firefox

when i start firefox, it always opens with 2 tabs at the top, one being yahoo, and the other is google. surely it should start with only one tab and i have made google my start page. hopefully someone will know why this is happening. many thanks maka

Ive been using win7 for about 6 months now. Before that I was using xp for 15 years. Im having problems with: 1-Search; the status bar gets to 99% pretty fast, then it's literally hours before the search finishes. Why? 2-Ive been using firefox for over 10 years now. I always set it to...

FF has set a date to start blocking Flash... I'm not sad to see it go but its still got a year to run. ref; Firefox to start blocking Flash content in August

Using a power efficient browser is one of the best ways to get more out of your PC or tablet – whether you’re checking email, shopping online, playing games, or watching movies. Today’s laptops and tablets last longer than ever, thanks to major advances in battery technology, processor...

Since this past Tuesday, has anyone else noticed that Internet Explorer 11 hasn't worked properly since this past Tuesday? Edge works fine, but if you try to go to any websites in IE including Bing, it just doesn't work. I've run the troubleshooters for everything to do with networking. I've run...

What bookmark extensions are ya'll using? I've been using Firefox forever. But after listening to Security Now episode 557, Steve and Leo convinced me to give Chrome a full time try again. But I really miss the sidebar in Firefox! Can I get some suggestions on good sidebar extensions for...

Hello, i dont know how to explain this but i will give it a try... when i resize my browser windows (ff, chrome, ie) the content in it will not resize automatically untill i have released the mouse button. I am developing a web site and trying to do responsive design and therefor i would like...

Hi guys. I was trying to free up RAM so I could play a game so I was ending unnecessary processes, and after I ended what I think was something about Cortana Search the screen went black. It might have been Mozilla Firefox, though. However, notifications still pop up and programs still run and...

Hey, so my computer crashed. There was a blue screen with white text followed by an annoying persisting beeping sound. For the longest time before I could successfully restart my computer the login screen went black and only the mouse pointer could be seen. So I finally login, check all my...

So long story short, my hard drive died on me so I installed a 1T SSD and got it up and running again. Couple days later it overheated twice. I wasn't doing anything that would require much processing. I only had a few tabs open in Fire Fox. The computer locked up and made a terrible noise from...

Some webpages are not loading for a day. I'm using just about every browser like Maxthon, Mozzila Firefox, Chrome and opera and Internet Explorer and the problem appears again. Sometimes is fixed via pc restart only. Why is happening and what should i do? I'm also trying to clean the browser...

After having setup successfully Win 7 Pro some years ago printing worked fine for several pdf printers and connected USB laser printers. Then, recently, I must have changed something accidentially in System. When I now want to print (e.g. a Word doc or web page from Firefox) it doesn't work...

I installed Windows 10 (upgrading a Windows 7 Toshiba Laptop) several weeks ago and everything seemed to be working fine. A few days ago I started to see that when I went to close down the laptop "Task Host stopping background tasks" If I cancelled the shutdown (thinking something was still...

Since installing W10, I cannot get to my Linksys E1500 router setup page. Firefox states site not found. I have verified the gateway address is 192.168.5.1 and added this address to the Firefox exception list. I am at a lost as to why this is happening.

Since Windows 10 first came out I have had it installed with no issue. However, yesterday I started having random problems all related to connectivity and content display. - Some pages will randomly not load correctly in Firefox, IE or Chrome. Sometimes only part of the page will load...

I require some urgent help- not a computer guru but if explained in layman terms I can fix things.. I have done a re-install of windows 10 Pro 64 bit, I have no start up menu I can not access any microsoft office programs , the pc is really slow. no 1 - this is what is coming up at start...

i have tried on Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer, they will load Google and 1 or 2 other websites, but everything else times out. Chrome leads me to an error screen that reads "This website is not available ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" Firefox tells me "The connection has timed out The...

Question. When Avast Free is installed Chrome takes a second to open but the homepage takes 6-7 seconds to open. IE, Firefox and Opera all open in a second and the homepage pops up a second later. When Bitdefender Free, or AVG Free was installed I never had this problem. Any ideas ?

OK, I upgraded from 8.1 to 10. Here's where the fun begins. If I pull an icon to the edge of the screen, a third of it goes off screen. The Taskbar is 2/3 off the screen. If I go full screen with my browser (Firefox) it too blows off the screen. The Menu Bar is off screen. The minimize button...

Here is the mssg Windows cannot find c users user app data roaming mozilla firefox profiles 2oq7p6te default ex.. update.exe The browser still opens T.Y dark