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Seasons Greetings. How do I keep firefox 4 from disallowing my most important sites?

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Question Seasons Greetings. How do I keep firefox 4 from disallowing my most important sites? All the garbage, it lets sail right in, but my bank accounts and library accounts are not allowed. Why is this? I have looked in the help section and tried the permissions manager, but when I type about:permissions in the location bar, I receive the following error, "The URL is not valid and cannot be located." Thanks for any useful information.

Question Seasons Greetings. How do I keep firefox 4 from disallowing my most important sites? All the garbage, it lets sail right in, but my bank accounts and library accounts are not allowed. Why is this? I have looked in the help section and tried the permissions manager, but when I type about:permissions in the location bar, I receive the following error, "The URL is not valid and cannot be located." Thanks for any useful information.

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You have a setting that is non-default.

Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General and uncheck the box that says 'Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page'

That should take care of it for you

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1) You should update to Firefox 9.0.1 ASAP - there are MANY fixes, including important security ones, since Firefox 4

2) What do you mean by not allowed? Do you get an error message? What appears on the screen?

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Thanks for responding. Sorry I wasn't very precise. When attempting to navigate to one of these sites, a message at the top of the screen appears, "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page." Then there is a dialog box which says, "Allow." Once I 'allow' it, the page I'm trying to open does so. This only occurs with certain pages, and usually pages that I need open without any computer interference. I hope this clarifies things. Again, thanks for taking your time to respond.

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You have a setting that is non-default.

Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General and uncheck the box that says 'Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page'

That should take care of it for you

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That seems to have worked. I thought I had tried that before, but maybe not. Many thanks. I appreciate it. Have a Happy New Year.

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No problem. Have a great New Year