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Weird Firefox Problem

by LIndaB
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Suddenly, I am unable to open any popup window that uses javascript with Firefox. I've gone into the Options and made sure that those sites were in the exceptions. I've also tried starting Firefox in Safe Mode, but the problem persists. This just started happening this morning. I've made no changes to Firefox, so can't understand what the problem is. It works fine in IE and Chrome.
#firefox #problem #weird
  • Profile picture of the author System Wide Solutions
    Try you have either disabled java script in Firefox. You can check it via settings page.
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    • Profile picture of the author LIndaB
      Originally Posted by System Wide Solutions View Post

      Try you have either disabled java script in Firefox. You can check it via settings page.
      It's enabled in my settings. And it's always been enabled. I haven't changed a thing, so don't know why it would suddenly be a problem.
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      • Profile picture of the author Terry Crim
        Is block popup windows option selected in your options? You may have a plugin that maybe blocking these popup windows as well. Recently had an issue with FF as well, not your issue but was also something that just started. Discovered it was a plugin so I removed it.

        Also FF recently updated, I was using version 10 and the newest version is 12. If you haven't updated that might help also 12 is much faster than previous versions and was a nice benefit to my updating.
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        • Profile picture of the author LIndaB
          Originally Posted by Terry Crim View Post

          Is block popup windows option selected in your options? You may have a plugin that maybe blocking these popup windows as well. Recently had an issue with FF as well, not your issue but was also something that just started. Discovered it was a plugin so I removed it.

          Also FF recently updated, I was using version 10 and the newest version is 12. If you haven't updated that might help also 12 is much faster than previous versions and was a nice benefit to my updating.
          Hi Terry, yes I'm also using Firefox 12. Strangely enough, though, the issue didn't start after upgrading. I've had it for awhile and things were working just fine until yesterday.

          I've tried with and without blocking popup windows, and it doesn't work either way. I've also started Firefox in Safe Mode, which runs without any plugins or extensions, and it doesn't even work that way. So it would seem that it's not a plugin problem. I don't have that many installed anyway, as they really seem to eat up the memory and slow FF down. So this is really a mystery.
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          • Profile picture of the author LIndaB
            I'm not sure why, but I just cleared my cache and now javascript works perfectly again. Not sure why. But if anyone else is having this issue, try that.
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