Firefox cannot browse the internet until I clear an "OFF LINE WORKING" ITEM FROM THE MENU ?
How do I clear "off line working?" to allow Firefox to browse the net?
Presumably you're using FF4 (?).
If so, do the following.
* Right click a blank part of the Tab Bar and then click the top option called "Menu Bar". This will remove the orange Firefox button, but reinstate the text links at the top.
* Next, click "File", then click "Work Offline" to remove the checkmark. You should now have Internet access.
To reinstate the previous layout, repeat the same steps.
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In an earlier version (Firefox v.31) on this, and (presently) on two other PC's, I was/am able to run add-on FT DeepDark 11.3.1 without any problems. It was only recently - after updating to v.32.0.3 on this PC that this situation started. The PC in question is a Dell Dimension 8400 Intel P4 running Windows 7, though I'm thinking it may have something to do with the newer version of Firefox. Could anyone help me with this? I like this add-on because it is easier in my eyes when browsing the internet. Thanks
PS: Attempted to install the troubleshooter, and again I received a similar error: "Troubleshooter could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the needed file."This error has been reported before in this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730040#c21
Please read that bug I linked you to and let me know if the last comment in the bug solves your problem. Apparently the problem is about the addon .xpi file being read-only. Try right-clicking it, going to Properties and unchecking the "Read-only" attribute box at the bottom of the dialog. Click Apply, then OK. -
The 3G symbol is not showing up on my home screen and I cannot browse the net, any suggestions?
The 3G symbol does not show up on my home page and I cannot browse the Internet or receive mail. Any advice?
reset the iphone
1. press the wake/sleep button the top until you get the red slider
2. Slide to power off
3. Wait for phone to power off (you get a spinning gear icon for a while)
4. press the wake/sleep button to turn in back on.
if that doesn't work reset network settings
1. Go to Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings
2. Confirm that you want to do this and the phone will restart itself
if that doesn't work restore the phone in iTunes, but you will want to sync all of your data before you do that. -
Mozilla has switched off content blocker and URL advisor for Kapersky and I cannot browse the web
How do I turn these back on?
It appears that the problem is that the Kaspersky components are outdated an needing action from Kaspersky. I have not the time to research this myself at the moment, but you may be able to do so your self on their support site.
What do you mean by you cannot browse the web.
What are the content blocker and URL advisor intended to do ? They may well be largely unnecessary and superfluous. Is just installing them blocking you from using Firefox ? If so uninstall them until Kaspersky has a fix.
Please also look at this thread
* [/questions/975869] <br /> (With Windows 7 it would be similar advice) concluding:
''Firefox doesn't have any known compatibility issues with any of the major anti-virus suites, but honestly you are wasting your money if you pay for them. Uninstall them and use Window 8's built in Windows Defender. Update your Windows 8 machines to Windows 8.1, and make sure your win 7 machine is up to date, and always keep everything on your machines (Firefox, plugins, etc.) all up to date. That will keep you secure as possible. ''
* From Windows Microsoft see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/security-essentials-download (That '''explains''' about MSE it does NOT automatically download anything )
Note
(But Quotation above is from Tyler who IS professional paid Mozilla Firefox support staff)
The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other Firefox users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers.
If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox ''Help'' menu and select ''Submit Feedback...'' or use [https://input.mozilla.org/feedback this link]. (You'll need to be on the latest version of Firefox to submit feedback). Your feedback gets collected at http://input.mozilla.org/, where a team of people read it and gather data about the most common issues. -
I have just installed Firefox 4.0. I cannot install the extension called Springpad extension, found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/springpad/
I click add to Firefox, it downloads, prompts me that the author is not verified and I click 'Install Now'. It then says "Springpad extension could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the needed file". What am I missing here?Unable to get Springpad Browser Extension to show up on my browser even though it is with-in my existing add-ons. I was having problems with the Springpad Browser Extension so I thought I would uninstall it and reinstall it but that hasn't worked. So I would like to know how to get it back so I can use it. When I go to the help button and click add-ons to search for Springpad, it does not come up in the results. So I tried using the link on my Springpad homepage website, but it didn't work. Then I searched Firefox support and found this post and tried installing it using the link here. It shows up now in my list of existing add-ons, but when I enabled it, it did not show up on my browser as a clickable icon I can use to spring a web-site. I'm stuck now!
