Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

Frustration with Firefox 1.5

February 5, 2006

Random

I have expe­ri­enced some prob­lems with Fire­fox 1.5. I think this is the third time that I have tried it. I unin­stalled every­thing on my machine asso­ci­ated with a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of FF. I ran FF 1.5 almost all day and was hop­ing my prob­lems with it were behind me when I encoun­tered the prob­lem late on Fri­day. I clicked on the FF icon in my launch bar and noth­ing. Firefox.exe showed up in my “processes” but the browser never came up. I gave it about twenty min­utes and never saw it. I could get it to open in “safe mode” but not in nor­mal oper­at­ing mode.

I had the same prob­lem two times before and ended up revert­ing back to 1.0.7. It is frus­trat­ing because I really like the FF browser. I found sev­eral peo­ple who had prob­lems with this ver­sion of FF on the sup­port forum on the Mozzila site, but none of them seemed to match what I had expereinced.

The only thing that I think it could have been is that I changed my set­ting to auto detect the proxy we use at work. When I switched that set­ting today at home in “safe” mode, I got the full oper­a­tion browswer to come up. I am hop­ing that it con­tin­ues to work. Oth­er­wise, I will go back to 1.0.7 and aviod the hassles.

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