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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on September 26, 2004, 11:38:09 pm
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I just tried switching to Firefox, and I'm trying to like it, but I have been having a few issues with this forum.
1.) I cannot post at will with it anymore. When I tried replying to anything at all it was always saying "no thread specified". While this has happened once or twice on IE, it occurs all the time with Firefox. When I tried making a new topic about this, it said "no forum specified". Even though it works just fine with IE (the one I am using to post this topic with).
2.) The forums often will not load properly. Here is an example of what I am talking about.
(http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/strange.JPG)
Did I not do something right?
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Bah, who need Firefox.
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Odd, I've never had that problem. Been using FireFox for the last 2 months, it's never given me any problems other than an overly small quick-reply box in the Ferrium forum.
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Is that a clean install using the 1.0pr version? It's rather strange that the bookmarks bar is empty since it's not supposed to be that way upon a fresh install.
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That's because I deleted those tabs. Yes, it is a fresh install of 1.0pr.
EDIT: And until this problem get's solved, I have no choice but to go back to using IE for HLP.
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LOL, you have flash memory plugged in your comp, I have that same little "safe ejection" icon right now.
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Actually that is my external CD burner
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Mmm, external...
:nervous:
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That actually could be a lot of things. Essentially any external storage will give you that. For that matter, anything external/removable that draws power from the computer and has internal memory will.
Actually the icons have me somewhat confused. Most look to be part of Windows XP if they're part of windows at all, but the automatic updates icon is out of 2000 or earlier.
To perhaps shed some light on this, what kind of internet connection do you have?
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I am running off my university internet connection. I think it is a T3.
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Well that doesn't shed any light on the subject :)
I figured it might be a timing-out issue, but I guess not.
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Is your connection using a proxy?
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I've never had this problem, and I've been using FireFox for about 6 months now.
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It kinda looks like it's either something to do with the CSS messing up or the tables are being 'squeezed'.
However, given that this is a clean install without any CSS/Table hacking extensions, I have absolutely no idea why that is happening!!
In the absence of any more enlightning info, my only suggestions currently involve nuking cookies and cache, and fiddling with the rather pathetic number of options in the preferences menu to see if you baodge it into working :)
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Never seen anything like that on any browser, myself.
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I had the same with Mozilla and Safari at Warpstorm, just kept reloading and clearing the cache until it went away...
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OOH!! I know this!!! Pick me!!!
You timed out while connecting, so the html stopped mid-transfer, and so it leaves the formatting screwed up... If it doesn't fix when refreshing, make sure you have at least 2kbs available for browsing, you'll get them all the time, with any browser if it loads some html and then stops.. (or php in some cases)...
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Never had this and I use Firefox on my main PC (which is in bits atm btw).
Anyway, I only see those kind of errors when the page half loads.
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Firefox problems? Use IE :D
Come back to the dark side...
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That doesn't look like the newest version of Firefox to me.
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What's not right about it? Looks exactly like what I'm browsing with now. Except for the whole forum appearance stupidity mess.
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That definitely happens when Firefox cannot load the page completely. As for why that happens, I have no idea. Try clearing all caches, (tools > options > privacy) and try again.
If it works with IE but not with Firefox, then uninstall your profile and create a new one. (firefox.exe -ProfileManager)
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I tried both of those, it didn't appear to work. -ProfileManager WAS a command line command, wasn't it? If it is not, where am I supposed to put it?
Sorry for the n00b questions, but I am very much a n00b in Firefox.
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Think Russian. That'll fix your problem.
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Thats more likely to corrupt your problem :p
Besides what everyones just said about pages not loading completely and clearing the cache, a fresh install should work. Did you delete the related registry keys, FF folder and application data for FF after uninstalling and before reinstalling FF?
Why would you want to delete the tabs, when you can just hide them using tools>options, the advanced icon - under browsing, of course this will only work when you have one webpage open in one window.
It still sounds more like a connection problem. Does this forum give you the same problem, diyaudio (http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/).
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I'll try that in a little bit.
It still sounds more like a connection problem.
If it were, then wouldn't IE be having the same problem?
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well, yes in most cases but I really don't see anything else that could be causing it since it looks like you've ruled out clearing the cache, cookies, history, etc
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I just tried a clean install after clearing out all of the uninstall leftovers, still wont work. :(
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I've also managed to clear out all of the information, but now it will not log back in with that damn thing. Not only that, the quick reply box is gone.
Unless someone comes up with a solution that works, then I will have no choice but to go back to IE.
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Check in IE to see if you have a proxy set up; if so, make sure you have FF set with the same settings.
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I have no proxy setup. I checked the automatic proxy configuration in Firefox anyway just to see what would happen. Suprise, suprise, nothing happened.
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That's really odd. Maybe you should try Mozilla and see if it screws up on that too.
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That looks strange...like its not loading properly. Sure you don't have something running in the background causing that. I've never seen that happen...run Firefox on 5 machines here and 1 at school.
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Here is what is even wierder: Reformatting my hard drive and then reinstalling firefox (after winblows of course) appearently has fixed it.
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Hmm. Kinda drastic lengths to go to for Firefox, but I commend your efforts. ;) Good to hear it's fix0r3d. :p
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I felt it was time for a fresh install anyway. :)
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hey would anybody mind posting how to get to the profile manager? Somehow my profile disappeared and I'm trying to put my favorites list back together (luckily it was short).
What's the address? C:\Program Files\Firefox\???
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Originally posted by IPAndrews
Think Russian. That'll fix your problem.
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