URL clicked in other programs will not load in Firefox

Only in the last weeks of 1-3 (?) or so, I find that I can not click on links in other programs and have load URL in Firefox, which is my default browser. They always used to load perfectly and move me to the new tab in FF, but now they do not have.

At first I tried to disable some recent FF modules one at a time to see if one of them could have been the problem, but that does not resolve, even though I may have missed one. Yet, I can't imagine how an independent add-on could cause URLs do not load from other programs. I tried to load the URL by clicking on it in Thunderbird, WordPad, MailWasher Pro and free agency, but each of them either just trembled at the screen for a moment and then stopped, or gave me a message such as 'WordPad could not open the URL' or ' there was a problem sending a command to the program "(free agency). However, when I copy and paste these URLS even in FF and press ENTER, these sites load perfectly.

I may be wrong in the present, but it seems that something has changed in the FF that now prevents the links clicked in other programs from loading. My only other thought at the moment, it's that this peut eventually began all the time I upgraded from FF 10.0.2 to FF 11.0.1, but I have no evidence to support this theory.

It's really an annoying problem and embarrassing, so any help to solve it will be much appreciated!

Thank you
Al

The problem is solved now, as a result of assistance that I'm on WindowsSecrets forum. Once I realized that the problem occurred only with PCM and Thunderbird, but with other programs as well (I tried WordPad and free agency, which didn't even load the URL in Firefox), I posted the question on other forums, trying to see if others knew something about this issue. I got the answer of a member of the forum on this page:

   http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/145441-URLs-clicked-in-other-programs-won-t-load-in-Firefox?p=847784#post847784

In case you are not a member it or may not load this page, here is her suggestion:

   With FF closed type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in the start menu search box, click the item that appears and delete localstore.rdf FF will replace it on starting.

I did this and all four programs that had previous problems loading of the URL, including MWC, now load them perfectly. The only (small) problem with this solution was localstore.rdf apparently saves all information about things like the Firefox toolbars and their customization, so all that was lost when I deleted the file, but I re-adapted quite quickly and everything is fine. Any thoughts about what localstore.rdf does, why this problem happened, or how to do to prevent it happening again will be appreciated.

I hope this info helps. Thanks again for your help.

Kind regards
Al

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