Need help with Firefox?
November 17, 2007 am30 3:14 am
I am lousy at this sort of stuff. I may even be lousy at describing it. I get fairly well-automated updates for stuff on my mac. I usually just accept them without thinking about it. Last round of updates, my mouse’s behavior changed to the point of distraction. I am thinking about just dropping the browser if I can’t fix this stuff.
- When I put the mouse over a hyperlink, the url used to appear along the bottom margin of the window, and stay put. Now it appears for a quarter second or so, and disappears. I need to move the mouse to make it reappear, but then it again reappears. I hate clicking when I don’t know where I am going. This has me concerned/upset.
- As I type I see a url popping up after each key, but too fast for me to read it. I see http // and something like adopt dot specificclick and then dot net, then a long string of characters. There may be an ad doubleclick in the string, and then more numbers and letters. Again, way too fast for me to read it. Is this Firefox, or do I have a serious problem?
- Last, when I hover the mouse over a Firefox tab, or a toolbar item, the item or tab blinks fairly rapidly. This one is just distracting.
Any ideas?
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JD2718 
What version of Firefox are you using? What OS are you running on your mac?
Wow, that doesn’t sound like anything Firefox was ever supposed to do. I’m on Firefox 2.0.0.9 on a Mac (was on 10.4.10, now on 10.5) and, fortunately, have never experienced this. I assume you’ve restarted Firefox and the machine. I would go from there to trashing prefs, then removing and reinstalling Firefox to see if that fixes it. What you’re seeing is not the intended behavior.
Thanks, both of you. I am a math guy, but really naive with web and software. So, no, Ben, I hadn’t restarted. And that did the trick. Although I had already decided to uninstall/reinstall. I know how to do that.
Jackie, not that it is needed now, but Mac OS X v 10.4.11
Firefox 2.0.0.9
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
I should link back to Your teachers an idiot but that was funny and this is just sad…
Nah, not sad, you realized there was a problem and asked for help!
It sounds like maybe one of your extensions is messing with things. I would try disabling one at a time and seeing where that leads you. It can be a tedious process, but the alternative (Safari, Netscape, Opera, whatever else) just isn’t nearly as good.