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Yvsa

Yvsa

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Ever since Firefox came out with their new 3.0.5 upgrade recently when I bring up the browser to go online I get a block of 3 tabs. In addition to my home page, Google, I get a notice that Firefox has upgraded me to the new 3.0.5 upgrade on one tab and on another I get a notice that "NoScript" has updated me to the new 1.8.7.6 update, which I did update not long ago. Actually NoScript just had a new update, 1.8.8 that I updated and it seems to be doing the same damned thing.:rolleyes: :eek: :mad:

In addition to that the "Add-ons" page comes up and says I have a new upgrade to one of my, "Add-ons" that I'm sure is referring to NoScript. I click the, "Skip" button and it disappears taking me back to the page with the three tabbed websites...

And on top of that now when I'm on my home page and open my "Bookmarks" button I click the, "Open All in Tabs" option with my favorite 11 tabbed websites Firefox locks up. If I delete one of the websites, that has just itself recently moved to new quarters, the other ten pages seems to load just fine as it always had before the newest Firefox upgrade.:rolleyes: :mad:

Before this last Firefox update when I brought Firefox up to go online I would only get one page which would be my Google Home Page. And usually the first time I would bring Firefox up after an upgrade I would get a single notice that Firefox had upgraded and that would be it....
And the same for an "Add-ons" update, there would be one single notice and that would be the end of them.

Anyone else having the same problem? :confused:
 
I could be entirely wrong here but .....


When you close FF you probably get the option to just quit or save & quit.

You have probably clicked on the S&Q when you had all those tabs open.

Close all your tabs, except one, lets say with google on it, and then click S&W

Next time you open FF you should only have one tab.
 
I use FF3 some now, but have switched to Chrome. When you get all those new open tabs because of upgrades, just close those tabs and for just for extra measure, I open tools, options, main, use current pages as home pages. Just be signed in whatever tabs you keep open. Chrome is similiar, I just like it better, with some of the links around this place, I open any I do not know about with a right click and tell it to open link in a new incognito window, it leaves no history or cookies on your computer, when you are incognito. Kinda nice when some of these guys just disguise links and you click and go where you would not have gone before. It is free and fast. By Google of course.
Jim
 
gajinoz said:
I could be entirely wrong here but .....


When you close FF you probably get the option to just quit or save & quit.

You have probably clicked on the S&Q when you had all those tabs open.

Close all your tabs, except one, lets say with google on it, and then click S&W

Next time you open FF you should only have one tab.
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gajinoz, even if I open Firefox with a new start I still get the same damned three tabs. But your way may be worth a try, hell at this point I'm willing to try most any damned thing.:mad:
I'll go try it right now.
 
Well Yvsa, looks like ya got a mess....

I don't use firefox, but my son has for years, he says he's not having any problems with it at all. but he doesnt have any add on's. I had him read your post here and he's at a loss as to how to fix it other than removing it and try a reinstall. I guess you could try disabling add on's one at a time to see which one, if any are causing you grief.

Sorry i can't be more help than that.........
 
You might want to have a play with Chrome, as James has suggested, too.

Doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles that FF does but it's a good browser just the same.
 
gajinoz said:
You might want to have a play with Chrome, as James has suggested, too.

Doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles that FF does but it's a good browser just the same.
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Thanks guys, and you may be right gajinoz but being an old arse I really, really, hate change. I hung onto IE way past the time I should'a.:rolleyes: ;)

I just tried every way I could think of to close Firefox and bring it back up and no matter what I did I kept getting the same damned 3 tabbed pages and the "Add-ons" page telling me I had a new update.:rolleyes: :(

Oh yeah, Karda I already tried that but thanks anyway.:)
 
I'm not a guru, but with Firefox 3.x, you can also use Tools -> Options -> "Main" tab -> and choose the "Show my home page" option from the Startup block's "When Firefox starts:" select. It sounds like you may have checked the "don't ask again" checkbox on the Quit or Save & Quit alert box so that it doesn't display anymore. Changing that Startup option should allow you to restore the behavior to what you want.

