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Tab function does work in Firefox Mac version of 30.0. Why?

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Neither Cnt T nor the plus sign open a new tab.

Neither Cnt T nor the plus sign open a new tab.

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This issue can be caused by a Community Toolbar extension.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
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Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 30.0 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0

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Extensions


Name: iMacros for Firefox Version: 8.8.2 Enabled: true ID: {81BF1D23-5F17-408D-AC6B-BD6DF7CAF670}

Name: Vuze Community Toolbar Version: 3.21.0.1 Enabled: true ID: {974c81d1-2bc4-4437-af71-588d6e350ed0}

Name: Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X Version: 1.1.3 Enabled: false ID: colesbury@gmail.com

Important Modified Preferences


accessibility.blockautorefresh: true accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 102400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 339639 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false browser.history_expire_days.mirror: 180 browser.places.importBookmarksHTML: false browser.places.importDefaults: false browser.places.leftPaneFolderId: -1 browser.places.migratePostDataAnnotations: false browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 7 browser.places.updateRecentTagsUri: false browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20140605174243 browser.startup.homepage: http://www.globeinvestor.com/ browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20140605174243 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 30.0 browser.tabs.loadInBackground: false browser.tabs.warnOnClose: false dom.mozApps.used: true dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: false extensions.lastAppVersion: 30.0 font.internaluseonly.changed: true keyword.URL: chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1403190459 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 places.history.expiration.transient_optimal_database_size: 59041710 places.last_vacuum: 1302620633 plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf,application/vnd.fdf,application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml plugin.importedState: true plugin.state.divxbrowserplugin: 0 plugin.state.silverlight: 2 print.macosx.pagesetup-2: PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIHBsaXN0IFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vQXBwbGUvL0RURCBQTElTVCAxLjAvL0VO print.print_bgcolor: false print.print_bgimages: false print.print_colorspace: print.print_command: print.print_downloadfonts: true print.print_duplex: -2147483573 print.print_evenpages: true print.print_headerleft: &U 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_pagedelay: 500 print.print_paper_data: 0 print.print_paper_height: 11.00 print.print_paper_name: print.print_paper_size: 8 print.print_paper_size_type: 1 print.print_paper_size_unit: 0 print.print_paper_width: 8.50 print.print_plex_name: print.print_printer: print.print_resolution: 429 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: 46 print.print_unwriteable_margin_left: 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_right: 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 7 privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true security.disable_button.openCertManager: false security.OCSP.disable_button.managecrl: false security.warn_viewing_mixed: false storage.vacuum.last.index: 1 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1400687216

Graphics


Device ID: 0x fe9 GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 OpenGL (OMTC) Vendor ID: 0x10de WebGL Renderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: quartz AzureContentBackend: quartz AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

JavaScript


Incremental GC: true

Accessibility


Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions


NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.6 Version in use: 4.10.6

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.16 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.16 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.16 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.16 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.16 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.16 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.16 Version in use: 3.16

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This is caused by the Vuze Community Toolbar, please remove it.