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I have the newest version of firefox and the first problem i started getting was connection timed out server not found from searching in the start page. If i searched in the web address page it would pull up. I restarted firefox from the help tab and the first time i search from the start page it works than if i close everything out and start again it does nothing, but if i search in the web address it pulls up.

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Since updating to the new Firefox 18.0.1 every time I try to close a few open windows Firefox crashes. I would be reading my mail and after having about 10 open windows I go and check on the X to close the windows. I can close about five to seven of them with no problem but when I have about three of them left Firefox crashes. It is very annoying. I used the Firefox Safe Mode feature and this problem does not happen while in Safe Mode. I don't know what the next step is to fix this problem. Could you please help. Thank you

upgraded to version 18.0.2 Firefox started getting flash player fail message tried installing flashplayer11x32_mssd_aih.exe install windows just closes and still no flash in firefox

Simple. The music 'stutters' or 'breaks up' during play when i am streaming from Pandora. It happens on other radio and music websites, but I don't use others much except for Pandora. Windows XP SP3, Firefox 18, 1.7 GB RAM and 1.8 GH clock PC.

Any thoughts how to resolve this issue?

Thanks.

Safe mode does not change behavior! When starting or restating firefox all tabs/sites work correctly but returning to some tabs/sites then the touch screen scrolling does not work. most sites work fine. example of offending sites http://news.google.com/ >>also touching the scroll bar does not work, it jumps and the bar is distorted http://mail.google.com/ >>also touching the scroll bar does not work, it jumps and the bar is distorted http://www.meetup.com/find/ please help so I do not change to Chrome

I tried everything, installed ChromeEdit plus and inserted the code i found on this forum and nothing happened. I have firefox mozilla 18 at the moment and windows 7. And i didn't find UserChrome.css and UserContent.css file but this ChromeEdit tool creates those 2 files, so i looked into profile files and in chrome folder this 2 files are empty so i just need the right code.

I installed Firefox 18.0.1 on a Sparc 10 Ultra running Solaris 10, bash shell. There were no installation errors, but when I try to run firefox, I get:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/sfw/fiewfox/libxpcom.so: ld.so.1: firefox: fatal: libc.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM

Any help would be appreciated.

I recently upgraded two Macbooks from Leopard (10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6). With just one of the laptops, now when I type in text boxes (not the ones that seem to specify a font in their style), like the body of an email in Outlook Web Access or the body of a message using a web form, the font is in italics. The other laptop is fine. Note that this doesn't happen in Safari or Chrome, only Firefox. I started with Firefox 16 and moved to 18 - that did not solve the problem (so I didn't bother with an uninstall since 18 was a clean install). I opened up my version 12 and the problem wasn't there, so it is only with later versions.

Also - this is not where everything is italics, like in other posts. It is only in text boxes.

I have tried resetting my font settings in Firefox, replacing the Arial font on the laptop with the one from the other laptop, and clearing the font cache. I installed the fontinfo addon, and it shows the same font used as the other laptop - nothing weird.

What can I do to make Firefox act correctly like it does on the other laptop?

Thanks.

When I downloaded Java, the Funmoods took over the home page. I have now got Google Search with the Firefox logo as home page but all the usual Firefox tabs (tools, bookmarks, help, etc) are missing. How can I get them back? Very basic directions please, we seniors are not very computer savvy!

I get the following message:the ordinal 459 could not be located in the dynamic link library. urlmon.dll. I get this when requesting list links within a genealogy program (not on the internet) Haven't noticed it on anything else yet because I have been obsessing over just that one program. At the same time I notice that my windows sidebar is not visible. Have not changed any settings. Java was disabled due to the recent exploitation. Would that have something to do with it. Or perhaps Firefox18 installed and then it went bad? Thanks in advance for any help. Running Vista.

Running Windows 8, Firefox 18.0.1, plugin Shockwave Flash 11.5.502.146 (current version, according to Firefox plugin check).

