# Strange Firefox problem.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 10, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474 "2014-01-10T21:47:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/1 "2014-01-10T21:47:44Z")
Using Firefox ver 26, Win XP SP3.
Just now, for some inexplicable reason, all my contact lists, when I am writing a new email, are suddenly in reverse alphabetical order. I can’t figure out what I did, and can’t find a way to get them back.
When I open my Address Book, they are in proper order,
What did I do and how do I fix ix?
Is my computer possessed?
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/2 "2014-01-10T22:02:01Z")
How are you seeing the contacts in the composing screen? I only see contacts if I begin to type a name and then they are in the order that comes closest to that name.
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/3 "2014-01-10T22:53:48Z")
Never mind, I figured it out. On the right side of the Name bar in Contacts is a little down arrow I never noticed before, which reverses the order. I must have some accidentally clicedk in that before.
All’s well that…
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/4 "2014-01-10T23:11:30Z")
What do emails and address books have to do with Firefox?
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/5 "2014-01-11T15:11:04Z")
> [@njtt](#):
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> What do emails and address books have to do with Firefox?
Good grief! Nothing of course.
Obviously I should have been in the Thunderbird forum. All I can do is plead old age as an excuse. It should be a valid excuse, as I’m 86. Well, actually, 86.5. 😃
Sorry about that.
Can a Mod banish this stupid thread before it reaps more confusion?
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/6 "2014-01-11T15:18:40Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#):
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> Can a Mod banish this stupid thread before it reaps more confusion?
No! I want to know why burning foxes driving Thunderbirds are looking for my address and are getting it backwards!
Seriously, most database-type listings in Windows can be sorted by clicking the headings, and sorted between up and down order by repeatedly clicking (sometimes the heading itself, sometimes a little box of some kind). It’s useful but can be annoying if you don’t know what’s going on.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-firefox-problem/678474/7 "2014-01-11T22:57:31Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> No! I want to know why burning foxes driving Thunderbirds are looking for my address and are getting it backwards!
No GPS.