Mozilla Firefox issues

[HexiledRazz]

This weird problem just started happening with Mozilla about an hour ago. Every time i load a new page/open a new tab, all buttons/tabs/links on Mozilla's interface become unclickable. Additionally, all the links/buttons on any pages that i have open or tabbed become unclickable as well.

 

The only way i seem to be able to "refresh" it and make them clickable again, is pressing control+alt+delete and bringing up the windows security window(I use windows XP Pro and the older interface. You know, the one where it brings up a window instead of the task manager when you press control+alt+delete? Don't know the technical name for it). And pressing cancel on that window. Then the problem is fixed until i click a link/go to another tab.

 

Anyway, i've already restart my computer, and uninstalled and reinstalled Mozilla. Right now I'm going to try another browser to see if it does the same thing. In the meantime, anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Or what might be causing the problem?

 

EDIT: IE works fine and doesn't have the problem. Atm I'm downloading Google Chrome to see if that works. If it does, I'm going to use it as my main browser temporarily until i find out a solution here.

 

Addition edit: When i downloaded Chrome, i couldn't open the settings tab. Also, every time i clicked the back button, it opened in a new tab. And when i clicked on that tab, it closed itself. Could something be wrong with my mouse? I'm clearly at a loss to what the problem is here.

[LitterBug]

Whenever something bizarre happens - I always go and system restore a couple of days back.

Usually, this works - but it sounds like you might be lagging or something along those lines.

 

How many new windows are you trying to open up? I know I used to have this toolbar with news from cnn or something. Sometimes, I'd be clicking and I would use the scroll button on the mouse which coincidentally is also the open in a new tab button. Whenever this happened, my computer would try to load like 100 new pages at once and it would just flip out for a couple of minutes and just not do anything.

[HexiledRazz]

I thought it was my mouse for a while, but i snagged my dad's mouse to try it... And i thought the problem was solved for a while, but as i was posting this problem solved post, it started doing it again :roll:

 

 

Whenever something bizarre happens - I always go and system restore a couple of days back.

Usually, this works - but it sounds like you might be lagging or something along those lines.

 

How many new windows are you trying to open up? I know I used to have this toolbar with news from cnn or something. Sometimes, I'd be clicking and I would use the scroll button on the mouse which coincidentally is also the open in a new tab button. Whenever this happened, my computer would try to load like 100 new pages at once and it would just flip out for a couple of minutes and just not do anything.

 

I don't think lag is a problem... Because ironically, other then the problem i'm getting my computer is going as fast as a lightning bolt. Compared to the usual slow-as-hell-ness.

 

I'll try a system restore.... Maybe that'll work.

 

 

EDIT: Did a system restore to yesterday, when the problem was non-existent. Tired to load up firefox, and got a crash message as soon as i clicked on my desktop shortcut. Tried again, same crash message.

 

So i uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, and i still get the problem.

 

Any other ideas? I'm getting severely pissed off at this problem.

[Ember]

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[HexiledRazz]

Do other users (accounts) on the system have this problem? If not, you might have some user-specific settings off.

 

 

Yeah, the problem is the same on multiple accounts.

 

I downloaded Safari, and the problem is non-existent on this browser. So it's the only one i can really use atm.

 

Also, it actually happen with the RuneScape client today. Nothing in the game screen was clickable. Also the minimize/task bar/close buttons didn't work either. Though i fixed it though the usual means pressing control+alt+delete, then canceling, and it went away and didn't happen again.

 

I really am clueless as to what is causing this... Perhaps it could be a virus of some sort? My computer always is pretty clean of them though...