# Weird, irritating problem with Firefox.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140 "2009-01-13T20:15:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140/1 "2009-01-13T20:15:26Z")

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I use Mozilla Firefox and Google as a homepage.

In the last week it’s started doing something I don’t want it to do and it’s irritating.

When I click on the Bookmarks section of the toolbar to go on a site that’s bookmarked, a box pops up as if I clicked on the “bookmark this page” icon, which I most certainly didn’t. So I have to click “done” which is annoying to have to do all the time. If I don’t, it will automatically put whatever page I was on onto the bookmark list at the end. Which means that at the end of my session the bookmark list is loaded up with a bunch of websites I didn’t want saved.

It’s never done this before, just now since upgrading to FF 3. Any way to get it to stop doing this? If I want a page bookmarked, I’ll do it manually thankyouverymuch!

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**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140/2 "2009-01-13T20:52:02Z")

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This is certainly aberrant behaviour, I have Ff3 on several machines and none of them do this.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140/3 "2009-01-13T21:26:46Z")

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> [@Myglaren](#):
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> This is certainly aberrant behaviour, I have Ff3 on several machines and none of them do this.

Is there something that is set somewhere that makes it automatically do this?

BTW, my mistake. It’s not “done” I have to click to avoid the page bookmarking, it’s “cancel”.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140/4 "2009-01-14T21:06:47Z")

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Ooh. That happened to me a day or two ago. I just restarted FF and it was okay.

Recently I think I picked up a browser hijacker. A couple of sites I visit frequently were temporarily redirected to virusandspywarescaning dot com (yes, 1 “n”) and antispywaremaster dot com. I wonder if there’s a connection with the bookmarking problem.

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**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-irritating-problem-with-firefox/481140/5 "2009-01-14T21:24:21Z")

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My personal opinion but Firefox was seriously broken after version 3.  
Anyway, in other forums I’ve noticed other having problems with bookmarks. Myself included. For the others it was an add-on. For me it involved a complete reinstall including deleting the /home/me/.mozilla directory.