Firefox freezes every time when loading a page with Flash content when the Flash plugin is enabled. Firefox does not freeze when the Flash plugin is disabled. Repeatable, tested and confirmed multiple times - freezes consistently with Flash plugin enabled, loads pages perfectly when Flash plugin is disabled (though without Flash content).

When in this frozen state, Firefox is completely unresponsive - displays a blank page, can't type anything, can't click on or move/minimize the window. Must be force-quit via task manager.

Other browsers (e.g. Chrome) do not have this issue with Flash. Have noticed several similar problems reported with Firefox and Flash, but the only solution I have seen offered is to downgrade Flash (and introduce potential security issues). Surely there must be a better option? This is a massive issue for me - Firefox is my preferred browser but I cannot use it while it has this allergic reaction to the Flash plugin.

Since updating to Firefox 18, I've noticed, in particular, two pages that won't load correctly at times. This wasn't happening prior to the update.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/steviet/screenshot1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/steviet/screenshot2.jpg

How do I make them load correctly -every- time?

This seems to happen on a regular basis now. As soon as an add-on is updated firefox has trouble detecting the correct version

In this instance i am getting "Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Java" having just installed the new version of Java (7-11). I restart firefox and it doesn't solve it, i reboot my machine and it doesn't solve it.

I had Java 7 update 10, which has the 0-day exploit. Oracle released Java 7 update 11. I installed that and uninstalled Java 7 update 10. Now I can't get Firefox to recognize Java. It tells me that Java needs to be installed, but when I try to install the plug in (Java has been installed twice now), it fails. Now I have no Java.

Self explanatory: animated gifs play slow. Maybe about 75% speed. I didn't even notice till I made one myself. I can open internet explorer right now and the same gifs play fine.

Hardware acceleration on/off made no difference.

I am prompted every time i visit a site that i enter a password on to save it in firefox 18, it's now getting annoying. I have tried to turn it off, but the box in firefox settings is shaded and won't allow me to turn password manager off, i know i can choose "never for this site" in the settings but with just about every site you go to now requires you to sign in it is really getting on my nerves. if this can't be resolved i may reluctantly have to change browser.

I use Firefox on a Mac (Snow Leopard) and I recently updated Firefox to version 18.0. After I updated, Firefox will freeze everytime I go on Facebook and I would have to force quit it. One thing I noticed is that it crashes when almost everything is loaded but the chat. Does anyone know how to fix this?

When I running/browsing internet on Firefox. I can't safely eject my flash drives. each time, I get this:

"Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device- This devise is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device, and try again."

The flash drives aren't being used much of the time, except for when I save something to them. Nothing is using them and all saves and other stuff are completed, but I can't safely eject them when Firefox is running. I have to close Firefox to safely eject them. I can in safe mode, however. Is a weird glitch or something else going on with Firefox?

I just re-booted my machine today following a Windows update. Since boot-up, my Firefox browser crashes about every 20 seconds.

I notice that I now have Firefox 18, and presume that the latest version became active after my re-boot.

Sometimes the carsh happens after I have opened a few tabs, sometimes when I am just entering some google search terms, and sometimes when I am doing nothing. It seems quite random but I cannot seem to use Firefox more than about a minute before it crashes again.

Sometimes, the crash automatically closes all Firefox windows, and I have to re-start.

But usually the crash, just causes Firefox to freeze. And I have to manually shutdown the Firefox process and restart it. On these occasions I have noticed that the memory used by the Firefox process continues to increase - I saw it increasing beyond 3Gb the last time. There seems to be a memory leak on these occasions. However, the extreme memory use/memory leak does not happen every time that Firefix crashes.

I just noticed that when Firefox crashed the CPU usage of the Firefox process, as reported in Windows Task Manager, is exactly 25%. I had this same issue with a much earlier version of Firefox (I think v6 or v7) continually crashing, when the CPU usage hit 25% - I reported that error at the time, and a new version was released shortly afterwards.

Greetings! I've downloaded a program and here was some virus, now i alway have this page http://searchiu.com/?affil=141 as a start page and i'm afraid of my security. Can you help to remove this virus and get back my start page? Thanks you!