firefox problem

[ripken204]

on my dads comp hes been using firefox for a few months and today when he tried to open it up it would do nothing, nothing at all pops up, not even an error. i checked in task manager and each time he tried to open firefox the a new process would start for it so he had like 6 processes for it in task manager. i booted the comp into safe mode and firefox loaded up fine, ive also reinstalled it but still no luck.

[pwner]

Did you try deleting the profile folder?

[ripken204]

no? what would be the point of that? its too late anyways, he finally agreed to let me do a clean install on it, he has sooooo much crap on it

[pwner]

So, what was the point of this topic?

[techniquefreak]

Well, just for the sake of it - maybe you could've just uninstall-reinstall-ed that firefox

That counts for any other program as well - just uninstall and reinstall - spares you a lot of time compared to reformatting and often solves some strange problems that might occur ...

[Zxian]

ripken204 said that he had tried reinstalling it (which I'm assuming meant uninstall-reinstall since he's no id***...)

[ripken204]

ya i tried uninstalling and installing

i dont think that it was firefox itself b/c it worked fine in safe mode

so it must have been another program interfearing with it

[pwner]

Well, if you'd have posted this before when you actually cared to fix the problem instead of just blindly formating the HDD and thus never learning any experience from it on how to fix something like that, then you could've tried our suggestions and see whether that would fix it or not. But now that that is over, you'll never know what was wrong, unless you manage to magically recreate the same conditions as before. But that would most likely only cause you to panic all over again and reformat the drive.

[Press any key]

The problem was most likely an Extension. These are added value to Firefox, but also may prove it's greatest weakness. Independent Extension developers are not keeping pace with the numerous releases of Firefox.

For me, Firefox 1.0.2 was the greatest ever, but now with 1.0.6 I too cannot start the browser without it freezing. Safe Mode works, so therefore proving it must be an Extension.

I have always been an IE fan, but am extremely grateful to Firefox for getting Microsoft off its bum to update its browser.

*I battling along with IE7 B1 at the moment, so this proves I must be a true fan. Also, I am an ordinary person, so I need eye candy. Get something out that looks pretty, soon. When you buy a car you are attracted to the look and color first... You shouldn't be of-course, you should rip the bonnet up..and...check out the thing-a-ma-jig.

[HybridShadow]

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@PWNER - those pics in your sig are so true and hilarious

What would make them better is if you linked the both to IE's page

[sintona]

I think the problem related to the extention on firefox. One of ur firefox extension will generate a problem or not matching ur firefox version. Please remove extention.

[ripken204]

why did u reply to this thread? and its not an extension since he doesnt have any, and please dont anyone respond b/c i dont need help

[seapagan]

why did u reply to this thread? and its not an extension since he doesnt have any, and please dont anyone respond b/c i dont need help

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Why did he reply? because he wanted to help obviously

Generally problems like that with firefox are caused by bad extensions, so the advice from the past few posts was maybe useful to others, which is what this forum is about, no? This is not a good reply to give a guy on his first post, probably making it his last. And you never mentioned having no extensions.

Oh yeah, if you dont need help, why post?

SP

[ripken204]

because it is fixed now, this thread was created july 14th

[Press any key]

Should the thread have been CLOSED then?

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