hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

Thanks for helping me out!

Application Basics

Name: Firefox Version: 34.0.5 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days

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Extensions

Name: Boomerang for GMail Version: 1.2.1 Enabled: true ID: {65e41d20-f092-41b7-bb83-c6e8a9ab0f57}

Name: Hola Better Internet Version: 1.5.695 Enabled: true ID: jid1-4P0kohSJxU1qGg@jetpack

Name: Searchme Version: 2.3 Enabled: true ID: searchme@mybrowserbar.com

Graphics

Device ID: 0x a2e GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL (OMTC) Vendor ID: 0x8086 WebGL Renderer: Intel Inc. -- Intel Iris OpenGL Engine windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: quartz AzureContentBackend: quartz AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

Important Modified Preferences

accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false browser.cache.frecency_experiment: 4 browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 7 browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20141126041045 browser.startup.homepage: http://feedly.com/#category%2FNews browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20141126041045 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 34.0.5 dom.mozApps.used: true extensions.lastAppVersion: 34.0.5 font.internaluseonly.changed: true keyword.URL: https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=spigot-adr-ffmac&ei=utf-8&ilc=12&type=997063&p= media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate: 1414778527 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.version: 1.1 media.gmp-manager.lastCheck: 1418177286 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1418163135 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf plugin.importedState: true print.print_bgcolor: false print.print_bgimages: false print.print_colorspace: print.print_command: print.print_downloadfonts: false print.print_duplex: 0 print.print_evenpages: true print.print_in_color: true print.print_margin_bottom: 0.5 print.print_margin_left: 0.5 print.print_margin_right: 0.5 print.print_margin_top: 0.5 print.print_oddpages: true print.print_orientation: 0 print.print_page_delay: 50 print.print_paper_data: 0 print.print_paper_height: 11.00 print.print_paper_name: print.print_paper_size_type: 1 print.print_paper_size_unit: 0 print.print_paper_width: 8.50 print.print_plex_name: print.print_resolution: 0 print.print_resolution_name: print.print_reversed: false print.print_scaling: 1.00 print.print_shrink_to_fit: true print.print_to_file: false print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom: 56 print.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 25 privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true storage.vacuum.last.index: 1 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1417745121

Important Locked Preferences

JavaScript

Incremental GC: true

Accessibility

Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions

NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.7 Version in use: 4.10.7

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.17.2 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.17.2 Version in use: 3.17.2

Experimental Features

ok, please go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions, remove the "Searchme 2.3" addon and see if this can resolve the issue...

Disable or remove Add-ons

Thanks that worked!!!

What was it?

this was probably just some dubious adware addon without much benefit... glad you got the issue resolved.

Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page