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.
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Consuela - Jun 02, 2006 8:10:17 pm PDT #8252 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Cass - Jun 03, 2006 2:04:05 am PDT #8258 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.
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.Mine finally just demanded a fresh new profile. "These are not the profiles you are looking for..." Kinda annoying. I hope that I rebooted often enough that it was the only choice. Otherwise I lost everything because I was impatient. Which is kinda poetic, but I miss my bookmarks.
DXMachina - Jun 03, 2006 2:22:51 am PDT #8259 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Cass, sweetie, what are you doing up at this ungodly hour?
Firefox won't delete your old profile, so you can retrieve your bookmarks. If you're in XP, the profiles are usually stored in c:\documents and settings\[username]\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles
The profile name is a bunch of random seeming characters. If you open it, you'll find a file called bookmarks.html. You can just copy this file from the old profile to the new, and your old bookmarks will be restored. (Firefox must be closed when you do this.)
Cass - Jun 03, 2006 2:59:39 am PDT #8260 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.
Cass, sweetie, what are you doing up at this ungodly hour?Getting my old bookmarks back, apparently. Thanks!
Actually that will be later. After I go back to sleep for a while.
Why does Firefox make this so crazy and difficult?
le nubian - Jun 03, 2006 3:17:13 am PDT #8261 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I updated Firefox on two machines and I have had no problems.
Here's the thing...I'm wondering if your Virus software is interacting with Firefox. Can you reboot your machine, shut down the virus software and firewall and then try to open firefox?
BTW, you might need to go into Program Files and look around and move Firefox related files to a different folder.