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HELP!! FIREFOX CRASHES!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:22 pm
by bigblockmatt
Howdy everyone. MY firefox (1.5) has now jsut decided to crash on me. i try and open it and it goes straight to the "report error" thing that windows does. I dont remember doing anything before it started doing it. I thought it might have been the new windows update, so i uninstalled it and restarted...didnt solve. I have installed firefox and reinstalled a fresh downloaded copy, still no work.
any ideas?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:26 pm
by Kerii
Deletion of all registry trees mentioning Mozilla/FireFox may solve the problem.
Clearing the cache and a full (manual) uninstall (delete the folder if it isn't removed) may help.
Hope you backed up your bookmarks (the one thing you don't have to worry about in IE).
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:32 pm
by kenc51
You have rebooted after uninstalling?
You could try system restore....any updates OS/antivirus might be lost, but can be reinstalled....
If it's enabled.....
Goto start/programs/accessories/system tools/system restore....
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:06 pm
by bigblockmatt
kenc51 wrote:You have rebooted after uninstalling?
That didnt work... I tried restarting after unstalling and installing...
Is there any way to keep my favorites?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:18 pm
by Kerii
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:38 pm
by sbohdan
bigblockmatt wrote:( Is there any way to keep my favorites?
yes: in bokmarks ---open manage bookmarks and in file click export---give it a name and save... there you go
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:41 pm
by bigblockmatt
sbohdan wrote:bigblockmatt wrote:( Is there any way to keep my favorites?
yes: in bokmarks ---open manage bookmarks and in file click export---give it a name and save... there you go
thats all well and good but i cannot even open firefox to do that
Thanks for the link Kerri, but when i tried to intergrate it with firefox, it would bring up the same report error message thing.
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:12 am
by Kerii
Well... I supose you could just copy the entire %Program Files%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile folder to another computer and seeing if that works, I think that's where all the settings and bookmarks are stored.
Have you tried starting it up in safe-mode?
"%Program Files%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:03 pm
by bigblockmatt
thanks for the advice and help...but it was the straw the broke the cammels back for me...I was getting some other random crashes and junk so i reformatted...ya ya, i knwo there was probably another way to do it, but i was gonna reformat anyways so this just was another excuse to. It works now though
thanks again for the help.