ok, all of a sudden firefox will not work and wont bring up any pages. i didn't touch any settings with it or anything and am being forced to use ie7 anybody else have similar problems with firefox?
ok, all of a sudden firefox will not work and wont bring up any pages. i didn't touch any settings with it or anything and am being forced to use ie7 anybody else have similar problems with firefox?
Might have been the update to 2.0.0.5. When my install auto-updated to this new version, it reset everything including my proxy settings. If you're on a company network, check proxy and connection settings.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
You tried reinstalling Firefox?
If that doesn't work, then... stop touching yourself at night.
uninstall, reinstall... it doesn't work.
i would do sys restore but last time i tried it said it couldn't restore... i'm pretty mad about this, ie sucks but if it is all i have to get on the internet i will have to make due
edit: wasted a good 20 minutes following instructions from firefox support forums... none of it worked... uninstalled firefox, reinstalled it.. nothing.... OMFG
Last edited by itadakimasu; Sun, 07-22-2007 at 01:36 AM.
Please don't tell me you do IT support for a living.
Did you check proxy/connection settings like I suggested? Reinstalling won't help if your settings are all wrong.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Well, i dont see proxy settings at all in the firefox options. it shouldn't update automatically for one, if its working fine. i just changed the proxy settings from direct connect to auto detect proxy settings, and neither works. I did not have anything set up there previously so to me there is no reason why it should not be working.Originally Posted by Animeniax
I deleted the entire firefox directory and reinstalled and still trash, it seems absurd that i would need to do anything further just to get it to work. The people on the firefox forums ahve these instructions for fixing this and they talk in a tone as if you're retarded if you hvaen't followed their steps to fix it, i followed all of them and it still does not work. I dont have a firewall running to block firefox so... wtf
back up bookmarks.html (bookmarks->organize->file->export), nuke firefox user profile (%appdata%\mozilla\firefox\Profiles\*), reinstall firefox, redo settings, restore bookmarks.html (bookmarks->organize->file->import).
9 times out of 10, firefox problems are caused by user profile corruption.