Under fire fox preferences, search tab - nothing shows up - it is a duplicate of another tab - how do I fix this?
I'm running Firefox 37.0.2 on a Mac 10.9.5. The search tab was there when I first started to try to get rid of yahoo and have google as my default search on the tool bar, but now Search won't show its own content. If I click on "general" first, for example and then click on "search", none of the information on the Search tab changes - it is as if it is still General. If I click on applications, and then search, search will show the same information as is under applications - and so on. Another tab that acts the same is "Tab", therefore both Search and Tab aren't functioning.
Thanks for the help,
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Do you have Ghostery? It seems to cause this problem. As a workaround disable Ghostery or access Firefox settings by typing about:preferences in the address bar. You can bookmark it for easier access.
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Do you have Ghostery? It seems to cause this problem. As a workaround disable Ghostery or access Firefox settings by typing about:preferences in the address bar. You can bookmark it for easier access.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
kenkon said
Do you have Ghostery? It seems to cause this problem. As a workaround disable Ghostery or access Firefox settings by typing about:preferences in the address bar. You can bookmark it for easier access.
Hi Kenkon, No I don't think I do - I'm not great with software, but I went under tools and looked at my "add-ons" and didn't see it installed. thanks for the neat trick with "about:preferences" when I do it that way, I can see the search tab! Tried to reset it to google only. Lets see if it works....yes it did! It stayed on google! Thanks - Yahoo really sucks.
Hi Kenkon, No I don't think I do - I'm not great with software, but I went under tools and looked at my "add-ons" and didn't see it installed. thanks for the neat trick with "about:preferences" when I do it that way, I can see the search tab! Tried to reset it to google only. Lets see if it works....yes it did! It stayed on google! Thanks - Yahoo really sucks.
cor-el said
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
Hi Cor-el - thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. I haven't tried this, since the first reply has seemed to work, but now I know how to restart in safe mode if I have too. Thanks!!
Hi Cor-el - thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. I haven't tried this, since the first reply has seemed to work, but now I know how to restart in safe mode if I have too. Thanks!!
I did not have this problem when I had updated to FF 38; but, after I updated to FF 38.0.5 and and a few other things, I ended up with this problem. Nothing shows up under the Search tab. Or, if I am going from one tab to the next or previous, the Search tab only shows the content before it or after it.