Mozilla: Does any one ever have trouble with it?

Perdogg

[Perdogg]

Sometimes I feel like it gets hung up on something. Does anyone know what the problem is?

[JoJo Gunn]

It sounds like another one of those countless profile corruptions.

What I would do is do a complete uninstall, (more on that later), but first get this little freebie backup program:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

You’ll have to train it where to save the file, so make a folder and name it “Mozilla backup files” or whatever, (since the program will also backup the Suite or the T-bird mail program).

I would only backup the bookmarks and passwords, perhaps the history, and the cookies, but only after culling the junk ones first. I’ve tried saving the extensions and it doesn’t work. (Saving the cache was a hit and miss affair, which ended up being a mostly useless file several megs in size, so I don‘t recommend it).

For the uninstall - Firefox doesn’t totally remove everything. It leaves the profile folder and cache in the Windows folder. It’s also where you’ll find the bookmarks if you think you lost them, an all too common occurrence. In Windows 9x the path is “C:\WINDOWS\Application Data” (In XP the path might be different, not sure). There you’ll see the Mozilla folder. I’d delete it. Then the next install of Firefox will be truly clean, and you use the backup program to put your stuff back in place.

You’ll need to get your extensions again, and here’s the best place to find them all:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/

[ken21]

my mozilla firefox discerns errors, attempts to send error reports back home, but they can't get out of my 'puter.

any ideas?

[ken21]

my mozilla firefox discerns errors, attempts to send error reports back home, but they can't get out of my 'puter.

any ideas?

[solitas]

Hey All - this is new:

http://secunia.com/mozilla_products_arbitrary_memory_exposure_test/

Contains a javascript that demonstrates how it can read a chunk of your RAM w/o your preventing it.

[solitas]

ping

[ken21]

it's better than ms.

but i have problems:

grey box pop ups tell me that this internet page is not available, i click again and it is.

annoying.

[Nowhere Man]

I know in my case, sometimes it slows up fast when I get ot a site I can't access or if the Javascript in a site is no good. That's rare. It also slowed up when I was online for a while but I cut the cache from 50,000k (50 megs) down to 20,000k (20 megs) and I licked that problem so far. I'm running a Pentium II, 366 MHz IBM Thinkpad 570 with a 5.58 GB HD and 128 megs of RAM. OS is Windows 98 Second Edition. I'd try the cache reduction. Mozilla says there is an update available but I haven't gotten a "round tuit" yet.