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[Andrew Yochum]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:04:10AM -0500, 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?

Dan's suggestion is a good one.  I have had this problem in the past
with both Mozilla & Firefox.  It happened to me because of incompatible
extensions that buggered things up to the point that the browser was
useless.  Creating a clean profile will do the trick hopefully - unless
you've installed these extensions system-wide, however, an full
uninstall / reinstall should fix that.  If there is stuff in your
profile you don't want to lose or transfer, it is possible to manually
remove these extensions from your profile by editing various XML files
in your profile dir, though that can be a pain.

HTH,
Andrew