However, the reason for uninstalling it is there is no longer a"back arrow, the + sign, home, or scissors" at the top of the Springpad Browser Extension for Firefox? I have to log out and back in in order to get back to my notebooks because I am unable to get to them without a home button or a back button...and now I can't just click the scissors to spring a web-page. How are we supposed to spring a web-page now?
Disappointed,
Angela -
Add-on could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the necessary file.
I see that for the issue:
<Add-on> could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the necessary file.
The usual fixes include:
- ensuring that xpinstall.enabled is set to true
- ensuring that extensions.alwaysUnpack is set to true
What might be the non-usual fixes as I have set both to true and I still get the message above.
I have tried installing the <add-on> after I have set the values to true, then again after restarting my browser, then again after restarting my computer and finally tried creating a new profile and repeated each of the steps after setting the 2 preferences to true.Can you at least update to the latest Firefox 10.0.10 ESR version?
Firefox 10.0.x ESR:
*http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
So a new profile with no other extensions didn't work as well?
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
Which extension is causing this problem or can't you install any extensions at all?
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Unable+to+install+add-ons -
Safari and firefox 'cannot find the server' for every other page that i navigate to, unless I turn Wifi off and on. Once i reconnect to the network, the page loads, but after loading a few more pages, the same thing happens all over again.
This happens each and every time, on different Wifi networks, in different locations. On the other hand, I don't ever encounter this problem when I tether my laptop to my mobile phone's 3g/2g network using Personal Hotspot. How do I fix this?Try this DNS server ...
Open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS
Click + and type:
208.67.222.222
Click + again and do the same.
208.67.220.220
Click OK.
Quit and relaunch both your browsers to test.
If that doesn't help, try here > iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
And here > Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity -
When I download an add-on such as Colorful Tabs and start the installation process, I receive a message that Firefox cannot install the add-on because it cannot modify the necessary file. To what file is this referring?
That is usually caused by Firefox not unpacking the extension.
You can try to set the Boolean pref <b>extensions.alwaysUnpack</b> to <i>true</i> on the <b>about:config</b> page.
To open the <i>about:config</i> page, type <b>about:config</b> in the location (address) bar and press the "<i>Enter</i>" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.<br />
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.<br />
*Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
*Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
*Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
*Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean) -
Hi,
We have a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Version 4.2.1235.0 as a Guest system on a Hyper-V node. The Hyper-V role is on a Windows Server 2012 R2
I receive this error message:
DPM cannot browse the contents of the virtual machine on the protected computer [computername]. Item level recovery is not supported in the following scenarios.
1. The VHD contains a dynamic disk inside the guest OS.2. The VHD has no volume.
3. HyperV role is not installed on DPM server.
4. Automatic mounting of volumes is disabled on the DPM server.
1) Try enabling automatic mounting of volumes using mountvol on the DPM server to perform item level recovery
2) Otherwise perform a full restore of the virtual machine.
ID: 958
Details: Internal error code: 0x80990F4E
One of our protected Hyper-V guest systems backup suddenly refuses to browse the content of the VHD file. The system has 2 VHDs. One for the operating system and one for the data. The OS VHD has no problem with content browsing only the data VHDX started
this error after the installation of september update. I already checked the status that was suggested (1. the vhd contains a dynamic disk... etc. ) and everything is well configured. I have no free space to make a full recovery cause it's 6TB of data.
The updates that were installed are:
DPM Server
KB2977629
KB2966828
KB2988948
KB2993651
KB890830
KB2977765
KB2894856
Protected Guest system
KB2972213
KB2977629
KB2894852
KB2973114
KB2993651
KB2988948
KB890830
KB2977765
KB2894856
Any advice? Thank you in advance for any help.
