OT: FIre Fox just crapped out on me.

[Atrocities]

No warning at all. Fire Fox just crapped out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Locked up while doing the Gmail log on and now just gives errors.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Even after a reboot.

[Nodachi]

My firefox hasn't been able to log onto gmail for a couple of weeks now. For me it's not that big a deal since I get my mail with thunderbird but it is something that needs to be looked into.

The only other problem I've ever run into with firefox is that I can't accept players for my PBW games, I have to use ie to do it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

[Fyron]

Nodachi said:
The only other problem I've ever run into with firefox is that I can't accept players for my PBW games, I have to use ie to do it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

This is not a problem in the "text" mode. All of the functions seem to work properly in it.


Atrocities said:
No warning at all. Fire Fox just crapped out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif Locked up while doing the Gmail log on and now just gives errors.

No software is perfect. You might need to delete it and reinstall... Maybe even make a new profile.

[Electrum]

What! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
No Software is perfect!
I bet Mr Gates' ears are ringing! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[David E. Gervais]

I suggest you uninstall and install Mozilla instead. It works fine. Actually it works Great! Firefox is for those people that have a 'Need' for bleeding edge new fangled software that is the 'Latest-greatest' incarnation of whatever. Problem is that bleeding edge is not always the 'greatest' and often has problems. Mozilla works fantastic for me, so It is beyond my comprehension why I should 'upgrade' to firefox when I see no major difference. (based on my standard use of the program)

Nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Fyron]

Firefox has no more problems than Mozilla itself does... No reason to switch to Mozilla now.

[Nodachi]

It's not that big a deal, just report the error and wait for the fix. For me the additional features and customization options are worth putting up with minor errors.

[Raging Deadstar]

Hey if it's serious why not read this page and see if you can be bothered to report it.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/bugs

After all, at least this Company doesn't think Bugs are a "Feature."

[Atrocities]

I got it working it again. I had to completely unistall and re-install it.

[Will]

Imperator Fyron said:
Firefox has no more problems than Mozilla itself does... No reason to switch to Mozilla now.



One would expect Firefox to have more problems than Mozilla, since Mozilla has been in stable public release long before Firefox was even concieved. Firefox basically is Mozilla with everything not needed to look at webpages stripped out. So basically the past year or so has been devs weeding out dependencies left behind and some efficiency improvements. Any bugs that are part of the Gecko core would be fixed in both simultaneously, so it would seem that Mozilla would be the most stable Version ready for the public. And in fact, it is.

There really is no reason not to choose Mozilla over Firefox for basic web usage. Myself, I like the weekly builds, so... Firefox. Plus I still have a predjudice about taking up lots of hard drive space from my first computer's 400MB drive back around 1994, and I don't use the rest of the Mozilla suite. I don't need to worry about excess space usage any more (two 40GB drives and a 200GB drive), but it's still there (possibly because of the 20MB limit on my University server account http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Karibu]

Gmail works fine with my Firefox, both at work and home. Do you have the newest Version of FF? ALso reinstalling it would be a good idea.

[Atrocities]

It might have just been a windows XP crap out too. God only knows why programs die.

[AgentZero]

I'd blame WinXP. Why? Because I always blame WinXP! :-D Honestly though, Firefox used to crash on me every single time I tried to go to a certain website (daz3d.com, if you're wondering), and kept crashing even after several deletions and re-installs. It was only after I formatted the drive and reinstalled everything that I was able to get to the site again. Ergo, I blame Windows.
Maybe not logical, but fun!

[Instar]

Atrocities said:
It might have just been a windows XP crap out too. God only knows why programs die.


No, a good debugger knows why!
System dumps rule!

[leo1434]

Hi!
I using this thread to avoid start a new one for such a small
question:

I started using Firefox browser I like it, you have to learn its ways (I was using Slim Browser, based on the IE engine).

It seems to be more stable, AND I like to give the finger to Micro$oft guys who thinks than any file have to be 100 Mb+ to be of some use!!

Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?

Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?

Thanks!!

[Arkcon]

leo1434 said:
Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?
Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?
Thanks!!

You'll have to poke around a bit for the folder. It's under your personal folder -- keep digging until you find a folder with a random name -- for example, mine is "Mozilla\default\2vay9rrw.slt" inside it is "bookmarks.html". You could aslo search for that and select the one under the correct directory http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Once you've found it, you can import it into IE. IE has a function called Import/Export for the bookmarks file.

[Fyron]

You can also just export the bookmarks from Firefox in the Bookmarks Manager.

The weird folder name is to make it more difficult for script kiddie viruses/exploits to work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Baron Munchausen]

leo1434 said:
Hi!
I using this thread to avoid start a new one for such a small
question:

I started using Firefox browser I like it, you have to learn its ways (I was using Slim Browser, based on the IE engine).

It seems to be more stable, AND I like to give the finger to Micro$oft guys who thinks than any file have to be 100 Mb+ to be of some use!!

Questions are: Anyone knows in which folder are stored the bookmarked links?

Can this folder be re-imported to the Ie favourites folder?

Thanks!!



Somewhere under Windows/Application Data/ but its probably different for Firefox than it is for Mozilla. Look for a 'Firefox' or 'Mozilla Firefox' directory in the Application Data folder. Keep going down the levels inside that until you find a directory with a .slt extension. That's the profile directory. Bookmarks are stored in a file named 'Bookmarks.htm' in that directory.

[Caduceus]

We switched over to Firefox a few weeks ago and have been pretty happy with it.

[Azselendor]

I don't know if it can be imported back to internet explorer, but I would sppose that it has to be possible. Personally, the microsoft favorite's folder is the least favorite part of IE for me. In any Version of netscape, by bookmarks are maybe in the area of 100-120k. Take that over to IE and it's ten times that with the same number of links.

The only thing I prefer about IE is it's handling of table borders. But after that... Well if I could uninstall....