Finally - my Firefox is back
I wrote a blog post about Firefox going silly on me a while back. Well, I could find no answer to the problem except deletion and I didn’t want to do that because I’d lose all my passwords. But Firefox 3 came along and nothing. It wouldn’t work any longer. I used IE for as long as I could bear and today I deleted everything to do with Firefox on my computer. I did that with Add/Remove applications in my control panel, used an uninstaller program as well, used CCleaner to get rid of registry files AND did a search for Firefox on my computer. There were still files there - old set up exes. The reason I had to delete everything was to fix the problem I was having.
Then back to Mozilla and downloaded Firefox 3. Working nicely now thank you.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I’m not sure I understand the preference many people seem to have for FireFox, probably because I’m used to using IE and feel comfortable with it. I do use FireFox and Safari occaisionally, mostly just to check my code is working ok in other browsers.
FireFox is much less forgiving than IE. You can get away with ‘non compliant’ code in IE, but FireFox will display a mess. I can’t see the point of that, especially as the vast majority of users are on IE.
I know some people refuse to use Microsoft products as some kind of rebellion against their market hegemony. It’s worth noting that Google (which owns and distributes FireFox) is becoming just as much a corporate behemoth as MS ever has been.
Anyway; glad you fixed it and thanks for sharing the solution.
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