Firefox Support Forum

After upgrading to ubuntu 11.10 the firefox 6 browser cannot download and open .jnlp file from the interactivebrokers website. Usually I go to the IB website and download tws.jnlp file which is opened in the firefox web browser. But now when I click on the Open with Firefox Browser button, the firefox browser opens a new tab and display the same open window again.

When I use the Firefox browser to surf the web, on nearly every web page I visit an invasive advertising platform creates anchor links on the web pages (anchor keywords with two hyperlinks under the anchor word) which when clicked takes the viewer to an advertisement. Most of the links seem to be part of an advertising platform owned by "Text Enhance," which I have contacted to complain about. They sort of played dumb. I said I thought it was the result of some malware from which they were the sole beneficiary and they assured me they didn't instigate it. I went to the Warrior Forum and some members suggested it sounded like it came from one of your extensions or plugins. My security and technology consultant scrubbed my computer and they deleted some of your extensions and plugins and the problem went away. But two weeks later, it's back and it's pervasive. Even words in my online banking accounts are showing these text links.

Aside from security concerns, my biggest fear is that they are stealing traffic from the websites I publish--websites where I'm trying to sell either my own or affiliate products. And that upsets me greatly.

I'm sure I'm not the only web user experiencing this problem. If other web publishers are also getting their traffic stolen and directed to a competing site, you can bet that there will be a class action lawsuit on the horizon for Mozilla. So I suggest you get to the bottom of this situation and rectify it, because a lawsuit will be the inevitable result.

I don't mean to alarm you because I use Firefox as my primary browser. However, I checked IE and Chrome and Chrome is exhibiting the same situation. So I'm not really sure how this is happening, and that's why I'm contacting you about it.

Please let me know if you know how to de-activate this invasive pest.

Regards, Tom O'Boyle toboyle9@yahoo.com

This morning when I opened firefox and clicked on the shortcut for my gmail, I kept getting yahoo as my search engine. I do not like yahoo, I have deleted the yahoo toolbar everytime I get tricked into downloading it with another file. How can I fix this?

I am using Firefox on Windows 7. I am getting a popup message box that has title "Adobe Flash Player Settings" and it says that s.ytimg.com is requesting to store information on your computer. There are numerous internet complaints regarding the same message for Internet Explorer. They say it is an adobe message caused by YouTube but the message box looks like it is a trick for a virus because it asks you to approve or deny using more memory space. it says "Requested 10kb" How do you fix this and or turn it off or remove it? Adobe help says it is the application causing the problem, but this is not an app, but a server name. The message pops up right in the middle of any embedded YouTube video and ruins the ability to open it without hitting one of the two buttons. Corrective actions are on Microsoft for Internet Explorer, but nothing in your database for firefox.

the following message keeps popping up on Firefox

Browser settings change An unknown change was detected on your browser's search settings: Keep my current settings. I am aware of this change and approve it.

how can I get rid of it?

I am trying to get the DSID of a web page by typing "javascript:alert(document.cookie)" in the url bar. I am supposed to get a window with the desired output which works fine in chromium. It does nothing in firefox 7 though. Im using Ubuntu 11.10.

Thanks,

Tony

Until the last week, I have been successfully using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 to disable Google's insistence on forcing users' searches to use the infuriating auto-complete and Instant Search functions (the option to disable the former was removed by Google from Preferences while the latter doesn't retain the disabling in Preferences). However, Google now seems to have beaten my first choice workaround. Before I switch to one last possible workaround, I wondered if Firefox users knew of any others? Failures so far are: *http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 *www.google.co.uk/firefox *https://encrypted.google.com/

A. computer is slow. B. Windows Task Manager shows "ToolbarUpdaterService.exe frequently is consuming 99% of CPU time. Rumor has it this may be a Google thing.  ?What to do?

Firefox 7.0.1 on Win7 pro 64

Hi FF team & community,

sometimes FF 6/7 shows a VERY strange behaviour: while doing "normal" things on websites (click links, edit text boxes, scrolling, changing tabs) FF starts to ignore my single clicks. The only way to work is using double click instead of single click (i.e. for links, enter a textbos, changing tab, even for open a Firefox menu) for ALL actions!!!!!

A minute ago, the last example was on

 https://plus.google.com/circles/find 

while moving a contact to a "circle" - FF changes to only accepting double clicks. No error, no message.

I found this buggy behaviour on many different websites - simples sites and sites with complex functionality, too - in the last weeks since FF6+7 are current versions.

With my other two questions I'm getting the idea, that current FF releases contain more bugs than releases between FF1 to FF3.

the hard drive in my computer crashed. I managed to copy files in firefox's folder to a backup disk. now I have my computer back again, but I can't seem to find my bookmarks after copying the files back onto my new hard drive. I'm running windows 7

I am running Firefox 7.1 on Mac OS 10.7.1

After an update my old firebug stopped working. I downloaded the new alpha version 1.9.0a3 and it appears to be enabled, but the icon that is supposed to appear to launch it is not there. F12 - suggested for prior version does not work either.

