Hello, I'm having trouble twit firefox. When I open it my home page opens for a second then disappears and fire fox keeps trying to load the same page.
This problem started last night, I have uninstalled firefox and re installed it, but the same problem persists.
hello davidbutterly, it sounds like a theme or extension might be interfering here. please try launching firefox in safe mode once and see if the issue is occurring there too. in case it's working correctly, please go to firefox > addons > extensions and disable/remove any extension that look suspicious/you didn't install intentionally or that might interfere with the tab loading behaviour.
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