I'm not a fan of the new Save & Quit feature; it seems intrusive, and when I used it with Google's stock report, it really did seem to save a snapshot of the page when I quit rather than reloading the page with current market information. What good is that?
 
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Here's the screenshots of what I get when I bring Firefox up to go online....


Tabbedpages.jpg


Add-ons Page
Add-ons.jpg
 
Kill the last add on, then kill that first tab and last tab. Resave your home page to Google, then restart. See if that will work. I sometimes hate computers.
Good Luck
Jim
 
Yvsa said:
I just tried every way I could think of to close Firefox and bring it back up and no matter what I did I kept getting the same damned 3 tabbed pages and the "Add-ons" page telling me I had a new update.:rolleyes: :(
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Try deleting and reinstalling FF. Always a good last resort option. :)
 
Did you try resetting the "When Firefox starts:" Startup option?

Tools -> Options -> "Main" tab -> and choose the "Show my home page" option from the Startup block's "When Firefox starts:" select.
 
Or ya could just go back to IE..........
I havent had any probs with IE, except for tracking cookies which my nortons gets rid of.
 
Jim, gajinoz, and jnphares, already did all of those. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I don't have a bit of malware or something going on. I know it happens to people a helluva lot PC smarter than me.:(
 
Yvsa said:
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I don't have a bit of malware or something going on. I know it happens to people a helluva lot PC smarter than me.
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Well in that case.. I've found nothing better for gettin' rid of nasties than Housecall.
It's free, no download cept' for an active X, and it catches everything. It's what my compie tech uses to get rid of the crap on peeps compies that he has to fix. I use it from time to time ,along with nortons....and it's been years since anything major has gotten into my compie.
it takes awhile to run though....but what virus software doesnt these days.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
 
Yvsa said:
Jim, gajinoz, and jnphares, already did all of those. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I don't have a bit of malware or something going on. I know it happens to people a helluva lot PC smarter than me.:(
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I suspect that, if you have deleted and reinstalled FF and still getting the problems, the new instal is picking up, from the reg., the old FF settings.

See if you can delete all the FF addons then delete it and download a new instal file. If it asks you if you want to import old settings, or any settings for that matter, say no.

If you have a registry cleaner run that after you delete and before you reinstall. See if any bits are left over.
 
firefox stores all it's profile settings in the C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. if you delete & reinstall the c:\program files\firefox folder stuff, scrambled settings will still be in the profile area. try starting firefox by using start - run, enter 'firefox.exe -profilemanager' without the quotes ;) then OK it. the profile manager allows you to create and use a new profile, see Managing Profiles and/or Profile Manager.

the new profile will let you start fresh without reinstalling. if you had & used the FEBE backup addon, you could more easily selectively restore in your extensions, themes, bookmarks, cookies, usernames & passwords, etc. but you can do this by hand tho it is a pain in the ...

after getting he new profile working, you can delete the old one, rename the new one to 'default' and go on, or keep the two profiles, and set the new one to start (see the links above) when you start firefox.

you can stop the resume from crash thingy, see this page

using the open all in folder in new tabs thing, the more tabs you have , the more memory it uses and the slower it gets, you may be tipping it over the edge. i have 3gb ram, and managed to open 23 tabs but it got REALLY slow.
 
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Hiya Yvsa!
I , too, used Firefox for a LONG time but got tired of the very things You are talking about.
I went to Opera about 2 months ago, and am Very Happy now!
Just a thought....
Ed
 
Chrome has been my weapon of choice since September 13 ...only issue I've had is downloading photo's of all them beautiful Khuk's.
 
Thanks again everyone! I finally just decided to disable the NoScript Add-on after determining I didn't have any uninvited guests on my PC and that stopped the nuisance.:thumbup: :)
I'm not sure why the Firefox notice is added on each time I load Firefox but I suspect it's probably much the same reason that NoScript done the same thing.
I found a fix for it but couldn't get the damned thing to work and that's when I disabled it.
Maybe they'll fix it in the next update, stranger things have happened.;) :D
 
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