Firefox url goes grey, and back button no longer works.

Ok so most annoying problem EVER!! Ok so I have this problem where I will be running firefox, browsing the net, and then all of the sudden the url bar will grey out and only the domain root will be solid.
Once it does this, I cannot use the back button, in fact from there on out, many url's will not even show up in the navigation.
The browser works just fine then out of nowhere will start pulling this.
An example would be
[http://www.cnatrainingcertificationclasses.com http://www.cnatrainingcertificationclasses.com]/topics-you-can-expect-in-your-cna-classes/275/ , and then the end would be grayed out. Soooo maddening
I also am running a few addons, but I need all of these addons what can I do?

Try:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prevent_websites_from_disabling_new_window_features

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see -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Kill_application
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callahan.214,
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== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
I am not sure what happened or how this happened but, for some reason my back and forward buttons are no longer functioning. I have uninstalled and re-installed firefox twice and updated the Torbutton but yet, it is still now working. I can;t find answers from your forum.
== This happened
==
Every time Firefox opened
== earlier this week
==
== Troubleshooting information
==
Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
3.6.3
Profile Directory
Show in Finder
Installed Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
CoolPreviews
3.1.0521
true
Cooliris
1.11.6
true
[email protected]
Torbutton
1.2.5
true
Modified Preferences
Name
Value
accessibility.browsewithcaret
true
accessibility.typeaheadfind
true
browser.history_expire_days.mirror
180
browser.history_expire_days_min
5
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
http://www.google.com/
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:1.9.2.3
browser.tabs.loadInBackground
false
extensions.lastAppVersion
3.6.3
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.last_vacuum
1274131105
print.macosx.pagesetup-2
PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIHBsaXN0IFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vQXBwbGUvL0RURCBQTElTVCAxLjAvL0VO…
print.print_bgcolor
false
print.print_bgimages
false
print.print_command
print.print_downloadfonts
false
print.print_evenpages
true
print.print_in_color
true
print.print_margin_bottom
0.5
print.print_margin_left
0.5
print.print_margin_right
0.5
print.print_margin_top
0.5
print.print_oddpages
true
print.print_orientation
0
print.print_pagedelay
500
print.print_paper_data
0
print.print_paper_height
11.00
print.print_paper_size_type
1
print.print_paper_size_unit
0
print.print_paper_width
8.50
print.print_printer
print.print_reversed
false
print.print_scaling
1.00
print.print_shrink_to_fit
true
print.print_to_file
false
print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom
56
print.print_unwriteable_margin_left
25
print.print_unwriteable_margin_right
25
print.print_unwriteable_margin_top
25
privacy.cpd.siteSettings
true
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
0
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
== Firefox version
==
3.6.3
== Operating system
==
Intel Mac OS X 10.5
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
==
*-Cooliris embbedded in a tab
*Gecko default plugin
*Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
*BrowserPlus -- Improve your browser! -- http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
*iPhoto6
*Office Live Update v1.0
*Java Plug-In 2 for NPAPI Browsers
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42
*RealPlayer Plugin
*4.0.50524.0
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

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Based on your suggestion, I checked the Event Viewer and found a string of "Application Error" entries similar to this:
Faulting application name: WSHost.exe, version: 6.3.9600.17093, time stamp: 0x534765e9
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