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When I open a new tab, an error message appears.

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When I open a new tab, an error message appears. I click "OK" on the error message, and the tab opens.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I open a new tab

When I open a new tab, an error message appears. I click "OK" on the error message, and the tab opens. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I open a new tab

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Could you please tell us what the error message says? Thanks.

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The error message says : [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a (NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI) [nsIWebNavigation.loadURI]" nsresult: "0x804b000a (NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: loadURIWithFlags :: line 186" data: no]

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The original poster is "Olivier Benet" and then I see a reply from "ailein" are you two the same person? It's important to know, because the two of you may not be having the same problem.

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Olivier is my real name and ailein my pseudonym.

Sorry

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.3;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0

You have or had an extension installed (MegaUpload toolbar) that has changed the user agent from Firefox/3.6.6 to Firefox/3.6.3.

You can see the Firefox version at the top and the user agent at bottom of the "Help > About" window (Mac: Firefox > About Mozilla Firefox).

You can check the general.useragent prefs on the about:config page. You can open the about:config page via the location bar, just like you open a website. Filter: general.useragent If general.useragent prefs are bold (user set) then you can right-click that pref and choose Reset.

See Web sites or add-ons incorrectly report incompatible browser and Find what version of Firefox you are using See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_your_useragent_string_to_its_compiled-in_default

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I am french and I did not understand everything.

My problem is solved.

When Firefox has Started the next day, I did not have this problem.