Hrm.
For a few days, at least, I’ve been having problems with buttons/links that should be opening up a popup window (or at least a new tab) not doing so.
I suspected it might be Tab Mix, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. At least, I tried tweaking the settings to no avail, then I disabled it and restarted and the problem continued.
The most recent extension download I have is AdBlock. I may try disabling that and seeing if it stops being a problem.
Related (probably) problem — the FF process never closes completely, requiring me to manually shut it down in Task Manager.
Swell.
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7 Comments To "Firefox woes"
#1 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 10:40am @ 10:40am
Okay, so uninstalling AdBlock temporarily frelled my FF install. I had to finally start up in Safe mode, exit, then start up again. All’s right with the world.
Except it didn’t solve the link problem.
So, as an example, if I go to [2] and click on a Talk To Me link, nothing happens. That is, it looks busy for a few moments, then quits.
If I right-click and say to Open in New Tab, it does so just fine.
It’s a CGI script that should be opening a new comment window (which is so 2002, Scott, really).
Next step is to try uninstalling Tab Mix.
This wouldn’t be a humongous problem, except the same thing happens on popups like this that are called from non-right-clickable buttons.
#2 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 10:49am @ 10:49am
Hrm. My profile may be what’s frelled up, dagnabbit. Still having the won’t-exit-fully problem. Tried deleting another recent extension, and things went even wonkier.
I’d rather not rebuild my profile, but …
Try uninstalling a few more things …
#3 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 10:55am @ 10:55am
Yeah. Not all extensions are loading properly, and I’m still getting the process-never-closes-right-so-profile-can’t-be-opened problem, as well as the sometimes-needing-to-open-in-safe-mode-first problem. Rats.
#4 Comment By Sekimori On Wed 4-May-05 11:30am @ 11:30am
Count yourself (relatively) lucky, you could have my problem instead… powering along, working with about ten or so tabs open, then WHAM. “Firefox has encountered a problem and has to close now. Go on, cry to your momma.”
V. Vexing. No clue as to why, either.
#5 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 11:57am @ 11:57am
FF has been known to abend on me on occasion, but rarely (and no more frequently than the average Windows ap). Fortunately, at least a couple of plug-ins out there that will bring back your session with the tabs re-opened.
#6 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 12:36pm @ 12:36pm
Okay, did an export of bookmarks from the old profile, made a list of the extensions used, and created a new profile (“firefox.exe -profilemanager”).
So far, the window opening and process closure are working — and stuff is recognizing the TypeKey login, too, which wasn’t happening before.
Not sure what happened (and irksome), but it’s resolved (so far) now.
#7 Comment By ***Dave On Wed 4-May-05 1:58pm @ 1:58pm
So far so good. Slowly reinstalling extensions. Discovered the “Resize Search Bar” extension, which beats hand-editing UserChrome to change the size of the search box.