Someone made a hijack that looks like Ubuntu is the culprit

[Shabakthanai]

No Vinny,

Focus on the brown Ubuntu bar that is centered on the screen. Everything above that is missing. It appears for about 1/2 second but shifts to what I see. If I had the top line which says, "Firfox (with the down arrow) then Ubuntu Start Page +, I could right-click on the space to the right and add the Menu. But since it does not exist, I cannot. I went to the Firefox site and downloaded two features, one to prevent redirection and the other, similar, but I do not recall the specific name at this point. In any event, neither helped.

I am being almost instantly redirected from the page you see to the one that does not contain all info above the Utuntu centered line. Also, "Ubuntu Start Page - Mozilla Firefox" in the black bar at the top screen (I think of it as the screen name or bar.) is not there either. Again when I clicked on "Reply" I did not open with the Formatting bar. I would like to send a screen print to make sure you understand what I see. Do you know why the Formatting bar no longer appears on my screen when I click on 'Reply'? Thanks friend.

The instruction on my private message fixed the firefox problem. I will have to go back and copy the instruction to post here, and I will do that, however I am going to post this as solved, to keep others from working on it. I will post the solution later though to help anyone else who gets the same problem. When I opened Firefox and it opened properly, I burst into laughter with true joy in my heart. Without the screen shot, I wasn't unable to adequately explain my problem and caused way too much work for the specialists, nonetheless, I am a very happy Camper right now.

[Shabakthanai]

The code that repaired my Firefox application is as follows:

sudo apt-get -purge firefox
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old
sudo apt-get install firefox

I am so very happy. Thanks to all who provided help. At the very least I learned a lot during this post. Special thanks to you Vinny for your patience and steadfastness. Cudos all!

[vinnywright]

The code that repaired my Firefox application is as follows:

sudo apt-get -purge firefox
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old
sudo apt-get install firefox

I am so very happy. Thanks to all who provided help. At the very least I learned a lot during this post. Special thanks to you Vinny for your patience and steadfastness. Cudos all!

sweet,,,,,,I was just getting ready to to PM you and tell you I accidentally deleted your last PM ......LOL but I see it is no longer necessary

if firefox is now working well for you you can remove/delete the ~/.mozilla.old from your home directory it could be over 2-300Mib's in size , mine is anyway.
you can do this in dolphin or the CLI .

in dolphin wile in your home directory press alt+. and you will then see the hidden .files/directorys scroll down to the .mozilla.old directory/folder and wile holding the ctrl key down click the mozilla.old directory/folder this will select it , now press shift+delete a box will pop up asking if you want to permanently remove this ,,,,,if ONLY the .mozilla.old directory/folder is listed hit enter or click ok ,,,, this method bypasses the trash can and permanently removes the file/directory.

in the CLI you can do this with

rm -rf ~/.mozilla.old

best of luck to you

VINNY