No pasting in address bar

just came over from firefox using windows 7. pasting an address into address bar doesn't work. it either disappears or goes back to the last page i went to.
i can type in an address and it works just fine.
i am confused on why it is doing this.
never had this happen with any other browsers.

It was working fine with 4.x. Just 5.x is having this problem. It seems that the QA team at Apple is getting worse.

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around URL load.
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Right-click on a toolbar, click on the "Tabs on Top" entry to de-select it.

I cannot upgrade past 28 my dropdown menu will not work in the address bar I can not search from address bar stuck at home page

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Hello, and Welcome to the HP Support Community!
It would help us reply to you if you gave us more information... Which HP device are you using? A Windows PC with a keyboard?
An Android Tablet? A ChromeBook?
If Windows, the keyboard shortcuts always work. Highlight the address, type "Control-C" to copy the information.
Now click in the address box of the browser and using the keyboard, type "Control-V" to Paste. Think as the "V" as an arrow pointing to "paste it here!"
(To perform each function, press and hold the control key first, then tap the letter you wish).
Other ways to paste is to right-click your mouse and choose "Paste" (after copying something).
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I just gave you the details. When I click on a hyperlink, the URL of the site/page is not in the address box at the top of the page.

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*caused by Babylon Toolbar -- https://support.mozilla.com/questions/890670
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ATTENTION MOZILLA DEVELOPERS!!!! I have had numerous issues all occuring within 24-48 hours,The latest is location/address bar not working completely! Who has solutions and fixes that actually work???

Windows 7 32bit Firefox 3.6.1.1 .... I really liked Firefox until recently!!!!
I'm not even going to explain all the problems I have had in the last 2 days, but i will tell you i have read so many forums and have done A LOT of fixing, 8 hours worth!! So before someone suggests for me to try a common fix I have done almost all things like. 
Disable extensions 
Disabled/Remove add ons 
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I have done almost everything except remove Firefox and use a different browser. 
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Please keep in mind I did a full Google search on these problems and have found that a lot of people have the same issues regardless of Firefox versions or Operating systems!! 
This is my last attempt to get accurate and proven solutions/fixes to these problems before I wash my hands of Mozilla, I'm sure someone will tell me to just do it!!! 
I am hoping to get knowledgeable responses to this post!!
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You can locate the current [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder] this way:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory > Open Containing folder
If the 11.01 & 11.02 are empty backups then make sure that create a backup of the other .json backups elsewhere as soon as possible to avoid losing backups that may still work.
The other profiles appear to have older bookmarks. You can check the file compatibility.ini in a profile to see which version of Firefox last used that profile.
A possibility is to create a fourth profile to test each of the JSON backups and check which bookmarks they store. If you open that profile with the -no-remote switch then you can copy and paste bookmarks from one profile (instance) to another profile. Both profiles need to be open at the same time to do that.
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