AndrasHi,
Does the protected VM have Windows dedup enabled on the volume that cannot be mounted ?
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When going through the download process with social monkee and getting to the point of adding it to firefox I get the following message: 'Social Monkee could not be installed because firefox cannot modify the needed file'. How can this be fixed?
That is usually caused by a missing unpack directive (<em:unpack>true</em:unpack>) in the file install.rdf of that extension.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_4.0#XPI_unpacking
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I am currently using Linux Mint 14 with Firefox 21. I am trying to add new themes and add ons, but I keep getting the message "firefox cannot modify the needed file in linux". How can I correct this?
ThanksClick the Firefox button at the top left, then click the ''Help'' menu and select ''Troubleshooting Information'' from the submenu. If you don't have a Firefox button, click the Help menu at the top and select ''Troubleshooting Information'' from the menu. Go to Open Profile Directory (or something similar) and delete a file named user.js
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I just upgraded to Firefox 11.0 (unwillingly) and I get the following whenever I try to install ANYTHING at all. Themes, add-ons...it doesn't matter, the result is the same.
"Cannot install "plugin name here" because Firefox cannot modify the needed file.
If the fix requires installing a plugin...well, that's not going to work obviously.
Anybody know how to fix this?You shouldn't see such an error.<br />
That error usually indicates that an extension or dictionary needs to be unpacked to make it work.
Firefox 4 and later no longer unpacks an extension automatically, but renames the XPI file to the ID of the extension and copies that file to the extensions folder in the Firefox Profile Folder.
If an extension needs to be unpacked then there should be an unpack directive (<nowiki><em:unpack>true</em:unpack></nowiki>) in the install.rdf file of that extension
You can try to set the Boolean pref <b>extensions.alwaysUnpack</b> to <i>true</i> on the <b>about:config</b> page.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
* https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_4.0#XPI_unpacking -
[Add-on] could not be installed because firefox cannot modify the needed file
I've tried both Zotero & Firefox forums with no success:
Zotero could not be installed because Firefox cannot modify the needed file.
I've deleted my cache, restarted firefox and computer, tried in various versions of Firefox (currently 8.0 which the add-on store says is compatible). I'm running brand new Mac with Windows for Mac 2011, have tried downloading in Safari & dropping into Firefox, from the Firefox add-ons and directly from the site. The add-ons says - unable to install & both the other methods list the above error (cannot modify the needed file).
Thanks in advance.This can be a problem with the file(s) that store the extensions registry.
Delete the files extensions.* (extensions.sqlite, extensions.ini, extensions.cache, extensions.rdf) and compatibility.ini in the Firefox [[Profiles|profile folder]] to reset the extensions registry.<br />
New files will be created when required.
See "Corrupt extension files":
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions
* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
If you see disabled, not compatible, extensions in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" then click the Tools button at the left side of the Search Bar (or click the "Find Updates" button in older Firefox versions) to do a compatibility check or see if there is an update. -
when i go to www.erail.net for train details. message as"click here to install plugin" displayed and clicked for install then the message "erail plugin for firefox could not be installed because firefox cannot modify the needed file"
so, further what should i do
regards. madhuYou usually get this error if you try to install an extension that needs to be unpacked to work properly.<br />
Current Firefox version do not unpack an extension automatically, but rename the xpi file to the extension's GUID.
An extension that needs to be unpacked should have an unpack flag in its install.rdf file
<pre><nowiki><em:unpack>true</em:unpack></nowiki></pre>
*https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_4.0#XPI_unpacking
You can try to set the extensions.alwaysUnpack pref to true on the <b>about:config</b> page.
The extension seems to install, but I haven't tested if it works.
*https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/erail-plugin-for-firefox/ -
My iPod touch's menu button literally sank in and now I am unable to use my iPod totally because I cannot press the menu button at all. Can Apple rectify this if I send it to a service center?
You should definetely contact an apple store! If your warranty is valid they will probably fix it for free. Until then go to settings, general, accessibility, assisive touch and turn it on. A circle will appear that does exactly what your home button does.
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