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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.


Consuela - Jun 03, 2006 8:12:32 am PDT #8262 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Okay, I've uninstalled Firefox and uninstalled Microsoft Anti-Spyware (I've heard twice recently that it is incompatible with some things). I exported my Bookmarks and saved the file, and then deleted the Mozilla program folder. I also deleted the Mozilla folder from Local Settings.

Now I'm going to reinstall Firefox again.


le nubian - Jun 05, 2006 2:27:06 am PDT #8263 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Did you get Firefox working again?


Consuela - Jun 05, 2006 5:36:06 am PDT #8264 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I did! I ended up turning off the Norton Security firewall (I already have ZoneAlarm's firewall going) and that seemed to do the trick.

I would dearly love to know why they suddenly decided to be incompatible, but.

Still, I'm glad I'm at least halfway tech-savvy; because if I were not, I've have given up completely and gone back to IE.

Now I just have to reinstall my extensions. I understand Session Saver has problems and there's a newer extension that's better...


Gudanov - Jun 05, 2006 6:35:18 am PDT #8265 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I use Tab Mix for session saving and it has worked very nicely.


Typo Boy - Jun 05, 2006 8:39:11 am PDT #8266 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Generally having two comparable software firewalls on at once on the same server or station will cause problems.


le nubian - Jun 05, 2006 2:16:44 pm PDT #8267 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Consuela,

session saver fried Firefox for me. It seems like a great extension, but I am staying FAR away from it.


Jessica - Jun 05, 2006 2:18:42 pm PDT #8268 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If I just installed 2GB of RAM, but it's not showing up in the system profiler, what's the most likely thing I did wrong?

(I bought it from OWC, and on paper it definitely matches the specs of my machine. And it's listed on apple.com as a compatible brand, so that's clearly not the issue.)

[edit: Fixed this -- it just wasn't fully snapped into place. My thumbs hurt now.]


Jesse - Jun 05, 2006 3:00:52 pm PDT #8269 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Does anyone here use Mozilla's Lightning? Apparently IT at the new job is really into Mozilla, but I need a calendar! And I'd really prefer to have my email and calendar together.


Consuela - Jun 05, 2006 3:02:13 pm PDT #8270 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Tab Mix, Gud? that's good? Coolio.