At 01:45 PM 8/8/2012, DSinc wrote:
FF v14.0.1 seems to have a problem. Perhaps w/my "default.home.page",
which
is "www.google.com."
Or, perhaps with one of my Add-Ons - NoScript, FlagFox, .Net addon,
???..........
I can certainly see some 'browser-war' business going on ATM, since,
google seems
to be playing 'active' Olympic cartoons ATM. Whatever.... :(
Is there some way I can 'doctor' my FF browser (under the hood?) to a
new Home
Page?............like, www.mozilla.com?
Thanks,
Duncan
Hi Duncan
FF 14.0.1 here too (in Windows XP SP3). Every time I clicked on the Firefox
icon and opened it to my homepage of Google.com (like yours) it crashed
giving
me the Mozilla Crash Reporter suggesting that I open Firefox in safe mode.
(You start Firefox in Safe Mode by holding down the shift key while
starting
Firefox.) That worked okay, even with Google.com homepage. So I changed the
home page (to Amazon.com's book search page) and Firefox 14.0.1 opens okay
now.
Even when Firefox was crashine at Google.com, I had no problem opening
Firefox
in regular mode if I double clicked on any saved web shortcut or web
document.
I assume you have saved some web documents and can open Firefox that way.
So that's where I am now. My homepage is Amazon.com and if I want to
use Google,
I have to open Firefox either to my new Amazon home page, or click on a
web shortcut
to get somewhere else and then enter Google.com into the address bar.
That works.
The problem appeared two days ago for no reason that I can see. (Other
than that
I had updated Opera.)
By the way, I disabled most of my Firefox adds-ons and updated to the
latest Flash
player (I've had problems with Flash auto updating lately) but these
didn't help.
I downloaded Firefox 3.6.28 and that worked fine with Google as
homepage. But when
I update from there (with Firefox open, go to "Help", "About Firefox",
"Check for
updates") and you get the option to update to version 12, the problem
restarts.
Reinstalling Firefox 14.0.1 doesn't help.
Get Firefox 3.6.28 at
<http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php?old_firefox=7369>, or
many other later versions. Just be sure you don't download using the
shortcuts that
give you other software instead.
<http://securitygarden.blogspot.com/2012/06/flash-player-update-causes-firefox.html>
sounded interesting, and I tried doing an install on top of the old
Flash player,
and that didn't help. I haven't done a "clean install" of either Flash
player
or Firefox (didn't want to loose my toolbars and shortcuts).
Regards,
Bill Cohane
(Yes, it's been a while since I've posted to the list...but I still
read everything.
I think I was the last list member using Windows 2000. And finally, I
have no SCSI
hard drives installed. No it's five 600 GB Intel SSDs in my Intel Core
i7 990X
computer with Dell 30" 2560X1600.)
