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Can't press buttons in firefox...
July 8, 2007 6:31 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

I can't submit anything with firefox... Something is broken. I can't search google, I can't submit blog posts, and I can't login to anything.

Whats the issue? The buttons simply do not work... I have reinstalled firefox but still no change. In fact I am using IE because I wouldn't have been able to submit this question. Any ideas?
posted by pwally to computers & internet (8 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
What operating system?
posted by The Deej at 6:36 AM on July 8, 2007


Try Firefox with a clean profile. (Start -> Run, type in the path to your Firefox which is usually something like "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe" and add -p, when prompted create a new profile and start Firefox using it.) Report back if that fixes/doesn't fix it.
posted by anaelith at 7:22 AM on July 8, 2007


Have you actually rebooted the computer? This worked one time when I had a similar problem with Firefox.
posted by hodyoaten at 7:22 AM on July 8, 2007


I'd try starting Firefox in Safe Mode to be sure no extension or theme is causing the problem. You can also disable extensions one-by-one in the Add-ons dialog.
posted by davcoo at 7:22 AM on July 8, 2007


I discovered recently that Perfect Keyboard was screwing with my Firefox. Strange things like buttons not working, copy-paste didn't work; at one point it disabled my backspace key. Might be related; I'd try the other advice posted here first. :)
posted by ZakDaddy at 8:46 AM on July 8, 2007


Do you have a firewall, maybe?
posted by Comrade_robot at 8:47 AM on July 8, 2007


Are you running Greasemonkey? I had a similar problem with not being able to click okay and submit my queries to Pubmed. After playing around with my extensions, I found that Greasemonkey (in particular the TinyMP3 script) was screwing me up.
posted by The Bishop of Turkey at 12:44 PM on July 8, 2007


Thanks for the help! software is strange...
posted by pwally at 2:36 PM on July 8, 2007


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