HT6104 Safari acting strange multi add pages open when I click a browser link.

Click a browser link and get the page I wanted as well as one or two additional add type pages. Also the preferences general page keeps switching from how I want new windows and tabs to open as well as how I set the homepage.

Click here and follow the instructions, or if there’s a type of adware not covered by them on the computer, these ones.
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Why doesn't the browser open when I click on a link?

I have Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Safari & none of them open when I click on a link to a website thru the "mail" account? Why? I even open the browser ahead of time and they do not go to the site. And it doesn't matter what link I have, NO LINKS Activate These Browsers. Is there something that is deactivated? Plmk and thanks!

In the General section of Safari's preferences, select the web browser you want to use to open the links. If this setting has been changed to no application or one which can't handle web links, such as Calculator, the link won't open when you click on it.
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Firefox no longer opens when I click on a link in my e-mail program. Worked fine until I upgraded to 10

Mac 10.6.8, Entourage 2004

Is there a way for me to determine where on my desktop the new web pages open when I click on links?
Not sure if that can be done but you can press the Expose key which will show all open windows.

Firefox has remberd a password to a website ... chessatwork and I get loged in to my main page and when I click on any link it takes me right back to my log in page, where it has it stored.... password and user name,,, whats up and how do I turn that off?

Firefox has remberd a password to a website ... chessatwork and I get loged in to my main page and when I click on any link it takes me right back to my log in page, where it has it stored.... password and user name,,, whats up and how do I turn that off? chessatwork has ran great for me for many yrs, then one day I down loaded firefox and went to play chess on this site chessatwork.com, well the window popped up asking to remember the log in and pass word and so I said ok, and it did, but now when I click log in and I go to my main page (home) and click on any link, say to play game I return right back to log in

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_autocomplete_entries 
Remove a saved password here: Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: "Saved Passwords" > "Show Passwords"
You may also need to remove the cookies from that website. 
* Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"

After upgrading I get comerical tabs opening when I click on embedded links.

I installed firefox 28 over my existing installation. Now when I click on embedded links half the time an additional tap will open for some commercial site. Any suggestions on stopping this.

Can you check your download history to see whether you got an unofficial installer bundle with some unwanted extras from a strange site?
To tame the ads, try this: Disable ALL nonessential or unrecognized extensions on the Add-ons page. Either:
* Ctrl+Shift+a
* orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
In the left column, click Extensions. Then, if in doubt, disable.
Usually a link will appear above at least one disabled extension to restart Firefox. You can complete your work on the tab and click one of the links as the last step.
Does that flush the extra tabs?
If unwanted extensions lack a Remove button, this usually indicates it was installed by other software on your computer. Time to visit the Windows Control Panel, Uninstall a Program, and click "Installed on" to group by date and reveal secret bundled items you may have accepted. Probably best to remove everything recently added that you do not actually know to be useful.
Finally, you may want to run some extra scans to mop up any lurking crap. This article lists tools other Firefox users have found helpful: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]].
Any luck?

Want to stop multiple spam windows from opening when I click on a link

All of a sudden when I click on a link all sorts of spam windows open up. I have "Pop-Up" windows set to off....but they still open...also all of a sudden pages on line will have tons of words highlighted as hough they are links.... and when I click on them thinking it is a link it is another annoying pop up window. I have checked my "plug ins" and "add ons" and there is nothing there that I can find. I am using Windows 7 and this problem just began this week. I ran a McAfee scan and found no virus......can you help???

