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Firefox 3 and SP1 - Screw me one shame on MS, screw me twice....
Movitz
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So usually I turn of the automatic update service for Windows because my experience of it is has only been filled with headache.
Now I've got this computer at work with Vista and I wanted all the security snazz that MS goes on about just in case. Since it's not a home comp I wanted to be on the safe side and I also, in my infinate stupidity, thought they actually learned something from the zillions of updates they released for XP. This was not the case and now I'm stuck with SP1 and a Firefox that doesn't do what I want it to.
My problem is this. FF3 will stop loading webpages but still respond to my input. When I turn it off the process (firefox.exe) isn't terminated and I cannot, in any way, kill it. This of course makes it impossible to start a new instance of FF since "Firefox is already running". Only solution is rebooting.
I love my Firefox and it hurts that MS is forcing me to use this clumsy excuse for a browser I'm currently on (IE). There are some random forum rants on this phenomena on the mozilla site but no solutions presented so I turn to you guys. Is there anyone who knows anything about this?
Now I've got this computer at work with Vista and I wanted all the security snazz that MS goes on about just in case. Since it's not a home comp I wanted to be on the safe side and I also, in my infinate stupidity, thought they actually learned something from the zillions of updates they released for XP. This was not the case and now I'm stuck with SP1 and a Firefox that doesn't do what I want it to.
My problem is this. FF3 will stop loading webpages but still respond to my input. When I turn it off the process (firefox.exe) isn't terminated and I cannot, in any way, kill it. This of course makes it impossible to start a new instance of FF since "Firefox is already running". Only solution is rebooting.
I love my Firefox and it hurts that MS is forcing me to use this clumsy excuse for a browser I'm currently on (IE). There are some random forum rants on this phenomena on the mozilla site but no solutions presented so I turn to you guys. Is there anyone who knows anything about this?
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I'd honestly start using google chrome.
From the OP it sounds like he's tried that.
The thing I find odd is you're unable to open another one as its already running. I have no problem opening multiple firefoxes and regularly do. You might want to try uninstalling and then reinstalling firefox. If that doesn't work do the same for SP1.
I'm pretty certain it is a SP1 problem because the problem started appearing after I installed it. And, as I said, they state on the mozilla support that it's SP1 related.
I should have said that I tried reinstalling FF. But I didn't know it was possible to uninstall updates (since I never allowed them to install in the first place before this). Maybe that's worth looking into, sounds a bit messy though. In my opinion, the less I touch my windows the longer it will stay alive.
Nope, it's not there. That's where I first looked.
Turns out Vista has an "installed updates" menu in the control panel. It also turns out that SP1 is not one of the ~90 (!?) already installed updates.
The problem might have something to do with the extensions though. I'm trying disabeling them one by one but that will take a while.
Also system restore won't delete and files like pictures, movies, music or documents so no worries there
He already tried reinstalling firefox.
Since I've got FF 3 running on Vista SP1 just fine, I'd definitely see if it's an extensions problem. Remember, you can start Firefox in safe mode (there's an shortcut for it in the start menu), which will start it without any extensions enabled.
Google Chrome is very beta, and if the OP uses extensions that he likes, Chrome is just going to aggravate him further. I'm sure he can get Firefox working.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
This right here.
Which Vista do you have though? I have both Ultimate64 and Home Premium32 with SP1 and neither one of them have ever given me issues with FF3. I only run 3 extensions though, IE Tab, Download Status Bar and AdBlock+.
I've got Vista Business x64, and run 10 different extensions.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
Yeah, I would assume it's an extension screwing things up. My friend just got a new ThinkPad with Business64 and he has no issues with FF3, but he runs it fairly devoid of extensions like I do. Like what was suggested, run it in Safe Mode or disable your extensins 1 by 1 to find the problem.
I frequently see this error, both where I work, and at home on my computer, it generally tends to happen when firefox has crashed, prompting one of those 'forward data about the crash to microsoft' messages, or when I'm opening a system resource heavy program/file. If it persists, you ctrl-alt-del it, (At work, the person who's computer I'm fixing will generally have tried to open it between 15-20 times before calling me, so rinse and repeat until you see no more firefox.exe >.>) and reopen. But other than that, I usually have 1-3 instances of firefox with up to 3 tabs per running without problems.
I just realized that even if I open more than one instance of FF there is still only one process. I'm pretty sure this is not the case in XP, there I get one firefox.exe process per instance.
[EDIT] I switched back to FF2, hopefully it's usable. I can still get my extension fill from it. Could anyone enlighten me on the differences between FF2 and 3?