[nycphp-talk] OT: Firefox Failing on Windows XP
Jeff Siegel
jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Mon Nov 29 10:59:15 EST 2004
Thanks Dan and Andrew. I went into profile mode ("C:\Program
Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P) and that seems to have done the
trick. Boy...that was REAL STRANGE!! I've had extensions do funky things
but this was the strangest I had seen.
Jeff
Dan Cech wrote:
> What version of Firefox are you running?
>
> Have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode?
>
> Also, there may be issues with your profile, you could try starting
> Firefox in profile manager mode and creating a new profile.
>
> Dan
>
> Jeff Siegel wrote:
>
>> This problem is so strange I'm not even sure how to describe it. I've
>> been using Firefox (and its previous incarnations) for quite some time.
>> Then I encountered the following problem. Firefox has become completely
>> unusable. I'm not sure if this is a Firefox issue or a WinXP issue
>> though the problems described below have only affected Firefox and all
>> of my other applications are working correctly. Here are some examples
>> of the problems I've encountered.
>>
>> a) On startup the default 'home' page does not appear though I can
>> right-click on the page and view the html source.
>> b) I can not type anything into the address box nor the Google search
>> box.
>> c) The menus are inaccessible through either the mouse or keyboard. In
>> fact, Firefox does not respond to any keyboard commands.
>>
>> I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling. No luck.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>> Jeff S.
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