Windows 8.1 and Firefox issues

Bought a new laptop, Toshiba Satellite C55D-B5215. AMD A6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics 2.00 GHz. 4 GB RAM, 63 bit operating system, x62 based processor. 1 TB memory. Came with Windows 8.1 on it. This has been very frustrating.
I THINK Firefox 33.1.1 downloaded. I say "think" because in trying to fix issues, somewhere I saw Firefox - PART, but now I do not know where I saw this.
I just ran a search on "THIS PC" for Firefox and have 2 screens of listings.
One issue: I use yahoo for email. When I click to open a message, I can not scroll down. I have to click IN the message, and then arrow down. The scroll bar on the far right takes up the entire range, so it cannot be moved down.
Second issue: In working on things, I tried moving Firefox to Safe Mode. Now, my first problem is that the instructions to do this say to use the Menu button and the ? button; in fact, all I had to do was click on Help in the menu across the top of the page, and then click on disable add ons. So that took me some time, just to get in to Safe Mode.
Once in Safe Mode, the menu across the top disappeared, so I could not get back IN to help to exit Safe Mode!
In Safe Mode, the touchpad was disabled; I had to go get a mouse and connect that to move around.
Yes, once I did THAT, and went in to yahoo mail, I could open a message and have a scroll bar on the right to move down the message.
I had to reboot to exit Safe Mode.
Then I had to go enable the touch pad.
Now I have no scroll bar when I open an email message in yahoo mail.
Next issue. Firefox is S L O W. I've used it for years on 4 or 5 other computers, never seen it this slow. It is so slow that I keep getting 'NOT RESPONDING' across the top of the page. I do not do anything and eventually the page DOES load. This happens with any site: Facebook, this Support site, craigslist, yahoo mail, any place I go to. I have not found that it is site specific.
Next issue. Periodically the cursor locks up. Nothing I do releases it. Once in a while I wait and it becomes responsive again; other times, I have to reboot.
Next issue: sometimes I have to click once, sometimes I have to double click ON THE SAME BUTTON. This happens when I am in a forum and want to post a reply, as one example. Sometimes one click on the REPLY button do it. Other times, I have to double click. It is not constant ON THE SAME FORUM.
That's what I've got, for now. Any help much appreciated.

Here are the 2 pages of listings when I search Firefox on "this computer"

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have found is that if you clear the cookies then you can login and
all is well.
Upon further investigation, I logged into the admin side of
the site, chose a user at random who had not logged in in more than
a week. I tried to login to the site with his username and
password, I could not (user and pwd are correct). After I could not
login with his credentials, I tried my own and they too did not
work although they did just prior to logging in with his. I cleared
the cookies, and then it worked. (mine and his credentials).
I also ttried, deleting just the cookies for my site and that
doesn't work. It is only when you delete ALL cookies via the Clear
Private Data, uncheck everything except cookies method that it
works. So I'm stumped. I don't know if it is firefox, or my code,
or the server, or IIS or what. Any clues that you folks can shed
would be great. If anyone else is experiencing this sort of
behavior please tell me what you have done. Again, I did not
develop the site so technical details are a bit sketchy and I am
trying to help the developer track this down.
Essentially the site is developed in CF version 8, the login
logic is CF/AJAX with javascript form field validation on the
client. The webserver is IIS 6, the server itself is patched, the
backend is SQL 2005 SP3 and again, this works flawlessly in other
browsers.
I appreciate any assistance.

you said nothing about how your login framework is designed.
are you using cflogin?
did you make your own login framework based on session
vars/whatever?
are you using regular cf sessions or j2ee sessions? (you
should do the
latter, imho).
let's start with that. post your code that performs login and
the code
that checks for login state. post you application settings as
well.
FF (as well as other browsers) has a feature to re-open
previous tabs on
start-up. this feature makes FF aggressively cache pretty
much
everything it can get its hands on, and never release it
unless the user
tells FF to clear out private data.
your application needs to be designed with this and similar
features in
mind.
post relevant code for starters.
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

Windows 8.1 and Firefox issues

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