Comments on: Firefox Tab Problems

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:05:28 +0000

I had trouble not being able to open tabs. Taking Sarah's advice I narrowed it down to the AVG Security Tool Bar extension. Just so the non-techy knows, extensions can be found on the Tools menu, then Add-Ons, then click Extensions in the now opened dialogue box.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:16:22 +0000

You need to turn off your extensions, see if it still does it. If it does then your install has gone wrong and you can try fixing it. If the problem stops then activate each extension one at a time and check it. Probably one fo the extensions is conflicting and causing the problem.

By: Pfred

Pfred — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:05:27 +0000

For some strange reason, when I upgraded to Firefox 3.x, my opened tabs began to duplicate whenever I opened or changed my current tab to my home page (which is set to Google).

Any idea of why?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:27:14 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I disabled all my extensions, reenabled one by one and found that Google toolbar was the one causing the problem.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:23:30 +0000

I also wanted to thank you for posting this blog. I was having a lot of problems with my Firefox tabs as well. When I'd click to open a link into another tab, the tab wouldn't load until I actually clicked on the tab myself. It was really annoying, especially because this only happened on my desktop PC, not my laptop. Thank you so much for the help!

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:20:53 +0000

Wanted to thank you for the help on this blog. Was having weird problems with my tabs and was making it hard to view web sites. Thank you

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:17:29 +0000

Hope you find the reason for the problem. Keep us updated, and enjoy your new laptop!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:51 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I have a new laptop coming that I can use for a control computer. I'll try the DL when the laptop arrives and let you know how it went. Thanks for all your help Sarah, you're the best!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Sorry to hear that Eric. The only other option I can think of is to download a copy of the portable version of Firefox from http://www.portableapps.com. First try running it without adding anything to it and see how that runs. Perhaps put it on a pen drive or something. If it has problems on your computer like your standard FF then try running it on a second computer if you can and see how it fares on that.

If it's fine on either, then copy over your profile contents from your installed version to the portable version, and see how that goes. Again, check it on a second computer if yours still has issues.

Then maybe you can determine where the problem is ie. Firefox, extensions or something else on your computer, and possibly narrow down the investigation.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:40:25 +0000

I wish it was that simple Sarah. Yes, I tried disabling extensions but it had no effect. I also tried the same thing with my plugins. I actually thought I might have fixed the problem with an update to Java because things ran smoothly for a few hours but then, for whatever reason, it's back to the same problem again. I've also run my Spyware and virus scans and all the usual disk clean up and defrag programs. One thing I didn't mention is that I am on Clearwire wireless broadband but I have good strong signal.

I'll keep plugging away at it. If you think of anything else please let me know.