Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes). See Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems and Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems

If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears. You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the Safe mode start window to disable all extensions. You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

Starting in Safe Mode does not affect the behavior of the address bar. It still causes google.com reloads every time i try to type in a new URL. Interestingly, IE8 works fine, but a new install of Chrome has issues loading pages due to multiple redirect problems. Perhaps these issues are linked?

You can disable keyword search and the url fixup as a test, see Location bar search

You can set these prefs to false on the about:config page to disable the keyword search and the url fixup. keyword.enabled - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.enabled browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About%3Aconfig_entries#Browser.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

i fixed the issue by changing the proxy settings to "auto-detect" in the network configure screen.

did not work for me

@djharleyd

Please start a new thread for your problem or question and provide troubleshooting information like your operating system and installed extensions and installed plugins.

• start a new thread
• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Using+the+Troubleshooting+Information+page.

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