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Why is my toolbar stopping new tabs from opening?

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scottyw1992
scottyw1992
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Whenever I click on the new tab (+) nothing happens. When I try to exit Firefox it says that there are more tabs open than I can see which means its opening them but just not displaying them. I am able to right click on links and open as new tabs fine. I have found that my toolbar was the extension that was stopping the tabs from appearing. The toolbar however, works perfectly and id like to keep it. Is there something I can do to fix this?

Whenever I click on the new tab (+) nothing happens. When I try to exit Firefox it says that there are more tabs open than I can see which means its opening them but just not displaying them. I am able to right click on links and open as new tabs fine. I have found that my toolbar was the extension that was stopping the tabs from appearing. The toolbar however, works perfectly and id like to keep it. Is there something I can do to fix this?

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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.

(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)

  • You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.

Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"

If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.

To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

Please report back soon.

ideato
ideato
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Hello scottyw1992, note that Google Toolbar it is not supported from Firefox 5 and above (it is Google choice ! ).

https://www.google.com/intl/en/toolbar/ff/index.html

http://googletoolbarhelp.blogspot.gr/2011/07/update-on-google-toolbar-for-firefox.html

thank you