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Jul 16 2005, 6:41 pm

Airjoe

Recently (started yesterday, I believe) whenever I try to open firefox, nothing happens. It doesn't open. I checked the task manager, and it shows firefox.exe, but nothing happens. I uninstalled, restarted, installed (v1.0.5 I believe) and still nothing.

Even more annoying, is IE isn't working either (coincidence, I believe). After a few pages or so, it just freezes up, and I have to use task manager to close it.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

--Joe

Using win2k pro (sp4) if that matters.

Jul 16 2005, 6:55 pm
Nesso	I have the same problem sometimes, just try restarting. If that doesn't work then it must be a different problem then mine.

Jul 16 2005, 7:03 pm In response to Nesso
Airjoe	Nesso wrote: I have the same problem sometimes, just try restarting. If that doesn't work then it must be a different problem then mine. I have done that, thanks for trying though :-)

Jul 17 2005, 9:18 pm
Airjoe	Bleh, does anyone know? I keep having to go through DS, and any page with any sort of media on it crashes DS. I've uninstalled, restarted, and installed again. Worked for about 10 minutes. I ran a spyware and virus scan, and got rid of everything, but still not working.

Jul 17 2005, 9:46 pm In response to Airjoe
Sinyc	As an extreme I guess reinstalling your OS would be the only thing I can think of doing. :( ~Sinyc.

Jul 18 2005, 5:43 am
Scoobert	Perhaps your profile got corrupt from a bad shutdown. I have heard of this happening. Try searching the mozilla help forums.

Jul 18 2005, 7:05 am In response to Scoobert
Airjoe	I tried making a new profile, still doesn't work. What's really making me mad now, is my friggin' spyware still pops up in firefox.

Jul 18 2005, 8:18 am In response to Sinyc
Strawgate	or... Get 500$ take a baseball bat, wreak your computer bash your harddrive eat the $500 then realize... Uninstall byond, Uninstall Firefox, Run pandaonline virus scanner! http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ Reinstall byond, and reinstall firefox!

Jul 18 2005, 8:21 am In response to Strawgate
Airjoe	Strawgate wrote: Uninstall byond, Uninstall Firefox, [snip] Reinstall byond, and reinstall firefox! Why?

Jul 18 2005, 8:23 am In response to Airjoe
Strawgate	Airjoe wrote: Strawgate wrote: Uninstall byond, Uninstall Firefox, [snip] Reinstall byond, and reinstall firefox! Why? You said something about byond. Firefox, there might be a virus that infected it, so uninstalling it is probably the best option, then scanning

Jul 18 2005, 12:50 pm In response to Strawgate
Airjoe	I said I have to use DS' browser, but even that freezes if a page has audio/video on it. Thanks though, I'll try.

Jul 19 2005, 2:45 pm

In response to Strawgate

Airjoe

Strawgate wrote:

or... Get 500$ take a baseball bat, wreak your computer bash your harddrive eat the $500 then realize... Uninstall byond, Uninstall Firefox, Run pandaonline virus scanner!

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

Reinstall byond, and reinstall firefox!

I ran that, and I ran AVG.

Both found (and deleted/disinfected) a whole bunch of crap. I restarted, but I still can't use firefox :-(

Sometimes it'll work when I restart, but if I close it, I can't get it open again.

Jul 19 2005, 4:11 pm In response to Airjoe
Strawgate	I had the same problem. I just installed mozilla, after a couple weeks I tried Firefox and it worked just fine. I truly dont know what to say. Except everything not in bold

Jul 20 2005, 12:12 am In response to Airjoe
Phoenix Man	Airjoe wrote: I said I have to use DS' browser, but even that freezes if a page has audio/video on it. Odd, as the DS browser is EXACTLY the same as Internet Explorer (bleh!) but then without the additional menubar and stuff.

Jul 20 2005, 2:19 am In response to Phoenix Man
digitalmouse	Phoenix Man babbles: ...the DS browser is EXACTLY the same as Internet Explorer... um... no. about the only 'sameness' they have in common are things like: the word 'browser', and a few of the menu items, or and maybe the functionality of the buttons. this probably consitutes less than 20% of browser codebase. exactly the same? hardly...

Jul 20 2005, 7:11 pm In response to digitalmouse
Crispy	Um, digi, the DS browser is IE. It's an Internet Explorer window embedded into the application, through the magic of COM or ActiveX or whatever they're calling it these days. =)