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Second instance of Firefox 4 results in blank page (no home page) and tool bars fail to load.

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To use Firefox on two screens, I open two instances of the browser. Or listening to streaming radio, and open a second browser results in blank page in second browser. Home page does not load, tool bars fail to load even though tool bars are checked as opened. To open the tool bars have to unselect and the re-select. To open the home page I have to click on the home page icon. All this use to happen without fail in 3.6.

To use Firefox on two screens, I open two instances of the browser. Or listening to streaming radio, and open a second browser results in blank page in second browser. Home page does not load, tool bars fail to load even though tool bars are checked as opened. To open the tool bars have to unselect and the re-select. To open the home page I have to click on the home page icon. All this use to happen without fail in 3.6.

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sobenson
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Copied from cor-el:

>Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of your add-ons is causing >your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > >Themes). See Troubleshooting extensions and themes and >Troubleshooting plugins

>If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then >try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the >problem reappears. You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the Safe >Mode start window to disable all extensions. You have to close and >restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > >Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

I found the offending addon to be Google toolbar.

Modified by sobenson