Help me unbreak my browser!

May 30, 2006 7:29 AM

Why won't sites that use HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" work on my Firefox?

Running Firefox 1.5 on OS X, but I think it's been happening since 1.3 or so. I'd rather not have to recreate my profile, if possible. Thanks all!

posted by snickerdoodle to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Do you use a proxy to access the web?
posted by mikeh at 7:45 AM on May 30, 2006

Nope; it's either at home over my wireless router/Comcast or via VPN to the school network. These same sites work fine with Safari and Camino.
posted by snickerdoodle at 7:53 AM on May 30, 2006

If I had to guess I'd say it's a side effect of some extension that you installed, or perhaps a configuration change as a result of a (now possibly uninstalled) extension.

The good news is that you don't have to start from scratch with a new profile. You can create a new profile and still copy over your bookmarks, history, cookies, stored form passwords, and so on. HOWTO.

Just as a troubleshooting measure, you should try running Firefox with a new blank profile. It will be separate and self-contained from your normal profile, and you don't lose the ability to use your current profile as normal. If this does not cure the problem then you can start looking elsewhere. But if it does, then you know it's a Firefox problem and not something else.
posted by Rhomboid at 9:10 AM on May 30, 2006

See if it still does it in Firefox's safe mode. Just run this:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode

(change that path if it's wrong). If it doesn't do it in safe mode, you've probably got config/extension issues.
posted by reklaw at 9:16 AM on May 30, 2006