Why does the Welcome to firefox tab open with my google tab every time I open the browser? And why can't the browser hold any add-ons I downloaded? I loose then when I close the browser, even tool bars have to be reinstalled every time I open the browser

Every time I open the browser the Welcome to Firefox tab is the first tab, then a second tab opens and thats my google, then a 3rd tab opens for me to reinstall my toolbar. This has been happening for a good year. Updates have not fixed it. Others have this problem. I did a search for an answer, the question is out there but no answer. Now if I go into add ons and add a background Theme or an extension it all is gone when I exit the browser. When I open the browser again I get all 3 tabs and have to install my toolbar again. I DO NOT want to reinstall as I will loose all my saved data, passwords, bookmarks, everything! I have had this computer for a year, Windows Vista x64 bit. Its not the computer, it's the browser. If you have specific questions e-mail me and I will be more then happy to help

See this article for some suggestions: [[Firefox has just updated tab shows each time you start Firefox]]
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved and Preferences are not saved

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The Crash information is:
AdapterDeviceID: 95c4
AdapterVendorID: 1002
Add-ons: TFToolbarX@torrent-finder:1.2.6,{1de0de3c-0b5c-4f67-90c6-689623894991}:0.3,{9fb7d178-155a-4318-9173-1a8eaaea7fe4}:2.1.11,{B17C1C5A-04B1-11DB-9804-B622A1EF5492}:1.2.1,{c0c9a2c7-2e5c-4447-bc53-97718bc91e1b}:5.4,{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}:1.3.9,{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}:0.9.8,{ef4e370e-d9f0-4e00-b93e-a4f274cfdd5a}:1.4.4,{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}:4.9.5,[email protected]:4.0.2,{1E73965B-8B48-48be-9C8D-68B920ABC1C4}:10.0.0.1410,avg@igeared:7.008.031.001,[email protected]:1.3.5
AvailableVirtualMemory: 3804364800
BuildID: 20110902133214
CrashTime: 1316851060
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: [email protected]
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1315413340
Notes: AdapterVendorID: 1002, AdapterDeviceID: 95c4, AdapterDriverVersion: 8.872.0.0
D2D? D2D+
DWrite? DWrite+
D3D10 Layers? D3D10 Layers+
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 452
StartupTime: 1316850895
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 78
Theme: LavaFox_V1-Blue
Throttleable: 1
TotalVirtualMemory: 4294836224
URL: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/new?product=desktop&category=d2&search=My+firefox+always+opens+a+crash+report+when+I+close+it.+Even+if+I+have+no+tabs+open+and+close+firefox.&showform=1
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 6.0.2
Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 1 :
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 3 :
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 2 :
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 3 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 1 :
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 2 :
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Have a read of the rather complicated article
* [[firefox crashes]]
* and for anyone with firefox crashing before you can key in about:crashes see: <br/> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad#Location_of_crash_reports
I note you have found bp-54df2ba6-de52-405d-9ccc-4dd272110924 have you any other recent crash signatures or crash IDs, the one you provide seems rather uncommon [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&query_search=signature&query_type=exact&query=karasx2.dll%400x2535&reason_type=contains&date=09%2F24%2F2011%2001%3A44%3A07&range_value=1&range_unit=weeks&hang_type=any&process_type=any&do_query=1&signature=karasx2.dll%400x2535 [karasx2.dll%400x2535]]
Do you still get the problem in [[safe mode]] and with default themes, and all plugins disabled. Note common causes of crashes are malware, and versions of the software IDvault. (do you use IDvault ? - often provided by Comcast)

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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Menu%20bar%20is%20missing

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Hi Sean,
Try this:
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# Click ''I'll be careful, I promise'' if prompted
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== This happened ==
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== I am unsure what caused it. I have tried re-installing firefox.

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[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode]
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+has+just+updated+tab+shows+each+time+you+start+Firefox
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page - Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

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[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page]

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* [[Firefox hangs]]

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When I update some of my addons, everytime I open firefox information about update is in new tabs, even "welcome to firefox" is always there in new tab! It's very annoying!

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It's at the bottom titled User.js file locks certain preferences.
This article can also help https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Preferences%20are%20not%20saved
It have still not made a new user.js file, but everything runs fine, hope this can help others to.

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