Previous version of Firefox would jump to a query box automatically

Firefox, before loading FF4, would jump to a query box when it came up. After downloading FF4 this does not happen. Am I confusing something that Vista does? Not a big problem, but it sure was nice.... For example...in Gmail, if I was in the Spam folder and chose to delete all spam, a box comes up asking if I indeed wanted to delete all garbage, the cursor used to jump to the box, and all I had to do was hit enter.

I have problem with Firefox 3.6.12
I don't use FTM but I am also getting problems on Ancestry.com actually com.au.
I use search and some screens come up but then click to open a hit item in new tab and the Loading... goes on for ages and ends in a blank screen.
I started using Chrome and it works ok (except Ancestry don't have an enhanced image viewer for it)
Anyhow I thought I would post here and tried again in Firefox and the search panel came up but a search ended up in the blank screen.
What is wrong with Firefox ??

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