Is anyone having trouble with Firefox?

[proud2BlibKansan]

It has been acting up on my computer for a couple weeks, and tonight I can't get it to open up at all.

[Naturyl]

1. Yeah, actually

Funny you ask, because I just had to close it down. It randomly does a weird thing where the apostrophe key opens the "quick find" function and you can't copy/paste.

[Catch22Dem]

5. Are you sure

The question mark key does that and it's likely directly below the apostrophe. Are you sure you didn't just hit the question mark instead? I can't type for shit, so I do that all the time. :)

[laconicsax]

16. Hey thanks!

I hadn't noticed that before. Both keys seem to work and here I was using F3 like a chump.

[Catch22Dem]

19. No, thank you.

I didn't know I could use F3. :D

[Naturyl]

48. Nah, it happens every so often. I've tried everything. n/t

[Sal Minella]

13. Yes -- but mine hasn't done this for many months.

For awhile, this would happen about once a day. I have no idea what started it.

[Catch22Dem]

2. Is it running?

Like if you go to your task list, is it listed as one of your processes? If you have multiple instances of Firefox.exe running, right-click, close them, then try again to open Firefox.

To get to your running processes, CTRL-ALT-Delete and click the processes tab (Win XP)

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I have a Mac

None of that makes any sense to me. LOL

[Catch22Dem]

39. I thought about that as I was typing it.

I'm sorry I couldn't help. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. Thanks for answering anyway!

:hi:

[L0oniX]

3. No problems with mine. I have mine set to do the upgrades.

Check to see if there is a newer version and upgrade to it or you might try reinstalling over the existing install. Check the Firefox site FAQ's as well.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Yes I was thinking I should probably just re-install it

[havocmom]

4. Off and on for a couple weeks

More trouble until I uninstalled a particular theme. Too bad, cuz I really liked the look of that one. But the browser IS working better now.

[Blue-Jay]

6. No.

[Breeze54]

7. No but what version are you using?

I have Firefox 2.0.0.11

When did you last update it?

Have you run a scan with Spybot S & D ?

Have you added anything new to it that may not be compatible? A new add-on?

[Stinky The Clown]

9. That's the same version I'm running and its doing just fine

Solid as a rock and not a bit of hinkiness.

[Rene]

26. I hear there's a security flaw with logons if you're on that .11 version of mozilla .

[Stinky The Clown]

31. I dunno.

My browser is open on my machine 24/7 (almost always logged onto DU).

I have some other sites needing a logon and I have no problem with them. Firefox remembers my logins and passwords just fine and there's never any drama at all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. I can't open it up to see what version it is

It won't open at all for me tonight.

[GirlinContempt]

8. No.

[onehandle]

10. Always. I went back to Safari. nt

[NastyRiffraff]

12. Another MacHead, onehandle? :)

I design web sites, so I use Safari and Firefox. Firefox does act a bit dodgy sometimes; quitting (sometimes force-quitting) and relaunching usually fixes it. My browser of choice is Safari.

[onehandle]

18. Having multiple windows open has often made it unresponsive for some reason.

I've deleted the prefs and reinstalled, but no improvement.

I switched for the neat plug-ins such as "Morning Coffee", but I'm moving my bookmarks back to Safari.

Also, I have an iPhone so I want my bookmarks synced between my PowerBook and my iPhone's Safari anyway.


MacHead from waaaaaay back.

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. I have an iphone too

I didn't know you could sync bookmarks.

The stuff I learn on DU. LOL

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I hate Safari

I miss my tabs in Firefox. Another bizarre thing is in my email on Safari, I have to type the whole address but in Firefox, I only need to type a few letters and it remembers the address.

[onehandle]

40. Safari has tabs. What email on Safari?

I use gmail in Safari and get the address as soon as I start typing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

41. I guess I don't know how to make the tabs work

I looked in preferences and can't find how to make a tab open instead of a window when I click on a link.

I have gmail. My addresses pop up but I still have to type them in.

