My lovely browser FireFox is hanging up!
Red Panda – also known as Fire Fox photo by Damouns
and giving me quite a heartache for the last couple of days now! I haven’t used IE for eons although have IE7 installed, just for the heck of it! But I am so used to the add ons in FireFox that working with any other browser feels so foreign. Thank God, I don’t have a problem with accessing my favorites since I transported all of them in Delicious! Yeah, so much for relying on technology!
Which makes me wonder what I will (and you all will) do if we didn’t have access to the internet? chilling thought, isn’t it?
Okay so the browser does load up, but it hangs up on ‘Options’, which are set to clear cache on exit, or on logging on to my beloved social networking site StumbleUpon; which is one of my most favorite activities on a daily basis now and needless to say, it’s added to the ‘blues’!
yes, I am really frustrated and feeling sort of sad…
This post I am writing from IE on the desktop (which has XP home edition, but when I go to install google toolbar or some other apps, the message comes up that the OS is not compatible for the app – they detect my OS to be some older version of Windows 9+, which is beyond my comprehension… strange, isn’t it? And for that reason, cannot install Windows Live Writer on the desktop either, my favorite editor). I use Dell Laptop Inspiron 9300 for just about everything and have used it for almost two years now… AND it is slowing down! *SIGH*
And on top of that seeing the subscriber numbers down to 57 this morning gave me the ultimate shock! Only to see that other blogs were also showing dropped counts on the feedburner chicklet, and that I wasn’t the chosen one this time, was able to have my morning coffee with some peace!
Reading tons of great articles is all I am going to be doing for today (or tomorrow) until I get some of these issues resolved.
I need help! I have tried un-installing and re-installing fire fox, but nothing seems to work! Any ideas? It started happening with the latest upgrade ff 2.0.0.9
UPDATE: Nov. 6th, 2007… finally, I have my baby back, my lovely firefox is all fixed now! Had to delete ALL impressions of the old and do a fresh install! what’s with that? out with the old, in with the new? [this msg should actually have been on twitter] Thank you Mike and Lee for helping to gear me in the right direction!
Your Firefox problem sounds like a problem with the chrome file. I just can’t tell you where it is, because I have not used Windows for a while and I am not anywhere a Windows machine at the moment. Off the top of my head I believe the file is called chrome.rdf. Try doing a search for it, there might be two, one in the program files folder and one in the documents and settings folder (in a hidden folder). Just rename one at a time to chrome.old.rdf for example and try to start Firefox.
I have had problems with that file becoming corrupt on Windows machines in the past and that have gotten things working again.
When I upgraded to 2.0.0.9 of Firefox, I lost all my favorites. I don’t know what happened. Everything else has worked smoothly as far as I know but I hate having to find all my favorites all over again and bookmark them.
hey teeni – sorry you lost your favorites.. thats why I keep my favorites in more than one place… if you use google, you can save them in google bookmarks or use delicious.. I use both….
Hi LGR: I found four chrome files … 2 for Mozilla and 2 for Netscape..on my desktop pc (which has xp but some programs won’t recognize it)
their locations:
program files\Mozilla Thunderbird\chrome
program files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\chrome
program files\Netscape\Netscape Browser\chrome
Program files\Netscape\Netscape\chrome
none in the documents and settings! but i checked on the laptop this file is in documents and settings…
Ill write to you in email – or if you could write to me at tyropearl (@) gmail (dot) com … thanks so much Lee!
Darren Rowse has an explanation of what happened to your missing 50% subscribers. Apparently, something is wrong with Google Feedfetcher or something :)
thanks Pelf… I checked it this morning :)
Hi Pearl
I don’t know if this is related, but I’ve been having periodic problems with FireFox over the last (maybe) 2-3 weeks where the whole browser just keeps freezing and disappearing (I have to alt/tab until I find it and wait for it to come back up). Seriously frustrating and slows me down no end. I love FireFox, and I’m not sure what the issue is (or if it’s just me).
My subs were down 44%, but fortunately I saw the ProBlogger post before I got paranoid that it was something I said!
Sorry to hear you’re having all of those problems Pearl. I would probably try to uninstall it, and then delete the directories it was installed in.
program files\Mozilla Firefox
Then reboot and re-install.
As far as the machine goes, have you done a defrag or scanned for spyware recently?
Hi Mike – I’ve been using Spybot and even uninstalled all Mozilla files and did reboot, did a fresh install… it still wont work properly…. I defragged a few weeks ago too….
Hi Meg: Its not you, theres something in the newer version of fire fox that may not be compatible with some machines, i think… I am frustrated with this desktop pc that I cannot install a whole lot of things on because they wont recognize its xp OS – and it IS a genuine copy of windows xp, I checked! so Im not sure what is going on!
oh, the sub are back and I am so relieved :) thank you so much for stopping Meg…. hope we’ll be celebrating your victory in a few days? :)
Nice to see your subs back :)
No victory over here – it’ll be a massacre! But it’s all good :)
Hope you get to the bottom of your tech issues.
gee Pearl…I wish I could help but I’m an absolute moron when it comes to fire fox….I use IE 7 and until now touch wood….it suits my purpose…
good luck with it all…. :)
ps love the red panda photo :)
Meg: thanks Meg… finally today, after uninstalling and manually deleting ALL of the folders, mozilla as well as firefox, profiles etc, I was able to install a fresh version… but I am not going to install SU add on, I read many places that the newest version 2.0.0.9 has issues with SU toolbar….. may be thats what broke the whole thing…
I think being a finalist in itself is a feat :)
Hey Kim… thanks… I like IE7 also but I love firefox more for some reason :)
I liked that panda too – had no idea its also called fire fox :)
Glad you got it sorted.
I hope it’s not the SU toolbar – that would be annoying – you trust these updates are stable and tested.
I hate it when all the little things I get to rely on don’t play nicely together (like some of my plugins). They’re like petulant children, and I have enough of those to content with!
:lol: I know what you mean… I have so many different plugins for sharing on social networks and none of them (other than bookmarkit) work with this theme! Just be careful updating firefox – I believe it is SU toolbar though!
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thank you Pearl! I will start keeping an extra copy of my favorites in Google – I was using it as a reader anyway. Neat! ;)