Why do certain features of a website work with current versions of firefox and earlier versions of Internet Explorer (7.0 and earlier) but not IE 9.0? Details and screenshots and much...
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posted by de void
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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While on Firefox (12.0) for my Mac (OS 10.5.8) I hit a mail link which caused my Firefox window to open rapidly window on window ad infinitum. It locked up my mac and I couldn't even get to Firefox Preferences/Tools etc without multiple windows opening on top. I force- quit. I restarted and this did not help. I uninstalled an reinstalled and this did not help. It hit about midnight and stupid and tired, I deleted my entire profile....The whole blasted thing in a rash moment.
So unlike available articles on Mozilla for retrieving missing/lost/messed with profiles mine is simply bye-bye by my own hand. I emailed Mozilla and got these instructions:
"Try to delete the profiles.ini file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/profiles.ini_file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox"
I don't have the ini file in the locations specified nor elsewhere.
This link did not seem to help, either. I tried entering a terminal command for Firefox (cannot find page for that now) and no luck. If I click on Firefox, it says "Firefox is already open, only one copy can be in use." (Nothing else is open and I even restarted the computer a few times.)
Any ideas? I like Firefox the best and would like to use it. And yes, I was an idiot to delete things so will take appropriate lashings.
posted by snap_dragon
on May 13, 2012 -
17 answers
Firefox update change doesn't take me straight to where i want to go anymore.
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posted by revikim
on Feb 10, 2012 -
5 answers
Please tell what I can do to be safer while surfing the Internet. I barely escaped a virus I got while surfing with the latest version of Firefox on a completely updated and patched Windows XP machine.
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posted by 14580
on Jun 8, 2011 -
17 answers
Clicking on a link using Firefox takes me to previous, random, and unrelated links in my history. This is getting annoying.
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posted by DeltaForce
on Mar 21, 2011 -
9 answers
Firefox has developed a couple very weird problems related to saving browsing history (despite options to save history being checked) and bookmarking.
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posted by Cucurbit
on Nov 14, 2010 -
4 answers
Why can't I haz cheezburger? (Why can't I access the Cheezburger sites from my computer anymore?)
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posted by DMan
on Oct 25, 2010 -
5 answers
I have just finished building this website... http://www.frankxcarter.com ...for a friend of mine. In Google Chrome the front page displays with no lines across the photograph and the link images {Journal, Photos, etc.) appear when you roll the mouse over the photograph. However, in Firefox there are thick horizontal white lines across the image and in Internet Explorer the rollovers don't display properly at all!
Any advice as to how I can rectify will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Theo
posted by FuckingAwesome
on Sep 28, 2010 -
12 answers
I've decided to create new Firefox profiles on my home Windows XP machine -- one for distraction-free work with work-only bookmarks (HomeWork), and the other for everything, work or leisure (HomePlay). How can I make Xmarks play nicely with them?
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posted by Clyde Mnestra
on Feb 27, 2010 -
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I downloaded Cooliris for Firefox. It shows up as enabled in my Tools > Add-ons. Firefox doesn't show the icon in the toolbar to go to Cooliris. Any help? I am running the newest version of Firefox on my Mac. thanks!
posted by snap_dragon
on Feb 20, 2010 -
6 answers
How do you avoid the "undisplayable character boxes" you see when encountering a new or unknown language script?
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posted by bouchacha
on Feb 17, 2010 -
9 answers
When I log into Gmail, Firefox redirects me to a page on Facebook. What gives?
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posted by reenum
on Feb 1, 2010 -
10 answers
Suddenly today, I can't stay logged into anything - Google, Facebook, Metafilter, Twitter, Flickr, etc. I've run through a bunch of possibilities, but could the power cutting out last night have done something?
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posted by peep
on Nov 17, 2009 -
11 answers
Are there any browsers that are essentially Chrome clones in function and appearance, but aren't Chrome and don't share any common code?
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posted by doublehappy
on Jul 10, 2009 -
16 answers
I just learned about Firefox add-ons and grease monkey scripts (I know, I know....) There are literally thousands of these things and I was wondering which ones you find useful and how you use them. Any recommendations?
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posted by melodykramer
on May 9, 2009 -
49 answers
My facebook, delicious and flickr aren't working, but all other sites are fine. What's wrong and how do I fix it?
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posted by carofowler
on Feb 2, 2009 -
8 answers
How can I arrange it so that my Firefox history is automatically purged of sites of a certain domain like imdb.com or facebook.com?
