After firefox 6 update tabs are going haywire

Since I upgraded to Firefox 6 my tabs are resizing for no reason, won't close tabs and just show new tab which won't close. I was using Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs add-ons. Disabling Colorful Tabs does not solve problem. Disabled Tab Mix Plus and it seemed OK. Then installed "Tab Utilities" and the problem was ok for a while and then came back. Either of these tab add-ons are quite useful and I would like to be able to use them without all of the problems which are very disruptive.

I think it is an Overlapping issue caused by the add-ons as you yourself described in your last post. IF you don't want to go through the hassle of Disabling and Checking them one by one, then Create a New Profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
-> Basic Troubleshooting: Make a New Profile
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
-> If that New Profile works then you can recover your Bookmarks and Passwords from the Old Profile.
-> Recovering important data from an old profile
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile
Check and tell if its working.

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After the recent update, tabs are no longer saved when closing, why?

When I click on the save and quit button and reopen Firefox, nothing is saved. Only my home page tab opens and I have lost all other tabs that I wanted to save. How can the "save" be restored?

If you use [[Clear Recent History]] to clear the 'Browsing History' when you close Firefox then restoring tabs from the last session ("Save & Quit" or "Show my windows and tabs from last time") doesn't work.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore

When closing Firefox, after reopening it, my tabs are gone, even though I have Firefox set to remember session.

When closing Firefox, after reopening it, my tabs are gone, even though I have Firefox set to remember session. However, after several hours and opening and closings of Firefox, it will open tabs from the old session, for no apparent reason.

You can check for problems with the sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak files in the Firefox profile folder that store session data.
Delete the sessionstore.js file and possible sessionstore-##.js files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox profile folder.
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost and you will have to recreate them (make a note or bookmark them if possible).
In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":
*do not clear the Browsing History
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.

How do I get spell check back on after firefox was updated? Thanks

How do I get spell check back on after Firefox was updated?

Not all locales come with a dictionary installed due to licensing reasons.<br />
If you do not have the en-US locale then check that you have a dictionary installed (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and selected.
You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.<br />
You can open the "Add Dictionaries" link to install a dictionary if you do not have one.<br />
Make sure that [X] "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu has a tick.<br />
You can enable or disable spell checking globally:
* Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Check my spelling as I type"
See also:
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Using+the+spell+checker
You can look here for dictionaries:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/

Im having trouble with my Messages. The keypad sensors are going haywire. The other apps like FbMessenger are ok. What should i do?

The keypad sensors are going haywire. Only Messages has this problem. The other apps with messaging like FB messenger are functioning well.
And its not just with typing; even with scrolling up or down, the sensors wont cooperate. Pfft.

venicespent,
Boot into your Mavericks Recovery partition by hold down the command and R keys whilst booting. You'll see a screen that looks like this:
Click on the Disk Utility item to open Disk Utility. You should see your boot drive (usually named "Macintosh HD" unless you've changed it) in the column on the left of the screen. Select your boot partition and click on the "Verify" button. Let your Mac do it's thing - if you get green text telling you that everything seems to be OK, then your disk should not be damaged. If, however, you get red text telling you that the disk needs to be repaired, click on the "Repair" button. If the disk can be repaired, you should be good to go. If the disk cannot be repaired then the drive is damaged.
But before you do anything, make certain that you have backups!!!
Clinton
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS Mavericks 10.9.4, 16GB RAM, 960GB SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display

When I start firefox, the previous tabs are there but blank and say new tab, can I restore the tabs?

When I start firefox, the previous tabs are there but blank and say new tab, can I restore the tabs?
how can I do this?

I'm not sure what causes this.
As the first step, I recommend backing up your existing sessionstore files.
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button
Scroll down to the files whose names start with sessionstore. You should find at least sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak. If the .js extension does not appear on sessionstore, you should turn off the Windows feature that hides file extensions from you, so that you can work with file names as accurately as possible. This Microsoft support article has the steps: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/865219].
Make backup copies of all the sessionstore files to somewhere like your Documents folder for possible later restoration.
Next, try one of the data mining techniques in these posts to rescue the URLs from the sessionstore.js or sessionstore.bak file:
* Using Firefox's Browser Console (formerly known as Error Console): https://support.mozilla.org/questions/969046#answer-471950
* Using Firefox developer tool "Scratchpad": http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=622036&start=60&p=12098147#p12098147
* Using a third party website: https://firefox-session-restore.herokuapp.com/

When I start firefox, the previous tabs are there but blank and say new tab, how do I retrieve these tabs?

Firefox recently did an automatic update for firefox to version 29 upon restart and all the tabs I had before won't load as before. It appears that the number of tabs open up saying "new tab" on each one but they won't load once I click on them as before the update. I'm trying to find a way for those links to show again. I used herokuapp.com as mentioned in another article but all the blank tabs are shown as about:blank.

Sorry to hear about that. Can you check your profile folder for a special .bak file created during the upgrade? Here's what I mean:
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either
* "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
* Help menu > Troubleshooting Information
In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button
This should display your profile folder. Scroll down and look for a file with a name similar to the following (the date part will be different):
sessionstore.bak-20140506152807
Make a copy of that file to a more convenient location, such as documents, and try to use one of the file recovery methods to find your missing URLs in there. You might need to change the file ending to .bak or .js if it's hard to load with the date included.
For data mining the URLs, I think you already know the options, but for anyone else reading, see: [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/998414#answer-567734].

Unable to access Add-Ons Page after Firefox Security Update.

When I click the add-ons page (after installing the latest Firefox security update) (6.0.1 I think) I get a message that Firefox would show me nifty add-ons IF I WERE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. I am connected. Only Firefox pages won't connect.

