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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 19:13 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 19:15
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1) When I start it, it appears as a small box (approx 800x600) at the top-left side of the screen rather then maximized.

2) The top-right google search is now gone, replaced with a magnifying glass that doesn't do anything.

3) Copy & Paste no longer works.

4) When I hit an apostrophe to write something like "don't", it brings up the search instead.

I've no idea what is going on, and need some help. I've deleted FF and reinstalled fresh the latest version and it's still the same.

Thanks

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David R
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Just out of interest, a) what is your screen res? b) what version are you running? (Probably the latest one, but just to make sure) c) Any significant change that may of triggered this?

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 19:24
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The same things are happening for me, except for the apostrophe thing. I think thats what the latest version it supposed to do. try getting a version before the latest and see if anythign works again.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 19:24 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 19:25
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Quote: "a) what is your screen res?"


1280x1024

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what version are you running? (Probably the latest one"


Read my post.

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c) Any significant change that may of triggered this?"


Don't believe so. It just happened one day, perhaps after a crash? I've run a spybot check and no changes.

Zaibatsu: I can try finding an older version, but surly there has to be a better solution? I still want protection from the new adware and get the updates etc.

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David R
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 19:27
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Meh, maybe you two both have a plugin in common that's messing up?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 20:09
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You can fix the first problem by doing this:

1) Start Firefox. It'll open into the small window. Drag the window to as large as you can get it *without* using maximise.

2) Close Firefox down.

It will now at least size to that when it starts. You can then try maximising it and seeing if it'll save, I never run a browser in full-screen so cannot be sure if it works, but I often find sites that resize Firefox and it pisses me off, but the above also fixes it.

The rest of the issues you describe (copy and paste failing, apostrophe bug) I experienced as well on my Mac, and it was annoying enough to uninstall FF completely and use Safari. It doesn't happen on my PC though, so something must have resolved it. I also only found it happened on certain sites (not all), usually when JavaScript was involved. phpbb forums were a bad culprit.

What Extensions do you have loaded?

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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I believe the apostrophe is designed to bring up the search box (which is a bit stupid)...

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 20:35
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Quote: "You can fix the first problem by doing this:

1) Start Firefox. It'll open into the small window. Drag the window to as large as you can get it *without* using maximise.

2) Close Firefox down.

It will now at least size to that when it starts. You can then try maximising it and seeing if it'll save, I never run a browser in full-screen so cannot be sure if it works, but I often find sites that resize Firefox and it pisses me off, but the above also fixes it."


Tried that, didn't do anything.

I am running only a spellcheck extension, which does not work with the latest version anyway, so I just uninstalled it.

Anyway, what I've done is set my icon to start in safe mode. Everything seems to be working (google bar, C&P, etc) only an annoying message box comes up telling me I'm starting in safe mode. I guess this will do untill I get this crap sorted out.

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Spyware?

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Quote: "but I often find sites that resize Firefox and it pisses me off"


You can stop that. In the Content section of the options there is an advanced button next to the enable javascript checkbox. Allows you to disallow sites from doing several annoying things with javascript like resizing windows and hiding the status bar.

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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 21:39
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Quote: "Allows you to disallow sites from doing several annoying things with javascript like resizing windows and hiding the status bar."


Yes but it doesn't work on a site by site basis Some sites I visit need it.

Quote: "Anyway, what I've done is set my icon to start in safe mode."


Then your Profile is borked. Export your bookmarks and create a new one?

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 01:44
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stop downloading cat pron

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Osiris
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Under the adress bar type about:config select it all with the edit menu and paste it, with IE if you need to, maybe the culprit is in there.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 09:57 Edited at: 1st Sep 2006 09:57
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Quote: "2) The top-right google search is now gone, replaced with a magnifying glass that doesn't do anything."


This is the only one of your symptoms that has happened to me and it annoys the heck out of me. It happened months ago and hasn't fixed itself through two upgrades.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 12:22
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You can edit shortcut properties to make it maximize...

What happens if you click on the magnifying glass? Can you reinstall the search option (I know you can get others, so I assume there will be a way of reinstalling it)

Does C&P work in everything else?

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Benjamin
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Sounds like a weird problem. I've noticed that when Firefox opens you can briefly see the magnifying glass.

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indi
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seriously

flush your IE and FF web caches

uninstall the FF

clean up temp folder

trash the FF folder

kill allcookies and any web based caached material

re install a later or earlier version

create an admin account for your machine and use a simple account to avoid a lot of admin based spyware material

run spyware checkers spybot S&D / adaware and ewido

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