How do I launch Firebug

Over the last week or so, whenever a video box appears on a site, Adobe Flash Player has a Settings popup appear. Why is this suddenly happening? It was never a problem before.

I don't want information stored anywhere, so I click "Deny," but the message keeps popping up.

I upgraded to Flash Player 11 but it hasn't made a difference.

I went to the Website Storage Settings panel and chose "None" and "Never Ask Again" but it makes no difference. The settings popup still appears, and when I return to the panel it has unchecked the "Never Ask Again" box.

This problem is driving me insane. I've searched the web but can find no answers. If there is a quick fix, I would be extremely grateful.

Ancient computer specs 64 MB ram & 6.4 GB Hard drive 75% free. Wanting to keep it running but can no longer access internet. Running windows 98 (old version) Any firefox browser I can install that will work with windows 98? Any OS I can upgrade the windows 98 that will work with the computer specs? Dialup access only - backup computer with lotsa old documents. Hate to trash it. Me - computer not so literate. Any advice - thanks. Much appreciated

We're publishing Firefox through Citrix which works correctly. We want to set a few settings that are locked and some that are set as initial preferences. When creating the mozilla.cfg with minimal settings that are locked, everything works correctly. When using additional settings that are not locked we get the "Failed to read the configuration file" error. We've tried to remove some of the settings to make is as basic as possible and still get the message.

Working cfg

# Mozilla Global Preferences

/* This file is to set and lock default preferences.
 *
 * Locate the settings in the prefs.js you want to make global and
 * copy them here. To lock the setting change the user_Pref to
 * lockPref.
 */

//

lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://intranet.domain.com");
lockPref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "proxy,domain");
lockPref("network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris", "proxy");
lockPref("network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris", "proxy");

Desired cfg

# Mozilla Global Preferences

/* This file is to set and lock default preferences.
 *
 * Locate the settings in the prefs.js you want to make global and
 * copy them here. To lock the setting change the user_Pref to
 * lockPref.
 */

//

user_Pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);
lockPref("app.update.auto", false); //disable automatic update
lockPref("app.update.enabled", false); //disable updating Firefox
lockPref("browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks", false);
user_Pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 1048576);
user_Pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run", false);
user_Pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value", 1048576);
user_Pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false);
lockPref("browser.feeds.showFirstRunUI", false); //disable initial RSS intro
lockPref("browser.fullscreen.autohide", false); //always show URL and tab bar
lockPref("browser.history_expire_days", 30); //clear history after 30 days
lockPref("browser.history_expire_days_min", 30); //minimum 30 days to keep history
user_Pref("browser.places.importBookmarksHTML", false);
user_Pref("browser.places.importDefaults", false);
lockPref("browser.rights.3.shown", true);
user_Pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", true); //disable search suggestions
lockPref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false); //disable default browser check
user_Pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://intranet.domain.com");
user_Pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", false); //always show tab bar
user_Pref("browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent", false); //load new tabs last
user_Pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true); //new tabs in backg.
user_Pref("browser.tabs.warnOnOpen", false); //don't warn on opening mult. tabs
lockPref("browser.taskbar.previews.enable", true);
user_Pref("browser.urlbar.autoFill", true); //enable URL autocomplete
lockPref("general.smoothScroll", true);
lockPref("general.warnOnAboutConfig", true); //display warning prompt
user_Pref("mozilla.widget.raise-on-setfocus"); //disable focus stealing
user_Pref("mozilla.widget.raise-on-setfocus", false); //don't focus new tabs
lockPref("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "proxy,domain");
lockPref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 2);
lockPref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
lockPref("network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris", "proxy");
lockPref("network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris", "proxy");
user_Pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_Pref("network.http.pipelining", true); //enable HTTP pipelining
user_Pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 7);
user_Pref("network.http.pipelining.ssl", true); //always enable HTTPS pipelining
user_Pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true); //enable HTTP pipelining
lockPref("network.proxy.type", 4);
user_Pref("privacy.donottrackheader.enabled", true);
lockPref("privacy.item.formdata", true); //clear saved form data
lockPref("privacy.item.offlineApps", true); //clear offline apps data
user_Pref("privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs", true);
user_Pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", true);
user_Pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_Pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", true);
user_Pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", true);
lockPref("signon.rememberSignons", false);
lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.prompted", false);
user_Pref("view_source.wrap_long_lines", true); //enable line wrapping

I want to search Google USA only, but I live in Australia, and Google keeps reverting to .com.au. I mananged to have it set to this previously and have been using it like that for months. But since I updated Firefox a few days ago, this setting seems to have disappeared and I cannot remember how I got it set up. I only want Google.com and not .com.au unless I specifically type that in. Can anyone help, please?

Hi! I am running Ubuntu 11.10. My Firefox version is 7.0.1. I want to watch streaming movies from http://www.watch-movies.net.in but I can't. I click the link so that the movie screen loads but it says that 'I should install the XviD codec to watch MPEG-4 movies'. Please help!

Firefox will not let me into Bt.com. I can in Internet Explorer. Firefox says ....www2.bt.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired..... Which seems unlikly For British Telecom. How do I check if this is safe and not corrupted or How should I override it....My computer date and time clock is correct.....Thanks Tony