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posted by sittered
on Nov 14, 2008 -
7 answers
Why can't I listen to conference calls on Yahoo Finance? (using Mac Safari/Firefox)
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posted by b_thinky
on Oct 31, 2008 -
3 answers
I love IE7's built-in RSS/feed reader. I hate, hate, hate IE7's slowness and general, overal crapiness. I would love to use FireFox, but I want the same kind of RSS reader functionality. Is there is a plugin or extension for Firefox that exists and works just like IE7's RSS reader?
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posted by karizma
on Sep 29, 2008 -
4 answers
Why doesn't Firefox open links that I click? I've noticed over the last several days that when I click on some links the status bar will start going through the motions to connect, but then it will stop dead (it actually says "Stopped" as if I had pushed the stop button before the page had a chance to load). Nothing really happens after that, its as if the click command was lost in transit.
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posted by i less than three nsima
on Jun 10, 2008 -
3 answers
Help! For a few days now, Fox.com keeps loading a tab in Firefox automatically every so often. How do I get it to stop? I tried clearing cookies and stuff, and scanned for malware and found nothing. I also tried reinstalling Firefox since I wanted to upgrade to the latest beta of Firefox 3 anyway. I'm behind a corporate firewall here, so this kinda thing never happens typically. Any ideas?
posted by GS1977
on Mar 20, 2008 -
4 answers
Is it possible to trim Vista Breadcrumb sections so that the breadcrumb bar doesn't clip off most of the path in long titles? I.e. anything over say, 10 characters gets cropped, so that long paths can be shown?
Also, is there a way to fix the glitchy second row of tabs in firefox? I want the second row of tabs to have the same height as the first, so that graphics don't go all screwy.
posted by lrodman
on Mar 13, 2008 -
0 answers
After installing a new wireless router, what router/network setting would force only Firefox, and on only one computer in the network, connect to the internet and ethernet manually, while everything else connects automatically?
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posted by flibbertigibbet
on Mar 1, 2008 -
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Please help me diagnose this mysterious Internet problem. I can't connect to a few websites in the normal way -- for example I can't connect to IMdB.com if the URL begins with "www". But I can connect if I remove the prefix. There are a few other websites I'm having similar problems with. What's going on here?
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posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese
on Feb 14, 2008 -
8 answers
My browsers frequently try to load the wrong page. They invent web addresses based on other open pages. What's happening? I don't think it's spyware.
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posted by Yogurt
on Nov 20, 2007 -
13 answers
I need a better browser for my Mac. I use a MacBook Pro 17". For the past year, I've been using Safari as my default browser. I like it swell except that it crashes all the frickin' time. I've installed SAFT, which allows me to restore my browsing sessions, but still -- it's a pain. Last weekend, I moved over to Firefox in the hopes that things would be improved. That's not going to work. What's with the delays for nearly every action?
Ugh. (No extensions installed.) I don't yet have Leopard, but am willing to upgrade if Safari 3 offers a marked improvement in performance.
What can I do to improve my web browsing experience? (Session restore is a
must. Undo closed tabs is nice.)
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posted by jdroth
on Nov 1, 2007 -
66 answers
I use Firefox. I want to be able to open certain sites in IETab/Internet Explorer automatically. I can do this quite easily
if they are bookmarked, but I want to be able to do it every time I come across a link to the site.
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posted by Rabulah
on Sep 23, 2007 -
6 answers
How does one go about hiring someone to create a specific Greasemonkey script or Firefox extension for them?
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posted by Smarson
on Sep 6, 2007 -
6 answers
Firefox 2.0.0.6 doesn't work with most of the extensions I'm using, including Greasemonkey. What can I do?
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posted by abbyladybug
on Aug 1, 2007 -
16 answers
I like to think I'm a reasonably smart guy. But after a dozen google searches and innumerable hours spent on tech boards I'm stumped. The last few images on every web page I go to will NOT load. What gives?
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posted by rileyray3000
on May 25, 2007 -
22 answers
firefox question-before I updated to the newest version of firefox, I had an X button in the right hand corner of my tab bar that would allow me to click it and the open tab would close. With the update this x is gone and in its place i see a down arrow that lists all open tabs. I cant remember if that tab closer was an extension or not, but I'd really like it back. I open lots of tabs at once and like to be able to click through them rapidly. Help me get back my X! Thanks
posted by gilsonal
on Nov 1, 2006 -
17 answers
I have an issue with Firefox as of late. Firefox will not load a single site on my computer, but Interner Explorer 7 will work just fine. I have a portable Firefox on my flash drive which loads just fine, but it does not make sense any the Firefox that is installed on my machine does not work.
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posted by cheero
on Sep 26, 2006 -
14 answers
