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[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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