Sep 27 2009
URL Is Not Valid and Cannot Be Loaded Solution
I have been plagued by this error message “URL Is Not Valid and Cannot Be Loaded” from my Firefox for last 10 days or so with no solution. Well lo and behold – solution turned out to be extremely simple!
If you have seen message like this when you try to access any random links in Firefox:
…than read on for Stupidly Simple Solution I have found!
I have searched all over the place trying to find the issue and find a solution, a few suggestions I have found were pointing to possible extension or a theme so I decided to take simple steps:
- Disabled All Add-Ons
- Uninstalled ALL Add-Ons
- Started Installed them back – one at the time, testing after each!
Turns Out Latest Google Toolbar add-on is what was causing the issues! On that note – Google Toolbar is GONE from both Firefox and Internet Exploder.
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That is the danger sometimes with toolbars. I had a Yahoo toolbar cause a lot of problems a few years ago.
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Yep, this one annoyed me for quite a while
Yep, google tool bar gave me hell. Thanks for the tip. Things work really well without it.
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Thanks for the heads-up on this, Alex – it was quite an annoying development!
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Yeah, I found this one to be quite annoying! And also I DO NOT like Windows 7, nothing but issues with connectivity, same as Vista. Sadly MS created another screwed up OS
Thank you,
That has been irritating the crap out of me for a while now but just recently gotten to be so bad.
I just recently solved another issue with that bar, Should have checked it before searching, But the Google updater kept setting off Norton 360 saying the updater was attacking my PC.
But any ways thanks again,
~James
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Nothing to do with add ons or plug ins guys, it’s the fault of the web developer for leaving iFrames in the web page without a resolving address. Some browsers ignore it but FF doesn’t like it. Good for us web developers to get these notices when testing but bad for web surfers if it’s not been addressed during development! Hope this helps…
Actually – you are incorrect. It has nothing to do with iframes as I have seen the error on sites I have designed and I never use them.
I use the same toolbar and never had that issue. Try installing it again, I would say the problem is somewhere else.
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for us non geeks where do i disable “add ons” .i went to control panel remove programs and i removed the google toolbar from IE. there is no option to remove it from Firefox,the toolbar is gone from both. alas i still get the popup. . .
For me, at least, the problem was caused by the installation of Norton 360 add-ons, specifically Norton IPS 1.0 and Norton Toolbar 3.7. As soon as I disabled them, the problem went away. Just another POS from Symantec! To Disable click on Tools – Add-ons then Uninstall. Easy!
I thought you were really on to something, Hank, since this infamous error message seemed to appear right after I installed Norton. But,alas, I dumped Norton & still get this annoying message. Any other ideas?
Hank was correct for my situation, I had to do a system restore yesterday, which forced Norton to update it’s files to work again, after that, this error began happening to me as well
Disabling the Norton add-ons fixed the problem for me.
Thanks Hank
Carolyn, I am also a non geek but if you go to the “tools” heading (whilst viewing a web page)you will then see the section “add-ons” in that section somewhere there will be the google toolbar add-on, disable it first, just to see if it works.
I’m sure there’s probably a quicker way, but this worked for me.
This solution worked a treat for me, just by deleting the Google toolbar add-on has solved the problem. Many thanks
I tried an older version of Google Toolbar (Follow LinK) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6249 all is fine now. Just uninstall the new one and re-install this one.
That problem was driving me nuts, but as soon as I removed the Google toolbar the problem disappeared. Thank you
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Works great! Thank you!!
Thank you so much to the first poster for positing about the Google Toolbar. For the past almost 2 weeks I have been going nuts with this error and not able to load pages I use to be able too. I first thought it was related to the 2010 update to Norton, but even disabling it I still received this error. Disabled Google tool bar and haven’t received this error in almost 2 days now.
Another note, I also have to save my passwords and normally to click where the user name is a drop down name menu appeared. This too disappeared and now has reappeared. Thank you so, so much!
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I had similar problems with this error. I did what JB suggested and uninstalled the new version of the google toolbar and installed the one he indicated.
I don’t know how but it works. I don’t care if it’s because of the iframes or no iframes… IT WORKS!
Thanks guys!
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Remi,
Exactly my point – if it works, it works
The problem also disappears if you add in the “http://” before the “www.” – it was a fast way for me to see the page I was looking for.
Wow.. that’s will be a pain for me.. I have 20+ addons and 30+ including extension/toolbars
Man I’m so glad I found this!! I got a new computer yesterday and I have had this problem driving me crazy for 2 days. I’m debating on removing them because I like the PR option in there toolbar. Guess I’ll have to deal with it as long as I can.=) Thanks for posting this, now I know in case I want to remove it later.
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Thank you SO much!! I was just about to pull out my last patch of hair!! It really is the small things that drive you banana sandwich!!
I don’t even have google toolbar active and can’t find it in addons to turn off or in programs to uninstall and I keep getting that stupid popup.
You were right on! This has been bothering me for about a week, but I’ve been in denial! Avoiding it! Finally tonight I had enough and had to look it up. Thank goodness, you had an answer!!!
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Wonder when there will be a update? I love Google toolbar?
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I found the problem to be the Chrome search engine add-on.