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At the top of my homepage, I'm getting a message "Downloading the latest applications", but the circle to the left keeps spinning, and no applications are downloaded. I don't know how to stop this, tried right and left clicking on the bar. This occurs

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At the top of my homepage, I'm getting a message "Downloading the latest applications", but the circle to the left keeps spinning, and no applications are downloaded. I don't know how to stop this, tried right and left clicking on the bar. This occurs every time I open Firefox. How can I stop or disable this?

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Every time Firefox opened

== Several weeks ago.

At the top of my homepage, I'm getting a message "Downloading the latest applications", but the circle to the left keeps spinning, and no applications are downloaded. I don't know how to stop this, tried right and left clicking on the bar. This occurs every time I open Firefox. How can I stop or disable this? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Several weeks ago.

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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update (Software Update not working properly) Remove the files in the updates and updates\0 folder:

Vista/Windows7: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\ (updates) C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ (updates) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates\

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smal dots running around in a circle while message appears on a blue tool bar about 3 lines down from the top - it isd constantly on and annoying - I just might go back to IE8 if I cannot get rid of this problem!

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Same problem : Downloading the latest applications, but it never stops trying to download; please fix asap, I beg of you not to make me revert to Microsoft explorer