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Name: JDenigma
Date: October 31, 2006 at 13:46:21 Pacific
Subject: Weird Firefox problems
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: Athlon 3800/2 gigs
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I have been having a few problems for a while now that revolve around my Firefox browser that are frustrating me very much.

The first problem is for some strange reason, every now and then when I go to close my Firefox browser after having had it open for a while, my computer strangely reboots on its own right after I do that.

The second problem I've been having is that once in a while I will lose my bookmarks that I had saved in my browser. This has occurred infrequently though and I think it seems to happen after I've updated Firefox to a new version. So I have to retrieve all my bookmarks that I had saved up over time and to keep losing them on these infrequent occasions is very stressful.

My third problem is more minor, but still irritating nonetheless. I've upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and since then when I click on the "ok" button to confirm that I want to bookmark a site, it does bookmark it, but it doesn't close that confirmation window that would normally indicate the site has been bookmarked. Instead I have to then click on the "cancel" button just to get the damn confirmation box to close. Also, now when I bookmark sites in this latest Firefox, my bookmarked sites don't display their name and any icon in the bookmark folders. It's all blank and I have to put my mouse cursor over the bookmarked site in order to see the url in my browsers status window. The first two problems I listed were occurring before I upgrade to version 2.0

If anyone has any idea what is going on, please help. I suspect this isn't necessarily the fault of my Firefox software. It could be something else that's causing it. I don't know if it could have anything to do with some related spyware or virus that would cause such weird problems. I have security software on my computer and those programs haven't picked up on any such things. I happen to have Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite, Webroot Spysweeper, Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security Suite running at start up and a few other programs like Adware.


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Response Number 1
Name: mattie
Date: October 31, 2006 at 14:23:25 Pacific
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This article provides a standard set of steps to follow if Firefox is no longer working properly:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_...

Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

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