[olug] Firefox issues

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 13:34:29 UTC 2008


I agree.  Even when you don't update Firefox, the add-ons attempt to
update every time you load Firefox.  Also sometimes a hung Firefox
process is still running in the background somewhere.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com> wrote:
> assuming you have verified that there are no other running proccesses
> of firefox and that you have enough memory and hard drive space...
>
> I would try
> firefox -safe-mode
> from the console
>
> might have a buggy add-on or something that needs to be disabled
>
> could also try to load it up under another user account  to see if it works
>
> last I would reinstall firefox
>
> gluck
> Shannon
>
> On 10/8/08, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> During this last week Firefox started to act flaky on my son's laptop.
>>
>> We did not upgrade recently.
>>
>> When clicking the Firefox icon it will attempt to open then
>> disappear...after a minute or two (could be longer) it will eventually
>> open...more than a week ago it opened just fine.
>>
>> I tried googl-ing for an answer but, most deal with
>> Windooooooooze,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>>
>>
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