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| Thread ID: 51460 | 2004-11-21 11:00:00 | Firefox crashing. Why? | Laura (43) | Press F1 |
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| 294673 | 2004-11-21 11:19:00 | Hey Laura, I have reason to believe the Quality Feedback Agent is not stable and can crash Mozilla and Firefox. It's quite intrusive to me and can sometimes pop up at random, in which case it usually crashes the site you were viewing. I would do a Custom Install of Firefox and remove the Quality Feedback Agent from being installed, although this is how they keep track of problems, but it's quite hard for them getting problems on their problem reporter right? Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 294674 | 2004-11-21 11:20:00 | Late at night to start panicking. but Since you seem to be having no luck at all with this version of firefox either a reinstall of your original version or an update to the latest version really can't make things worse. Do you still have IE (hiss boo) available as a backup ? |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 294675 | 2004-11-21 11:24:00 | Hey thanks, guys. I'll take your advice on the install, Kame (Now have to find out how to save bookmarks & extensions, though guess the website will tell me) And yes, have kept the old IE in the background, highlander - just in case... |
Laura (43) | ||
| 294676 | 2004-11-21 11:33:00 | I used to run firefox on Win98, buggy as. Always crashing as you describe and got to the point where I submitted a bug notification to bugzilla asking them to fix it. They couldn't replicate the problem... | alphazulusixeightniner (185) | ||
| 294677 | 2004-11-21 11:33:00 | Hey Laura, Just go into your Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks, Make sure the upper most folder is selected then Export them and save them to a folder location. As for Extensions, just recall which ones you have installed, and redownload them, they shouldn't be too big should they? Or you could try keeping a copy of the extensions folder where Firefox was installed, I'm not sure if it relies on other files though. And when you've reinstalled Firefox, just go back into Firefox, Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks and then import the file you saved. Cheers, Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 294678 | 2004-11-21 11:37:00 | Its a known fault with Firefox-1.0 Hold Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel up once then down once. That'll get it to redraw the fonts. There are patches circulating - See here (slashdot.org) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 294679 | 2004-11-21 11:46:00 | That's a bit of a weird one, Chill. What intrigues me is why it's decided to do this now, after functioning perfectly for weeks, when I've changed nothing. (And to have it start when quietly reading PF1 is adding insult to injury!) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 294680 | 2004-11-21 11:57:00 | Just checked my Add/Remove Programs Properties & I see I already have 2 Firefoxes listed. They are: (0.9.3) and (1.0PR) I knew I didn't have the latest build, but didn't realised I still had earlier stuff which hadn't uninstalled. Presume I should dump both for the latest?. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 294681 | 2004-11-21 12:09:00 | Yes do a clean install, may pay to leave out the extensions too as some are not compatible until the developers update them for the newer browser. Still do the custom install though and remove the Quality Feedback Agent. Uninstall from newest to oldest, it's quite possible that uninstalling the newest will make the removal of the older one non-working. This is usually because it's removed, just the registry entries were not removed. Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
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