[Breeze54]

50. Click on Tools; then Options; then Tabs... then

... then select an option:

New pages should be opened

in a new window

in a new tab

;)

[NuttyFluffers]

54. tabs and autofill are available in Safari as well

go to Safari -> Preferences

within this check the subcategories, shown by icons.

go to Tabs to alter tabs settings, most likely just activating tabs and the hotkey and that's it. (edit: Breeze answered part 1.1 of 'How to Tabs?' no need for me here! :D )

go to Autofill to alter autofill settings. check the marks that you find useful.

when you say your 'Safari Email' i'm assuming this most likely means using a website e-mail address, such examples being Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Google mail, your ISPs portal if they have one (AOL, COX, Comcast). to retain this information on such websites click the 3rd checkbox called "Other Forms". this will autofill common input in remembered fields, a la 'enter a few keys in the same box and the rest of it pops up'.

the other two involve autofilling w/ username/passwords, and using your info from *your own card* in Address Book. at any time you can edit any of these. for the 2nd and 3rd checkbox this would entail opening up a box w/ the websites list where such information is saved and then allowing you to delete the ones where you don't want such information to be 'remembered'. this can be useful to "undo" some autofilling; very easy to find and manage.

if you desire to avoid retaining such info on a browser you can use Safari -> Private Browsing to prevent Autofill and History from collecting info, routinely clean up Downloads box, and keep the Google Bar empty of previous searches. this is often useful if you're using a 3rd party machine, such as at a library or a friend's machine. makes life easier than having to do it yourself, if you like to maintain your privacy.

Firefox does have fun things like various wacky skins and neat 3rd party plug-ins, and it's still a great browser. but Safari is good, too.

[IDemo]

11. Working fine, as always

both under WinXP and Linux.

[Feron]

14. Do you have any extensions installed?

That may be the problem. One time I updated a theme and it killed tabbed browsing.

Functionality was only restored by deleting the theme.

To get FF back, you may want to open up the taskmanager (three different ways to open it: CTRL ALT DEL, right clicking on the panel and selecting taskmanager, or start->run and type in taskmgr) and see if a firefox process is running. If so, kill it and try starting FF again.

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. I have a Mac

[bluerum]

15. Nope - runs perfect here. Firefox is a bit of a memory hog so if you have

crap like the Weather channel, AIM, or any one of a number of stealth-spy-ware apps running it will compete for resources and start up very very slowly.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Start up wasn't a problem until today

It would freeze on me and I couldn't move from tab to tab. But today I can't open it up at all.

[BattyDem]

17. Yes ... on and off for 2-3 weeks

I have version 2.0.0.11

Sometimes it stalls .... sometimes it crashes completely.

It doesn't seem to be a particular web page or plug-in that's triggering it - it's completely random. :shrug:

I suspect it might be an extension, but I haven't had time to test them.

[HughMoran]

20. Seems to be working fine

Better than IE that crashes every other minute...

[proud2BlibKansan]

34. My computer as never seen IE

and I plan on keeping it that way. LOL

[RoyGBiv]

23. No ...

I've had issues on occasion. It's not completely random. Those issues are based on things I did.

[Imagevision]

30. Yeah, delete it [first import your bookmarks to your desk top so you don't

lose your bookmarks. download it if haven't already] Just do the ad/remove programs thing reboot and reinstall...no biggie.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. Sorry I am dumb

You completely lost me.

[Imagevision]

32. Yeah, delete it [first import your bookmarks to your desk top so you don't

lose your bookmarks. download it if haven't already] Just do the ad/remove programs thing reboot and reinstall...no biggie.

[Maven]

33. Get Camino.

Just posted this on another thread.

http://caminobrowser.org/

It's basically the Firefox engine but made specially for Mac, so it's much faster and more reliable than Firefox.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Just downloaded it

Seems great so far. Thanks!

[Maven]

37. sure.

:)

[Naturyl]

49. Nice avatars in this thread...

:) I'm liking the crowd.

[Bitwit1234]

38. I have absolutely no trouble with FireFox except

it keeps shutting down when I do census on Ancestry. For one thing FireFox automatically downloads and upgrade. And then tells me it has done it. We have the latest version, don't remember what it is, but for that one, we had to do it ourselves. My problem is my keyboard does not move fast enough and I loose my train of thought. Since my son uses this computer til he gets his new laptop, he doesn't mind and won't check out why it is so slow.

[uppityperson]

43. Mine's fine, 2.0.0.11

[tammywammy]

44. No problems here.

[pinniped]

45. Their 2.X version sucks.

It consumes too much memory and it crashed a few times already.

[Vektor]

46. Yes, actually. Many times my pages stop loading.

I will be surfing for a while, doing fine, then all of a sudden, it just won't load any new pages.

[karlrschneider]

47. currently 2.0.0.11 running fine...never had a problem w/ FF

ever.

[malaise]

51. Ditto n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

52. gotta admit...been having very few problems

other than the occasional mistyped URL and I am having a hard time blaming that on Firefox... :-)

On a more serious note, it seems to be doing fine with the problem that the copy and paste function seems to have some issues. I cannot reliably reproduce the error, but it does happen from time to time.

sP

[Rockholm]

53. Working just fine. Love it.