Really? It's not there? Huh, that's odd...
Your System Details show that there is one. Is this the same Firefox installation that's having problems or did you post it from another computer with Firefox installed?
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/XSqoso4.png height:"700" width="550">
Oh...I see what's happening here. You've been infected with Trovi adware junk. Here's an indication from your System Details
* browser.startup.homepage: http://www.trovi.com/?gd=&ctid=CT3321972&octid=EB_ORIGINAL_CTID=
* http://search.conduit.com/?gd=&ctid=CT3321972&octid=EB_ORIGINAL_CTID&ISID=MCF21B79A-4D91-4118-B5D9-098F3C715BD0&SearchSource
You should always pay attention when installing software because often, a software installer includes optional installs, such as this adware. Be very careful what you agree to install. 
Adware gets on your computer after you have installed a freeware software (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) that had bundled into their installation this browser hijacker.
You can use the below steps to revert back to adware-less Firefox.
1) Reset Prefs
*Navigate to '''about:config''' in your Address Bar
*Press the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button to proceed
*Search for trovi and reset all prefs that pull up by right clicking > Reset
*Also search for conduit and reset all prefs to be sure it's gone.
2) Remove any programs that you don't recognize or remember installing from your Control Panel (Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a Program)
3) Remove any extensions that you don't recognize or remember installing from Firefox.
*Firefox 29 and above:(Press the menu button ([[Image:new fx menu]] > Add-ons > Extensions)
*Firefox 28 and below:(Go to the orange Firefox button > Add-ons > Extensions)
4) Download ADW Cleaner to wipe out any remnants of the adware.
*http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

I don't want Firefox to be my main browser or automatically open when I click on a link from my emails, how do I disable this?

When I click on a link from my emails it opens automatically through firefox. I want to disable this feature as I would like to go back to Chrome. I don't want to uninstall Firefox all together but I don't want it to be my main browser either.
Thank you

The only way to have such links not open Firefox is to set another browser the default browser.
That MozillaZine Knowledge Base article shows how to set another browser like IE as the default browser.
See Setting default browser manually:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser

How do I control what page opens when I click "new tab" in FF 3.6.17?

I used to get a blank page when I clicked on "new tab" but now I have started getting a yahoo page. I would like to go back to a blank page where I can enter the new url I want to open.

Make sure you dont install any third party toolbar or addons?
* go to Tools-Addons to check
you can use one of this extension for new tab page
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2221
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777
Firefox 7:
* getfirefox.com

Extra home page opens when I click on links in websites or emails. How can I stop this?

With Firefox running or not running, whenever I click on a link on a web page or in an email, two Firefox pages open: the page in the link, and my home page. How can I stop the extra home page from opening?

closed firefox, then did yum reinstall firefox
didn't help, same problem

Can someone help me understand why the search engine will not do anything when I click the search icon or press enter, and why new windows won't open when I click on a link that should open one?

When I type something in the search engine at the right hand corner of the screen it will not allow the search to take place. What I mean is I either click the icon or press enter and nothing happens. I would understand it better if it at the very least gave me a error message. I have also noticed that things like the opening of a new window via a link will not work. An example is I was just on www.walmart.com and when I clicked on an image in order to see a larger one no window opened. I also recently noticed that when I had a lot of tabs open the shortcut menus and menus in general did not load completely or really at all keeping me from saving the pages as bookmarks. I know this could be from low internet speed, a lot of tabs etc..., but I've had many more tabs open than I had then and it worked. Plus all I did was delete or close one tab and suddenly it worked. I then recovered the tab and it still worked even though I was back at the original amount of tabs. I have the latest version of firefox, not counting the beta, and I don't know of any way to solve the two main problems.

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
* [[Troubleshooting plugins]]
If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.
* Use "Disable all add-ons" on the [[Safe mode]] start window to disable all extensions.
* Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

I am using CGI Vis examples in LV6.1, and the VI simply opens when I click on a link. What am I doing wrong?

I am running Labview 6.1 and am simply trying to learn about the CGI VIs from the examples. I set up the Web Server root directory and I have the cgi-bin directory in it. When I view the provided index.htm file using http://localhost/index.htm, I see the web server document (so the server is working???). I go to the CGI examples and click on the link for CGI Basics. Everytime I click on the link, the vi tries to download with a prompt for SAVE or OPEN. If OPEN is selected the vi opens but does not run. I thought it might be a problem with the browser being on the same machine, so I went to a machine without Labview installed and it still tries to download th
e vi locally from the server. I assumed from the documentation that the vi runs on the server and sends a request back in html form. I must have missing something or setup wrong. Any help would be deeply appreciated!
Setup (In case it matters)
Labview 6.1
Internet Developers Toolset 5.0
Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Pro (Tried both)
Internet Explorer 6.0
Happy New Year to all!!!

