Blank tabs
Opening Firefox I am getting a blank new tab, even though I have a home page designated. Clicking any bookmark or entering a web address just brings up a blank New tab. This has been the same for a week, was hoping for an update as lots of people on the forum have similar issues. How can this be fixed.
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update: we have now released an update to firefox 46.0.1 which might hopefully address this issue. you can download and install it from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
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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...
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}
Did you check your security software?
It is possible that your firewall or other security software blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full, unrestricted, access to install for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
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@Flyingteeth, would you be able to install this test build of firefox and give us feedback if the issue is still occurring there?: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/try-builds/[email protected]/try-win32/firefox-46.0.1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
thank you!
Saafara yiñ Tànn
update: we have now released an update to firefox 46.0.1 which might hopefully address this issue. you can download and install it from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/