if possible, am I able to get the program to just open up in a new tab? rather than new window each time?

keep getting this error:

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I've also tried in IE and got this page can not be displayed.

Cleared cache, deleted cookies.

I'm trying to access grrlzrock.com I was using it about an hour ago, and now it doesn't work. any idea?

It's in color and constantly moving within its' frame. The ad is dead centered on the screen. Once I continue on to another site from Firefox the ad is gone. It's specific to Firefox. It's not logical that you've done this to torment your users. You're a non-profit. I will have to, very reluctantly, remove Firefox from my computer, though, regardless. How did Groupon worm its way onto my screen? The coincidence is that several days ago I unsubscribed from receiving Groupon's offers/ads. Could this be revenge? There's a meanness apparent here. Thank you for your attention and quick resolution. Allen R. Piper

After installing and switching to a theme, the minimize, maximize, and close buttons at the top right turn into a solid black box. The buttons still perform as expected if I click in the appropriate area of the box, but the buttons are blacked out. If I restart in safe-mode, or switch the theme back to default, there is no issue and the buttons are back. I've tried this with several themes and they all have the same results.

Running Firefox 19 on Windows 8.

I recently purchased a new Windows 8 laptop. On installing the newest version of firefox, I noticed that the download button on the address bar isn't functioning correctly. In other words, when I click it, the button "goes in" and my cursor changes to the pointing finger as if the popup window was there, but it is not visible. I a, left having to open the separate download window with CTRL J.

If there is no obvious solution, is there a way to change the settings so the separate download window opens automatically, as this is what I was used to with older Firefox versions I used.

I need to set no proxy in command mode...

for setting proxy command

cd /D "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles"
cd *.default
set ffile=%cd%
echo user_pref("network.proxy.http", "148.233.229.235 ");>>"%ffile%\prefs.js"
echo user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 3128);>>"%ffile%\prefs.js"
echo user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);>>"%ffile%\prefs.js"
set ffile=
cd %windir%

For remove Proxy i need to know....