I am not sure what the problem could be and I am a little confused about the exact steps you took. I launch LabVIEW, start the HTTP server, point my web browser to http://localhost/index.htm. This brings of a page entitled G Web server. I click on the button to "View CGI Examples" which redirects by browser to http://localhost/examples/index.htm . I click on CGI Basics and go to http://localhost/examples/basics.htm .
This page has four groups of examples and within each group there are several examples. All of the examples I clicked on redirected my browser. Is this what you see?
Was the message to save or open from the browser or from LabVIEW? If it was from LabVIEW, then you might consider mass compiling the VIs on your computer. You can do this
by opening LabVIEW >> tools >> advanced >> mass compile.
You might also try a reinstall of the Internet Toolkit. The examples may have been corrupted.
Finally, LabVIEW 6.1 introduced remote front panels. You might find them easier to use than CGI scripting.

Two instances of Firefox open when I click on a link within my email client. How can I stop this from happening?

I am running on an iMac OS X 10.6.3 using Firefox 3.6.3 as my default browser and I use Postbox 1.1.5 as my email client. Anytime I click on a link within an email message two instances of Firefox open, one with my home page and one with the site the link was meant for. This happens only when Firefox is not already open. If Firefox is running and a link is clicked on it opens normally within the open instance of Firefox. I have contacted Postbox and am currently awaiting a response to see if they have any suggestions. While this is not a serious issue it is a bit annoying. I have Firefox set to open new links in tabs not new instances of windows, so it shouldn't be that. Any help in getting this to stop would be greatly appreciated.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Not sure, it's been going on for quite awhile.

That is a bug on Mac.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552 - Firefox 3.6b opens two windows when opening external links
''(please do not comment in bug reports to avoid bug spam for the devs)''

Email or contact box is no longer opening when I click on a link within any website

whenever I click on any link withing any website that should and always had either opened an email, contact us section withing that website, or my default email, nothing happens. example, going to a website that has a link for contact us, I click on the obvious link and nothing happens. This is not just happening within one website, but every site that I go to. Absolutely nothing happens when I click on links that are obvious links that should direct you to either another area or open an email within every website I go to. This started happening about 6 weeks ago, now in the last week, my firefox keeps crashing for no reason. I use a mac OS X 10.4.11.. I have made no changes to my system, have not downloaded any new programs, and everything else is working fine with my mac.

Further to jscher2000's suggestion yesterday: I think I misunderstood the suggestion, which I didn't find very clear. I've now discovered that if I send a Firefox open window (with one or more open tabs) to hide in the dock first, then clicking on a link twice (once to bring the mail program to the front and again to open the link), this will cause the hidden tab/s to come out of hiding AND a new tab for the link will open. Cumbersome, and I still maintain there is a bug in version 32, but this workaround is at least quicker than copying and pasting the link.
Thanks to cor-el and jscher2000 for your responses.

Windows 8. I open a new firefox and get on a page. When I click on a link, example my schools website, it goes to a random page.

I have a new laptop, windows 8. I have Avira, popup blockers. This is what happens:
I open Firefox. It goes directly to google.com, my home page. I click on say my schools website and I go to put the cursor on the login and it opens up this random webpage in a new tab. It does this every time I start up firefox. I have the default popup blocker on, my popup blocker and it still happens. It is quite annoying. Instead of the pointer finger it is the arrow and doesn't do what I'm trying to do.

Sometimes a problem with Firefox may be a result of malware installed on your computer, that you may not be aware of.
You can try these free programs to scan for malware, which work with your existing antivirus software:
* [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner]
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware]
* [http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363 TDSSKiller - AntiRootkit Utility]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/MSE Microsoft Security Essentials] is a good permanent antivirus for Windows 7/Vista/XP if you don't already have one.
Further information can be found in the [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]] article.
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Help! I am unable to even download Firefox. The "run" window never opens when I click the download link.

I am currently using Internet Explorer Version 8.0.6001.18702IC on my PC desktop, and want to switch to Firefox. I have clicked the download link in several places with no result at all

Don't try to run the Firefox installer directly, but save the file to the desktop and start the installation with a double-click. 
You may need to disable your anti-virus software temporarily if you still have problems.
You can find the latest Firefox release in all languages and for all Operating Systems here:
*Firefox 12.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

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