Okay, what the bleep is wrong with my Firefox now?

[jobycom]

Damned browser is more quirky than an old Volvo. Now it has decided that I can't log into DU. When I enter my account and password, it goes back to the same page I tried to log in from, without logging me in. No error message, no "wrong password" message. I can log in from Explorer and Opera, but not Firefox, and I can use FF to log into other pages...

It's a few minutes from becoming my former browser.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Make sure you can accept cookies within the browser.

[jobycom]

4. I can.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Has this happened before at this site?

[jobycom]

7. No, it worked fine until today.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. Reinstall it. See what happens.

[jobycom]

19. Tried it. Nothing happened.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

21. Ok I'll be thinking about it. What Wnidows OS do you have?

What Firewall?

[jobycom]

22. Windows XP.

Windows firewall, McAfee virus.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. Ok. I'm going to think about it. Feel free to PM me.

[Wapsie B]

2. I don't seem to have any problems with Firefox.

But I don't have any themes on it either, just the browser with plugins.

[jobycom]

20. I didn't for a long time

But the last few weeks it's been pretty spotty. And no, I haven't installed anything new on my computer to interfere with it.

[kodi]

29. i yanked firefox last week for the headaches its been causing me.

it was fine for several weeks and i had swapped over all my favorites to the firefox browser, then it started wiping out the favorites passwords, (DU too).

the browser is a good down loader, but it got too quirky last week and i stopped using it.

xp: Norton's, ad aware, spy sweeper, spy bot are what i use as prophylactics, and all were running fine until i started using firefox.

[Nomad559]

3. Firefox Is crap

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

[qnr]

6. Yeah, sure it is. If you're braindead and can't string two sentences

together.

[jobycom]

8. I'm pretty smart, and it comes up with a new problem every other day

It lost my bookmarks, it refuses to load pictures on some pages, now this login problem. It freezes up when it runs into Java (sometimes).

It's got a lot of great features and security, but it's getting close to not being worth the problem. Especially the bookmark thing. I'm still reading their forums looking for a solution, but I've got better things to do than spend an hour searching for quirks.

[havocmom]

10. Do you empty the cache regularly?

It helps sometimes

Firewall? I've only just been having problems (whole computer, not just the Firefox & Mozilla browsers) since hubby put on the new Norton. Nothing but trouble since then.

[qnr]

13. I'm sure you are. It does have some problems, granted - that line was

directed at the people that come here to let everyone know that firefox/Mac/Linux/BSD let a pebble slip into your shoe, in the hope that you won't notice the boulder that MS and MSIE are dropping on peoples heads.

Edit: s/a /at /

[Liberal Veteran]

15. I've been using Firefox since 0.7 with no problems. However...

...speaking from 6 years of providing end-user tech support, the problems that crop up tend to fall into 1 of 2 categories:

A corrupted installation of the product.
Something else on the system interfering with the program.

I'm not saying that to sound condescending, just saying that usually, the problem isn't quite what it always seems.

[Nomad559]

14. A typical Firefox fan boy response

make a personal attack on someone that disagrees with your opinion.

[qnr]

16. I didn't make a personal attack on anyone. Feeling like it applies to you

maybe?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

17. Darn right. What I like to say is wait until Linux, Firefox and the

rest becomes more ubiquitous!! They'll have the same and worse problems the rest have. Remember they have not been targeted yet!

[qnr]

18. Yup, I'm a little skunk that's happy to sit in the road in front of

oncoming traffic, because I know that any time now, any time now, any time, really.... a fox is gonna come and do the same thing.

[Terran]

31. Funny, I've never had a problem with it.

In fact, I love it. And I know very little about computers, relatively speaking.

[Ksec]

11. I once had to delete all me cookies

I have Firefox and Ive been lucky with it so far. No problems at all. The only thing I miss from windows is the ability to use the scroll here thingy on the side.> .>>>>>

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Just a guess, but...

a Java problem. One which I have no idea how to solve, btw, except possibly upgrading Java or FF, or messing with some deeply hidden control.

FF is getting there, but I still prefer Opera. 8.0 is a bit to get used to, but it's the most stable version yet.

[ofrfxsk]

24. I have the Java problem too.

A split second after I click on some sites, I know Firefox is going to crash.
It's not my puter but I do know that Firefox is still better than IE.
They just have some prob's to work out.

[swag]

25. Is Firefox turning your "fucks" into "bleeps?"

[jobycom]

28. Nah, just didn't think I could fit all of the words I wanted to say

into the subject line, so I shortened them to bleep. :-)

LOL that was funny!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

26. First. See if there are any updates for FF. Then turn off Java

Java and try to log back on. Then re-enable Java. People have been having this problem with FF on certain sites. It seems that FF goes by different "Standards" than IE.

[jobycom]

30. No. That was a good idea, though. I'm going to run

some spyware and trojan checkers. My Opera just started doing some weird stuff, too, like randomly clicking to another page while I'm typing in this one.

Probably nothing, but it's worth a try.

[jobycom]

33. FIXED IT!!!!

Not sure how. Some of the clearing and resetting and restarting finally cleared something.

Thanks, CG, and everyone else. Appreciate the help. And the banter over the merits of FF! :-)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

34. I AM GOD! Thank you!

[jobycom]

35. I'll be sure to spread the word! LOL.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

36. Most people already know. But adorations are still welcome!

Now sign this in blood and I get your soul. J/K.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. Bump.

[usregimechange]

32. I have found it doesn't work that great with Windows ME, not

sure why.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

37. Please. Please. You don't have to.

:applause: :hide: :popcorn:

[Kire]

38. the thing that I don't get

why is there a "Copy Image" option when you right click, but you have to get an extension to get it to work?...hold the fort, what's the name of that extension?