And now it's stopped again.
Argh!
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
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Consuela - Jun 02, 2006 6:59:25 pm PDT #8248 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Cass - Jun 02, 2006 7:39:09 pm PDT #8249 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Firefox blew out my profile recently and had me start all over with a new default profile before it would load pages again.
But, frankly, I don't know how or why. And I am still kinda annoyed with it for that little trick. Which makes this a rather useless post for Tech.
SuziQ - Jun 02, 2006 7:53:47 pm PDT #8250 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I don't think I set-up a profile. Is this something I need to do, or does it just "happen".
Eddie - Jun 02, 2006 8:07:33 pm PDT #8251 of 10003
Your tag here.
A default profile is created for you the first time you start up Firefox. Here's some info on managing profiles.
Consuela - Jun 02, 2006 8:10:17 pm PDT #8252 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Argh. I just spent over an hour digging through the Mozilla help files, uninstalled, reinstalled, set up a new profile, etc etc etc.
Nothing. Something to do with the new updates has fucked it up.
beth b - Jun 02, 2006 8:17:08 pm PDT #8253 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Welll, then I am not updateing. I'll ask Matt about it later.
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2006 9:06:30 pm PDT #8254 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Consuela, are you using Windows? Does rebooting fix the problem (at least temporarily)? If so, it could be that Firefox is not closing down correctly, and still has a process open even though you have all its windows closed. Use the Task Manager to see if there are any errant Firefox processes....
Consuela - Jun 02, 2006 9:10:15 pm PDT #8255 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tommyrot, that is definitely one of the problems, but the Task Manager doesn't show Firefox running. The process manager says Firefox is running but can't close it.
I'm pretty much at a loss. And very grumpy: I HATE IE.
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2006 9:11:53 pm PDT #8256 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sorry, I was thinking of the process manager. That's odd that the process manager can't kill Firefox.
Gah, can't think of anything else....
DXMachina - Jun 03, 2006 1:53:20 am PDT #8257 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I've had the update running for a day or two, and it's working fine for me. I'm wondering if it's so incompatible with one of your extensions that it's just crashing.
A default profile is created for you the first time you start up Firefox.
Yeah, but I have seen Firefox refuse to load even the default profile on occasion, steadfastly asking if you'd like to create a new default profile, which when you attempt to do it, Firefox says you already have one, and it again asks if you'd like to create one. That can usually be fixed by rebooting the machine.