Firefox is acting turdly as usual

[michaels]

On top of the same problem of losing all my bookmark, cookies etc as usual, now the built in download application will not dowqnload anything, pics, movies.

Any ideas?

 

[SparkyJJO]

uninstall completely, reinstall latest version?

Strange, I've never had any trouble with FF, except awhile ago with an older version if there was music in the background it would crash. That was fixed a long time ago though.

 

[michaels]

Ihave had nonstop problems the past few months.

 

[Xyclone]

Opera?

 

[cleverhandle]

I haven't had FF problems that bad in a while, but usually wiping the FF directory in your home directory would clear it up. It's easier to find in Linux (~/.firefox) - in Windows it's probably in a hidden Application Data directory or something similar. Obviously, backup things like bookmarks.html first.

 

[CP5670]

This crap happens to me too every now and then. The latest incident was a few days ago. One good solution is to keep a zipped backup of your entire profile directory (it's in documents and settings under your user) and if anything goes wrong, just dump everything from the zip back in there. The newer FF versions make backups of your bookmark files from the last few days, so you can retain those.

 

[Suture]

Firefox was going great for a while on my machines, but now all of them do the same thing. Sometimes when Firefox closes it keeps itself running as a system process. Then if I attempt to open Firefox again, it says an instance is already open. So I have to manually kill the process. Plus I've been having issues with it not using its plugins properly (won't play a lot of embedded videos and some audio streams).

I've been a huge fan but it's been so frustrating lately I have been using IE6 more and more.

 

[bruceb]

No problems here with Firefox ... which by the way, just came out with V 1.5.0.5

 

[GeekDrew]

I'm still using the same profile with Firefox that I have been since ~2003. I just back it up on occasion, and if anything happens to it, I can create a new profile, and restore the important parts of the old one.

I can't help but wonder what some people do to Firefox to cause it to behave so poorly... I know that it doesn't much like Flash, but other than that, I *never* have a problem with it.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I'm still using the same profile with Firefox that I have been since ~2003. I just back it up on occasion, and if anything happens to it, I can create a new profile, and restore the important parts of the old one.

I can't help but wonder what some people do to Firefox to cause it to behave so poorly... I know that it doesn't much like Flash, but other than that, I *never* have a problem with it.

ditto...

 

[imported_LoKe]

Have you tried deleting your profile?

 

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: Xyclone
Opera?

Ding ding!

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: makoto00

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I'm still using the same profile with Firefox that I have been since ~2003. I just back it up on occasion, and if anything happens to it, I can create a new profile, and restore the important parts of the old one.

I can't help but wonder what some people do to Firefox to cause it to behave so poorly... I know that it doesn't much like Flash, but other than that, I *never* have a problem with it.

ditto...

double ditto