Hi
such things are often due to cookies - you can either clear all cookies, or use the filter/search to find 'live' and/or 'hotmail' ones - via Safari-Preferences-Security-Show Cookies.
Then quit safari & check again.

Our apple desktop has hard time getting online after firefox was updated early August- the home pc has no problem, apple had no problem until firefox update.

Home has two desktop computers. Modem and router are near PC in front of house. Apple desk top is in rear location of home. Early August, 2011, firefox was updated from front computer. Since then, apple computer has had inconsistent online experiences. Sometimes it is not possible to get online while front PC has not problem. This is annoying for the apple user. And the problem started only after updating Firefox. Please help! Thnx.

Home has two desktop computers. Modem and router are near PC in front of house. Apple desk top is in rear location of home. Early August, 2011, firefox was updated from front computer. Since then, apple computer has had inconsistent online experiences. Sometimes it is not possible to get online while front PC has not problem. This is annoying for the apple user. And the problem started only after updating Firefox. Please help! Thnx.

How to disable annoying "Restart" popup bar reminder after firefox is updated?

When firefox gets updated, this annoying reminder bar keeps popping up asking me to restart the browser. I don't want to restart my browser! Stop asking me that! Whenever I close this popup bar, it soon raises up again. How do I disable it?

No, it's gone after restart but the point is that 1. I don't want to restart the browser 2. I don't want the reminder to be that annoying. If Firefox really can't keep working after update, developers could have forced the restart. Otherwise, why do they allow this popup to be closed (X button on the right)? If they don't want user to miss this notification, they could have shown it as a modal message box. Behaviour of this popup suggests that restart is optional. Also, it's very logical that if I closed this bar once, it means that I've acknowledged the notification and I don't need to be told about that again. From my user point of view this looks like a bug. Popup bar should not appear again after it was manually closed.

E Bay Sign in no longer works after Firefox Security Update 3.6.6 , return message from eBay is error in your input while signing in

When signing in to eBay, I get an error message stating that there was an error in my input when I attempted to sign in... which also brings up the sign in page again... had no problems prior to the Firefox Security Update 3.6.6..... I can "claim " I forgot my password and using the forgotten password link... get into My eBay... but if I log out and then sign back in a day later... it's the same old thing all over again.... this browser is becoming as much a problem as Internet Explorer has been for years... Firefox used to be simple, straightforward and fast... now, there is little difference between it and the Microsoft hog... IE
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http://ebay.com

Any computer tech would know that it is likely not firefox causing this issue, but an incompatibility with a new ebay sign-in page and the firefox browser. The browser only does what the code on the page tells it to. I have seen the issue with other sites that work with IE or with Safari, but not firefox and some that work with firefox and IE but not Safari, it is the web developer's fault for the page that isn't working, not your browser.
---It is possible that it is a firefox issue, but it is most likely an issue with the webpage itself. I do not have a problem signing into ebay at all with firefox.

How do I get my tabs back after firefox was updated.

My v6 of Firefox was crashing so I updated to v24.0. I had a lot of tabs (65) open before the update and now they are gone, but my bookmarks are all there. Can I get my tabs back or are they all "gone with the wind"?
TIA....
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Hi winsig, I don't know what that first reply was about!
Step 1 would be to salvage your sessionstore files and make backup copies before exiting Firefox or making any other changes.
Open your active Firefox profile folder (personal settings folder) using
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button
Copy all files that start with sessionstore to a safe location such as your documents folder.
Does the sessionstore.bak file look as though it has a timestamp of your last good session, or something later?
You might also check to see whether Firefox automatically performed a Reset during your upgrade. In that case, you may find a second profile in one of these two locations:
(1) Windows desktop, named "Old Firefox Data"
(2) Firefox profiles folder (one level up from your active profile folder)
If you find either of those, make backups of those sessionstore files as well (under different names or in a different folder to avoid overwriting)
If you have anything promising, we can discuss how to swap sessionstore files and check whether any of them have your missing tabs.

[S] Firefox hangs on KDE install after all windows and tabs are closed

When I launch Firefox from KDE, the process hangs around consuming ~70-100% CPU of at least one core after closing all windows and tabs. We have to kill the process manually or say File->Quit and issue the real exit command instead of just closing all tabs. I ran strace and found that Firefox is poll()ing something as fast as it can after all windows are destroyed, causing the CPU increase. Anyone know how I can fix this? I've already tried a different profile and pacman -Rnd to no effect.
Last edited by cookiecaper (2010-08-27 18:06:55)

I've solved this by removing gtk-qt-engine; without gtk-qt-engine, firefox behaves as expected.

Autocomplete/Autofill passwords stopped working after Firefox 30 update

after updating, sites that have autocomplete set to "off" no longer fill in passwords even though the autocomplete prefs in about:config are still set to "true". everything was working fine before updating to Firefox 30.
does this have something to do with it?
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion
i'm unable to view "bug 956906" if i click on the link. [update: if i copy/paste the link into a new tab it loads fine - strange.]
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Well, spoke too soon, in my case, it was a conflicting extension called "Super Start" that caused the issue...after a lot of tryal and error disabling and enabling extensions and testing on dozens of sites, I get to the conclusion that in my case, that was te issue.
Uninstalling "Super Start" solved the issue for me.
This is the extension URL https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/super-start/

After Firefox was updated, the font size on my screen was decreased for all applications. How can I increase the font size on my screen ??

After the update, the next screen showed all the letters in smaller font, with fewer pixels. All the screens are like that now and I found nothing in the Firefox help contents. This is a problem because I have vision difficulty. So, how can I increase the font size to what it was before? My screen is about 20 inches wide.
Also, any chance I can change all the font to Arial instead of Times New Roman?

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After firefox 6 update tabs are going haywire

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